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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Project X Titan 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

The True Temper Project X Titan is a unique driver shaft. It is the closest driver shaft to resemble the Nippon Modus3 130 or the KBS Tour V iron shafts. Then losing stiffness more or less uniformly from the midsection to the tip. Those shafts were designed to launch low so it is understandable that True Temper states “The progressively stiffer mid and tip sections work together to deliver the penetrating, low-launch and low-spin trajectory that elite players demand for tighter dispersion and increased distance.”

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Mitsubishi Vanquish Green 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

There have been a lot of ultra light golf shafts released since 2024. The Mitsubishi Vanquish Green is the recent release aimed at this market segment. I remember the Bassara UltraLight Mitsubishi models from 2014 – 2016. This series was discontinued and Diamana models became available in lighter weights. Currently the Diamana models are offered in 40 gram versions. The ultra light Grand Bassara which gets down to 29 and 39 grams is being discontinued. While I typically avoid working with ultra light shafts because of their high torque. I did have a customer that developed his swing around a Grand Bassara and hit it further than anything else I tested. The Vanquish Green is an aftermarket shaft with aftermarket pricing.

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Fujikura Ventus TR Red Golf Shaft Review

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

A small sample of the 2026 Fujikura Ventus TR Red Velecore+ shafts were available to me. As you can see it is an unusual profile. As we have seen in the past from Fujikura, this shaft is new paint on an earlier design. There are subtle differences but essentially this is the 2025 Ventus Blue. I measured a small sample of the 2025 Ventus Blue but never published a review.

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Fujikura Ventus TR Black Golf Shaft Review

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

A small sample of the 2026 Fujikura Ventus TR Black Velecore+ shafts were available to me. As you can see it is an unusual profile. The profile is similar to the Ventus TR Red .

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