We will all be using GRAPHITE iron shafts soon!… #golfshafts #customfitting

Master Club fitters are all predicting we’ll all be using GRAPHITE iron shafts in the next 10 years!… #golf #customfitting

***ARE GRAPHITE SHAFTS JUST FOR SENIORS & LADIES?***

Every club fitter I talk too are raving about how good graphite iron shafts are performing! We’ve seen the likes of Bryson DeChambeau and most recently Sergio Garcia, two of the best ball strikers in the world using graphite, so what are we waiting for?

In today’s video I am testing some of the worlds best graphite irons shafts including the AUTOFLEX IRON SHAFT, VA SYNYSTR IRON SHAFT and FUJIKURA AXIOM IRON SHAFT at SGGT Tour Performance Fitting Studio CHESTERFIELD with MASTER FITTER Laurence Pawley.

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Welcome back to the channel guys today joining us at Sgt gol fit studio with Lawrence hi how you doing how you doing nice to see you nice to see you again mate old friend and we’re going to be taking the opportunity while my are out of commission cuz I don’t know if you

Had the story but they were swing with to C9 I actually need D7 right okay little bit off took the opportunity to come down today Lawrence because I’d love to try some graphite shafts in my hands yeah definitely as you can see here we’ve got um a very unique system at Sgt um

Our original sort of Studios up in Scotland Scott gley himself set it up and um what we’ll do we’ll go through all the isons we’ll make sure that they’re going to be D7 for you or in and around that sort of area and uh yeah we’ve got a huge array of graphite for

You to have a go at I personally feel that sort of like in 10 years time we most of us will be playing graphite I think when you look at what’s out there at the moment it gives us an opportunity as a material to do a lot more with the

Shaft than than some of the steel options and I think we’re just waiting for that top 10 player in the world to to switch and then it’ll open up a a very different sort of golf environment for us as Fitters so many Fitters are saying this in 10 years time we’ll all

Be using graphite shaft and iron so I thought why not come down to and try it why wait 10 years well it might just be that we’re all going to get a little bit older and we’re all going to hit graphite anyway but I I I do personally

Think you know I’ve I’ve played some um some mmt 125 TXS um we’ve got the Fuji cor xium there as well I think you know the the introduction of these manufacturers giving that that sort of stronger player some options as well just highlights what they think the

Marketplace is going to be like in 10 years so for us here you know we’ll we’ll be able to give it you in your wedges your for iron um and and the heads in between so yeah we’ll be able to get it all sorted for you well I

Guess if you’re tuning in you’re curious about graphite shafts potentially in your next set of Rons and you know I’m going to be giving you my onest feedback today I’ve never used graphite shafts in my I’ve been custom fit of my already so I’ve got a shaft that ping thinks is

Their best option and I’m going to give you some H honest feedback on whatever I feel as though in my next set I potentially look to graphite yeah cool so let’s do we can do that for you right let’s go LS 120s yes so I’m using I 230s

Uh project te 6.51 125 half inch longer what lofty uh do you know you’re LOF and L on those I’m two upright and just standard Lofts so you got quite a bit of K in here and yeah you’re running trackman yeah so we have trackman uh in

All of our Studios um this is um it’s just a system because we believe that sometimes people need to physically see the ball flight um because me saying oh that’s 10t 20t 30 ft yeah the perception of that can be lost indoors um so what you’ll see here we we we use

Prov ons prov1 X’s left dashes avx’s is whatever that player’s using we’ll use it during the fit in yeah they go out on the Range the guys pick them up um and then we reuse them so it’s a proper ball fit what I love about this range is that

You get to actually see your ball FL I’m a bit old fashioned Lawrence I don’t like doing things indoors I like to see it for my own eyes yeah I’m very similar people at same you know yeah right so let’s see where we are one way right I

Feel a bit guilty here all your brand new pro has never been hit that’s what they’re there for Gary yeah that feels exactly like mine yeah that’s amazing that you could build that up to my spec like that well I think amongst them I’ve it five reasonable shots I think there’s

Some good ones in there you put yourself down a bit there took me a while to get there but I think we’ve got five good shots now to sort of compare against so just I’m just going to ignore like the two that you hit long left CU

