Fujikura Motore Speeder driver shaft wins At The World Golf Championships-Accenture

Newly introduced Motore Speeder Shaft Second World Wide Victory
On February 21, 2010 - By Brandon de la Cruz, Fujikura.com

(Vista, CA – February 22, 2010 ) Fujikura’s new innovative shaft technology was used in the winning driver and fairway wood at the Accenture Match Play Championship.

The tournament winner used the new Motore Speeder in his driver and Rombax 7X07 in his three wood.

"What a great start to 2010 with our third driver shaft victory in the first two months of the year!" says Dave Schnider, President/COO. "Motore Speeder is such an innovative performance shaft and it is an honor to see the top players in world utilizing and winning with such superior shaft technology."


“During development of the new Motore, we wanted to create a shaft with superior feel as well as low spin characteristics. Players feedback has reiterated our initial design concept and it’s nice to see how well it is performing on Tour so far,” says Pat McCoy, Fujikura Tour Representative.

The new Motore Speeder, along with our full line of shafts, is available now through Fujikura’s Charter Dealers across the United States and around the world.

The Motore Speeder feature Fujikura’s proprietary and proven Triax Woven material along with Quadra Axis Composite creating a 7 axis Technology. This uniformity throughout the shaft assists with eliminating deformation yet providing the maximum amount of feel through the entire swing increasing overall performance and stability.

Buy the Motore Speeder Golf Shaft from Golf Shafts Asia

True Temper shafts top money list on three Tours with victories

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Shafts designed and manufactured by True Temper topped the money list on three tours this weekend, scoring victories at the PGA Tour's Honda Classic and the European and Asian Tours' Maybank Malaysian Open.

This year's Honda Classic champion played high-performance Project X Flighted shafts in his irons to earn a T2 ranking in Greens in Regulation (73.6%) and to shoot an impressive 65 birdies in his last 14 rounds, earning him first place in birdies. Additionally, Project X steel and graphite shafts were in the bag of the number three finisher who shot the lowest round at The Honda Classic.


Dynamic Gold shafts - which are the top-selling shafts in golf - performed no less admirably at the Malaysian Open, delivering a 14-under-par victory (69-70-67-68) for the 18-year-old pro.

"When you look at the numbers - 125 sets in play at the Honda Classic and eight sets among the top 10 finishers - there is no doubt Dynamic Gold and Project X are preferred by the best players in golf," says Chad Hall, director of product marketing and global tour operations for True Temper Sports. "Dynamic Gold and Project X brands continue to be clear favorites among the professional players around the world because they deliver accuracy and distance more consistently than any other steel shafts in golf."

The Number One shaft manufacturer in the world, True Temper Sports has delivered hundreds of professional tour victories around the world, and True Temper shafts, such as Dynamic Gold and Project X, continue to dominate the PGA TOUR week after week. Dynamic Gold shafts feature a high-flex, tour weight design that generates a low, penetrating ball flight. The straight taper and short tip section of the Project X iron shafts provides maximum energy transfer with low spin rates required for penetrating iron shots. By combing this design platform with eight premium graphite materials, the Project X wood and hybrid shafts are quickly becoming known as the lowest spinning graphite shafts available.

Graphite Design congratulates Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open winner

SAN DIEGO -- Graphite Design, maker of the most widely played premium golf shafts on the PGA Tour, announced that the winner of the Nationwide Tour Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open plays Graphite Design's Tour AD UT 85 shaft in his hybrid.

"This victory has been a long time coming for the winner of the Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open and we congratulate him on his return to the winner's circle," said Mr. Tak Yamada, vice president, corporate planning, Graphite Design. "Our Tour AD UT hybrid shafts are a popular choice on all the Tours and we are pleased that he chose to put one in play at this event."


Graphite Design's Tour AD brand of shafts accounts for over 50% of all Graphite Design shafts used on professional Tours in the United States. The company's Tour AD logo is featured on all of Graphite Design's PGA Tour-proven shafts to specifically promote "Accuracy and Distance" and these key competitive advantages are helping professional and amateur golfers optimize their games after switching to Graphite Design shafts.


