I know the answer, but you ask not to tell you the answer. Will be 79 soon and just changed over to regular shafts on my metals/woods/hybrid, Tensei IK Regular 55, 65, 75 shafts. AMT red R300 shafts in my T350 irons. Have lost one club on my irons as well. Seven iron 140 now. Mainly due to lower back and hip issues. My fitter is my best friend, next to my PT. Going to senior flex has never been recommend by my friend.

It's not all about distance. Father time insists on deducting yards as we age. Get a shaft that fits your swing and be happy.

They really need to quit calling flex as “senior” or “ladies” as flex has nothing to do with age or gender. I would like to see them labeled as: XStiff, Stiff, Regular, Soft, XSoft. Then it’s about matching length to height of the person and flex to their swing speed. If you are loosing distance and want to move to a softer shaft, you might get your distance back but loose accuracy. You will have to decide which is more important to you and your game.

Well, you took the words right out of my mouth. I’ll try to work around “ get fit”.

Flex is the worst shaft option to consider first. There is no industry standard for flex. It is only a softer flex than the R flex within that line of shafts. What is important is does the shaft characteristics and weight best match your swing?

Are you getting optimal launch and descent and the right amount of spin to get the most distance? With the shaft matched to your swing, you might do better with that shaft in Regular than if the steel fiber 80 g in a senior flex (if that is an option). Beyond a way for me to cleanly describe, shafts are designed with 3 different bend points. The same weight and flex can feel and respond dramatically different based on the design of the bend points.

I’m 75 and have moved to lighter weight graphite in a regular flex from the 90 g steel shafts I used 8 years ago. My contact is still decent and I get a better launch with the T200 than the T350. That shouldn’t be a good choice, but I got a professional recommendation rather than opinions from folks that never see my swing. If you are using the same setup from 5 years or more ago…. Even Fred Couples doesn’t carry any irons longer than a 7 iron. Time beats us all.

I have sets of Titleist T150s, one set shafted with Steelfiber 70 gram shafts, the other with 90 gram shafts. And a set of T100s with an 80 gram shaft. I am 81 and hit my nine iron 130 yards, down from 150 a few years ago after gall bladder surgery. Last year I took 6 irons and 8 irons to the range and hit all three different shafted clubs and found I could hit the 70 gram shaft better than the 80 or 90 gram shafts. So I suggest reshafting one or two clubs with the lighter shaft and see what happens.

Team Titleist Guys,
Thanks for your many helpful comments. In particular, I find Dale’s observations to be right on. It boils down to distance versus accuracy. Although I am not as long as I would like, I am very accurate with my 718 cb irons with steelfiber i80R shafts. I have won our last 2 par 3 contests. My good friend, Flash, tells me to shut up about distance and enjoy my game. I have hit a friends TM M4 game improvement irons and hit his 9 iron 120 yards, versus the 100 yards for my 9 iron. Upon further research, I find the loft of the M4 9 iron to be 38 degrees versus 43 degrees for my cb 9 iron. So, I am going to shut up.