They’re just a little bit more of an anomaly than what you know we’d like to look at uh and you can see they’ve gone sort of like a bit of a jumpy 20 yards on you yeah um so just taking those out so sort of ballp partwise carries about

165 which is fine it’s a little bit wet out there you know there’s rain um so bit damp so we’d expect to see maybe a little bit shorter than what you’d typically do 5,300 Revolutions of spin um we test in six so like I said we we

Carry four six eight and wedge so that sort of that Mark of 6,000 7,000 is more sort of a 79 number that you typically get from sort of like your your standard o fit or some other Fitters um so the six9 we’re always going to see it a

Little low for me I think that’s a little bit little bit low on the low side for me and what we then see with that I I’d always like to see a six iron probably pushing a little bit higher than sort of 47 degree land angle because you know that six iron

Functionality wise is still an attacking Golf Club especially for for players like yourself we are trying to get that stopping power in there we want it to hit the ground and stop quite quickly especially in the summer we don’t want too much bounce or or or or roll coming

Off the end of that this time of year obviously we’re we’re blessed with wet ground so I’ve me you know even just the look of the ball flight to me I don’t like the look of it looks too flat yeah um and it yeah it’s it’s not really what

I want with a 69 I like it to more higher flighted and softer Landing yeah okay good yeah so I mean we look at it you know there’s there’s lots of consistencies you know we’ve got that standard deviation in yardage at sort of seven yards so front to back that’s a

Good sort of consistent number for me um like I said that spin for me is a little bit low you standard deviation on that’s around 190 Revolution so really really consistent number so obviously the deliver is quite quite consistent but we are looking for something I personally would like to see

That touch in sort of high 5000s a little bit higher for you hopefully if we could get that launch sort of reading 19 something would be really nice as well and if we could get closer to 50 in the land angle again I’d be really happy

But um you know across the board you’ve got a good set of irons there yeah you know they’re working they’re doing everything that you want them to um it’s whether we can improve all the sort of add-on parts of a golf club for you we can you flighted ball flight whether

We can give you a little bit more feel from thect as well um and whether we can give you that consistent shot shape without there being that sort of stout left left pull in there uh and that and that can just be down to shaft profile

As well that we can work on um so for me I want to start with you know you want to try graphite we we’ll we’ll we’ll dip our toes straight away we’ll go into that Fuji cor shaft to to go with um 125 xlex it’s a like for like comparison in

Terms of sort of dead weight and flex profile so it should be quite an easy transition start interesting w’t it cuz I wouldn’t have expected a graphite shaft to be able to be as heavy and as stiff for some reason I don’t know about you guys at own but I get the perception

That graphite’s softer and whipper and you know all that kind of thing but it is just a perception end of day and it is never tried one in a night it it used to be right so we’re all just living off what what the product used to be and now

We’ve got these these better options available to us so why not take advantage of Technology that’s why I say so looking forward to trying it so um the Fuji cor xium shaft has their velore technology that’s super popular on tour at the moment through the Ventus profile

Of shaft that they have uh in the woods and hybrids range so it’s really really stable in the tip so you should still have great head control of sort of Direction Etc again ped it’s in that sort of that straight Direction and uh let’s see how you get on well I’ve just

Got fit for the velicore driver shaft so be interesting to try this one I mean you’re right in terms of it just feels as stiff you know it don’t feel that much different um be interested to see what the numbers are cuz that felt quick like yeah

Fast like Fast off the face yeah yeah it felt I mean if I was blindfolded I don’t think I could tell you which was which really okay that’s good um so it does play you know like a I certainly could play with that but but I would say that I’m probably

Feeling maybe I need some a bit softer okay does it feel a bit too stiff it does yeah and my own irons do as well um I’ve gone to a stiffer Flex in my driver and it just feels a lot smoother and nicer like I feel like I’m like getting

Really aggressive and snatchy with it I’m not waiting for it yeah like when it’s a bit softer shaft I don’t know I just feel as um I wait for it a bit more I don’t pull from Top as much I think something that I see in fittings

Is people come into this environment and they just hit it whereas actually me personally like when I’m on the golf course I I can’t remember the last time I hit an approach sh to a flag at any more than maybe 75% right I’m probably a bit guilty of

