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Dustin Johnson switches driver shafts for the 2018 U.S. Open (after his 6-shot victory)

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8 years ago

Jun 14, 2018

Dustin Johnson absolutely waxed the field at last week’s 2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic, winning by six strokes (after holing out on the last hole for eagle). So, naturally, he decided to change driver shafts going into the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

DJ switched from a Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 Tour Spec X shaft that he’s played for the last several years, into a Project X HZRDUS Black driver shaft — he uses a 95-gram version of this shaft in his 3 wood.

“Keith Sbarbaro of Taylormade really helped make the switch,” said David Wilson, a Tour rep for True Temper. “From what we were told, DJ was happy with everything in his bag, but the driver. He plays HZRDUS Black 95 (grams) in the 3 wood and 105 hybrid in his driver iron. Kinda makes sense to keep everything consistent throughout the bag. He also stated that with the new driver and shaft, he was hitting it more consistently in the center of the face.”

Specs

Driver: TaylorMade M4 (9.5 degrees)
Shaft:Project X HZRDUS Black 75 (tipped 1 inch)

Dustin, who’s playing with Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas today in the featured group, is currently tied for the lead and sits at 1-under par through 8 holes. So I guess the driver shaft change seems to be working thus far. But let’s keep an eye on his driver performance throughout the week. Will he stick with the new shaft, or go back to old Fujikura faithful?

The overarching lesson here is this, though: GolfWRX members see all equipment changes.

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Andrew Tursky

He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

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Jim

Jun 15, 2018 at 11:22 pm

Lotta trust & faith in a move like that – especially since it’s not the ‘Safeway open’…Rare for a cat to swap one out unless they were feeling the shaft ‘wasn’t right’…

I swapped out a driver shaft – a few decades ago – a DG X100 in a wood driver inbetween rounds 2&3 of a major ’cause he said “it lost it’s feel”…

He went on to win

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BRENT

Jun 15, 2018 at 11:21 am

Doesn’t DJ own part of a shaft company????

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NolanMBA

Jun 14, 2018 at 5:43 pm

Interesting. That’s not a very popular shaft in driver.

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- ~j~
  
  Jun 15, 2018 at 2:53 pm
  
  Certsinly not a bad shaft. It wont play soft like the Tensei or fujikura’s, solid through contact though.
  
  I’d imagine DJ’s version of the hzrdus probably plays like rebar though.,,,
  
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Travis

Jun 14, 2018 at 5:27 pm

Wow. DJ has played the same driver shaft since he started on Tour. Obviously he rips his 4W with that shaft in it, but still surprising he changed!

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ogo

Jun 14, 2018 at 5:16 pm

If Dustin wanted to play a state-of-the-art graphite shaft, he should try the Seven Dreamers ($1200) autoclave cured shaft which squeezes out excess epoxy plastic that makes the shaft tip floppy and soggy.

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- Dan
  
  Jun 14, 2018 at 6:58 pm
  
  Why do people keep saying this?
  Is this a meme in this community?
  
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- Chris Embardino
  
  Jun 15, 2018 at 12:28 pm
  
  If seven dreamers has that much epoxy and resin in their shafts that they need to “squeeze out” or it makes it floppy, then they’re using far inferior materials to that of Fujikura for sure. Not even to mention project X. MCC, maximum carbonfiber content is present in every fujikura shaft. That Speeder has been his gamer for a long time. It got him to where he is because it’s so predictable. I’m sure he changed because of a minor swing issue that it helped to fix. He’ll be going back to that Fuji as soon as the open is done for sure.
  
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