Golf Club Shafts

Video Transcript

"Alright, the next thing I want to talk about is the golf shaft. What we have right here is your basic graph-eye shaft. You will find a lot of these in your woods, hybrids is how we would describe this. Here is your steel shaft. Your most standard iron will have a steel shaft. The only time I would recommend putting a graph-eye shaft in your iron would be for your high handicap players or your junior players. The women and the seniors. This being, you want to make the club as light as possible for them. So, you want to create as much club head speed for those high handicap players who have trouble getting the ball up in the air. You should know, the faster the clubbing speed, the easier it is to get that ball up in the air. And, basically the reason behind that is you are putting spin on the golf ball. So, the steel shaft and the irons--they come in different stiffness. You can actually see right here, this is called a Project X rifle shaft. It's a 6.5 and basically, that's extra stiff. These go all the way down to 5.0, 5.5 and 6. And basically, that's just the difference in the stiffness in the shaft. Your average golfer is probably going to be more like a 5.0 and this is just measurements in the rifle shaft series. Like we mentioned earlier in the graph-eye shaft, they have the weight of the shaft right here. That's an 85 gram shaft, extra stiff. Same principle applies. Now, with a graph-eye shaft, the lighter the shaft, it's probably for the slower speed. This is just because you want to create a faster spin speed. Put light shaft in your hand and you will create that faster spin speed. The bigger and stronger players, you want a heavier shaft in your golf club. And those are just basic ideas and things you want to think about in the golf shaft. The main thing with the shaft, like I said, is going to be the stiffness in the weight. The heavier the golf shaft, the stiffer the shaft is going to be. And, that's kind of one thing you want to keep an eye out for. The next thing we are going to go into is the length of the club. Anywhere from your wedges to your drivers and which length is right for you."