Re: ShopTalk: GRAPHITE SHAFT

[Bernie Baymiller]

Bob,   Tour Golf in Columbus also has (and has had) a Tour Series shaft line-up for several years. In the past, the line has been mostly sheet wrapped shafts, but last year they changed over to an all-filament wound line. I really liked several of the previous sheet-wrapped shafts. Most of the shafts through the entire line were reasonably consistent, were a solid Type 2 with medium sized spines, NBPlane 90° from spine plane and very easy to FLO. The wood shafts, like their TS2.8 in particular, played very well aligned S1 to COG or NBP to target. They must have also been spined at the manufacturer, since all logos were centered on the spine.  I never tried the TSLW 400 (65-69 grams), but have built 3 sets of irons with the TSLW 300A and L-flex (a steal at $5.65 on close-out last year). They've had a lot of zip and play to comparable distance of my A-2 Apache PM-30s, though slightly lower in trajectory. My NF4 data on the L-flex set for my wife (not together yet) shows raw load range varying from a reading of 3.94 kg to 4.16kg (7 shafts) and one outlier at 4.35kg. Think DT figured 0.03kg was about the equivalent of 1 cpm...about half a flex variation from softest to stiffest NBP across the set of seven shafts. With the middle four shafts within 0.04kg, that set is very easy to match to the 3.94kg shaft. I found my set, an A-flex TSLW 300 iron shaft with similar consistency, plays as well as any graphite iron shaft I've tried. And, yes, with size of the spines in these shafts, they will wobble if not aligned NBP to target, but are very stable when aligned correctly. My impacts are small and centered on my set with the TSLW 300s. Also get consistent distances between clubs.   Don't know if the shaft you have is a Hireko shaft or not, but aboveTSLW 300 info is a similar weight shaft to the TSLW 400, but medium launch and spin as opposed to the TSLW 400 low launch and spin. Tour Golf's Tour Series Lightweight is also listed as 2° torque. If you can e-mail me a pic, I'll be glad to compare the graphics to Tour Golf's TSLW 400...different logos in 2004 and 2005 to present.   Bernie Write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Barrette To: shop talk shop Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:55 AM Subject: ShopTalk: GRAPHITE SHAFT I had a Customer bring in his driver to see what I could do to lower his ball flight, when I tried to frequency the shaft it was so erratic ( it wobbled all over the place) I could not get a consistent measurement. I tried to find info on this shaft online and came up empty. Has anyone heard of this shaft? Tour Series Lightweight 400 67g. 2.0 torque. I vaguely remember Hireko might of had a shaft named tour series. Thanks in advance. Bob   www.golfbum70.com