It’s often said that the shaft is the engine of the golf club. Not everyone agrees – some argue that it’s you, the one who actually swings the golf club, who is the real engine. Whatever your viewpoint, let’s just say the golf shaft is a very important piece of equipment.
The idea of changing golf shaft might sound foreign to some golfers; certainly, it’s safe to say a lot of us wouldn’t be as excited about getting a new shaft as we would about going out and buying one of the best golf drivers.
However, a new driver shaft or new shafts in your woods might be just what your game needs, especially if your long game is letting you down. Having struggled a touch off the tee recently, I was keen to try a different option and see if I could tighten things up. Could the new offering from Fujikura do the trick?
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Fujikura’s VeloCore technology was introduced in 2018 with its Ventus shafts to help golfers keep the club more stable through transition and impact. By promoting more center-face contact, it’s a technology that, to put it simply, helped players increase their control without giving up on carry distance.
VeloCore+ is the next generation of Fujikura’s groundbreaking technology. Featuring a re-engineered multi-material bias core, VeloCore+ is said to enhance the feel and performance of Ventus with an additional premium bias core material, promoting even tighter dispersion and increased ball speeds – something the best golf driver shafts offer.
The previous shaft model in my Titleist TSR3 driver was the Fujikura Ventus Black 6X. I replaced this with the new Fujikura Ventus VeloCore+ blue shaft, which was the same weight and flex, but featured the manufacturer’s latest technology (VeloCore+). It’s worth mentioning at this point that I love the striking electric blue color of this shaft – it really stands out on the course without being distracting over the ball.
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Sometimes, when you’re experimenting with different shafts, a change in performance, such as dispersion, becomes obvious immediately. This can certainly be the case when you change weight or flex. However, I was really just trying to see what effect, if any, the new technology was having – and this required me to hit quite a lot of balls.
After a while, and after looking at my data, it did become apparent that I’d tightened up my dispersion a touch – there wasn’t as much curve and the odd loose one wasn’t as wild. At…
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