Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a weekly Q&A feature from The Golf Channel’s Chief Technical Advisor Frank Thomas. To submit a question for possible use in this column, email ...

There used to be a basic rule for iron shafts – if you’re a strong, competitive player you choose steel, and if you’re older, slower, a woman, or generally not athletic, you choose graphite. Steel ...

I grew up playing the game of golf. After 30-plus years, I switched from steel iron shafts to graphite. Maybe I wasn’t the classic candidate for graphite: Early 40s, single-digit handicap, mid-90s mph ...

The steel putter shaft has been around since the early 20th century. Times are changing, however, and a new craze has hit the PGA TOUR. Pros are now using a variety of materials in the shafts of their ...

For the last six years, every PGA Tour player has used a graphite shaft in his driver during competition. Compared to steel shafts, which were the driver shaft of choice for most pros until around the ...

Jim Laudenslager got the idea when tendinitis forced him to rebuild his personal set of golf clubs with graphite shafts. "I built the set, pured the shafts, good grips ... everything was perfect, or ...

Remember when the general consensus was that graphite iron shafts were for women, seniors and any other golfer whose swing speed was about the equivalent of a highway speed limit? Try telling that to ...

Nippon isn’t as well known in the iron shaft arena as, say, True Temper, but fact is the company has been at the forefront of lightweight iron-shaft design since 1999 when it introduced the first ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. -- Just a short time ago, professional golfers used strictly steel shafts in their irons. Even when graphite shafts became both acceptable and popular in metalwoods and ...