Fujikura Axiom Iron Shaft Review

By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Builder
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas 
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter

The 2023 Fujikura Axiom is a new iron shaft concept. They are parallel 0.370 tips which Fujikura states can be sanded to 0.355 tapers. The wall thickness at the tip is thick and I have no reason to doubt this can be done without damaging the tip integrity. Typically parallel sets are made from a single “blank” tip trimmed to increase stiffness in shorter lengths. The Axiom comes in three different models, short for 8, 9, W, mid for 5, 6, 7, and long for 2, 3, and 4. The idea is to create “specific performance throughout the iron set.” Lets see how this can be seen by virtual trimming a set of shafts.

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Nippon Modus3 Tour 115 Golf Shaft Review

Nippon Modus3 Tour 115 Golf Shaft Review

By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Builder
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas 
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter

The Modus3 Tour 115 shaft is now available with the standard Modus3 chrome finish and is in the 2022 Mizuno fitting cart. We now have Nippon Modus3 shafts in 5 weights, 105, 115, 120, 125 and 130. It is important to note that these are more than simple weight options of the same design. The Modus3 120 and the Modus3 130 are radically different designs.

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Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Orange Driver Shaft Review

Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Orange Golf Shaft Review

By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Builder
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas 
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter

The Mitsubishi Tensei pro 1K Orange is the second shaft model using the thinner Carbon Kevlar woven material just below he grip. The tip is Mitsubishi Chemical’s MR70 that is claimed to be stronger and more elastic than typical carbon fiber materials.

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LA Golf L Series Iron Shaft Review

LA GOLF L-Series Taper Iron Golf Shaft Review

By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Builder
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas 
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter

Many players with wrist and forearm pain look to carbon fiber shaft to dampen the ball strike shock wave. However most carbon fiber shafts are not available in the weight range they have always played. And very few carbon fiber iron shafts are 0.355 taper tip, constant weight sets.

The LA Golf L series is a heavy constant weight set with the stiffness we would expect in the 120 gram weigh range.

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Fujikura Ventus TR Golf Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus TR Driver Golf Shaft Review

By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas 
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter

I saw a lot of Fujikura Ventus shafts in play at the 2022 Masters. A box of review shafts arrived last week. This is the fourth design of the Ventus. It is different from the Ventus Red, Ventus Blue and Ventus Red. 

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LA Golf A Series Irons and Hybrid Golf Shaft Reviews

LA Golf A Series Irons & Hybrid Golf Shaft Review

By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas 
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter

The LA Golf A Series Iron Shafts are parallel tip designs, Three launch propensity designs. There are matching profile Hybrid shafts for each launch designation. We will look at all three launch designations in this review.

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