The search for a better material for the shafts of golf clubs is almost as old as the game itself. The shaft is known as the engine of the golf club, the instrument by which energy is transmitted from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graphite shafts are nothing new. They’ve been in drivers and fairway woods for decades, nearly every hybrid comes with a graphite ...

Golf equipment is downright mysterious. Aside from what we can see on the outside of our drivers, woods, irons, wedges and putters, rarely if ever do we get the chance to peek under the hood and see ...

Last year, I went through three different fittings: driver, irons and wedges. They were all worthwhile. I learned something ...

For all the evolution in golf equipment in recent years (seen any 1-irons or metal spikes lately?), one truism has largely still remained. Graphite and composite shafts are for drivers and other metal ...

Remember when the general consensus was that graphite iron shafts were for women, seniors and any other golfer whose swing speed was about the equivalent of a highway speed limit? Try telling that to ...

In today’s game, there are three shaft options: graphite, steel or a hybrid of the two. It’s very likely you have two of them in the bag. If this gear scribe were to guess, it’s graphite for the woods ...

Graphite shafts are nothing new. They’ve been in drivers and fairway woods for decades, nearly every hybrid comes with a graphite shaft, but irons are a different story. For many golfers, steel has ...