Kai’li Dark Waves Golf Shaft Reviews

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 Kai’li Dark Waves series of shafts is included in the 2025 TaylorMade Custom Shaft Options catalog as a no upcharge shaft. The Kai’li name goes back to to my early days of shaft profiling. When it was used as part of the Diamana model family I recognized as a Blue Archetype. Over the years the name was reused in 2023 with White, Blue and Red models. I have limit access to the new Dark Wave Kai’li models from the TaylorMade shaft options catalog which will be expanded as missing models arrive. Rather than posting separate reviews for each model I will cover the White, CB, Fairway and Hybrid models is this overview.

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VA Composites Raijin Black Driver Shaft Review

VA Composites Raijin Black Driver 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

Victor Afable has been in the golf business for 35 years, most of it on the shaft side. He knows golf shaft design and manufacturing. In 2017 he started his own shaft company, VA Composites. His shaft are made with Torayca prepreg as are most premium shafts. The designs are based on Victors experience on working with PGA Tour.  

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KBS Tour Lite Golf Shaft Review

KBS Tour Lite 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The KBS Tour 90 has been replaced by the KBS Tour Lite. The Tour Lite is available in three weights, 95, 100 and 105. Lets take a close look at the profile and specifications of this shaft.

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Graphite Designs Tour AD CQ Driver Shaft Review

Graphite Designs Tour AD CQ 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 Graphite Design Tour AD CQ will be available in January 2023. It is the first carbon fiber shaft to utilize Nita 2G NAMD used in tennis racquets. Carbon Nanotube is bound into high modulus graphite fiber. The fiber quickly snaps back to promote a higher degree of energy transfer. The 2G-Namd fiber is used in the butt section of the shaft. I see a unique EI profile I have not seen an any other currently available driver shaft.

If you do not follow my YouTube Channel, Devoted Golfer, this is Bill Mcpherson discussing the Graphite Design Tour AD driver shaft designs:

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Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX Golf Driver Shaft Review

Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX Golf Driver 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 Project X Smoke GREEN RDX is the fourth of the RDX series I have measured. Unlike the Blue RDX and the Black RDX the midsection of the Green RDX is firm. Lets hear what True Temper has to say about this design.

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Project X HZRDUS Smoke Red RDX Golf Hybrid Shaft Review

Project X HZRDUS Smoke Red RDX Golf Hybrid 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 Project X Smoke Red RDX is the third of the RDX series I have measured. It is the first of the RDX shafts offered in a hybrid model I have measured. And I was quite surprised with what I saw.

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