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
I received Graphite Designs Tour AD GC shaft before the release. That gave me time to measure it and get player feedback before the scheduled release.
This is the sixth shaft from Graphite Design to use Torayca M40X in the butt section of the shaft. This is a high tensile strength and high modulus fiber prepreg. This means the shaft will exhibit more elasticity where the M40X material is applied. In comparing the models that have this material to those that don’t, I see reduced hoop deformation in the handle.
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Russ
LAGOLF Tour AXS Iron Shafts Review
LAGOLF Tour AXS Iron Shafts 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 LAGolf Partners Tour AXS family of golf shafts includes matching iron shafts that have similar profiles to the driver shafts. They are all .370 tip parallel shafts. Lets take a look at the LAGolf Tour ASX iron shaft data.
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Russ
LAGolf TourAXS Driver Shafts Review
LAGolf TourAXS White, Red & Blue Driver 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
LA Golf Shafts is a Player Partnership. The Player Partners are company owners. These players are involved in the development process of the shafts. The LA Golf team is made up of industry shaft engineering veterans with long track records of successful designs. The TourAXS series is an interesting collection of time proven traditional designs in a weight and stiffness range suitable for the recreational golfer. We will take a look at each individually then the combination of the series.
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Russ
LAGolf Shafts OLYSS Drive Shaft Review
LAGolf OLYSS 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
LAGolf Shafts is taking a new approach to the golf shaft business. Professional Golf playing partners participate in the design of their golf shafts. LAGolf is committed to being a different shaft company. The shafts will be designed in with playing partners and made in the USA. The LAGolf Olyss profile was what I had expected. It is labeled as John Oldenburg Signature Series. John was the head of design at Aldila. The Green paint fill on LA tells the story, lets look at the profile.
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Russ
VA Composites Nemesys Golf Shaft Review
VA Composites Nemesys 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
VA Composites was created in 2017 by Victor Afable. Victor has been in the golf business over 35 years. Much of it with golf shaft companies. He is now the owner of VA Composites and responsible for the design of VA Composite shafts. His past designs have over 100 tour wins including a major.
The Nemesys uses Torayca T1100 Carbon Fiber in the tip section. This is the material used in a great many premium shafts.
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Russ
VA Composites Vylyn Golf Shaft Review
VA Composites Vylyn 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
VA Composites was created in 2017 by Victor Afable. Victor has been in the golf business over 35 years. Much of it with golf shaft companies. He is now the owner of VA Composites and responsible for the design of VA Composite shafts. His past designs have over 100 tour wins including a major.
The VA Composite Vylyn (Villain) is a mid price shaft designated as Mid-High Launch. It is offered in weights ranging from 48g to 66g. The Tip/Butt stiffness is higher than what we saw in the Slay, validating the launch propensity stated by VA Composites. Lets take a look at the data.
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Russ