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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steel-shafted irons have been the standard for decades, but that doesn’t mean they should be the standard for you. In fact, unless you’re a pro, a college player or a competitive amateur (or, to be ...

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 ...

Jim Laudenslager got the idea when tendinitis forced him to rebuild his personal set of golf clubs with graphite shafts. "I built the set, pured the shafts, good grips ... everything was perfect, or ...

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 ...