Fujikura Vista Pro TECH REVIEW by Simon Cooper

Fujikura Composites are synonymous with being some of the finest shafts in the industry, with a broad spectrum of profiles to suit every golfer. Is this the best value performance shaft on the market? This is what WE think. 

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Fujikura Vista Pro Series is this one of the best value shafts on the market keep watching if you want to know fujikura Vista Pro Line now the Vista Pro Line has always been known as one of fujikura value options so it’s not the same high price point as the

Ventus or the speeda series but actually over the years has been a shaft and a shaft range that has gone through a couple of iterations but there’s always been one that’s sold very well partly the price point significantly less than the top of the rain shafts but performance relative to price points

Been very very good so what is it about this series of is pro there was a a launch in 2016 and there was a second version launched back into 2021 um that you how does it compare to the other shafts so one of the elements of this is

There have been major learnings from developments in materials with the V and the velor that they’ve been able to use some of that learning and put it into this product so what does that actually mean so one of the bits with the Vista pro line is that they have a a

Multimaterial bias core so essentially what they’re managing to do is take out the smaller Parcels of materials that they’ve used to stabilize particular areas of the shaft and now they’re at a point where they can put them all the way through so rather than small pockets of materials with small pockets of

Stability that that material runs all the way down so it gives a smoother transition uh smoother feel but just more consistency more resistance to oing and and so what that gives you is then more consistency of ballf flight and some of those developments in the past

Have allowed them to do this at a at a better value better price point than they would have done previously so relative to previous series and and a general profile of shaft uh the Vista Pro Series is a a sort of a soft to Mid butt section so

That you get a little sensation of loading if you make the gripin tooo hard too stiff then you lose quite a lot of feel so this isn’t a shaft that’s designed to be the most solid most rigid feeling shaft you’ve got um because it’s actually designed to give you some

Feedback and give you some extra kind of pop and performance so the the slightly less stiff grip section is really key to that but they’re then able to go more stable in the midsection to control spin uh and to control that launch profile as well so they’ve softened the butt

Section A little bit from the first generation firmed up the midsection and then uh through some of the materials in the core in the tip section that allows them to keep that responsiveness but keep the consistency so it’s a little bit of a soft firm and a little bit less

Firm in the tip and that really gives you feel stability control and and that carries across all the the wood line as well as the hybrid shafts and the same materials the same technology if you want a bit of phrase through into the hybrids as well as the uh the wood

Shafts uh they range in weights from they go from 45 55 65 70 series and that ranges from 48 gr to 75 gam so it’s a really wide variation of options open to you um but obviously we’ve got a driver a fairway and hybrid set up here what

Does that actually mean from a feel and from a playing point of view so I’m going to hit a few with each and give you a little bit of insight into what they actually feel like and what kind of performance you can expect to see from a

Price point of view they sit you where you’ve got the Ventus and the speeder NX lines at 300 350 plus um from a reshaft point of view uh the Vista Pro wood shaft is around the 150 Mark 140 150 and the hybrid option around the 120 Mark so

Actually Ventus hybrid you’re going to be uper just over the 200b mark so there’s actually significant reduction in pricing um which is one of the attractions of the Vista Pro Line but that’s not to say it’s not a good quality product I think that’s one thing not to be confused with with this

Range so I’m going to swing this one’s the V Pro the 55r so going to go the 55r in the driver 65s in the Fairway and the 70s in the hybrid and just give a bit of feedback on what they feel like to swing and what kind of performance you can

Expect so one of the things that’s most noticeable is that sensation of a little bit of load in the shaft um so yeah granted it’s a it’s a slightly lighter shaft than I would play normally however um actually within the swing as you start down the shaft gives you a little

Bit of back you’re not going to sense you got to work it hard to get a response from it so let’s hit another couple so there’s definitely a little bit of that load and kick through the ball so as I say not a shaft that you’re

Going to feel like you’re going to have to work hard to get a response from having said that it’s not a flippy sha there are some that because of the way the materials run through the mid and the tip section it doesn’t feel like it flicks at the bottom so something that

You’re not going to have to be someone who really loads it heavily to get something back from it but it’s not going to feel loose through the ball either so really quite a you know in some respects you can really feel where that midsection stable doesn’t doesn’t

Give out on you but there’s a little bit of action through the tip and so for me this is giving a little bit of extra launch but most Noti it’s not it’s not something that’s flaring spin up so if I move on to Fairway Wood you we got up a

Little bit of weight into the fairway wood um one other thing actually with the Vista Pro Line is there their balance point is a little bit lower than mid so it’s going to be something that’s going to help keep a bit of feel for the

Club head as well keep a bit feel for the bottom half of the shaft so it’s going to help the club just to drop into plane a little bit versus some of the other shafts at this weight range so as we move in a fairway Wood again with the slightly heavier shaft on heavier head on The Fairway Wood definitely you get a little bit more sensation of kick and load through the shaft so again certainly probably more so in the F than the driver get a little bit of more sensation of responsiveness through the

Shaft and you know certainly that that stronger midsection that they developed for this series definitely keeps keeps a feeling of control through the ball and so it sounds a bit maybe strange to say it feels that there’s some control with a bit of responsive this but it’s where

That’s happening in the shaft that’s really the key thing so definitely little bit of load in the handle stable in the midsection a little bit of action in the tip and that carries on from driver through to the Fairway but but more exaggerated than the Fairway

Would because of the heavier head on it so again a little lot of extra launch on it um the head style is going to in the Fairwood is going to really override a lot of the spin characteristics but certainly helps get a feeling of a

Little bit of kick and a little bit of launch and now moving on to the uh the hybrids so the hybrid shafts also as with the wood shafts the hybrid shafts run from a 48 G through to a 75 G so in the woods and the hybrids they go from really

Quite a quite a lightweight shaft up to I guess you call it for Mid stronger mid weight um but they don’t since they sit more in the mid ranges of the weight categories they don’t kick up too high so you tend to be 50 55 to 57 so 47 48

In the lightest 55 to 57 in the 55 65 to 67 in the uh in the 65 and then 7475 in the 75 which might sound an obvious comment to make but actually quite a lot of the shafts sit at the very top end of those weight ranges so

And they sit very much in those middle ranges so in the hybrid you generally always get a little bit of a different feel in the hybrid to Fairway WS so certainly in the hybrid there’s a much more I say much more there’s a a

More solid feel to them so in the um in the Fairway woods and the driver you can get that sensation of load a little bit of response as we move into the into the hybrid that that lower half of the shaft stabilizes up a little bit more and they

Do in the hybrids they ramp up a little bit in that respect so proportionately the 70 feels a little bit more sturdy than the 60 the 60 feels a bit more sturdy than the 50 so you know the the 70 plays a stiffer profile as well whereas in the wood shafts they’re a

Little bit more consistent so in this definitely suits simly a little bit of tip balance to it but someone who Wants a Slightly slightly more solid feeling shaft you definitely don’t get that same element to kick up like you do with the wood shafts so you know I would say

Anyone who tends to prefer to feel like they’re squeezing the squeezing the ball out of the hybrids um then this shaft at 75 G at least feels like you can play that shot a little bit more so allows me to feel like I can get down onto the ball

Without that bottom end losing and without that that loss of stability through the ball so really in in summary on the Vista Pro Series there’s a lot of development of tech over the years that’s gone into this product um it’s gradually become you kind higher grade

Material but from a price point point of view uh it’s something that we use a lot particularly in Fairway Woods because of that feeling of kick but really punches above its weight in terms of price point too so really good quality materials made by one of the top brands and

Certainly something to consider in your clubs in the future