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Yup unidirectional! Other than the very newest models, I believe they are all using high grade PAN type carbon fiber. In a sense very traditional material but boy do they know how to roll them the right way!! My impression of Syncagrahite is that they are artisans who are working to preserve the culture and technique of handmade shafts. Something warm and fuzzy about their products. 🙂

With the Ping / Loop JJ combo. I was having a hard time controlling the dispersion... I think maybe the flex was too soft due to the Ping head being 207g or so. Ended up tipping the shaft .75" and going 211g on the head weight and now it is very controllable and it's still quite long! I do like the weight and trajectory of the JJ. It's perfect for a driver. but if I were to do it over, I'd go for an SX or X flex. and the feel is just fabulous! GK is heavier but still manages to go far. GK in SX flex for me is perfect. My Romaro head is also set to 207g. The HD S flex which is the lightest of the three that I have is in my Grandista RSD head 200g .. this one is 45.5". Obviously a bit more harder to hit the middle of the face consistently but when I do... it really goes!! higher trajectory than the JJ or GK but not overly. I believe this is a double kick shaft.

who's Tony Martin? didn't get it.. sorry.

There is actually a heavier model even more low launching. The Loop IP. I think that I the one for you.

Really good!! - Ping G410 LST / Loop JJ S / 45.25" / D4 / 321g -> today's best distance 310 yards on Top Tracer - Romaro Ultimate Tune / Loop GK SX 45" / D4 / 327g -> today's best distance 301 yards on Top Tracer - Grandista RS-D / Loop HD S 45.5" / D4 / 314g -> today's best distance 305 yards on Top Tracer GK being high 60g range shaft felt most stable and consistent. Probably the least dispersion. More of a control shaft. JJ is 63g but was lower launch and lower spin. Baby fade shots produced the best trajectory and best carry. The HD is 57g and combined with the Grandista RS-D head just felt like a velvety smooth Dai Ginjyo sake. This one is more mid launch but still lower spin. It was just so smooth. I am totally into these Loop shafts. They are the smoothest feeling shafts ever. And they perform very well too! They are not super light weight. But they actually feel like they are flexing at the down swing and doing its job of being the engine of the driver. I can't recommend these shafts enough!!

I have a Loop HD and Loop JJ now to try. HD in the Grandista RSD head and Loop JJ is in the Ping G410 LST. I put the GK back in the Romaro Ultimate Tuning. Out to the range shortly!!

But it's no longer single piece mild carbon steel.... I guess Onoff is joining the same bandwagon as PXG and TM P790, Honma TW-X etc, etc... Sad but I think that is the general direction we are headed to.

There is a guy in our Men's club who has been club champion 13 times in the past. But he has a two driver setup and his secondary driver has one of those super heavy Nunchuck shafts built to 43.5 inches. I was on the same group on Saturday and on a par 5 hole, he took a very aggressive line on the left with his normal driver which caught the tree line and his second shot was 270 yards out with a tree on his direct line to the green. So he calls out "I'm going to cut a driver on to the green," pulls out his shorty driver and hits a cut stinger 20 ft to the pin. What an amazing shot to watch!! initially hovering to only about 2ft off the ground and after the halfway point, the ball started to float up a for a nice soft landing on the front edge of the green, steadily rolled toward the back end towards the pin. Miraculous! Got me thinking there a bit about a 2 driver setting. 🙂. If I were to build one, I would choose a smaller head that has a shallower face. I think the S Yard T.388 in 10.5 with the head weight adjusted to about 210g or so.might be a good candidate I'd combo it with a NS Pro 950GH FW.

Honestly the translation is not that much off. Flash = very fast kick push = compressing the ball thick impact = dense feel at impact.

Forgiveness is better on the Ping, I am getting another Loop shaft for the Romaro head. What I am doing is to have my primary bag more focused on forgiveness for competition use. And my secondary bag has all the nicer looking and better feeling JDMs but not necessarily the most forgiving.

OK ..so I recently bought a new driver head from Romaro ... Type R Ultimate Tuning! This head uses a similar technology as the Injected Face used in TM M5 & M6. Though similar technology is used, Romaro based their's with a Type R '17 head which uses an SP700 face! This is still my favorite face material to date!! Which unfortunately I hear is said to go out of stock soon. 😞 Anyway, I wanted to pair this head with something a bit special. a JDM boutique shaft. I have been eyeing on Syncagraphite Loop shafts for a while now. Their material are PAN type carbon fiber material similar to Seven Dreamers. All hand rolled and such!! Out of the Loop offering, I chose the GK model which is a high 60g weight with more or less a mid to high kick point designed with stiffer tip and softer butt section. I need this type of shaft to help me create lag in my early release type swing. Anyway, I had this GK shaft in the new Romaro head. Results were really good and no different in performance even compared to my Ping G410 LST. I have been tinkering with different shafts in the Ping G410 LST in preparation for the Club Championship tournament that I have this weekend. Probably went through 6 to 7 different shafts in the last week to find something that is most consistent. Today I decided to pull out the Loop GK from the Romaro and pair it with the G410. BINGO!!!! OMG this shaft must be one of the most stable and consistent shaft other than the custom Seven Dreamers I had... Actually it is darn close to the Seven Dreamers. Feel is great trajectory is great and I am getting very good distances! If you have not tried Loop shafts, this is highly highly recommended!! I need to go try more Loop shafts!! I feel really confident about my driver going into the club championship.

Yah the original PX03 egg 13 deg was a monster!! I had an Al’ islei 83 S in it and it was soooooo good. I should build another maybe this time with a Loop shaft!!

