Would you Sacrafice Shaft Durability for MORE Distance?
We have been speaking with many Japanese Shaft manufactures recently and they have concerns about how some Americans abuse their golf clubs as well as the capabilities of a large portion of U.S club makers.
The .350 tip size is used in the states mostly to increase durability. Often golfers use the driver as support when [...]
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Matrix Ozik Radix – Ozik Phi – Ozik Reign Shafts Coming Soon!
Matrix Shafts is about to release several new offerings that were highlighted at the 2010 PGA Golf show in Orlando Florida.
Matrix Ozik Radix
Radix- Latin for “root” or “base” is built over the HD mandrel so it will have a technology story under the $150 price point. Will have weight classes from high 40g to high 70g. [...]
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Mitsubishi Fubuki Alpha Shaft
Fubuki Alpha Shaft
Mitsubishi has released several new products recently like the next generation Diamana’s, Tour Prototype Stingers, and now the all new Fubuki Alpha Shaft. The new Alpha features enhanced torsional stability, low spin rates and a new updated bend profile.
The Fubuki Tour shaft that has been out for a little while was a [...]
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A Look into the “Crazy” Shaft Brand
Many Golfers stateside have never heard of the Crazy Shaft brand from Japan. I must admit off the start I thought the graphics were cool some of the best to ever be placed on a golf shaft but would substance follow design?
In the last 2 years Crazy has exploded in Japan becoming one of the [...]
- Tags: Crazy Shafts, Long Drive, New Products, Shafts
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Yamaha Custom Fitting Program in Full Swing!
Today I received my 2010 Yamaha Inpres custom fitting book with all Yamaha’s options and guidlines for custom clubs and fittings for customers. There are lots of awesome shafts available including new models like the Bassara Griffin, Diamana ‘ilima and Fuji’s new Motore Speeder VCX.1 Blue series which replaces the old red Motore Speeder. All [...]
Best Selling Golf Shafts of 2009
Lots of data are now coming in for the 2009 season when it comes to sales and trends in Japan’s golf market. Today I’m going to talk about shaft trends from 2009. Overall in general, we saw the trend move away from high launch max carry type of shafts to shafts that produce a lower [...]
NEW RODDIO M Series & S Series Shafts!
Roddio Shaft Co. Just recently announced a new release coming December 1st to Japan. It’s the second generation model of the popular Japanese Roddio Shaft, the new S series & M series shafts are designed to fit different player types. Lets have a look at who and what type of golfer they fit…
The S model [...]
New Yamaha Custom Club Program at TSG!
We’ve got some great news for customers in our Pro Shop. Not only will we be carrying the new Yamaha Inpres 2010 Line up, but we will now offer full customized specs as well as upgraded shafts direct from the Yamaha factory. We can quote you on any specs and any available shaft and even [...]
Miyazaki Shafts Coming December 2009!
Miyazaki shafts have been some waves on the PGA Tour recently with players like VJ Singh, Jerry Kelly, and John Rollins putting together some amazing rounds while having this new and relatively unknown shaft in play.
International Flex Code…
Already Miyazaki is doing some new innovative things like assigning an international flex code rating to the shafts in [...]
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Mitsubishi Diamana ilima Review
This is our first official Shaft review here at GolfToImpress, we have done quite a few golf club reviews and although feedback shows us to be brutal in our judgements and results we feel its very fair and honest. We try to put to the side the honeymoon phase that most golfers go through, we [...]
- Tags: diamana, Diamana ilima, mitsubishi, Shafts
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New Graphite Design Tour AD DI-6s Shaft
In 2010 Graphite design will be releasing a new shaft called the Tour AD DI-6s. Already in wide use on the JPGA and JGTO tours the new DI Series will focus on increasing stiffness of the entire shaft by using a highly elastic resin that features a new nanotechnology material in the tip area. The [...]
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Shingo’s New Irons – ONOFF Plus with Roddio Protytpe Shafts
Even pros switching brands have some sort of adjustment period as they get accustomed to their new gear. Back in the spring it was big news that Shingo Katayama had moved from Nike to ONOFF, DWD and Asics. It was easy for him to get used to his new golf wear and shoes but the [...]
Japan Tour Gear Report Graphite Design
Graphite Design the Japan Tour Leader
Graphite Design has long been the leader for shafts in play on the Japanese tour. Their Tour AD series of shafts have held an over 30% share on the JPGA and JLPGA for 7 years running. With improving technologies and materials, many manufacturers including Mitsubishi Rayon and Fujikura are [...]
Golf Shaft Rankings for July 2009
With July drawing to a close its time to update the Golf to Impress/Tourspecgolf Shaft rankings. These rankings are based on a number of criteria including sales, user reviews and feedback, media hype, and overall buzz and demand. This list is a part of our regular Golf Club Rankings Page here.
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Taylormade FCT Shafts now sold separately!
Golfers have asked and now they receive!
To follow in the foot steps of Tourspecgolfer and continue all the great news from TM, Taylormade Japan today announced the availability of several high end Japanese Market shafts with FCT Sleeve from Taylormade Japan. So for those with no access to aftermarket or loose FCT Sleeves or just [...]
New Products Launch at TourSpecGolf!
A bunch of new items have been released and TourSpecGolf as usual is the first to have them available. This week’s new listings come from big brands like Fujikura, TourStage, Honma, and Fourteen Golf. Let dive right into the new products recently made available.
Whats New @ TSG!
– ONOFF Tour Issue Custom Built Drivers: [...]
Fujikura BangVoo and Premium High End Shafts
There are a plethora of high end golf shafts to choose from in Japan as the top shaft makers here are always introducing new models and OEM’s don’t hesitate to offer them as upgrades from the factory. Japanese performance shafts are NOT cheap, but the fact is there is demand and a market for [...]
Mitsubishi Bassara Griffin Prototype from the JPGA Tour
Bassara Griffin Prototypes
I would like to thank our contributors on the JPGA Tour for helping us source some very rare and unique Tour Issue Mitsubishi Bassara Griffin Prototype Shafts. The Bassara Griffin Prototype has become my gamer ever since first hitting it a couple of weeks ago. Main reason being that not only did I see [...]
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Fujikura Motore Speeder vs. Mitsubishi Bassara Griffin
I’ve been writing a lot about shafts lately and for good reason. There are just so many good shafts out there to choose from. Today Yamato dropped by and delivered the new Mitsubishi Bassara Griffin that we have been talking about on GTI as well as the highly touted Fujikura Motore Speeder. These two new [...]
Mitsubishi moves with Diamana Kai’li and Bassara Griffin
Tourspecgolfer broke the word on the new Bassara Griffin series earlier but with its official launch in 3 days, I thought I’d share some more information now that the shaft has been added to TSG’s offerings. But let’s take a step back to last year first where it all started.
A New Focus on Elasticity for [...]
- Tags: ali'islei, bassara, diamana, Griffin, kai'li, mitsubishi, prototypes, Shafts, tour
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UST Dropping New Line of Proforce AXIVCore Series Golf Shafts
We’ve heard that Tiger Woods has been in the market for new driver and fairway wood shafts, we’ve heard that players of all different skill levels are looking to changing the shaft, before they change the club head, and considering that the proper shaft can completely change not only your swing, but the way you [...]
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Reports: Tiger Testing New Driver Shafts
Could there be some shakeups going down inside the famed bag of Tiger Woods? Looks like that might be exactly the case as new reports and rumors are coming in that Tiger Woods might be testing and shopping for new driver shafts. We’ve been hearing a great deal about the importance of the shaft lately, [...]
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