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
I received Graphite Designs Tour AD GC shaft before the release. That gave me time to measure it and get player feedback before the scheduled release.
This is the sixth shaft from Graphite Design to use Torayca M40X in the butt section of the shaft. This is a high tensile strength and high modulus fiber prepreg. This means the shaft will exhibit more elasticity where the M40X material is applied. In comparing the models that have this material to those that don’t, I see reduced hoop deformation in the handle.
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Russ
LA Golf L Series Iron Shaft Review
LA GOLF L-Series Taper 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
Many players with wrist and forearm pain look to carbon fiber shaft to dampen the ball strike shock wave. However most carbon fiber shafts are not available in the weight range they have always played. And very few carbon fiber iron shafts are 0.355 taper tip, constant weight sets.
The LA Golf L series is a heavy constant weight set with the stiffness we would expect in the 120 gram weigh range.
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Russ
Fujikura Ventus TR Golf Shaft Review
Fujikura Ventus TR Driver Golf Shaft Review
By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter
I saw a lot of Fujikura Ventus shafts in play at the 2022 Masters. A box of review shafts arrived last week. This is the fourth design of the Ventus. It is different from the Ventus Red, Ventus Blue and Ventus Red.
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Russ
LA Golf A Series Irons and Hybrid Golf Shaft Reviews
LA Golf A Series Irons & Hybrid Golf Shaft Review
By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter
The LA Golf A Series Iron Shafts are parallel tip designs, Three launch propensity designs. There are matching profile Hybrid shafts for each launch designation. We will look at all three launch designations in this review.
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Russ
LA GOLF DJ Signature Series Driver Golf Shaft Review
LA GOLF DJ Signature Series Driver Shaft Review
By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter
LA Golf added a new partner recently, Dustin Johnson. He has play the same shaft for many years. He now has one of the top shaft designers that I know, Jeff Meyer, working with him developing and testing profiles made to the highest radial consistencies I see. The new materials allow for unique flag layouts resulting in smoother profiles. I publish smoothed profiles here and in the professional database. But while entering the data I see the raw data profiles. What I see in the DJ Signature Series smoothed curves is not much different than I see in the raw data graphs.
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Russ
LA GOLF Bryson Signature Series Driver Shaft Review
LA GOLF Bryson Signature Series Driver Shaft Review
By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker
The Highlands Performance Golf Center, Carrollton Texas
Golf Digest Certified America’s 100 Best Club Fitter
The LA Golf Bryson Signature is a radical change from the Trono, the past shaft designed for Bryson. Bryson works closely with the new shaft designer at LA Golf and I am told he is in search of more feel and is less inclined toward the super stiff shafts he once favored.
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Russ