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I am curious why your clubmaker thinks 207 grams should be the maximum clubhead weight with the rest of the weight going in the hosel. Adding weight in the hosel is effectively the same (from a swingweight perspective) as adding weight to the head. If weight is going to be added to the head to get it to 207 grams, and further weight is going to be put in the hosel, it would make more sense to put it all in the head. Unless I am missing something here.

Also, you may have already taken this into consideration, but adding weight to the head will make the shaft play softer unless the shaft is tipped to compensate. This would apply moreso to Hitters due to the nature of a Hitter's loading.

I orginally thought the same way you did, but I recently saw a MOI guide which indicated that weight in the hosel has a modestly lower MOI factor than weight on the rear corner of the club's sole.

I like my clubmaker alot, but I too didn't understand his idea to lower my clubhead's weight to 207 grams. I was so curious, I started this thread. Thought this was the right forum to ask about a hitter's club setups. (Interesting to learn that other hitters like back weighting, which I do as well.)

My shaft's swingspeed range is 89 to 99 mph, and my swing averages around 92 mph. Would you think the extra 7 mph would be sufficient leeway to handle the extra 12 grams of clubhead weight?