Videos
Ask the Experts: “Step-by-step, how exactly is a golf shaft made?”
Fujikura Vice President Alex Dee explains, step-by-step, how a golf shaft gets built, and what “prepreg” actually means. Enjoy the video below!
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Russell made a massive charge on the last 3 holes of the 2026 Charles Schwab Challenge this weekend to force a playoff with Eric Cole. Henley drained another putt on the first playoff hole to win his 6th PGA Tour event! While he is a Titleist staff member, his WITB is far from a simple blend of the latest gear. He mixes brand new with some very old clubs in order to play his best.
Driver: Titleist TSi3 (10 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70 6.5 TX
3-wood: Titleist TS3 (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 80 TX
7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees)
Shaft: Project X Denali Black 80 TX
Irons: Titleist T250 (4), Titleist T100 (5-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold AMT (4-6)
True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (7-9)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11
48-10F @47
True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
50-08F @51
54-10S @55
60-04T
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X5 Tour Prototype
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
What happens when a 10 handicap and a +4 handicap go through a full driver fitting at one of the most advanced golf performance centers in the world? Brian Knudson and Andrew Von Lossow headed to the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, California, to find out.
Both players go through a complete Titleist GTS driver fitting with the Titleist fitting team to see how swing speed, launch conditions, strike location, shaft profile, and head setup can completely change performance off the tee. Even though the golfers have very different games, the fitting process reveals just how important proper equipment can be for maximizing distance, tightening dispersion, and improving consistency.
You will see how Titleist fitters analyze every part of the driver setup including loft, weighting, shaft selection, and head model to build a driver specifically for each player’s swing. While the skill levels, club head speeds, and desired outcomes are different both players show how deep and versatile the new Titleist GTS driver lineup is.
Videos
Spaun’s surprise putter switch + the best wedge stamping on tour? | Inside the Ropes: Charles Schwab Challenge
Alistair Cameron takes you inside the action at the Charles Schwab Challenge in this week’s episode. Recent winner Brandt Snedeker breaks down his WITB, Neal Shipley discusses his iconic wedge stampings, the reigning U.S. Open champion, J.J. Spaun, discusses a surprise putter switch. Also featured is a look at Project X’s new Titan shafts, which debuted on tour with a bang. All this, and more!
Aaron Rai’s winning WITB: 2026 PGA Championship
Russell Henley’s winning WITB: 2026 Charles Schwab Challenge
Photos from the 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson
CJ Cup Byron Nelson Tour Report: Koepka and Kim’s newest putters finally get hot
Charles Schwab Challenge Tour Report: MacIntyre, Ã…berg and Spaun all switch putters, TaylorMade launches new Spider
Details on J.J. Spaun’s surprise putter switch
GolfWRX Launch Report: 2026 Titleist GTS drivers
Photos from the 2026 Charles Schwab Challenge
PGA Championship Tour Report: Fitzpatrick, Koepka among big-name putter switches for Aronimink
Photos from the ShopRite LPGA
Maria Torres WITB 2026 (June)
Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees) Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 5-M4 3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees) Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4 5-wood: Ping G440...
Eric Cole WITB 2026 (June)
Driver: PXG Lightning Tour Max (9 degrees) Shaft: Project X Titan Yellow 70 TX 3-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D (15 degrees) Shaft:...
Si Woo Kim WITB 2026 (May)
Driver: Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond (8.5 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X Mini driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Mini...
Wyndham Clark’s winning WITB: 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson
Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D (10.5 degrees) Shaft: Project X Titan Yellow 60 TX 3-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D Tour (15 degrees) Shaft: Project...
ogo
Jul 22, 2018 at 1:42 pm
Don’t buy a ‘new and improved’ driver annually. Keep your old driver and pop in a 7 Ereamers $1200 autoclave cured graphite shaft… and you will never buy another driver because the shaft is 90% of the driver swing… believe it!!!
ogo
Jul 22, 2018 at 1:43 pm
…ooops…. that’s: “…7 Dreamers…” …. my bad… 😮
Rascal
Jul 22, 2018 at 5:41 pm
No, you had it almost right. Just take out the first ‘E’ and you’d have it!
alas
Jul 24, 2018 at 12:34 am
Okay, but it’s likely you struggling with your deficient graphite shaft.
Aaron
Jul 20, 2018 at 10:06 pm
I hope OGO realizes he is literally the first impression of the shaft company he continuously, agonizingly, harps on. The negative reaction many members feel towards him, are automatically transferred to the brand as well. Truth.
ogo
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:09 am
Read this and weep, pizza oven-cured soggy floppy graphite shaft lovers:
http://www.golfwrx.com/489200/a-qa-with-seven-dreamers-about-its-1200-shafts/
Aaron
Jul 20, 2018 at 10:52 am
+1 for Rascal.
-1 for OGO for constantly harping about Seven Dreamers
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:36 pm
… and you are a shaft ignoramus…. soooo obvious… 😛
Rascal
Jul 19, 2018 at 9:46 pm
In before the seven dreamers guy chips in his two cents.
ogo
Jul 19, 2018 at 11:39 pm
… and still after 40 years of graphite shaft building they still can’t get it right because the oven-cured shafts are still overloaded with epoxy plastic… and that makes the shaft tip soggy and floppy… no matter how much exotic fibers are blended in because the epoxy weakens the tip.
Geohogan
Jul 20, 2018 at 1:53 pm
cpm for 7 dreamers?
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:40 pm
… better than floppy soggy oven-cured graphite over-epoxied cr*p shafts …!!!
ogo
Jul 19, 2018 at 11:45 pm
Also, they stiffen up the shafts by jacking up the weight to 125 grams, the same as steel. Then they increase shaft tip diameters from 0.335″ to 0.350″.. which increases torque resistance by 14% (cube of the diameters), but all to no avail. The best and only solution? Autoclave curing at high temperature to squeeze out excess epoxy… 7-Dreamers!
Rascal
Jul 20, 2018 at 1:44 am
Thank you, and here I was thinking that shafts grew on graphite trees!
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:42 pm
…. and now yer brainlet knows the difference between floppy soggy pizza oven-cured fujikura shafts and autoclave cured 7 Dreamers superior shafts. How does inferiority feeeel …. lol
Rascal
Jul 20, 2018 at 9:06 pm
I expected nothing less from your superior autoclave cured noggin!
ogo
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:10 am
Read this and weep, you pizza oven-cured soggy floppy graphite shaft lover:
http://www.golfwrx.com/489200/a-qa-with-seven-dreamers-about-its-1200-shafts/
Skip
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:42 pm
funny thing, I could use a soggy floppy shaft and still be better at golf than you. it’s the Indian, not the arrow.
ogo
Jul 21, 2018 at 2:28 pm
funny thing, watching you shooting your floppy soggy arrow at a target… ploop.. 😮
Aaron
Jul 20, 2018 at 10:51 am
+1
ogo
Jul 20, 2018 at 3:38 pm
…. and you are word-challenged… soooo obvious… 😮