I’m needing to go graphite due to my elbow and wrists/hands. What 0.370 graphite iron shafts in the 85-95g weight range would you have that are most similar to the KBS Tour 90 steel Regular shaft for specs and profile? I’ve tried softening inserts and they do help, but not as much as hoped. Winter is here and that means more time on mats instead of grass. Playing TS1s with Max Milled wedges. Trying hard to avoid a set of TS3s as the TS1s are great.
No graphite shaft will feel like a steel shaft, so just be aware of that. We can look at flex profiles and try to identify a shaft that might have a similar profile, but you can not duplicate the feel moving from steel to graphite. Performance, yes, you can find graphite that can perform as well or better than the steel. The 85-95 gram weight range in graphite limits the options somewhat. Most R flex graphite iron shafts are going to be 75 grams and below. In looking in our database, the only 85-95 gram graphite shaft that has a similar profile I found was the Steelfiber fc80 in their F3-R flex. It is a flighted design that delivers higher trajectory in the longer irons, but in the shafts we tested it has a similar profile in the .370 to the KBS Tour 90. Others that I found that had a similar profile but were lighter were the Mitsubishi C6 Black iron in the R flex at 78.5 grams and the Mitsubishi MMT R flex that is 73 grams.
Britt Lindsey
Thank you Britt. I’ll check out the C6 and Steelfiber.
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i would like the UST Recoil 660 in R-flex (F3). It profiles about the same as the KBS, a bit stiffer in the tip (874 cpm vs 789), so maybe soft step it 1 time.
Don’t get to wrapped up on the 11″ frequency on the 660. the database shows it from 874 to 932. My personal shafts are right near 904. It’s hard to get a consistent reading on a frequency meter as the tip of the shaft is pretty stiff at 11″ and most frequency meters top out at 999.
Britt is dead on when he says a graphite shaft will not feel like a steel shaft. Just a whole different beast.
Thank you sir!
Sorry, meant to add for Regular flex.