When you watched pro golfers on TV in days gone by the golf shafts they used all looked the same.
In the modern game however, the story is very different.
Not only will you see different players using different shafts from all kinds of different manufacturers but also different shafts in different club types and even coming in all sorts of colours.
So to see what golf shafts some of the best players in the world are using in this video we do a deep dive into the ones being played by the top 100 pros on the PGA Tour across all the different club types – drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons and wedges!
This is part of our ongoing series at the end of which in the following overall video we analyze the golf bags of the best players on the PGA Tour to see what the most popular 14 clubs are on Tour.
What Clubs Do Pros Use? Most Popular Set on Tour Revealed – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuQ6GTwsWqQ&t=1s
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When you watch pro golfers in TV in days gone by the golf shafts they used all look the same in the modern game however the story is very different not only will you see different players using different shafts from all kinds of different manufacturers but also different shafts and different Club
Types and even coming in all sorts of colors so to see what gol shaft some of the best players in the world are using in this video we do a deep dive into the ones being played by the top 100 Pros in the PGA Tour across all the different
Club types drivers Fair Woods hybrids irons and Wedges take a quick glance at the golf shafts used by the top 100 PJ tour Pros across all of their clubs and the detail with which they go in when it comes to the shaft Choice becomes immediately obvious many players will have at least three or even four different shaft
Manufacturers represented in their golf bag and while there are those that stick to one or two shaft Brands you can be assured that the flex and weight of of different shafts they use varies across different clubs to answer the question of what shafts the pros use is therefore
A much more complicated one than it first seems as all the best Pros will carry a variety within their golf bag we happily took on the challenge though having first done this research a couple of years back and here is the breakdown of the percentage number of shafts from
Different manufacturers played with by the top 100 PG tour golfers across the different Club types despite the huge Varity of gol shafts that are available in the modern game when it comes to irons and wedges the top 100 Pros obviously have a much clearer preference for True Temper
Shafts than the other brands when it comes to drivers Fairway Woods hybrids and utility IRS by comparison however there is a lot more variance in the makes and models of golf shafts being used when looking at the driver shafts used with the best golfers in the PG tour we found 72 different individual
Shafts made by eight different manufacturers being used for the top 100 fujiura driver shafts are the most used by this Elite group with 35 using them including Jordan spe Rory maoy and Scotty sheffler the Ventus black 6X is the most popular individual driver shaft with seven Pros choosing it Ventus
Shafts are also the most common driver shaft model used by 17 Pros followed by Mitsubishi’s Dam range even with fujikura driver shafts being out in front and increasing their share of the driver shafts used for the top 100 from 2018 8 in 2021 to 35 in 2023 the spread of driver shafts across
The different manufacturers is much more evident than in any other club type any talk of driver shafts also can’t come without a discussion on what Flex they are when it comes to that topic the preferences of the best players on tour are very obvious while different manufacturers categorize the flex of their shafts
Differently we do not find any of the top 100 using any other than a stiffle shaft or stronger and their driver almost all of the top 100 PGA Tour pros play an extra stiff or t extra stiff driver shaft 54 choose an extra stiff driver shaft including Victor holand and
Adam Scott while 44 use a t extra stiff shaft only 2023 open Champion Brian Haron uses a stiff shaft and none of this group uses a regular Flex driver shaft the detail the best players go into when it comes to choosing the golf shafts for their clubs is again
Highlighted in the Fairway Woods and hybrid shafts they use among the top 100 PGA Tour Pros Mitsubishi and fujiura shafts are the most used in woods and hybrids the dam D+ limited edition ATX shaft is the most used three-wood shaft and it is also the most common fivewood shaft alongside fujiura Ventus black
9x graphic designs T A series are the most popular seven wood shafts many PG T Pros use a hybrid of course in preference to higher lofted Fairway Woods or utility irons for the pros that do however we once again found a large variety of golf shafts being used we discovered 29 different hybrid
Shaft models being used for the top 100 with Mitsubishi being the most popular hybrid shaft manufacturer and 7 Pros using them the most used individual hybrid golf shaft among this group was the graphic design TDI hybrid 95x shaft with three players each choosing it compared to the variety of shafts the
Best Pros choos in their driver Fairway woods and hybrids when it comes to the shafts the top 100 PG tour Pros using their irons there is much more of a consensus 75 out of the top 100 use True Temper shafts in their irons the dynamic
Goal to isue X100 iron shaft is the most popular with 32% choosing it while the project x6.5 shaft is used by 19 of this group in their irons nippon’s NS Pro modus 3 T 130 x shaft is the next most common with five players using them in
All we counted 28 different Iron shafts across five different manufacturers being used and in despite the large number of Pros choosing to play True Temper iron shafts there are still 15 different True Temper iron shaft models being played with by the top 100 indeed we found some players using
Two different models of shafts within their individual iron sets Russell Henley for example chooses True Temper Dynamic gold AMT tour white shaft for his titless T100 46 irons but goes with a dynamic gold toour issue S400 cha for his 7 to9 irons Tony F now meanwhile a
For graphic designs T DDI hybrid 105 x shaft in his Nike Vapor fly Pro 3 Iron and interestingly Brooks kka also uses a different shaft in that same Nike three iron opting in his case for fujiura protour spec 95 x shaft while it is arguable whether the vapor fly Pro is a
Driving stroke utility iron rather than than a normal iron it is also interesting to note from our analysis that True Temper dominance when it comes to standard irons did not extend to utility IRS although the True Temper shafts are once again the most used shaft in the utility IRS used by the top
100 Pros they only made up 38% of the shafts used in that club type with nipon shafts accounting for 31% of utility iron shafts as we saw with the longer clubs though once again we did not find any of the top 100 PG tour players using regular Flex shafts in their irons with
The vast majority 88% using either stiff plus extra stiff or two extra stiff iron shafts Brian Harmon was once again one of the select minority we discovered to be using only stiff Flex iron shafts with his choice of dynamic gold s300 shafts and his titless 620 CB irons
While many of the pros kept the same shaft as they used for their irons especially when it came to the pitching wedge there was again a big variety of wed shaft models being used true tempers Dynamic Gold Tour issue S400 is by far the most popular wed shaft with almost
42% of all the wedges being used with the top 100 PG tour Pros having it the dynamic goal toour issue X100 is the next most used wedge shaft and True Temper shafts account for 78% of the wedge shafts used by this Elite group although far behind KBS and nipon shafts
Are the next most common wed shafts with 12% 9% of the shafts used by the wedges by the top 100 PG tour Pros having them their most used individual West shaft models are the KBS High Rev 2.0 wedge 135 X and the NS Pro modus 3 2 130 x
Shaft respectively what was also interesting to note was that while the shaft that the PJ tour Pros chose for their pitching Weds match their iron shafts the vast majority of the time this trend was less well followed by the pros who choose a specialist pitching wedge in place of a pitching wedge that
Matched their iron set when it came to their Gap sanded lob wedges however the pros frequently started to change the shaft that they had used in their irons in preference for Less stiff Flex models we still however did not find one of the top 100 PGA Tour Pros using a regular
Flex wed shaft so that’s it for this look at the shafts used by the top Pros in the PGA Tour as ever and most importantly we hope you’re enjoying your golf and if you like this video tap on one of those boxes in the screen and we’ll see you in another video Shortly
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Extremely informative and so interesting, well done and great narration.