Nippon 850 GHneo 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
A companion to the Nippon 950 GHneo has just been released, the 850GHneo. New graphics on what is essentially the N.S Pro 850. When the 950GHneo was released I mentioned that almost every fitting cart still included the N.S.Pro 950 despite its long outdated graphics. That was not the case with the N.S Pro 850. It had never been been widely present in the club equipment fitting carts. I have been fitting Nippon steel for a long time. In fact I wrote an overview of the entire N.S Pro product line 9 years ago in the second year of this journal.
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