 Diolch yn gwybeth a ddweud o'r ffwrdd yng Nghymru yma ar y golfer a gwybod i'r ffwrdd golffau. A dyna'r gunchi'r tess o'r gwybeth a'r gwybeth yna'n gwybod i'r ffordd o'r gwybeth. A dyna'r gwybeth yn ei gweithio. Dwi'n gweithio. Dwi'n gweithio'r gwybeth yn y gwybeth o'r gwybeth ar y cwylfa yw'r gwybeth. Ond yna'n ei fod yn fwy fwy o'r gwybeth. Felly'n gwybod i'n ddweud i ddechrau'n gwahanol ac boboladon ac yn gyfgolio'r gwahanol, ond rydym yn gymrydol. Maen nhw wedi bod yn gwlad i ddim yn ei ddechrau'r gwahanol. Ond nid yna gwahanol, mae'r gwahanol i'r chaffau, ond mae'n unrhyw bryd yn gwybod arall. Rwyf yn ei gwahanol gan yng nghylch yn Sylvyniaol. Roedd, dwi'n gwybod i'n gyffredin ni'n gwybodaeth, yn y flog, rhai fod yn ychydig i chi'n gwybod, raid because I've put it down as one of the best courses I've possibly ever played if not the best. But anyway have a look. Now one of the reasons that I might have liked it is because I've played it very well. But the odd thing is I played it very well using a set of irons with graphite shafts in them. That's right, regular graphite shafts, AP1 head, never used in my life before and hit my irons surprisingly well. ..mwy fawr llwyddoeth hynny. Solwyddoeth hynny yn feithio gyda shifts cyflawn i'ch gwaith ymddangos? Let's talk about the setup I'm going to use today for this test. I'm going to use a tensi shaft, tensi red. And I'm going to stick with the regular shaft, so not even a stiff shaft now. Again, for the record... ..my shaft of choice is Dynamic Gold S300s. And that's what's in my current irons and that's what I'll put in this... ...ap3 head for our comparison today. Rwy'n gweithio'r ap3 am gynhwysbwynt ap1, ar ôl gwneud, rwy'n gweithio'r testau eu gwirioneddau gan y dyn nhw, rwy'n gwneud hynny'n gwneud o gyfoeddfa, ac o gwneud o gweithio'r cyfrifiadau. Rwy'n gweithio'r hynny'n gwneud hynny'n gwneud. Rwyf yn gwneud ap1, rwyf yn gwneud ap3, ac ar gyfer y gwaith munudau gweithio, ac yn gwneud gwneud gweld. Rwy'n gweithio'n gwneud i chi'n ffordd o'r aethau. First of all, the shots that you see me hitting now, these are some warm up balls, which again fell cold morning. I think that first thing I notice when I'm hitting these golf balls is with a graphite shaft, and again this could be all in the mind, I feel as though I don't need to swing the club as hard. I feel with the stiff shaft that I've got currently in the Dynamic Gold S300, I certainly need to be swinging, I certainly need to be warmed up, I certainly need to be hitting the ball relatively hard, I'm certainly working to get that head through. And I think with the graphite shaft it's a complete opposite, so again it could be all in the head, but my rhythm with the graphite shaft seems to be straight from the get-go, tempo seems to be slowed down just that little bit. There is a change in the feeling of the weight in the whole club, obviously you'd expect the graphite shaft to be that much lighter, but there's an automatic straight away, there is a change in the feeling of the weight and the balance of the club. And for me, and again I keep saying the same thing, is it in the head, just a little bit of improved tempo, certainly straight out the blocks here this morning. Okay so before I hit golf balls what am I expecting or what would I have thought about using a graphite shaft in an iron head? Well the first thing is if I walked in for a fitting of a new set of irons and anyone suggested using a graphite shaft, that would have been like no way this ain't going to happen, I use a stiff dynamic gold S300 and will work around something along those lines. So that's the first thing I would have even tried these things. The reason I want to try them is because I would have always assumed that to be aimed at perhaps the slowest swing speed in irons. And I'm not the fastest of swing speeds either but I would have expected them to be directed at someone with the slowest swing speed than mine. I'd have had concerns about launch angle, I'd have thought this would have been again a club that was certainly a shaft rather would assist people in launching a ball higher, again not something that I currently experience problems with. And perhaps variables as well in terms of front of back dispersion numbers, whether or not they would have some effect on those numbers. And finally especially with a graphite regular shaft I'd have been concerned about my ability to turn the ball over from right to left which is a bad shot of mine. So they're all the reasons why I would never even consider this shaft until now and until what happened at Royal Bled golf course last week. So I'm going to hit some golf balls and then we'll measure the data and I'll switch over to the dynamic gold S300 shaft. We're not reviewing the AP3s but I love the sound out of the AP3s. It's maybe slightly a bit clicky for some people but certainly fires the ball out there. First ball is a great ball. That's right down exactly the same line and a really good start. And one thing like I said this ball at this stage anyway it isn't sort of firing and blooming out there which is one of the concerns that I would have had. And like I said I didn't see that out on the golf course last week either. Well it's a decent enough start with this graphite shaft. I'm going to hit a, let's see if we get 10-12 balls, get some data and then like I said I'm going to switch over to this dynamic gold S300 and we'll try and see where the differences lie between the two. So balls you see me hitting now are with the dynamic gold S300 shaft in. Huge difference in weight and I will try and find out the weight differences in the shaft and throw them up on screen for you now. Because I don't know that but certainly massive differences in terms of feel. Such a heavy club and like I said I feel straight away like I've got to work that little bit harder. Make sure I'm putting a fuller, more positive swing on it I suppose in some ways. That makes sound a bit strange but I've certainly got to attack that ball just that little bit more with this shaft. A immediate few shots from interesting. Ball fight doesn't seem to be a difference if I'm being perfectly honest with you. It'd be interesting to see in the numbers. I mean I don't really