When it comes to seeing all the types of shafts in the irons that exist in golf, would you like to know which one to choose? Don't worry! In this article we tell you. Do you need us to advise you? Contact us.

At the time of choosing the best iron for your golf, one of the essential aspects are the shafts. Let's see how to approach this issue.

What are the shafts of the irons in Golf? 

The shafts are one of the three fundamental parts of a golf club (head, shaft and grip). The shaft is the great protagonist in this game, since it ensures that the head arrives on impact, taking advantage of all its properties and all the time and money invested in prototypes and final designs.

How does the choice of one shaft or another affect?

The temples are the part in which a fitter must focus completely on a fitting and where he will really be able to see the intelligence and his good work. Recommending a shaft to a player can be done by any fitter with more or less adequate experience, but being able to recommend a shaft with a type of weight in which the body unconsciously coordinates and which player can get the most out of the stick is not something within the reach of any fitter. We are scholars of all materials, we test them, we study the behavior of each shaft, we test specifications and we have the maximum possible experiences with a single goal, high performance, both for high handicap amateurs and professional players on the most important tours in the world. .

Types of Iron Shafts

Golf shafts used to only find two types of shafts: STEEL and GRAPHITE. 

But steel shafts, although players think that they have evolved over the years, the truth is that in the last 20 years steel shafts have not changed anything at a technological level, but have only evolved in reducing weights, in that the shafts have different colors and the narrowness of the wall of the same, making them thinner and as a consequence lighter and more flexible. With a single objective, that players who cannot play steel shaft, can play it. But that has some handicaps at the health level.

The leap comes with the "GRAPHITE" shafts because over the years the SI graphite shafts have really made a huge technological leap and the graphite shaft companies have evolved. Actually, the graphite rod can be found in different types:

• Steel Fiber (Steelfiber)
• Carbon (MCA OTi and Veylix)
• Carbon with Metal (Veylix)
• Graphite with EI steel (KBS Graphite)
• Carbons of 1 sheet. (TPT Golf)
• Metal Mesh Rod (MCA MMT)
• High Quality Graphites (ACCRA)

Extra-Stiff Shaft

Much has been said about the difference of playing an Xstiff shaft, but the difference in frequency from a stiff shaft to an xstiff shaft is 10 cpm, that is, in a 45” driver the stiff shaft is at 262 cpm and in xstiff it is at 272 cpm. 

Playing an Xstiff shaft is often recommended by all fitters for players with speeds of 110-115 mph, but is that really a rule that is always followed? Not always but in the following articles we will talk about these aspects. 

What an X shaft brings to a player is that since the shaft is harder if the speed is in that range it gives more control of the line and a normal distance, but if the player's speed or performance drops, the problem such as a loss of line and distance. In addition, the X shafts are always of each weight section of each manufacturer, the heaviest shaft since it has more material because the walls are larger and thus the shafts are more stable.

Stiff Shaft

The stiff shaft is a shaft with a frequency that hovers in a 45” driver at 262 cpm and in a standard 37.5” 6-iron it is 324 cpm. That means it's a tough rod any 100 mph player can play with and even at a steady 98 mph it can still be recommended but at a lower weight for consistency and performance. But as I have said, speed is not the only parameter that must be evaluated when selecting a stiff shaft.

How to choose the right shaft in the irons?

There are many things that we have to assess when selecting the right shafts for the irons and not just the speed of the club. We must take into account the following parameters: 

• Age.
• Handicap.
• Physical state.
• biomechanical problems.
• injuries.
• Training days.
• Rounds of 18 holes throughout the month.
• Tournaments played per year.
• Last fitting made
• Time in which the current set is played.

What I want to say with it? As I have commented before, a fitter with a basic experience can recommend a material and even a teacher, who sees many swings every day, can do it quite well, but are they really qualified to make an adequate recommendation? I think not, since for Handmade Custom Clubs, making a complete set of clubs requires planning, vision of the past, present and future. More than anything there are many more parameters that are valued that can only be done when you do a fitting with us.