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Golf legend Sir Nick Faldo reveals the single piece of modern golf technology he would have loved to use during his career. Find out why the interchangeable shaft stands out as the greatest invention in his eyes.
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00:00Of all the modern stuff on the day, all the tech on the market today, be it zero torque cutters,
00:06the modern solid core bore, hybrids, modern graphite shafts, if I could give you one of those to head back
00:13to the late 80s, early 90s, and you could play with that when other people couldn't, what one bit of
00:19modern tech would you take back to your day now?
00:22The most obvious, the greatest invention was the interchangeable shaft, wasn't it? You change the shaft in five seconds. Seriously,
00:29it was an overnight glue job in my day. You had to sit and wait for the glue, come back
00:33the next day for it. So that's the greatest invention. In fact, you can just keep changing shafts and then
00:39you can fine tune.
00:39So you can go and, you know, that couple with TrackMan in your launch monitors and go, wow, that's, you
00:46know, you're getting all your optimums right there in front of you, blimmin' eyes on the range. Again, we had
00:51to take it on the golf course, which was fun testing.
00:55And, you know, I used to take a dozen three woods and go and hit them and walk out there
01:00and find the one. I knew them all, balls were all numbered. So I did that at Wentworth one evening.
01:06I was on my way to Switzerland. So I went out there and there was a lovely hole on the
01:10east course. I loved, I think it's the 11th hole. So I hit all these three woods. I got all,
01:15seriously, six three woods, all the balls numbered, hit them all out there.
01:20And there was a member watching me and it was slightly uphill. And by the time I got there, he
01:25scooped them all into a pile in the middle of the fairway.
01:30Thank you very much, sir.
01:32And I was off to Switzerland. I think the next, I had to go with the one that just felt
01:37the best.

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