Tip Heavy Graphite Shafts   Click here for print version
   
 
  Golf shafts are hollow taper tubes that from the butt end to the tip end reduce in their outside diameters. Shafts vary in their wall thickness as well because the tip is slightly thicker than the butt end for reinforcement since the tip diameters are smaller in cross-section. Graphite shafts will require thicker wall diameters than steel shafts and can vary greatly from one pattern of shaft    
         
 

to the next depending upon the weight and modulus of material that is used for the shaft. You probably are already aware of this if you routinely extend clubs. A .600” steel shaft extender almost universally fits into any .600” steel shaft. However, a .600” butt end graphite shaft may need different sized extenders or one that need sanded, or in some cases shimmed to fit properly.

The wall thickness variation also applies to the tip end of graphite shafts. There is a certain

 
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