Stepping in here you get fitted at 100% yeah but actually you play it sort of a lot lower level yeah let me try and get myself visualized in on a that one more like a normal sort yeah of course it’s so true that’s better yeah on those last two you found

The center of the club that little bit more yeah um definitely a cleaner strike but what you are seeing here is when you’re you’re being more deliberate about the Target that you’re going for your Club head speeds Dro in like half a mile an hour yeah but then your spin’s

Massively dropping as well and it’s probably because you’re you’re getting that club in the position that you want it to be in at impact so we’re seeing launch angle drop a little bit uh spins dropped a little bit as well all in all it’s sort of coming to that point where

Like you said it feels a little bit too too Stout a little bit too stiff how would we higher that then how would so we could go softer we can try something a little bit softer for you so going same again yeah um I’ve just dropped the weight down so I’ve

Taken 20 grams of of weight out the shaft yeah that itself makes the shaft profile a little bit softer for you I think what that will also do is help keep that swing weight up nice and high so you get more awareness of where the

The club head is it’ll also feel that a little bit easier for you to deliver so hopefully when you start to get yourself in that sort of more deliberate targeted impact yeah um you’ve got that little bit more control and we can see better numbers from there let’s try so he drops

It down to the 105 I never thought I’d be coming and asking for a softer graphite shaft I mean it just does show you how much graphitees come on that they can make them stiff enough for somebody you know really aggressive can’t they and yeah well I mean there’s T players using

Them now is’t there look at Bryson yeah oh that feels so much better already see that height as well that Peak height is much higher how do I get the up is it the two butt on just two butons that felt effortless so there you can see that Dynamic Lofts got up yeah

Spin stayed quite similar so again it shows that the the flex of it is very similar but that ball speed’s just that fraction higher as well yeah I could really get used to that feel that just felt nice it seems like it’s just flying off

The club and I’m getting like more of a satisfaction from it the steel it’s weird yeah so so graphite itself is is obviously is going to be much more of a dampening product as well so you’re not going to get those harsh vibrations you know when yeah this time of year that

Sort of ropey shot first thing on a Sunday morning you get that sort of jarring sensation you won’t have it anywhere near as bad as this I do think that you get a more satisfying sensation the explain it yeah it is it’s like a it’s the contact the sound and the feel

It’s just different it’s like butter isn’t it yeah much softer what I will say is if we look at that sort of weight as a profile yeah you’re a lot more consistent yeah like the consistency of that strike and that ball speed from where you were is a

Lot better you sort of um Carry distance as well you haven’t lost anything by choosing this you’ve actually just got a slightly steeper angle of descent and a little bit more spin so you’ve hit those marks that I wanted to try and Achieve certainly feels really nice off the

Club does it feel soft at all no it doesn’t at all it don’t feel too soft at all um it just feels smoother and nicer it don’t feel as like I’m having to work as hard with it I can just let the club do a bit more at work

You know doing something like this almost gets rid of that stigma instantly you try it and you’re like your eyes are open I think I think if you’ve not already noticed guys I’m I would definitely recommend people to try graphy because I mean if I can you know

In my club speeds even think that there’s a stiff a shaft to stiff in graph but there’s a sha for everyone isn’t there yeah definitely like you know we’ve tried 125 we’re at 105 at the moment but you know we’ve got options on that wall all the way down to 45 gram so

A third of the original weight of the shaft that you hit so the spectrum is so much broader in graphite for us to to be able to refine what you have not saying that graphite’s right for everyone that’s just you can’t ever say that but there’s definitely something for for

People to try out there that that will give them that sort of maybe something that they’ve been looking for for a little while but there’s one shaft I’d love to try is the auto Flex because I’ve never seen a graphite sh we’ve got it just in your color gu would you even

Have one for someone like me or yeah yeah we carry those yeah we carry those in the yeah definitely i’ love to just look at the numbers you know at the end and see you know try and compare the difference between the shaft that I’ve Got U which I’m a bit uncomfortable with

But um you know I can’t afford to change it right yet but um so the autolex is is is is a very um unique sort of profile shaft it’s someone it’s built for someone who’s quite um soft in transition so they don’t put too much exertion or Force at the top of

