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 iron shaft is an iconic shaft. In 2025 two additional shafts, a Utility / Hybid and Wedge shafts were added to the product matrix.
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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
A new generation of the Mitsubishi Hybrids released in mid 2026. I was concerned earlier in the year when my all time most popular Hybrid shaft, the Diamana Thump was discontinued. My concern was abated when I measured the new Diamana HY shafts. They are available in three colors, Red, Blue and White which correspond to weight.
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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 in 2024 and 2025. The Mitsubishi Vanquish 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 remaining ultra light is the Grand Bassara which gets down to 29 and 39 grams. While I typically avoid working with shaft 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 current batch of Vanquish review shafts is available from TaylorMade in 2026 at no upcharge.
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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
Korean Hidden Technology autoFlex Driver shafts came to the US market several years ago. I saw one in 2021. They cause a sensation with a $790 price point. They were very light weight and started a trend for light weight driver shafts. Ultimately most US golfers were not ready for light weight shafts at that price point.
The autoFlex Dream7 is a second generation autoFlex. It is lighter than the original model made with updated Japanese prepreg and 2nd generation Korean Hidden Technology. According to KHT the Dream7 has a new tip section to enhance impact performance.
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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
Korean Hidden Technology AutoFlex Driver shafts came to the US market several years ago. I saw one in 2021. They caused a sensation with a $790 price point. They were very light weight and started a trend for light weight driver shafts. Ultimately the recreational US golfer was not ready for light weight shafts at that price point.
I met with Korean Hidden Technology at the PGA 2025 merchandise show and shot an interview in their booth. It is on the list of videos that need to be published. They followed up with a shipment of review samples of every SKU they make. I don’t see much difference between the Joy365 and the original autoFlex shafts. The autoFlex website tells us the Joy is made with updated prepreg. the measured differences are subtle. Without hitting them I cannot comment on feel.
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