Recently, four GolfWRX members visited Fujikura Headquarters in Carlsbad, California. The members enjoyed an amazing experience that was highlighted here last month.

Today, we are excited to give the rest of our audience a behind-the-scenes look at what getting fit at Fujikura looks like. GolfWRXers @Puppetmaster, @hammergolf, @CactusGolf, and @eric61 were put through the paces by Fujikura’s own Andrew Hoang, who provided a wealth of knowledge throughout the experience to ultimately find the best Axiom fit for each member.

Immediately, our members were buzzing about the improvements they were seeing after testing and getting fit into their Axiom iron shafts. Since then, members have received their Axiom (and Ventus) shafts, and have officially added them into their gamers and into their bags.

via hammergolf

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HammerGolf: “These are the star of the show. The Axiom shafts are giving me everything I wanted. Higher peak height, steeper decent angle, but no loss of distance or control. As I stated, I built a new set of irons with the Axiom shafts that are 2* weaker than my previous gamers. Im hitting these irons the same distance as my old gamers, but higher and even more control. The feel of these shafts are the best I’ve ever felt. Buttery soft feel, lively kick, but so stable and consistent.”

“They have the best feel of any shaft I’ve ever hit. I’m in the 75 gram option and played MMT 70 before. I am playing new heads with these Axiom 75 shafts that are 2* weaker than my previous irons. Knowing that, I expected higher launch and peak height. What I didn’t expect is that I would hitting these new weaker irons as far I was hitting the previous stronger lofted clubs. Like the other clubs, I don’t seem to curve the ball as much with the Axiom shafts. Even my misses are not as far offline as my previous clubs. These are just giving me everything I wanted and needed. Great feel, more ball speed, higher peak height, steeper decent angle, with tighter dispersion.”

CactusGolf: “The biggest takeaway for me was: stability and predictability. In terms of stability, I hit several balls that would normally be completely offline, but ended up just peeling off and staying in play or at least in a position where I could try and recover. The other thing I noticed is that my launch windows were a little higher then the KBS Tours that I had played for many years. Also noticed that the balls weren’t affected as much by wind at the top of the apex, which was also a little higher than I was used to. The interesting piece is that the distances were about 7-8 yards longer than what I was used to.

Stability was a big one as mishits didn’t peel off or fall as short as they normally would have. Using my GIR from my last 10 rounds pre-change of 45%, 50% is moving in the right direction and even the greens that I did miss today (one was a bladed wedge due to having to hit a chip to a par 5 off the backside of a greenside bunker), all were just off. The greens that I did miss, weren’t that far off, at all. In short, dispersion is significantly tighter, especially on off-center strikes with longer irons with front-to-back dispersion improvement most noticeable in the short (scoring) irons.”

PuppetMaster: “First, for my swing, firm under the handle, in the tip, but yet with some activity in the mid section. Not a lot, just enough for you to know there’s some kick, but not to the point where it is unpredictable or lacking control. I do have a moderate transition, see vid above for context. The Axiom profle is obviously a better fit for me, closer to the KBS Tour, whereas I didn’t load the Tour V hard enough. FYI – I made sure to only skim over others’ descriptives to make sure I just didn’t just use their words, but y’all be the judge of that.

Second, ball flight was noticeably higher, visually, than the Tour V, from short irons through long irons. I hit most shots from the center of the face to the heel side on my misses. Hit a few high floaters to the right with the longer irons, and some pulls with the short irons, which is my normal, predictable, 2-way miss. Working on that still, obviously. Andrew wanted to get me hitting the ball higher with more spin, and I think these are doing just that.”

eric61: “They’re great. Setting aside price, graphite vs. steel, all of that — the Axioms are just a profile that really, really works for me. I would say they feel like they have a stiff handle, softer mid-section and stiff tip. It’s not super dramatic, but they do have what feels to me like a mid/lower-mid kick. They feel very, very stable, but that softer mid-section does give them a nice feel.

One thing that struck me as interesting: I was warming up with my 7 iron, just doing a little 3/4 swing drill at about 70 mph, and I noticed that I still felt a slight kick out of the Axioms even at that speed. It reminded me of an observation I had in Carlsbad, where we hit all the different weights: The 125X were surprisingly playable at my 87-ish mph speed, and the 75S were surprisingly stable at that same speed. Fujikura did a really impressive job of designing these shafts in a way that will allow people to play the weight they want to play without making sacrifices.”

via eric61

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