The Aerotech SteelFiber is the most popular composite iron shaft on the PGA tour. But it is built by wrapping a layer of steel wire around the outside of the carbon fiber core. And we all know steel is not light. Aerotech’s customers, club fitters needed something light. They were impressed with the SteelFiber, but needed something lighter.
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Where can I buy Aerotech golf shafts?
Aerotech Golf shafts are available as custom options with many nationally celebrated golf club manufacturers such as PXG, Callaway, Titleist, TaylorMade, Ping, Cobra, Bridgestone Golf, Wilson, Cleveland Golf, Miura, Srixon, KZG and Nakashima Golf. Aerotech Golf shafts are also available through professional golf clubfitters around the world.
What happened to Aerotech golf?
In 2005 the golf division split from the parent company and created Aerotech Golf. The AeroTech SteelFiber iron shaft found its way to the PGA tour over 10 years ago and a company known mostly to custom club builders was suddenly a major brand in the shaft business. To their everlasting credit, the designs have not changed much.
Which golf shafts do the best players use?
Other niche shaft selections from manufacturers such as Miyazaki, Oban, PING, TPT and UST Mamiya were also found to be more prominent amongst the driver, fairway wood and hybrid shafts used with Bryson DeChambeau being the only player to use LA Golf Shafts across all of his clubs.
Why choose Aerotech steelfiber iron shafts?
This was especially true in the Aerotech SteelFiber iron shaft line where assembling the clubs to the same length as steel-shafted irons provided adequate heft in the player’s hands. More material in the tip is a lead into the next topic. In looking at posts on golf equipment forums, you can get varied opinions on anything.
What is the most used shaft on tour?
Fujikura's Ventus, which has been the most played shaft on the PGA Tour, is available in 23 versions on its website.
What pros use Aerotech shafts?
Aerotech SteelFiber FC SteelFiber shafts are famously used by Brandt Snedeker, Matt Kuchar and Fred Couples, to name a few. The lone knock was that, for some players, the flex profile was too strong.
Who uses Aerotech golf shafts?
Every week on the PGA Tour, about 70 percent of the players in the field use True Temper steel shafts in their irons. The company's Dynamic Gold models that dominate the counts are used by Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and a host of others.
Do any PGA Tour players use graphite shafts?
In total 100% of the top 100 PGA Tour pros use graphite shafts in their drivers, fairway woods and hybrid clubs. 14 out of the top 100 use graphite shafts in their utility irons while 21 pros use steel.
What shaft flex do PGA players use?
90% of the top 100 PGA Tour pros use extra stiff or Tour extra stiff flex shafts in their driver. As a whole pro players of woods, hybrids and utility irons again use extra stiff or Tour extra stiff shafts with stiff and stiff+ flex shafts only being more used in irons and wedges.
Who uses SteelFiber shafts on tour?
Matt Kuchar (above) began using SteelFiber in 2008. Since then he has won six times on the PGA Tour including victories at the WGC Matchplay, the Memorial and, in 2012, the Players Championship.
Who owns True Temper shafts?
True SportsTrue Sports, the parent company of leading golf shaft manufacturer True Temper, announced the acquisition of Accra Golf Shafts and its parent company, Premium Golf Management Co.
Do SteelFiber shafts play stiff?
In short: Steelfiber shafts can be very stiff even with little weight, but pure graphite shafts can also be very stiff.
Who owns True Temper Sports?
Jeremy ErspamerPresident/CEO, True Temper Sports Inc.
What shaft does Bryson DeChambeau use?
DeChambeau's driver is Cobra's King Speedzone with an L.A. Golf prototype shaft made just for DeChambeau. The loft is 5.5 degrees—similar to what most long-drive competitors use.
How far should you hit a 7 iron?
Average 7 Iron Distances are following: Beginning golfers- 100 yards (men) or 60 yards (women) Intermediate golfers- 135 yards (men) and 75 yards (women) Advanced golfers- 165 yards (men) or 140 yards (women)
Do professionals use graphite or steel shafts?
In almost all cases, your driver and fairway woods will have graphite shafts. The real question comes down to the irons. The status quo has always been that professionals and low-handicap golfers use steel shafts, while amateurs and beginners benefit more from graphite shafts.
Aerotech hls Hybrid Golf Shaft Review
This measurements for this review were done a long time ago. For some reason they never got published. The AeroTech SteelFiber his hybrid shafts, like most AeroTech products are still in production, unchanged over 5+ years. For a custom club fitter this is a very good thing.
Aerotech Ti-Fiber Driver Shaft Review
Aerotech steel fiber iron shafts are the only graphite shaft that have been consistently played on the tours. The shaft is unique, a thin steel wire is wrapped over a filament wound graphite core.
AeroTech SteelFiber Parallel Iron Shaft Review
Aerotech has a long history of providing shafts to club makers. The SteelFiber is a unique construction, a filament wound carbon fiber core is is wrapped with a braided steel wire surface layer. This process is explained in greater detail on the Aerotech website. This review is about the parallel SteelFiber iron shafts.
AeroTech SteelFiber Driver Shaft Review
Aerotech has been making sports products since the early 90’s. They were the first company to produce an NHL approved graphite hockey stick. In 2005 the golf division split from the parent company and created Aerotech Golf.
mrlongball
Well, seeing as there is nothing on here yet about these shafts, I figure I should start one up!
hckymeyer
I've never played or hit the aerotech shafts, but I'm curious what the benefits are? I have had PX 5.5 & DG S300 in the past. Currently play the C-Tapers in a stiff flex, but recently went to a fitting and was recommended something in the x100 range.
GolfSpy MBP
Brad you've played i95 and now i110's I believe? Plus we all have Aerotech something or another in our drivers. You should put up a review, I'll come take some sexy pics too.
Super Tuna
I would love to see some more info on the Steelfibres. They've been around for some time, but I've never tried them out as of yet.
Damon
I was very close to Brandt Snedeker at a clinic a couple week's back, and was able to take a peek into his golf bag. He was gaming Aerotech shafts in his irons. I could not tell the specific model though. I've heard lots of good things about these shafts, but have heard that they play stiff to flex.
mrlongball
First,the Steelfiber are designed a little differently than most graphite shafts. It is a high modulus graphite core that is WOUND, in 59 miles of steelfiber where as everyone else sheet wraps their graphite.
mrlongball
Both Snedeker (i110X) and Kuchar ( i95S) are in the field at Tigers World Challange playing Aerotechs in their irons!!!
Breakdown of Golf Shafts Used by Top 100 PGA Tour Players
Take just a quick glance at the golf shafts used by the top 100 players on the PGA Tour across all of their clubs and the detail with which they go when it comes to shaft choice choosing which shaft becomes immediately obvious.
Driver Shafts Used by Top 100 PGA Tour Players
When looking at the driver shafts used by the best players on the PGA Tour the attention to detail which they clearly pay when putting together their clubs is clearly in evidence.
Fairway Wood & Hybrid Shafts Used by Top 100 PGA Tour Players
The detail which PGA Tour players go into when it comes to choosing the golf shafts for their clubs is again evidenced in the fairway wood and hybrid shafts they use.
What Iron Shafts Do the Pros Use?
Compared to the variety of shafts the best pros choose in their drivers, fairway woods and hybrids when it comes to the shafts the top 100 PGA golfers use in their irons there seems to be much more of a consensus among the players.
What Wedge Shafts Do the Pros Use?
Looking at the shafts used in the wedges of the best 100 PGA Tour pros it was interesting to note that again while many of the pros kept the same shaft as they used for their irons, especially when it came to the pitching wedge, there was again a big variety of wedge shaft models being used.