Graphite Design International manufactures the highest quality shafts in the world for Pure Distance and Perfect Accuracy. Graphite Design shafts can be seen in play by the best professional players on the PGA, Nationwide, Champions, Japan, European and LPGA tours. Graphite Design shafts reinforced its dominance on the Japan Tour, where it has claimed 163 consecutive graphite wood shaft brand counts -- an unprecedented streak which dates to 2003. On the PGA Tour, Graphite Design shafts have helped professionals earn 64 victories since 2004 and millions of dollars in prize money. A total of 8 US distributors and 5 European and Asian distributors supply Graphite Design shafts to over 1000 custom fitters around the world.

Aerotech Golf announces introduction of new Claymore shafts

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Golf's leader in composite shaft innovation, Aerotech Golf announces the introduction of its all-new Claymore product line, a series of ultra light graphite shafts for drivers and fairway woods designed specifically to enhance performance of today's new generation of stronger players and larger clubheads.

The Claymore is an exciting lightweight, filament-wound design engineered for a seamless, extremely uniform and stable flexing golf shaft. The Claymore driver and fairway wood shafts utilize a new micro-thin Micro-Tex Carbon Fiber that allows more high-modulus fibers to be incorporated into specific fiber angles including the hoop wound (90°) surface layer which minimizes shaft distortion for superior stability.

"Aerotech Golf has built its reputation on innovative composite shaft designs and creative material engineering, and the all-new Claymore is no exception to this philosophy," says Chris Hilleary, president of Aerotech Golf. "The Claymore marks a new generation of very stable, low-torque super-light weight golf shafts. While we've designed the softer flexes to improve launch conditions for the slower swing speeds the firmer flexes can handle even the strongest of swings. Now you can enjoy the benefits of a super light weight golf shaft no matter what your swing speed."

The Claymore was initially made available to the Long Drive circuit in 2009 and made its way into the bag of 13 competitors at the 2009 Remax Long Drive Worlds. The long drive model (Claymore LD) is available in three flexes LD400 (4X flex), LD300 (3X flex) and LD200 (2X flex). Hot on the heels of the success of the Long drive version Aerotech is now launching two additional models — MX48 and MX60 — with five flex levels (F1-F5) each. The MX48 weights are 47 grams (F1 flex) through 50 grams (F5 flex), while the slightly heavier MX60 model weighs in at 57 grams (F1) to 60 grams (F5). MSRP $99.

Aerotech Golf specializes in uniquely engineered, performance-enhancing golf shafts and has supplied shafts to such renowned golf club manufacturers as Cleveland Golf, Adams Golf, Fenwick, Srixon, Lynx, Zevo and Pure Spin among many others. By launching its own branded golf shafts in 2002, Aerotech became known as a producer of some of the most innovative, high-quality golf shafts on the market.

Graphite Design congratulates Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open winner

SAN DIEGO -- Graphite Design, maker of the most widely played premium golf shafts on the PGA Tour, announced that the winner of the Nationwide Tour Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open plays Graphite Design's Tour AD UT 85 shaft in his hybrid.

"This victory has been a long time coming for the winner of the Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open and we congratulate him on his return to the winner's circle," said Mr. Tak Yamada, vice president, corporate planning, Graphite Design. "Our Tour AD UT hybrid shafts are a popular choice on all the Tours and we are pleased that he chose to put one in play at this event."

Graphite Design's Tour AD brand of shafts accounts for over 50% of all Graphite Design shafts used on professional Tours in the United States. The company's Tour AD logo is featured on all of Graphite Design's PGA Tour-proven shafts to specifically promote "Accuracy and Distance" and these key competitive advantages are helping professional and amateur golfers optimize their games after switching to Graphite Design shafts.