I am going through similar adjustments with Driver and 3W head/shaft combos. With a sub 315g driver ( generally using a 50g X flex shaft ) I can swing faster but interestingly it doesn't necessarily mean it goes longer or straighter. For me, approximately 320g D3 driver using 60g Stiff flex seems to be a recipe for good tempo and pretty good distance along with more consistency in my drives. As for 3W, I have two in rotation now: JBeam G-FW 13deg with a Tour AD TP-6 X flex which has been in there for a whole year now. club weight is 329g SW D2 In my Modart MA01F 14deg, I've just installed a new Loop FW Seven SX flex built to 341g D1.5 Seems like I am hitting the Modart 3W better at the moment. I'm also playing around with swing weight at the moment with one of my drivers. When club weight is less than 315g or so, I can go D5 swing weight and it feels fine but with a 320g+ club, D5 feels too heavy. Lastly, I just built a new driver which I shall do a full review for soon. It's Romaro head that just came out combo'd to a Loop shaft. I am really starting to dig these Loop shafts!! Been away for a while from boutique brand shafts but I feel that Loop has the potential to take over most of my woods!

An Ex Japan LPGA pro designed it. Supposedly popular with Japanese senior ladies tour. review says its pretty long.

Speaking of shafts, I’m using Modus 125s now but I would not mind trying lighter shafts again. Reason being the lighter stock shafts in my Honma TWU Forged #4 and #5 is working very well for me.... and just yesterday I played 9 holes with a demo set of Mizuno JPX 919 Forged irons shafted with DG 105s and I was overshooting virtually every green. But control was still there. Finally adjusted down two clubs to get the right distance.

Nice review!! Whenever I go look for forgiving CBs to try, VG3 always come to mind. Then I’d feel like I’d have to go all Titleist in my bag cuz they make good woods, wedges and putters too. That’s a dangerous and expensive road to take!!! 🙂 The clicky feel is because face is stainless steel? And not fully forged?

They basically combined the ease to launch characteristics of a fairway wood and the workability of a hybrid. rounded sole, shallow face like a fairway. Sole width is narrower like a hybrid so goes thru the turf easier. Also it uses a .335" tip Fubuki shaft for a fairway wood so it helps further with launch and provides better kick compared to a .350" or .370" tipped shaft. I think it would work well for those who struggle to launch their hybrids high enough.

So unfortunately I made a last minute decision change to bring my Seven x Shinagawa irons along with the Seven VS-R putter instead of the Benock. Sorry Proswing, but I promise to bring the Benock on our next gathering. Loomis Trails was an awesome track. Lots of surprise water and sand all over the course !!! ( implies that we struggled a bit on the score !! 🙂 ) We all agreed that we needed to come back again for a revenge match!! Weather was good! the beer after the 9th hole really helped cool things down in the 80deg F temperature. Cant want to go out with the guys again soon! Cuistot, we missed you today at the gathering! Hope you heel quickly!

I think these very much resemble the labospec 358CB from the prior year. Very thick top line but next to no offset. I had the 2017 for just a tiny bit shafted with MCI Black shafts and they were really easy to hit with very good feel.

Hey Ian, I've tried a few shafts in it. Speeder TR 569, Kurokage XD and ATMOS Tourspec Black. The flight is very penetrating and spin is mid low. I needed to try this head because I have a G-FW fairway wood that has grown roots in my bag.... it's not coming out anytime soon. Might be the best fairway wood I've ever had. It'll take on a Ryoma F2 any day. Crazy just came out with a 12.5 deg option for their Full Ti FW ... might be a contender but the G-FW looks to be slightly larger and possibly a bit more forgiving just by the looks. I'm sure the new Crazy is a rocket launcher as well. Back to the driver. I now have a G410 LST and well... it is very good.... The looks at address on the other hand, G-801 wins by a mile. Though a shallower profile, it is not overly large. No funny patterns or alignment marks etc... No yellow paint! (LOL) It is very traditional and clean. The paint on the crown does have subtle metallic blue glitter if you look closely. Really nice. The face angle looks pretty neutral to me even though it was spec's at 1 deg open. It does not look closed for sure. ( that was my intention when ordering ). The sound and feel is one of the better ones from JBeam I think. Still not the Grandista RS-D perfection of a sound and feel. But not too KLANKy as long as you don't over tighten the screws. I bet you can even put some hot melt to improve the sound even more. My after thought is that I should have gone with a 10 deg or 10.25 deg loft. 9.75deg is a bit low for me and combined with a tip stiff shaft, it sort of gave me drops balls. I think the laser grooving on the face is helping out with lowering spin. While I have not gone on a real launch monitor, the distances seen on Top Tracer, I was getting was comparable distances to my other drivers at the time, Mizuno GX , Mizuno St190 , St190G and Grandista RS-D ... they are really all similar. 245 to 255 carry .. 260- to 280 with roll and occasionally peaking into 300. That's what I get with the Ping G410 and surprisingly with my old Ping G20 as well. When launching conditions all come together, it is as good as anything out there. Really nothing wrong with it. I'm just going for ultimate forgiveness in an effort to lower my average score .... Ping is my current stick but who knows in a week or two. 🙂

Prepping now for tomorrow's game. Axis1 Rose putter is going back to where it came from. Just did not feel anything at the course today. Will take my backup set with the Benock putter. tomorrow.

I’ll be at the course around 9:45 or so. I will have a red Titleist cap on.

Threesome. Dr Shanks, Proswing and me

NICE!!

Looks like it.