capedgolfer Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 I work at a course in the L.A. area and a friend stopped by with some new toys. He is the international players rep for tourstage. He always has the latest thing that top Japanese players are using, I won't use the players name, but he is known by 4 letters and they are stamped in green on his clubs. So anyways, I took a little sight seeing tour over to the range and proceeded to hit some clubs. First clubs I hit were some new cavity back protos. Similar to the X-Blade CB2's but the cavity had straight lines, not the curved line thing like the CB2's. Does that make sense? And the cavity was smaller. They had M266V X shafts in them. Man were they awesome. The shafts felt so smooth. Very close to my Black Gold's but lighter. Second clubs I hit were some drivers. Tourstage X-Drive 405's. A few had the Graphite Design Tour-AD m-65 <X> and a few had a new Graphite Design shaft called the "Pershing" It was all black, the name pershing was in a mother of pearl sort of color/dinish and ala aldila with a 65-X only. The shaft was not as stiff as the Tour-ad. I wasnt' too impressed with it. I did get ahold of a few, but the tour ad will still be my shaft of choice. Next I hit some Tourstage X-ST 3 and 5 woods. Some with the tour-ad, some with the pershing. Again I liked the tour-ad better. The Pershing would be awesome if it were a little stiffer. The player and I have similar swing characteristics I guess cause everytime I hit one of his clubs I absolutly love it. The rep told me the same thing, the players feedback was that the pershing was a nice shaft but it was too soft. They may be making a stiffer one for him, but I doubt I will be able to hit that one. I usually get the rejects or last years models to try. Never to keep, but thats ok, I just like to try them. So I guess my question is has anyone heard of the pershing before this? or does anyone know the specs on them? I saw/hit a 65-X and a 75-X in drivers and 3 woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Alexander Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 :tsg_smilie_confused: :tsg_smilie_confused: Where do you find a friend with those types of toys?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capedgolfer Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Umm, at a course in L.A. Ha-Ha, he gets all kinds of stuff in. Any tourstage player. His job is to keep the international players relations alive and all the clubs from overseas go to him and then he gets them to the players. Very nice guy! The assistant pro at my course gets some of the rejects to keep. But he is pretty good, had his JPGA card last year. He can't sell the equipment, has to give it back if he upgrades to newer stuff, but it is still cool to get to see and hit some top notch tour caliber Tourstage equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murch Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Umm, at a course in L.A. Ha-Ha, he gets all kinds of stuff in. Any tourstage player. His job is to keep the international players relations alive and all the clubs from overseas go to him and then he gets them to the players. Very nice guy! The assistant pro at my course gets some of the rejects to keep. But he is pretty good, had his JPGA card last year. He can't sell the equipment, has to give it back if he upgrades to newer stuff, but it is still cool to get to see and hit some top notch tour caliber Tourstage equipment. The Pershing I beleive is the GD's International version of the PT shafts found in Japan. Regards, Chris Murchie Tour Technologies, Aust PGA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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