Grafalloy ProLaunch Red Shaft

My above comment was a bit glib in fairness, the PL Red is a cracking shaft. It does exactly what it says, Low Launch. If you want a very penetrating flight then it will do that. I found it took some effort to get the shaft to work through the downswing though.
 
Tried one when they first came out.

Pretty good shaft - Low Launch/Spin - but a little unresponsive for me. Probably better for a Quick Transition/Hitter type swing - I'm a 'swinger'/later release. I think the guy I sold it to still has it/uses them.

Good price. Probably best value Low/Low shaft available.
 
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I have one in both my rbz stg 2 driver and 910f 3 wood, love it. With the stock shaft my ball flight on the rbz was a high fade/slice, now its either a straight mid-flight or a power fade.

I have it in regular, def on the stiffer end of reg flex shafts, which suits me.
 
If you find it doesn't work I will be putting a Regular Matrix Ozik HD6 TP in the classifieds later this week. It was an upgrade for the original RBZ driver, (not stage 2), in the RBZ colours and is a genuine manufacturers shaft not a made for.
 
I have always been a high ball hitter and have a PL red. I am not an excessively fast swinger (only about 100mph) and don't really have a fast transition. I hit it a bit lower and with a bit less spin that other shafts but I certainly don't hit it along the ground... if I could find a shaft which would do that, I would probably be elected!

I don't think it is an unwieldy beasty, just not suited to someone who has a low launch naturally.
 
talksalot81 said:
I have always been a high ball hitter and have a PL red. I am not an excessively fast swinger (only about 100mph) and don't really have a fast transition. I hit it a bit lower and with a bit less spin that other shafts but I certainly don't hit it along the ground... if I could find a shaft which would do that, I would probably be elected!

I don't think it is an unwieldy beasty, just not suited to someone who has a low launch naturally.
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Right. If you don't hit the ball high anyway, I wouldn't recommend this shaft.
 
My prefered choice of shaft, low launch. There are two versions knocking about the new Speedcoat is a bit lighter with its matt finish and the older version that is a bit heavier and has a gloss finish this one is quite hard to get the best out of unless you have a quick SS.

The Speedcoat is so much easier to get working.
 
talksalot81 said:
I have always been a high ball hitter and have a PL red. I am not an excessively fast swinger (only about 100mph) and don't really have a fast transition. I hit it a bit lower and with a bit less spin that other shafts but I certainly don't hit it along the ground... if I could find a shaft which would do that, I would probably be elected!

I don't think it is an unwieldy beasty, just not suited to someone who has a low launch naturally.
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Was that the old PL Red Stiff you're hitting at 100mph?


patricks148 said:
My prefered choice of shaft, low launch. There are two versions knocking about the new Speedcoat is a bit lighter with its matt finish and the older version that is a bit heavier and has a gloss finish this one is quite hard to get the best out of unless you have a quick SS.

The Speedcoat is so much easier to get working.
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Patrick-do you know your Driver SS and which flex you were using in both old and new?
 
I had a reg one in a mizuno mp630 driver...couldn't get it to launch. Too low for me but I do not hit it high to start with so it wasn't fun, didn't last long.
 
patricks148 said:
Both the old and the new ones i have are stiff flex and my driver SS is 98-105. and the newer speed coat is most certainly easier to hit.
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Thanks so much Patrick. Had a bash with the new one in a JetSpeed head last week. Cant quite afford the new JetSpeed & Speedcoat Shaft just now but have seen an old PL Red with an adaptor for my current driver that I might take a punt on. My SS is very similar to your too so it's good to know you can hit either OK. Without getting into one of 'those' threads/discussions do you know roughly what carry/total distance you get?
 
groundskeeperwilly said:
Thanks so much Patrick. Had a bash with the new one in a JetSpeed head last week. Cant quite afford the new JetSpeed & Speedcoat Shaft just now but have seen an old PL Red with an adaptor for my current driver that I might take a punt on. My SS is very similar to your too so it's good to know you can hit either OK. Without getting into one of 'those' threads/discussions do you know roughly what carry/total distance you get?
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no where near as far with the older version, the speedcoat was about 230-240 ish carry with a fair bit of run with my draw. TBH i can't remember how far the old version goes as i've not touched it since i got the speedcoat version 2 years ago. not far though;)

I even got the speedcoat shaft pulled and had Greig in fife stick a Callaway adaptor on it to use in my new driver. but i'll save Greigs blushes and not comment on what happen to the head the first time i used it;)
 
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