understand the logic in this but I tend to be turning the ball over more with this shaft in which is not what I was expecting. That is a bit of a strange one. That's probably just a swing off Poroni. That's a super shot. Yeah there's nothing wrong with that. I mean that's bang on the button and right down where I'd want it to be. Like I said for me the club that I've heard, the head that's in this is one of my favourite sets of irons from 2018. That's a decent ball as well. I think I'll go on carrying on hitting some more golf balls with this shaft in and it's going to be really interesting for me is to have a look at this data. Right a glove off and let's get straight into these numbers. Collected quite a bit of data there on the two different shaft types. For me visually not massively different in terms of ball flight. I know that I hit the graphite shaft more consistent in terms of where it landed. Down the target line at least and again I think we've got a lot. I don't know it's hard to measure that. Is it down purely I swung that shaft better. But maybe that's the whole point. But anyway we shall get into the numbers and have a closer look. First of all the numbers I'm going to throw up for you now with the graphite shaft in. So let's go to that first column which is ball speed. 111 on average fairly consistent to be fair and again not the variables that I would have quite expected. Quite consistent. 20.9 in terms of launch. Again very consistent across that number all told. 4-3 spin very low with a 2-9 in there as well and I'll explain some of this to you in terms of my opinion on why that spin number is particularly low. Peaking out at 31, 160 carry. We'll talk about the spin number a bit later. Straight into the numbers for the dynamic gold shaft. So didn't hit as many balls but to be fair I kind of know my numbers so when I seen what was happening it was kind of where I was expecting it to be. 111 ball speed. Again with that 105 in there which dropped it off significantly it perhaps would have been a slightly higher ball speed. The interesting 121.7 launch we'll talk about that in a minute or two. Once again very low spin 4-3 I will confirm why I think that is so low. 32 peak height 160 identical carry. So numbers first of all let's talk about the differences between the two and the biggest surprise between the two was the launch angle. I cannot believe the ball launched higher with the S300 shaft in dynamic gold that is the biggest shocker I've got. Now don't forget there's quite a wide spread of golf balls it's here and it is considerably higher launching with the S300 that baffles me all together. Ball speeds very very similar. Spin number I mentioned earlier I was using TP5X golf balls. My spin drops off the charts with these things and clearly shows again why ball fitting is mega important to make sure that you get the best performance out of golf balls as well and a TP5X is not for me. But anyway like I said I'm not overly concerned because the numbers were similar for both. We know my sort of best spin numbers only be around the sort of five and a half anyway so I'm going to ignore that a little bit. Peak height at 32 as opposed to 31 so like I said ball flight was slightly lower with the graphite shaft which yeah absolutely bewildered. I'm just going to go back to these numbers first of all of the graphite shaft though. It's the consistency that surprised me it's the consistency across every piece of data really every criteria so launch angle, ball speed, carry, peak height. It's virtually identical for every shot it is very very closely packed and it surprised me a lot but this is the biggest surprise. I did say I thought I hit the ball a more compact area in terms of dispersion left and right, front and back. Here's the chart that I'm going to throw up for you now. I mean if you watch these videos quite a lot it's arguably the best grouping on such a wide range, wide number of shots that I've ever achieved on a video. Quite surprising. I'll throw in the numbers there on the S300 shaft which has blown my mind slightly. You'll see like I said I had more I was turned the ball over right to left more with this shaft than I was with the graphite shaft. So I am blown away and I don't really have a great deal of explanation for you I'm afraid. Work that one out for yourself. I knew from last week at Royal Bled that I was surprised. Couldn't put any logic behind it. How it basically panned out was we had a set of options and there wasn't many and I ended up with a set of regular graphite shafted irons and like I said struck the ball very very well. I had no problems with them whatsoever that I experienced and for me this test was done with a seven iron. For me it actually gets more of a help with these irons when you're getting into the kind of like the five and four irons have the graphite shaft in again for me personally. I know that manufacturers shaft manufacturers are doing more and more work with graphite shafts and I think it's going to be something that becomes more readily available for irons. I think it's going to be a move that you will see over the next year or two. It's interesting for me that we use them in hybrids, we use them in driving irons, graphite shafts that is on reference. We use them in our three words but for some reason there's a stigma attached to using a graphite shaft in an iron and I think maybe that's about to change. But for me all I would say is that this goes to club fitters as well. Do not ignore a graphite shaft option in an iron. That's me, I don't think I need to say any more, I think it's about you. Have you tried them? That's what I want to know. Is a question for you in the comments box. Have you tried a graphite shaft in irons? I'm going to say a large majority will say no and I want to know why have you not tried it. That's the question I need answering from you and I want to know will you try using a graphite shaft next time you're going to get fitted for a set of irons. Anyway that's me done, I've waffled on quite a bit. Thanks for watching, I'll do some more testing and warm up just that little bit more now I'm back in Blitey. Anyway I'll see you soon. Like, subscribe, do all them things. Bye.