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 ...

For all the evolution in golf equipment in recent years (seen any 1-irons or metal spikes lately?), one truism has largely still remained. Graphite and composite shafts are for drivers and other metal ...

"Never," he said. "It has a soft shaft, and I've been putting with it for so long I don't know what I'd do if I had to reshaft it. It just wouldn't be the same. Not even close." A soft shaft? True.

Golf equipment is downright mysterious. Aside from what we can see on the outside of our drivers, woods, irons, wedges and putters, rarely if ever do we get the chance to peek under the hood and see ...

The technology behind the most popular driver shafts in golf, the Fujikura Ventus and Ventus TR, is now coming to the company’s latest series of iron shafts. And while that may sound like a fairly ...

This past week, the top 50 PGA Tour players in the FedEx Cup rankings took on Caves Valley Golf Club for the 2025 BMW Championship, the second to last stop in the PGA Tour Playoffs. Among them was fan ...

More than 200 years ago, the English poet William Blake wrote that it was possible to see “a world in a grain of sand.” Translated into golf language the lyric might convey what all players have ...

But here’s what you need to understand: Getting the right shaft dramatically increases the likelihood that you will hit the ball solidly. And that means game-changing distance and accuracy. Paul Wood, ...