Shaft Spine Alignment

The rules of Golf don’t say a whole lot about the shaft. 

One thing is for sure.  The shaft is the engine of your golf club and is the single most important upgrade you can realize from a CFC Golf custom fit club.  This single change from “Off the Rack” clubs will drop strokes of your game before you take a lesson from a PGA Professional.  (You won’t hear a lot about shaft spines; since the major club manufactures simply can’t afford to address this issue with mass production clubbuilding) 

As a CFC Golf customer, this is a critical custom fit if you purchase steel shafts. 
Swing Science Graphite Shafts from CFC Golf have NO Spine.

The Apollo Professional Steel shafts are all Spine Aligned, down to a putter.

Every Apollo Professional Shaft has a spine where the rolled steel meets a weakness in wall thickness.  (Mass Produced “Off the Rack” graphite shafts also have spines)  By locating the spine, it can be placed in a predetermined position.  CFC Golf finds the spine so we know exactly where the shaft is going to flex, then position it exactly right for the golfer and the club, from a driver down to a putter.

Swing Science Professional shafts are the most popular of our Swing Science shafts.  The 200 Series offers a full flex range in both woods and irons. Featuring a light weight filament wound design, the 200 Series generates high launch ball flight characteristics. CFC builders chose this professional tour quality shaft because of the consistency of this filament wound design. See Below:

United States Patent 5259614

CFC Swing Science professional shafts are a composite seamless filament-wound professional tour quality shaft.  The shafts include a hollow steel tubular core and a filament such as steel, fiberglass, graphite, or carbon, spirally wound around the core to form a seamless jacket thereabout. The filament is impregnated with an adhesive and permanently bonded to the core, and the core may be torsionally stressed prior to and during the winding thereupon and bonding thereto of the filament. The shaft can be made as an overlong blank universal shaft, then portions of the butt and tip of the shaft can be trimmed to produce a desired shaft length and natural frequency of vibration. When attached to a club head, the head may be weighted to produce a resulting golf club of desired swing weight.

Shaft Kick Point

A flex point is also known as the kick point or bend point, where shaft bend is greatest as it is swung.
A shaft with a lower kick point will make the club feel more “tip flexible” and will help you hit the ball a little higher. A higher kick point shaft will feel stiffer and will cause you to hit shots a little lower. If you have trouble hitting the ball too high, you need a high kick point shaft. If, on the other hand, you hit the ball too low, you need a lower kick point shaft to help cure your problem. 

Low Bend Point

Low Bend Point shafts are engineered to help golfers with a slower swing speed and need more kick from the shaft at impact to get the ball airborne.  The shaft will give the golfer optimum clubhead feel with increased flight trajectory, resulting in more distance from every club.

Medium Bend Point

Medium Bend Point shafts are engineered for the golfer with average clubhead speed and shot trajectory.  Med Bend shafts work best for beginners to intermediate golfers with good club speed and strength.

High Bend Point

High Bend Point shafts are engineered for the above average golfer; longer hitters with clubhead speeds more than 95mph or for a player with average clubhead speed and hits the ball with too high of a trajectory.  Not recommended for golfers with clubhead speed less than 90mph.