Tag Archives: Golf Shaft Reviews

Mitsubishi Vanquish Green 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

There is a lot of confusion around what actually is “quality” and “high tolerance” in golf shafts. Mitsubishi’s Vanquish VV (green) threads the needle on this issue, here is why…

There are several methods to form carbon fiber golf shafts, let’s use these main 3 as example: table rolling, filament winding, and more recently TPT’s ribbon winding technique. 

Despite their differences, what remains the same is that everyone thinks their own method produces the absolute best quality & tolerances… So how do we decipher this marketing as teachers, fitters and consumers???

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Russ

Oban ISAWA Red 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


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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Russ