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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KBS Players Graphite Driver Shaft Review

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KBS Players Graphite Wood 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 Players Graphite Wood is a 2025 model released in late 2024. This review is late due. I did an interview with Kim in early 2025 where he described the shaft and designed for the recreational golfer. Certainly its $175 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 in not to far off from some of the Graphite Design Tour AD’s and Fuji Ventus models.

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Graphite Designs Tour AD FI Driver Shaft Review

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Graphite Designs Tour AD FI 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 Graphite Design Tour AD FI (Flight Intelligence) Driver Shaft released in September 2025. It incorporates some new technologies as well and the latest Torayca fabrics. As my understanding of these fabrics grows, I can see how they influence the properties. Looking at Graphite Design’s Bend Profile ratings, the FI is one of the higher rated shafts in the Mid section with a 3+. The GC is rated 3 and the VF is rated 4. A see high mid stiffness as an Archetype design. The FI is firmly a member of the midfirm archetype. The GC and VF less so. Over the last two years, when I recognized the midfirm archetype, I have fit numerous great ball strikers into the design. While I have come to recognize midsoft as forgiving, a midfirm shaft is unforgiving. Like an iron blade, it is workable for those that can shape shots at will.

The Graphite Design Tour AD FI is without a doubt a member of the midfirm archetype that is my go to design for low single digit and plus handicap players.

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