Ping Ascending Weight (AWT) 3.0 Iron Shaft Review

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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

PING first introduced the original AWT (Ascending Weight Technology) steel shafts in 2007, rolling them out as the stock steel shaft option for the PING G10 and i10 iron series. The original AWT shafts were co-developed with Nippon marking a shift for PING in shaft suppliers.The AWT design philosophy utilizes ascending weight, meaning the shafts get progressively lighter in the long irons (to increase clubhead speed and launch height) and heavier in the short irons (to maximize control and accuracy). PING has iterated on this technology over several generations. The third generation AWT 3.0 was introduced in 2025 for the G440 irons.

Distribution of the Ping AWT, made by Nippon, is available only in Ping irons. My set of review shafts came for pullout sold on EBay. I have only measured the S flex model but knowing the quality of Nippon products, the profile is very likely to represent other stiffnesses.

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Project X Red Iron Shaft Review

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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

It has been some time since I reviewed the Project X Blue Iron Shaft. The Project X Red iron shaft released in Mid 2025. Thee have been a number of Project X irons shaft models over the past several years. Many of which have been discontinued.

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Steelfibre NEXUS Driver Shaft

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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

it hax been years since I measured a SteelFiber Shaft. True Temper acquiered Aerotech Golf in Demember 2019. I knew Chris Hilleary who launched Aerotech Golf in 2001 and passed away unexpectly in 2021. Its best to have Chris explain Steelfiber shafts:

Chris taught me how to measure hoop strength. I added hoop deformation into my software system. It later became essential for removing the distortion of EI measurements inherent in the 3-point process of measuring golf shafts. Textbook EI measurement is built around measuring solids. Golf shafts are tubes which deform during play as well as during measuring. After measuring distortion of a great number of shafts as each of the strain points, we learned we could forecast those distortions by applying known hoop deformationof the golf shaft tube.

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Mitsubishi Diamana RB Driver Shaft Review

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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

As Mitsubishi tells us, this is a return to the original RB, Red Board profile. With new material technology and an “active tip section,” translation, softer. I see the RB as a perfect fitting match to the 6th generation Diamana series. WB, firm mid, RB neutral mid, BB soft mid. Each of these three shaft are what I refer to as archetype designs. I have recently been given access to all shafts MCA offers. This is the first of many earlier Mitsubishi reviews that include the shafts not previously measured.

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LA Golf Blue Series Drive Shaft Review

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LA Golf Blue Series Driver Shaft

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 LA Golf Blue Series is a late 2025 model. Its $149 price is a change for LA Golf and will be appealing to the recreational golfer not comfortable with the $300+ prices of high end graphite shafts.

And yet, at that price, the profile the quality of the shaft is first class. It is mid soft profile, the design of choice for the recreational golfer. My experience with the LA Golf Gold Series has been outstanding. The Gold Series has a full length layer of boron delivering uncommon stability. The profiles of the Gold and Blue were so similar it prompted a phone call to my friend at LA Golf. The Blue series is made on the same mandrel with less expensive materials. It could easily become available in more weights. If your looking to upgrade your OEM driver shaft with a more consistent shaft but are not willing to get into the $350 cost of premium aftermarket shafts you should try the LA Golf Blue Series.

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