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Bend profile is the how the stiffness of a shaft is distributed over the entire length of the shaft. The most common variations are butt stiff, butt flexible, tip stiff, and tip flexible.  More recently, shaft engineering has progressed to even more progressive...

Unless they are a beginner, golfers become used to a certain swing feel in their clubs. This can become an unwelcome bias when being fit by a professional fitter for the first time.  If they are used to swinging a 130 gram iron shaft, a shaft weighing less than 100...

In my last post we left off with the question “Isn’t close enough OK”? The answer to that question, like many great questions in golf is… it depends.  It depends on how “dialed in” you want to be with your equipment.  I can tell you that in many fittings I have done...

Golf shaft flex is typically defined by shaft manufacturers by a scale consisting of the designations of L, A, R, S, X. In this scale, L is the most flexible and X is the stiffest.  The simple “rule of thumb” that the faster your swing speed the stiffer a shaft you...

Ever heard someone say “the shaft is the engine of the golf club”? That creates a pretty clear picture of the shaft’s importance, but is probably a bit inaccurate.  Noted club designer Tom Wishon wrote an article a few years back that likened the club shaft to be more...