Graphite Design International manufactures the highest quality shafts in the world for Pure Distance and Perfect Accuracy. Graphite Design shafts can be seen in play by the best professional players on the PGA, Nationwide, Champions, Japan, European and LPGA tours. Graphite Design shafts reinforced its dominance on the Japan Tour, where it has claimed 163 consecutive graphite wood shaft brand counts -- an unprecedented streak which dates to 2003. On the PGA Tour, Graphite Design shafts have helped professionals earn 64 victories since 2004 and millions of dollars in prize money. A total of 8 US distributors and 5 European and Asian distributors supply Graphite Design shafts to over 1000 custom fitters around the world.

Graphite Design shafts capture victory at Allianz Championship

SAN DIEGO -- Graphite Design, maker of some of the most widely played premium shafts on the PGA TOUR, announced today that the winner of the Allianz Championship uses Graphite Design Purple Ice shafts in his driver, three, and five woods.

"It's wonderful to see the winner of the Allianz Championship celebrate his first Champions Tour victory of the year," said Mr. Tak Yamada, vice president, corporate planning, Graphite Design. "He had an outstanding year in 2009 and we're very pleased that he is playing our shafts at the start of the 2010 season. We wish him continued success throughout the year."

Graphite Design's Tour AD brand of shafts accounts for over 50% of all Graphite Design shafts used on professional Tours in the United States. The company's Tour AD logo is featured on all of Graphite Design's PGA Tour-proven shafts to specifically promote "Accuracy and Distance" and these key competitive advantages are helping professional and amateur golfers optimize their games after switching to Graphite Design shafts.

Graphite Design International manufactures the highest quality shafts in the world for Pure Distance and Perfect Accuracy. Graphite Design shafts can be seen in play by the best professional players on the PGA, Nationwide, Champions, Japan, European and LPGA tours. Graphite Design shafts reinforced its dominance on the Japan Tour, where it has claimed 163 consecutive graphite wood shaft brand counts -- an unprecedented streak which dates to 2003. On the PGA Tour, Graphite Design shafts have helped professionals earn 64 victories since 2004 and millions of dollars in prize money. A total of 8 US distributors and 5 European and Asian distributors supply Graphite Design shafts to over 1000 custom fitters around the world.

About Graphite Design
Graphite Design, established in Japan in 1989 and in the U.S. in 1997, is the industry leader in shaft technology and the preferred brand for golf professionals worldwide. One of the world's three largest golf-club shaft manufacturers, the company made its mark manufacturing premium shafts for most of golf's major OEMs, including the top four companies by sales volume. Graphite Design shafts continue to be preferred by top club makers the world over while the company's mainstay YS shafts, Pershing shafts and other models are extremely popular among avid and occasional golfers.

Revolutionary technology, design and sourcing the most advanced materials are trademarks in all Graphite Design shafts, making them the highest quality performance shafts on the market. Validating the company's "AD" logo, all of Graphite Design's PGA Tour-proven shafts specifically promote "Accuracy and Distance" and these key competitive advantages are helping professional and amateur golfers optimize their games after switching to Graphite Design shafts. For more information about Graphite Design visit www.golfshaftsasia.com

Grafalloy Epic Shaft from Golf Shafts Asia

It's not steel, but it's metallic. It's not graphite, but it's firmly rooted in carbon fiber. And its very newness is what the industry's largest shaft company is banking on.

The new Epic shaft, from Grafalloy, the graphite shaft company owned by steel shaft giant True Temper, seeks to combine the best features of steel shafts and graphite shafts in a new material called NanoFuse.

Yes, you heard right: the magic and often-invoked "nano" word, which involves design at the sub-molecular, nearly atomic level. By fusing a nanocrystalline alloy with a carbon fiber composite polymer sublayer in a proprietary manufacturing process, Grafalloy engineers say they have been able to develop a shaft with the consistency of steel and the distance and feel benefits of graphite. But the knocks on steel (its weight and distance limitations) and graphite (its inconsistency) have been eliminated, Grafalloy says.


