Why do I use Wishon Shafts almost exclusively in my custom built clubs? Because I know they will fit the swing I’m trying to help. Why? See below…
A Wishon Golf clubhead custom fit and custom built with a Wishon Golf shaft offers golfers the absolute best fit and allows golfers to achieve success in their search for their perfect golf clubs.
Wishon Golf – not simply the golf industry leader in clubhead design but the industry leader in shaft design as well.
The industry wide contributions of Wishon Golf to understanding and advancing shaft performance technology include:
- In 1991 Wishon was the first to publish a book – a book, not just an article – solely devoted to shaft technology titled, The Modern Guide to Shaft Fitting. This was the first time anyone in the golf industry published empirical measurements of the flex and other specifications of thousands of shafts. For the first time ever, this book made it possible to definitively compare shaft stiffness to know how stiff one shaft is to others. For many years after the book was published, to keep the industry up to date, Wishon provided an annual publication of each year’s new assortment of shafts introduced by all the shaft companies.
- Wishon Golf was the first to publish measurements of the full-length stiffness progression of shafts with its ground-breaking Shaft Bend Profile Software in 2006. The data in Wishon’s 1991 book only offered one measurement of stiffness for comparison purposes. Wishon’s Shaft Bend Profile Software visually showed golfers how thousands of shafts compared in their stiffness over their entire length from butt to tip. With this never before seen information it was possible to predict the performance of a shaft for any golfer before the golfer bought or tried the shaft in a club.
- Wishon Golf was the first to clearly explain exactly how shafts bent, twisted, curved and performed during the swing in its technical writings during the 2000s. Prior to this no one had ever explained exactly how different swing movements caused the shaft to bend in different ways and in different places on the shaft.
- Wishon Golf was the first to identify the exact swing characteristics that have a significant effect on the bending and performance of the shaft. With its focus on evaluating the golfer’s Transition Force, Downswing Tempo and Point of Release, Wishon Golf pushed the industry years ahead in the ability to evaluate a golfer’s swing for the purpose of accurate shaft fitting.
- And now, with its emphasis on studying the full length stiffness progression of thousands of shafts, Wishon Golf is pushing the envelope with shaft designs that uncover performance and feel elements in golf shafts that have never been attempted, let alone even envisioned.
Wishon Golf custom designed shafts deserve every bit as much respect as Wishon designed clubhead models. Different swing movements most definitely require different shaft designs to optimize each golfer’s ability to maximize their ball striking potential. Wishon Golf shafts are only designed for specific golfer swing types and represent the culmination of over 30 years of in-depth shaft research and incorporate a number of golf industry shaft design and shaft R & D firsts. In truth, no shaft company has contributed as much to the technical understanding of shaft performance and to the advancement of accurate shaft fitting technology than Wishon Golf.
The major shaft companies have kept shaft fitting in a state of total confusion forever by continuing to use us generic, undefined letters or single digit numbers to inform golfers of the FLEX, perhaps the single most important specification of a golf shaft.
With absolutely no standards in the game for how stiff any of the 5 primary flexes (L, A, R, S, X) are, it is an absolute fact that the R flex from one shaft company is the same stiffness as the S flex from another or the A flex from a third. Wishon Golf never designs a shaft without including an accurate swing speed range based on empirical measurements of the shaft’s stiffness to convey exactly how fast the golfer needs to swing to be able to be matched to the flex design of the shaft.
The graph below shows the full length stiffness measurements for 7 different shafts, all labeled by their respective companies as R flex. A quick look at the 41 inch grip end measurement shows all these R flex shafts vary in stiffness by 28 cycles per minute – a three flex range, yet all are labeled as an R flex. The same is true for shafts within every letter flex designation.
Not only that but the shaft industry has also used completely generic descriptions of how shafts vary in the distribution of stiffness over their full length. Just how is a golfer to know how stiff is a shaft with the description of “tip stiff” or “butt firm” or “low bend point” or any of the other completely non-specific labels given to shafts to try to help golfers choose what’s best for them. Every shaft maker designs their different model shafts with a different distribution of how the stiffness changes over the length of the shaft but they give golfers nothing in the way of empirical, specific information to compare shafts to be able to know which shafts are suitable, and which are not for each golfer.
The graph below shows the full length stiffness measurements for two shafts which are virtually the same for the butt stiffness but vary hugely in their stiffness over the rest of the length of the shaft. Both are labeled as R flex but are so different that any experienced golfer would swear one was an R and the other was softer than an L. How could golfers possibly choose the best shaft flex for their game in the face of this total lack of definitive information?
The industry wide contributions of Wishon Golf to understanding and advancing shaft performance technology include:
- In 1991 Wishon was the first to publish a book – a book, not just an article – solely devoted to shaft technology titled, The Modern Guide to Shaft Fitting. This was the first time anyone in the golf industry published empirical measurements of the flex and other specifications of thousands of shafts. For the first time ever, this book made it possible to definitively compare shaft stiffness to know how stiff one shaft is to others. For many years after the book was published, to keep the industry up to date, Wishon provided an annual publication of each year’s new assortment of shafts introduced by all the shaft companies.
- Wishon Golf was the first to publish measurements of the full-length stiffness progression of shafts with its ground-breaking Shaft Bend Profile Software in 2006. The data in Wishon’s 1991 book only offered one measurement of stiffness for comparison purposes. Wishon’s Shaft Bend Profile Software visually showed golfers how thousands of shafts compared in their stiffness over their entire length from butt to tip. With this never before seen information it was possible to predict the performance of a shaft for any golfer before the golfer bought or tried the shaft in a club.
- Wishon Golf was the first to clearly explain exactly how shafts bent, twisted, curved and performed during the swing in its technical writings during the 2000s. Prior to this no one had ever explained exactly how different swing movements caused the shaft to bend in different ways and in different places on the shaft.
- Wishon Golf was the first to identify the exact swing characteristics that have a significant effect on the bending and performance of the shaft. With its focus on evaluating the golfer’s Transition Force, Downswing Tempo and Point of Release, Wishon Golf pushed the industry years ahead in the ability to evaluate a golfer’s swing for the purpose of accurate shaft fitting.
- And now, with its emphasis on studying the full length stiffness progression of thousands of shafts, Wishon Golf is pushing the envelope with shaft designs that uncover performance and feel elements in golf shafts that have never been attempted, let alone even envisioned.
A Wishon Golf clubhead custom fit and custom built with a Wishon Golf shaft offers golfers the absolute best fit and allows golfers to achieve success in their search for their perfect golf clubs.
Wishon Golf – not simply the golf industry leader in clubhead design but the industry leader in shaft design as well.