Videos
Ask the Experts: “Step-by-step, how exactly is a golf shaft made?”
Fujikura Vice President Alex Dee explains, step-by-step, how a golf shaft gets built, and what “prepreg” actually means. Enjoy the video below!
Other “Ask the Experts” videos
- What matters more, the shaft of the clubs head?
- What does shaft frequency mean?
- How do you fit for shaft flex aside from just swing speed?
- Step-by-step, how exactly is a golf shaft made?
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Instruction
Clement: Why your practice swing never sucks
You hear that one all the time; I wish I could put my practice swing on the ball! We explain the huge importance of what to focus on to allow the ball to be perfectly in the way of your practice swing. Enjoy!
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Equipment
Mitsubishi Diamana WB: Club Junkie takes a technology deep dive
Earlier this week, Mitsubishi announced the return of its iconic Whiteboard profile with the new Diamana WB shaft.
In our launch story, we offered a rundown of the key technology in the new WB — 80-ton Dialead pitch fiber, Aerospace-grade MR70 carbon fiber, Consistent Feel Design, and the Xlink Tech Resin System. To go deeper, however, we enlisted our Resident Club Junkie and bona fide shaft nut, Brian Knudson, to track down someone from Mitsubishi at the PGA Show. Fortunately, Mitsubishi’s Director of Global Aftermarket Sales, Jonathan Alongi, was on hand to answer all of BK’s questions.
Check out their discussion about the new WB, as well as the 20th anniversary of the original design, in the video above — time stamps of key points below, including a definitive answer as to how the surfboard graphic ended up on the original Whiteboard in 2004!
- :40 – Mitsubishi Japan expands to the U.S. in 2004
- :50 – “The shaft that set the standard”
- 1:12 – “The ‘board is back”
- 1:45 – WB or Whiteboard? Or both?
- 1:55 – The first iteration of the sixth generation of Diamana
- 2:10 – Incorporating key technology from a 20-year journey
- 3:10 – Modifying the tip section for more ball speed
- 3:50 – Delivering ball speed in a low-launch, low-spin shaft
- 4:20 – Drilling down on the shaft profile compared to the original Whiteboard
- 5:00 – The most impressive element of the new WB
- 5:30 – Butt, mid, tip specifications
- 6:00 – WB’s iconic graphics and the Diamana legacy — flowers, surfboard, numbering system
- 8:15 – An abundance of available weights and flexes
- 8:55 – More players going lightweight
Check out more photos and see what GolfWRXers are saying about Mitsubishi WB in the forums.
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Equipment
2024 Vokey SM10 wedges: Club Junkie’s full fitting video
Our Resident Club Junkie, Brian Knudson, goes through a wedge fitting with Chris Baingo, Titleist’s Club Fitting Analyst.
Get the full story on new SM10 wedges in our launch piece.
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ogo
Jul 22, 2018 at 1:42 pm
Don’t buy a ‘new and improved’ driver annually. Keep your old driver and pop in a 7 Ereamers $1200 autoclave cured graphite shaft… and you will never buy another driver because the shaft is 90% of the driver swing… believe it!!!
ogo
Jul 22, 2018 at 1:43 pm
…ooops…. that’s: “…7 Dreamers…” …. my bad… 😮
Rascal
Jul 22, 2018 at 5:41 pm
No, you had it almost right. Just take out the first ‘E’ and you’d have it!
alas
Jul 24, 2018 at 12:34 am
Okay, but it’s likely you struggling with your deficient graphite shaft.
Aaron
Jul 20, 2018 at 10:06 pm
I hope OGO realizes he is literally the first impression of the shaft company he continuously, agonizingly, harps on. The negative reaction many members feel towards him, are automatically transferred to the brand as well. Truth.
ogo
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:09 am
Read this and weep, pizza oven-cured soggy floppy graphite shaft lovers:
http://www.golfwrx.com/489200/a-qa-with-seven-dreamers-about-its-1200-shafts/
Aaron
Jul 20, 2018 at 10:52 am
+1 for Rascal.
-1 for OGO for constantly harping about Seven Dreamers
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:36 pm
… and you are a shaft ignoramus…. soooo obvious… 😛
Rascal
Jul 19, 2018 at 9:46 pm
In before the seven dreamers guy chips in his two cents.
ogo
Jul 19, 2018 at 11:39 pm
… and still after 40 years of graphite shaft building they still can’t get it right because the oven-cured shafts are still overloaded with epoxy plastic… and that makes the shaft tip soggy and floppy… no matter how much exotic fibers are blended in because the epoxy weakens the tip.
Geohogan
Jul 20, 2018 at 1:53 pm
cpm for 7 dreamers?
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:40 pm
… better than floppy soggy oven-cured graphite over-epoxied cr*p shafts …!!!
ogo
Jul 19, 2018 at 11:45 pm
Also, they stiffen up the shafts by jacking up the weight to 125 grams, the same as steel. Then they increase shaft tip diameters from 0.335″ to 0.350″.. which increases torque resistance by 14% (cube of the diameters), but all to no avail. The best and only solution? Autoclave curing at high temperature to squeeze out excess epoxy… 7-Dreamers!
Rascal
Jul 20, 2018 at 1:44 am
Thank you, and here I was thinking that shafts grew on graphite trees!
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:42 pm
…. and now yer brainlet knows the difference between floppy soggy pizza oven-cured fujikura shafts and autoclave cured 7 Dreamers superior shafts. How does inferiority feeeel …. lol
Rascal
Jul 20, 2018 at 9:06 pm
I expected nothing less from your superior autoclave cured noggin!
ogo
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:10 am
Read this and weep, you pizza oven-cured soggy floppy graphite shaft lover:
http://www.golfwrx.com/489200/a-qa-with-seven-dreamers-about-its-1200-shafts/
Skip
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:42 pm
funny thing, I could use a soggy floppy shaft and still be better at golf than you. it’s the Indian, not the arrow.
ogo
Jul 21, 2018 at 2:28 pm
funny thing, watching you shooting your floppy soggy arrow at a target… ploop.. 😮
Aaron
Jul 20, 2018 at 10:51 am
+1
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:38 pm
…. and you are word-challenged… soooo obvious… 😮