TaylorMade REAX Rotation Driver Shaft Reviews

TaylorMade REAX Red Blue White Driver Shafts

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

TaylorMade 2026 engineers explored fitting for what’s right for the individual golfer’s swing. The easiest way for a fitter to do this is by assessing the golfer’s clubhead rotation profile. Clubhead rotation is measured by when and how the player releases the golf club. Do they release early, in the middle or late in the downswing? Additionally, do they have a held, balanced or active release? In simpler terms, are they low rotation (LR), mid rotation (MR) or high rotation (HR)?

TaylorMade is providing shafts designed for each rotation pattern, the REAX Red for high rotation, the REAX Blue for medium rotation & the REAX whiter for low rotation. I have measure each shaft provided by TaylorMade explain these profiles.

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Graphite Design Raune Iron Shaft Review

Graphite Design Raune 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 recent review of parallel iron shafts prompted me to open the recent arrival of the box of the new Graphite Design iron shaft, Raune. I don’t fit many carbon fiber iron shafts simply because the decent ones are about double the price of steel. There is so many options in light weight steel, I rarely need to go to carbon fiber shafts. I have a few in play, one former tour pro with arthritic pain in his elbows. Another strong hard swinging pro that likes the lighter weight and over the top stiffness we can get with carbon fiber. The Raune comes in both parallel and taper tip models.

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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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Fujikura Ventus White Velocore+ Driver Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus 2VNT White VeloCore+ Driver Shafts 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 2VNT White Velocore+ is a 2025 light weight driver shaft. The label of 4 on the shaft lead me to believe I would be looking at 40 gram shafts. That was not the case.

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Fujikura Ventus Red Velocore Driver Shaft Review

Fujikura Ventus 2VNT Red VeloCore+ Driver Shafts 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

My review samples came from a club company that offers the 2VNT Red Velocore+ as a $350 upgrade premium shaft.

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Fujikura Hybrid 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

Their are several new Ventus Hybrid Shafts in the 2025 TaylorMade Custom Shaft Options catalog. They range from no upcharge to $150. Here I will explore three of of the Fujikura Ventus Hybrid shafts available in TaylorMade 2025 hybrids.

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