The result, the company says, is a longer shot with 35 percent less dispersion – the all-important tighter landing pattern in a group of test shots. The distance improvement has been measured at as much as 20 yards with the driver, Grafalloy says. The new shaft will first be available for drivers, fairway woods and hybrids.

The nano part is a step out of the box for Grafalloy and True Temper. Many products have used carbon nanotubes, but Grafalloy insists this is true design at the smallest level. That leads to an unimaginably small and tight grain structure in the NanoFuse material, which is so strong that when painted onto a ping pong ball, the formerly delicate orb can withstand 200 pounds of vertical pressure. In a golf shaft, the combined strength and flexibility properties make for a potent combination, say the new material's co-developers, PowerMetal Technologies of Carlsbad, Calif.

And just how small is the design framework? Twenty nanometers is the size of a molecule of the nanocrystalline material used in the Epic. Some perspective? A golf ball dimple is 4 million nanometers wide.

"If a golf ball dimple were a shopping mall, a NanoFuse molecule would be a coin in the fountain in the middle of that mall," said one Grafalloy exec.

Grafalloy and True Temper claim that the Epic is the first sporting goods use of this technology. They also say the Epic is being received very well in consumer and elite player testing, and that it will have its PGA TOUR coming-out party at the FBR Open in Scottsdale next week. The shaft's low torque fights twisting, but its feel properties aren't "boardy," many of the testers have said.

Significant investment and three years of development went into the Epic. For True Temper/Grafalloy, it was a matter of stepping out of a box they believe has been containing much of the industry: the decades-long effort to improve existing materials, instead of finding new ones.

"You don't want to just stay in the comfort zone of what you know, doing evolutions of golf shafts," said Scott Hennessy, True Temper's president & CEO. "We set out a number of years ago to say, 'What is revolutionary?;' to keep looking at other materials.

What will a first-time Epic hitter notice?

"He will definitely notice a softer and less harsh feel than some of the super lightweight steel shafts that are out there," said Graeme Horwood, vice president of engineering and research and development for Grafalloy. "But also, I believe he's going to appreciate the light weight. And that's going to give them more distance, and with the accuracy benefits we saw in our testing, more confidence as well."

Club manufacturers and component distributors will have the shaft ready to go this spring. Soon after, True Temper will know if its newest Grafalloy brand will move the business needle as significantly as predicted.

"If you just sit back and just want the status quo for your game and equipment, you're destined for failure ultimately as a company" Hennessy said. "You have to keep pushing the envelope, and that's what we're trying to do."

Golf Shafts Asia Launches Yamada Putters

IPT Yamada putter : They supplies putters to 150 pros, USPGA, LPGA, also JPGA etc

In an age where most Putter Manufacturer’s have turn to machines and computer programs to Produce their Putters Master Putter craftsmen Toru Yamada still does all his work by his hands as he has done for the best part of 25 years & is why he is known in the Golf Media as the man with the MAGIC HANDS.


It is the reason why Pro Golfers & Golf Equipment companies have been coming to Yamada for over 20 years to make their Putters. Lauded in Asia for the famous quality craftsmen ship of his putters, Mr Yamada refuses to play Pro’s to use his Putters believing the age old Japanese Traditional saying of good players will find him and so it has rang true for the games elite over the last 2 decades.

“In the last 25 years i have learned a great deal in making putters one of the foremost things i have found the craftsmen ship of the handmade putter still outperforms the machine made putter,this is the reason why until now i have & will continue to make the all of my putters by hand.Whilst the innovation of computers has allowed us to make key improvements in the balance & weighting of the putter something which is very crucial, the milling & other key areas of the putter still require hand finishing craftsmen ship” Yamada States


The Tour Trade Putter crafted by Mr.Yamada 5 yrs ago is another example of the quality of the putters he makes,at the time the putter was made for 150 tour pro’s on the Japanese, European & Asian Tours. The putters were used for great success on the tours with many wins and strong performances being achieved with the Yamada made putter.It was also sold in big numbers in the Asian region as well as in USA & Europe under the banner of Limited Edition of OEM Golf Equipment company’s.