The down swing they don’t overly load the encourage that though you know maybe you are quick in transition yeah once you feel that club could it encourage you to move it or is it something that maybe you might just over force uh no definitely not you know if you if you

Have that ability to time this product you’re seeing sort of these light softer flexes really coming into fruition in sort of the long drive area at the moment so you’ve got some really lightweight 40 50 g uh TPT products some autoflex all going into that sort of

Long drive area um so if you are able to use the product as it’s intended you you’ll get huge returns in terms of distance and efficiency um it’s not right for everyone um personally I find it a little bit too soft in how it feels

For me um i’ I’d very much be more of that Fuji cor player or or one of the KBS shafts um but yeah I mean I did like the feel of that shaft but it’s just like a kid in a sweet shop and just

Wanted to try it do you know I am a tinkerer and I have hit everything in here yeah and why not cuz yeah if you’re in coming to try it and you’ve tried it already you can relate a little bit to you know you know their experience so definitely and that’s that’s why

Personally as a fitter I like to hit things because I like to have that personal perception on things so that you go you know I love that you know me I love that hot pink finish on it they do a really cool rainbow but and and

That is a bit of me that color yeah but I just can’t I can’t I can’t hit it so I can’t put it in the bag if I can’t hit it let’s try it right oh yeah so straight away I can feel flexing the Sha

And sort of at the swing weight you want to play there’s a lot of head weight down there yeah so that exertion of weight will really get that shaft kicking I mean we might see maybe a jump in ball speed Maybe potential jumping club head speed certainly looked a lot higher

Flight yeah we’ve got that initial launch has stayed quite similar but I imagine our spins just jumped up a little bit there yeah just as we saw the climb oh just a little pull was me how’s that feel uh I would say it probably feels a step too far in softness yeah

Um it had to be tried Lawrence I’m sorry oh know like I say to guys that come in here yeah there’s stuff that you’ve just got to hit yeah and that would definitely be one of the shafts I’d always encourage guys don’t it it just takes it out your mind that that’s yeah

I’ve tried it is that going to work for me yes or no and and you know like I said that’s one that I’d encourag guys to hit and there a few others as well T that question mark out yeah go you hit that that’s 130 ball speed that’s up there with your highest

That you’ve hit all day really efficient in terms of speed but it’s just come off like an ex I did exactly what you said you know like you can’t do with this is it’s not suited to that person that snatches and yeah the Miss is in there and you

Can’t have that especially on such an attacking golf club like six sign you can’t have a big miss it just just cannot happen so Lawrence is seen enough to sort of like I think you’ve got a sha for me aren’t you yeah I want to try something um maybe a little bit more

Weight than what we had in that last Fuji at 105 so I’m going to go up into 110 um in the VA sinister yeah um if you are looking for that little bit of funk this definitely has it in it in its um in its finish but I think a little bit

More weight but maybe a softer Flex will allow you to to get that sort of spin profile that we’re looking for for the six9 a little bit higher uh but still give you that sort of nice soft feel but maybe the weight will help you have that reassurance of stability as well yeah

All right I really do like the sounds of this one because um I don’t think I need an extra stiff sha in there but I think I do like the weight I don’t think I can afford to lose too much weight I think when it gets too light that’s when I’m

More likely to yeah sort of pull too much with my hands you’re right it has got some funk nice height on that yeah much better height I know it’s just leaked a little bit right but the the flight on that I much prefer not lost any ball

Speed spin up at 5 seven yeah yeah so sort of high fives again getting you back in that area and and just shy of 49 land angle that felt lovely that that’s the trajectory I want look at the height on that as well that’s significantly higher

Than where we’ve been most of the day like you’re pushing 100 foot I can’t tell you how good these sha feel lawence they’re unbelievable great I just would never get that feeling from a steel shaft why do you think why is it because of the expense that you think

Manufacturers aren’t offering more in terms of graphite shafts or is it just the way the market is that the demand is not quite there or where do you where do you stop you know when when when you are sort of you know take your your mainstream sort of

Golf Brands where do they stop yeah there has to be a point um I suppose they are going to have to be a bit conscious on price they you know they can’t have their stock irons being like three grand a set this is probably just is this more for the the golf pervert

