Graphite shafts are nothing new. They’ve been in drivers and fairway woods for decades, nearly every hybrid comes with a graphite shaft, but irons are a different story. For many golfers, steel has ...
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 ...
The search for a better material for the shafts of golf clubs is almost as old as the game itself. The shaft is known as the engine of the golf club, the instrument by which energy is transmitted from ...
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 ...
Before we get started, I want to be abundantly clear: both graphite and steel have a place when it comes to finding the right iron shafts for different golfers. But, when it comes to new options — ...
Five years ago, Dan Forsman was the lone voyager in a sea of shiny-shafted golf clubs on the practice grounds of the PGA Tour. While other pros wielded steel-shafted irons on the driving range, ...
NAPA, Calif. – Throughout 2019, in his chase for greater control and consistency from his wedges, Bryson DeChambeau has tried a number of different steel shafts, ranging from the ultra-stiff True ...
As Cobra Golf gets ready to celebrate its 40th anniversary, it seems appropriate for the club maker to take key technology from an iconic product of its past, the Cobra Baffler, and apply it to a new ...
Dustin Johnson was stalking a 14-foot putt at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship like a leopard might circle around an unsuspecting antelope. As he address the ball, an NBC Sports ...