UST Mamiya Recoil Dart ESX Iron Shaft Review

UST Mamiya Recoil Dart ESX Iron Shaft Review

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 UST Mamiya Recoil Dart ESX is my first iron shaft review in 2025. Review samples came from a major brand that offers them as a small upcharge. An option well worth the investment if you are considering carbon fiber shafts in your irons. It has been a long time since I looked at UST Recoils. I had a relationship with UST when they introduced the idea that hoop deformation added to club head speed. Unfortunately at about that time I began documenting hoop deformation and could not see much difference between the recoil and other carbon fiber shafts. And certainly not any similarity to steel shafts. That is no longer the case. As you will see below, the hoop deformation profile of the recoil is unique.

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Russ

Fujikura Ventus Black TR VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus Black TR VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

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 Fujikura Ventus Black TR VeloCore bears the same relationship to the Ventus Black VeloCore without TR as do the Ventus Blue models. I wrote an extensive discussion of the TOW weave in the review of the Fujikura Ventus Blue TR so I will not repeat it here.

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Russ

Fujikura Ventus Blue Velocore Driver Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus Blue VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

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 Fujikura Ventus model introduced VeloCore last year. It took some time before I acquired a comprehensive array of the shafts to measure. The current count on their website is 40 models. It takes me 20 minutes to do a full set of measurements of a shaft. To measure the full matrix of 40 shafts is a few days work in the shop. This and the next few reviews cover representative samples of the Ventus VeloCore driver shafts.

Lets start with what Fujikura tells us on their website and then look at how that translates into what the measurements so us.

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Russ

Fujikura Ventus Red VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus Red VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

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 Fujikura Ventus model introduced VeloCore last year. It took some time before I acquired a compressive array of the shafts to measure. The current count on their website is 40 models. It takes me 20 minutes to do a full set of measurements of a shaft. To measure the full matrix of 40 shafts is a few days work in the shop. This and the next few reviews cover representative samples of the Ventus VeloCore driver shafts.

Lets start with what Fujikura tells us on their website and then look at how that translates into what the measurements so us.

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Russ

Fujikura Ventus Black VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus Black VeloCore Golf Shaft Review

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 Fujikura Ventus model introduced VeloCore last year. It took some time before I acquired a compressive array of the shafts to measure. The current count on their website is 40 models. It takes me 20 minutes to do a full set of measurements of a shaft. To measure the full matrix of 40 shafts is a few days work in the shop. This and the next few reviews cover representative samples of the Ventus VeloCore driver shafts.

Lets start with what Fujikura tells us on their website and then look at how that translates into what the measurements so us.

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Russ

Dynamic Gold Mid Golf Shaft Review

Dynamic Gold Mid Iron Golf Shaft Review

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 Dynamic Gold Mid is a new profile from True Temper. Actually it is two profiles, the  Dynamic Gold Mid 130 Tour Issue models are very different from the Dynamic Gold Mid 100 and 115 models. Based on my experience with very good reason.

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Russ