Oban ISAWA Red 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


A box of the new Oban ISAWA shafts arrived and as I was preparing them for measurement I was wondering just where Oban would go with a new design. They already have 5 shafts in the premium Kiyoshi family covering a wide range of profiles . They have the the Devotion in the in the high mid price range and the Revenge in the lower mid price range. Just what was the ISAWA going to bring to the party. The first thing I noticed was the MSRP, $199. Putting it in the same price range as the Devotion and the Revenge. It is a different profile from all the other Oban shafts.

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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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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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Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Series Red Driver Shaft

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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

The Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Series has been my most popular fitting choice recently. The 1K carbon fiber in the handle dramatically enhances hoop strength in the butt of the shaft. This results in less deformation of the shaft the load changes from linear down the shaft to lateral as the elbow and wrist unhinge. My clients experience jaw dropping improvements is dispersion. They can swing to their athletic potential rather than reducing swing speed to control their golf shaft.

This is my first look at the Red version of the Tensei 1K Series.

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