[GwrxMod]

The new Proforce V2 LD Series -- the latest in long drive shaft technology -- features a longer-than-standard length to target golfers looking for an explosive release of energy in a longer shaft. Players are continuing to search for the perfect ball flight: the measure of spin with optimal launch angle. The focus is on desired weight, frequency spine alignment and a feeling of total energy transfer at impact. The new Proforce V2 LD satisfies that need with a very unique release that works for all player types. The shafts are made two inches longer than standard with an increased parallel tip section, providing for a perfect set-up for all golfers.

[FG51s]

played this shaft for a year now in a G2 head...was rec by Pat at horsepwer golf

I have the ld-1(s) and though it feels soft it plays firm

my ss is 98-103 w/ a smooth temp and this shaft helps me "git it out there"

I play it at 47" and it has a "powerkick" action

A LDA friend of mine plays the XXX version after having been with Penley(RIP)

(mistakenly put 45" instead of 47" in orig post)

[sanderslongdrive]

I have been a big supporter of the UST V2 LD shaft and have worked with it extensively and successfully in international Long Drive competitions, using it to finish second in last year's European Seniors' Long Drive Championship. I also sell this shaft, and am a registered UST fitter with UST.

There is no doubt that it is a fabulous shaft but to state that its unique release works for all power types, and that it provides a perfect set up for all golfers is little short of naive. Such is very far from the truth. In particular this is a Longdrive competitor's shaft with no stiffness rating less than 'Stiff!' If this long shaft is massively butt trimmed in order to make up a normal sized course driver its profile will be considerably altered and the entire object of the shaft frustrated.

Each and every shaft has a shaft stiffness profile which needs to exactly fit the way in which a player applies power, eg. immediate application of full power in the transition, gradual smooth acceleration, excellent lag / late hands release etc.

Each shaft brand model has its own (often unique) shaft profile and such tends to be mirrored throughout its overal stiffness rating eg. R, S, X, XX, XXX, XXXX. The result being that either that brand model works for a player or it does not. What I am saying is that simply increasing or decreasing a stiffness rating within that brand model is not always the answer to successful matching.

This is not the place (i.e. a forum) to get too technical save only to briefly and generally say that some shaft profiles work better for slower swingers, and others for faster swingers. For extremely powerful hitters this shaft's profile would generally not be regarded as being ideal. The latest trend in thinking for such gifted hitters is that a shaft with a very stiff tip section and flexing very high is the most appropriate piece of kit. Such description could never be applied to this particular shaft.

To repeat, this IS a fabulous shaft but no piece of golfing equipment can provide a panacea for all golfers. This shaft is no exception.