I suppose you mean well but a towel or even a rope performs nothing remotely like a steel or graphite shaft. You can not flex (torque) a towel or rope and have it spring the head (knot) into the ball. Extreme slow mo cameras catch the action of a pro hitting a ball, the head is thrown into the ball by the shaft un-flexing as the hands are slowing down, before impact. Hand speed of a pro golfer is on average 21 mph coming down, loading the shaft, then slows to around 17 mph before impact allowing the shaft to spring the head into the ball. Can' t do that with a towel. That is the reason shaft fitting is so important: it matches shaft flex to the golfers swing speed; a golfers ability to properly load and unload the shaft for maximum efficiency. A faster swing (hand speed) can properly load a stiffer shaft, a slower swing cannot and must have a more flexible shaft for it to load and unload properly.