Hey golfers,
I had a pretty embarrassing incident on the course today. I hit my wedge shot shanked it into the first tee box, and it unfortunately connected with someone's driver shaft, snapping it in half. I feel terrible about it and want to make it right.
Fortunately the guy was pretty chill and we exchanged numbers. The shaft is a fujikura ventus x-6 shaft and he mentioned that it could be about 350 to replace. I have attached a picture in the post.
What's the best way to handle this situation? I was planning on paying for the cost to replace the shaft. Is there anything else I should do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
by TGwonton
43 Comments
Be sure that it’s actually the Velocore Ventus. The Velocore Ventus is the one that runs $350 retail. The hand is covering up where it would say “Velocore”. If it’s not the Velocore version then it’s more like $75-$100 replacement.
Replace it
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Glue it.
I have a bunch of business cards in my bag of people I don’t like in case of something like this
What’s the difference between this and when you break a window on a house ? According to this sub, you are not responsible if you didn’t try to do it.
Replace it. Unlucky he had the most expensive driver shaft in the market
Are you kidding me? The chances of a golf ball hitting a driver shaft…while it’s out of the bag…. and it just so happens to break…. have to be astronomical. And they’re not pissed you hit into them and almost injured them.
This guy is pulling fast one. I bet it’s the non expensive version and he broke it on purpose hoping you’d pay for the expensive one.
Maybe I’m crazy but what’re the chances the ball actually snaps that shaft? The chances of it hitting square enough to do that seem insane to me… And that ball must’ve been MOVIN’.
Either way like the other comment mentioned it’ll say “velocore” a few inches up from the tip of the shaft, definitely verify that first
At least it wasn’t an AutoFlex shaft!
Did that with a wedge shot? How hard did you hit the fucking ball. This doesn’t make sense. That’s a one in 10 million right there.
Run Forest run
Accident? Sucks to suck.
The question everyone is wondering…. how!?
How does that happen? A ball hitting a shaft in the middle like that? Makes no sense.
I’m not buying that your ball broke that shaft
You saw it break? That’s pretty suspect in terms of probability
Did you check your ball for carbon fibres?
As others had mentioned, how did it snap the middle of the shaft how do you hit a wedge shot with enough ball speed to break a shaft. Like if that driver is in the bag it ain’t getting hit, and if he’s holding it when it happened how is he that chill and relaxed after you damn near hitting him in the leg or worse the nuts.
But unbelievable the wedge shot did it
The guys at Fujikura are pretty cool, contact them and see what they can do to help
Sounds fishy. Can’t imagine a wedge shot snapping a shaft inadvertently
Join the Facebook page “golf shaft traders” and ask there for a new ventus black 6x. Online they go for $350 but that group has dealers that sell them for $275 built and shipped to your door. I’ve bought several
I wouldn’t do anything, freak accident and I got no evidence I actually broke it. No chance I’m shelling out any money. Shit sucks for him but not like I purposely did anything and he’ll it might have been so brittle it was going to break anyway. Just say sorry man, fluke accident that sucks and move on.
Maybe I missed it, but any more specifics about the damage? Was this something like you shanked a wedge from 18 to the first tee, watched it smash into this club and saw the damage happen? Or hit the bag, and the guy pulled it out and saw the damage where you didn’t specifically see it break?
Like a lot of people have said, it’s such an unlikely story. I would have been on the side of that’s a 1:1 million shank, BUT that is certainly a precise breakage. There’s no exact way that graphite breaks, but since it’s generally sheets that are wrapped on different angles, it will tend to “explode” for lack of better explanation. That picture looks more like a club that was slammed across a bag or cart or bench or something harsh in a forceful enough way to almost clean cut it.
Hard to imagine someone was opportunistic enough to turn an already broken driver into an IOU from OP, while also having the others in the group support that insane idea, but if it is something like that, then there will be some serious Golf Karma coming for that guy!
Here I am wondering why anyone would spend that on a shaft for an already expensive driver just to shoot 98
Zero chance the impact of a golf ball caused the shaft to break like that, sorry
There is no way a ball did that
If I swung it and broke it id replace it
In this case, im not. First off im not buying that a shanked ball broke a shaft unless I saw it with my own eyes
Shit was probably broken already and dude saw his chance for a free driver “the ball hit it with such force my driver exploded!”
Yeah, ok
OP I used to work in a golf shop when I was younger. This club was 100% stress fractured and snapped, as in someone put so much flex on the shaft, and it broke(probably out of frustration) as we would see this often and you can see it here with the splintering.
An impact break like you would see in a car or SUV would have an impact spot where the shift was breaking and no splintering.
This story of your ball making contact with his club and severing it is complete BS and the guy is pulling a fast one.
Added a couple links to sales on eBay. All of them under $200, 6x and are the velocore. Hope this helps, good luck!
The dude had a spasm and broke his driver is how i read this, I’d buy yourself a new custom titleist and kindly send him your old one
Stop! Ventus makes multiple Shafts. If it says velore by the tip its a $250-300 shaft. If it says nothing at the tip its like a $50-100 shaft. He may just be trying to take advantage of an upgrade. They are both very different.
I don’t believe this at all. He either broke it over his knee, or freaked out and leaned on it avoiding your shot. I would not replace this at all
That’s not how a shaft getting hitting with a ball would break if it even would break. That looks like how a shaft breaks when you lean on it to make it snap, hit a tree, try to wrap it around your cart after hitting it 3 holes over etc.
…but then a new one. This isn’t hard.
There is no way in hell you did this. This guy is a scum bag.
Pay the person $350 to replace it and be done with it
This didn’t break by getting hit with a ball, especially from a shanked wedge.
If you yelled “fore” loudly and this person’s reaction was to lean forward putting their weight on their driver shaft and it snapped, not your fault and you don’t need to replace it.
You’re 100% getting scammed. Don’t pay for shit.
That guy hooked his drive, lost his cool, and broke his driver in a temporary fit of rage. Possibly a slice as well. Can’t imagine your shank cleanly snapping a graphite shaft. No way, no how.
Per the rules of this sub, you must now buy yourself a new putter.
Lol there’s no way a shank hit someone’s driver while they were set up for a drive. I call 100% bullshit