Recently there were 14 in play at the AT&T Byron Nelson (including the winner’s driver). Ventus is already getting its fair share of tour play. Fujikura’s Fitting & Tour Rep, Marshall Thompson, says word of mouth has been excellent, and he’s been fielding more calls than usual about the shaft. It’s relatively early in Ventus’ lifecycle, and while it can take time for a shaft to catch on tours, the initial reception has been a warm one. Fujikura doesn’t make the clubhead you play, but with Ventus, Fujikura makes it better…or at least more consistent. It’s why Ventus is billed as an MOI-booster of sorts. That ultimately means more consistent ball speed, a better starting line, and tighter dispersion. Less twisting (which also speaks to Ventus’ low torque properties) means the face is delivered closer to square with impact closer to the center of the face. That’s a whole lot of words to hopefully explain why Fujikura says Ventus is more resistant to twisting over the length of the shaft than conventional designs. Leveraging stiffer materials like Pitch 70 can result in a shaft that feels overly stiff or boardy, so to create a smoother, easier-loading shaft, Fujikura leverages an accelerated taper design along with less rigid 40-ton carbon fiber to enhance feel. More commonly, materials like T1100 are used to strategically stiffen specific areas of the shaft, with the tip being the most common placement. Flags in the bias layer are oriented at 45°, and it’s unusual for a premium (exotic/expensive) material to be used over the full-length of a shaft. The individual sheets of fiber – called flags – often include different types of carbon fiber, and those sheets are placed at different orientations over the length of the shaft. Golf shafts are assembled by rolling layers of carbon fiber around a steel mandrel. While we don’t expect you to be experts on carbon fiber, what you should know is that Pitch 70 is 150% stiffer than the T1100g material featured in numerous low spin shaft designs. Pitch 70 is the exotic/premium carbon composite material that helps create Ventus’ low-ish spin properties. While we’ll likely dive deeper into construction in upcoming Shaft University features, let’s see if we can’t make some quick sense out what that means. The summary version of which is that Ventus features full-length, pitch 70-ton fiber in the bias layer. The name comes from the idea that Ventus offers velocity at its core, and while I suppose we have to allow everyone a bit of marketing leeway, the larger point is that the magic of Ventus lies not in its launch and spin properties, but in its construction. While there are a plethora of reasons why your actual mileage may vary, it should give you a reasonable idea of where Ventus fits with respect to the industry-standard launch and spin story.Īdd the requisite reference to exotic materials (in this case, Pitch 70-ton carbon fiber), and we’re more or less where a good percentage of shaft stories end, but with Ventus, we’re only just getting started.Īt the heart of Ventus is what Fujikura calls VeloCore technology. Fujikura’s launch and spin chart puts it in the general vicinity of the PRO 2.0 TS and the EVO IV. The mid-launch and low-mid spin characteristics, while not textbook, speak to the fact that not everyone needs an ATMOS TS Black. It’s a premium offering – arguably even more premium most of Fujikura’s aftermarket models. The paint stuff is inherently subjective, but otherwise, Fujikura’s Ventus checks most of the expected boxes. Sound familiar? Throw in a sexy paint job and we’re rolling. That’s certainly true when you reach the upper levels of the premium range where nearly everyone is using some flavor of exotic materials to create a low launch, low spin pole capable of holding up against the forces levied by the most aggressive of swingers. Not a bad DL speed.Shaft stories tend to be more alike than different.
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