I grew up playing the game of golf. After 30-plus years, I switched from steel iron shafts to graphite. Maybe I wasn’t the classic candidate for graphite: Early 40s, single-digit handicap, mid-90s mph ...
There used to be a basic rule for iron shafts – if you’re a strong, competitive player you choose steel, and if you’re older, slower, a woman, or generally not athletic, you choose graphite. Steel ...
True Temper, long known as a high-quality maker of steel iron shafts, has introduced a new iron shaft, but this is made from graphite—the Project X Catalyst. The Catalyst is constructed with a new ...
Remember when the general consensus was that graphite iron shafts were for women, seniors and any other golfer whose swing speed was about the equivalent of a highway speed limit? Try telling that to ...
In today’s game, there are three shaft options: graphite, steel or a hybrid of the two. It’s very likely you have two of them in the bag. If this gear scribe were to guess, it’s graphite for the woods ...
At GOLF, we don’t believe the shaft is the “engine of the golf club,” but we do believe it’s an essential timing mechanism, which is why getting fit for a shaft is so important. On this week’s episode ...
It aint heavy; its my driver shaft. And these days, it can feel as close as a brother, mostly because its not very heavy at all. Ten years ago, the mainstream golf community would have snickered at ...