I grew up playing the game of golf. After 30-plus years, I switched from steel iron shafts to graphite. Maybe I wasn’t the classic candidate for graphite: Early 40s, single-digit handicap, mid-90s mph ...

There used to be a basic rule for iron shafts – if you’re a strong, competitive player you choose steel, and if you’re older, slower, a woman, or generally not athletic, you choose graphite. Steel ...

Answer: Although I'm tempted to reach back out and ask if you mean woods with adjustable cogs or irons that are glued in, the answers we received from our experts cover the gamut so you’ll have the ...

It’s natural for most amateur golfers to assume that PGA TOUR players all play with heavy and stiff steel shafts in their irons. After all, PGA TOUR players swing incredibly fast, and with astounding ...

Graphite shafts are nothing new. They’ve been in drivers and fairway woods for decades, nearly every hybrid comes with a graphite shaft, but irons are a different story. For many golfers, steel has ...

Remember when the general consensus was that graphite iron shafts were for women, seniors and any other golfer whose swing speed was about the equivalent of a highway speed limit? Try telling that to ...

In today’s game, there are three shaft options: graphite, steel or a hybrid of the two. It’s very likely you have two of them in the bag. If this gear scribe were to guess, it’s graphite for the woods ...

The steel putter shaft has been around since the early 20th century. Times are changing, however, and a new craze has hit the PGA TOUR. Pros are now using a variety of materials in the shafts of their ...