Basically no definitely not you you know we’ve explored some some of the more exotic options available but there are some very very um stock standard products that that will definitely fit the bill for most golfers as well you know we’re we’re we’re trying to cater for

Something that is at this moment in time in graphite quite a niche area that sort of aggressive good player who’s really looking for lots of tip stability and some added weight yeah but when you when you look at it the average golfer or most golfers really that’s probably

Going to be the heaviest option that they might require they might want to maybe explore 115 120 yeah um but there are lots of other manufacturers like like I like we showed earlier that graphite wall is just as densely packed as our steel wall and it’s because of the options available incredible this

This room is just irons only is it this is just irons in this room irons and wedges so we carry very similar setup in the wedges as well yeah um and like I said we have a different dedicated Woods room as well yeah the feel again like the feel off

The face is just incredible it changes the feel of the head completely yeah I think when that one left obviously just dips that spin down a little bit but I do think now we’ve got that dynamic Loft a little bit higher and that Peak Height’s touching 100

Ft I mean we’re in a much better position in terms of like the sort of Landing control of the of the ball flight I mean the left and right this is something very new to you yeah you you’ve literally hit 30 odd shots 40 shots with a graphite iron um so it’s

Something that I think you you’d have to get used to I’m knocked after I mean I know some of them bad shots have be me but when I’ve caught it right the ball flly and the feel and it’s just in it’s towering it just feels great yeah I mean

You can visually see it as well and that’s the best thing about us you know having this into outdoor facility you can physically see what that golf Ball’s doing yeah yeah you flushing that now I’m starting to yeah he’s getting that feeling of being able to just hit it

Well I think I think it’s quite clear to see that them numbers are are incredible yeah yeah you know we’re looking at you’ve gained a little bit of Club head speed and that’s just probably just that reduction in sort of raw weight in the shaft and and material just helping you

Going down that Flex as well as meant you’ve got sort of 7 to eight miles hour more ball speed yeah and with that even though we’ve not quite seen the changes that we wanted to but like like we said this is a brief overview of us trying to

Find some graphite that’s going to work for you Lawrence i w expecting graphite to be anywhere as good as my steel I thought that graphite couldn’t be as straight as steel you know and obviously you’ve got that accuracy but you’ve got that distance as well but feel benefits

Yeah the the field benefits are massive you know we’ve we’ve hit that sort of peak height we’ve put another 10 foot on you found 7even to eight miles hour ball speed and the land angles got a little bit steeper so in terms of sort of control as that ball hits the turf yeah

We’ve gained that even though we’ve not quite hit the sort of spin numbers and stuff that we wanted to but like I said there there’s a lot more options on for us to really have a delve into I just want to answer the question today on whether or not I’d even look towards

Graph future and whether it were too early to be even considering graphite is but it’s clearly not I think most people should at least try it and yeah like I said when you’re in here I’ll encourage guys to try different things as well yeah um almost like you said whether

It’s to discount it completely or to bring another sort of option in there for them to to consider in their own minds I think that perception of graphite you know being for seniors and ladies definitely being squashed today um and I think guys if you’re coming for

A fit I mean obviously Lawrence your Chester Field yeah great great you’ve got as well yeah what are you trying your fittings um so it depends on what you’re looking for but if if you are looking to purchase the whole fitting fee comes off your purchase um so it can

Vary from sort of 100 to 150 depending on what it is you’re after uh but like I said if you if you’re in here for a driver and you buy fire driver it’s a free fit ultimately that’s pretty good you’re not going to get a free fit like

This anywhere are you no not you know if you’re really serious about changing your products then you know why not go out there and try everything yeah there is literally everything on these walls I haven’t got long enough to tell you about Lawrence’s background in fitting but we’ll stick your link in the

Comments for anybody that’s interested to maybe make a booking um I know I appreciate that okay thanks for that today mate really appreciate it thanks for watching I hope you’ve learned a little bit today and I hope it’s that question and and squish that perception of graphite just being seniors and

Ladies it certainly has for me yeah that’s been awesome guys hope you enjoying the videos make sure you hit the Subscribe button and we’ll see you in a couple of days time bye bye