Getting the Shaft... in Your Next Set of Clubs

Today I'm recommending an equipment article I read over at golftipsmag.com. The article is called Shaft Exchange and the idea is simple: Are steel shafts or graphite shafts better for your irons, regardless of what kind of shaft you use in your woods and hybrids?



I'll warn you upfront: It's a fairly long article. But I found it worth reading. Unlike most of these comparison articles -- you know, the ones that bog you down with tables full of figures that you may not even understand -- Ryan Noll did a simple performance test. He used his existing set of steel-shafted irons as his baseline, then took a second identical set and put the same shaft model and flex (but in graphite) in them for comparison.

The article is very enlightening and since I know many of you will start looking at new clubs soon -- the new models will be coming out in the next month or so -- you might find his conclusions very helpful when you start shopping. This isn't a high-tech evaluation so much as a common sense one.

Given all the hype that surrounds equipment these days, that's a refreshing change.