In our launch story, we offered a rundown of the key technology in the new WB — 80-ton Dialead pitch fiber, Aerospace-grade MR70 carbon fiber, Consistent Feel Design, and the Xlink Tech Resin System. To go deeper, however, we enlisted our Resident Club Junkie and bona fide shaft nut, Brian Knudson, to track down someone from Mitsubishi at the PGA Show. Fortunately, Mitsubishi’s Director of Global Aftermarket Sales, Jonathan Alongi, was on hand to answer all of BK’s questions.

Check out their discussion about the new WB, as well as the 20th anniversary of the original design, in the video above — time stamps of key points below, including a definitive answer as to how the surfboard graphic ended up on the original Whiteboard in 2004!

• :40 – Mitsubishi Japan expands to the U.S. in 2004
• :50 – “The shaft that set the standard”
• 1:12 – “The ‘board is back”
• 1:45 – WB or Whiteboard? Or both?
• 1:55 – The first iteration of the sixth generation of Diamana
• 2:10 – Incorporating key technology from a 20-year journey
• 3:10 – Modifying the tip section for more ball speed
• 3:50 – Delivering ball speed in a low-launch, low-spin shaft
• 4:20 – Drilling down on the shaft profile compared to the original Whiteboard
• 5:00 – The most impressive element of the new WB
• 5:30 – Butt, mid, tip specifications
• 6:00 – WB’s iconic graphics and the Diamana legacy — flowers, surfboard, numbering system
• 8:15 – An abundance of available weights and flexes
• 8:55 – More players going lightweight

Check out more photos and see what GolfWRXers are saying about Mitsubishi WB in the forums. 

Get the full story on new SM10 wedges in our launch piece. 

In this video, we talked with Spencer Reynolds of Fujikura Golf about the other shaft lineups the company offers that are sometimes overlooked. Fujikura offers a wide-ranging shaft lineup for golfers with different skill levels, profiles, or even desired price points. These options include the Vista Pro series, an entry-level option within the Fujikura catalog. Spencer goes on to detail Motore X, Ventus, Axiom, and the Speeder NX series of shafts.

Tune in above to see which Fujikura shaft might be the best fit for you.

Fujikura Vista Pro golf shafts

• Have a look at in-hand photos of Adam Schenk’s WITB here.

 

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Our Andrew Tursky talked with Schenk for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. An excerpt below:

In fact, Schenk travels with so many extra clubs that he needs not one, but two golf bags to carry them all.

“I travel with a little more equipment than most people,” Schenk said. “It’s fun for me, probably more fun than playing, honestly.”

He’s a shot maker, and he sets up his golf bag to play to that strength, keeping multiple drivers around for different courses and conditions.

“I’ll do something different (with each of my driver setups),” Schenk told GolfWRX.com. “Some are for a draw, some fade, some I can do both with. Some high, some low. Just fitting whatever the golf course is calling for. If I’m slicing it, I’ll probably play a driver with more loft to help me turn it over a little more.”

But that’s not the only reason he travels with so many clubs. It’s also for the pure enjoyment of strategizing and tinkering.

Read the full piece here.

Tursky, as a scratch golfer, used a 3-club set, while Knudson, a 9-handicapper, used his full bag.

The rules were simple: Play a 9-hole match play at Rackham’s back nine. Every time Tursky makes a par or birdie, he gets to add a club to the bag. Every time Tursky makes a double bogey or worse, he removes a club from the bag.

The catch was that Knudson got to pick the clubs that Tursky had to use, and he didn’t make things easy. Knudson had Tursky start with a Ben Hogan persimmon driver with a steel shaft, a Ben Hogan Apex blade 7-iron with a G-Loomis IMX Boron shaft, and a Cleveland RTX ZipCore “Sip Groove” 52-degree promotional wedge, with an extremely light swing weight.

Check out the full match (plus a bonus double-or-nothing 18th hole!) in the video at the top of the page.

Do you want to see more videos like this in the future? Let us know in the comments why, or why not?

Here is a major reason why that is and you will not hear this from any other teaching academy except ours (for years) for the moment. And it works for every single golfer!

Also: Congrats on Savy getting another personal best of 337 yards at the WLD event in Mesquite!

Tune in for a very exciting unboxing as well.

As a refresher VeloCore technology is a multi-material bias core construction technique designed to deliver stability through transition and impact to maximize clubhead MOI. Shafts feature full-length, ultra-high modulus pitch 70 ton carbon fiber, which is 150-percent stronger and more stable than T1100g and 40 ton bias layers for feel.

According to Fujikura, Axiom shafts deliver increased ball speeds from better and more consistent center-face contact and produce tighter dispersion.

GolfWRXers and club building geeks will doubtless be interested in another unique element of Axiom. As Fujikura’s product and brand manager, Spencer Reynolds, explains, tipping is totally different with these shafts.

What does Fuji mean by “three-part parallel” shafts and what are the implications for weight and tipping? And more importantly, why does Fujikura believe this is the best method for maximizing the shaft technology available to the golfer?

Check out BK’s brief discussion with Spencer Reynolds in the video above to find out.

What could go wrong?

 

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