Equipment

LA Golf releases new Gold Series wood shafts

Published

1 year ago

Dec 19, 2024

The most well-known shaft from LA Golf right now is the P Series putter shaft, as we have seen a lot of them in play on professional tours. In fact, Jake Knapp just won with one in his putter at the Grant Thornton Invitational this past weekend.

Golfers may not be as familiar with the rest of the high-performance shafts LA Golf has to offer, and that lineup just expanded with the new Gold Series wood shafts.

The big story with the Gold Series is the addition of boron to the shaft’s material list. If you look on the periodic table you will see boron occupying the fifth spot, between beryllium and carbon. Boron is a dark metal that was created by cosmic ray spallation and supernovas. Owing to that origin story, it shouldn’t surprise you that boron a pretty rare element that is used primarily with carbon fiber in the aerospace industry. Boron is used with carbon fiber because it has a great ability to compress while carbon does not.

How does this become part of a golf shaft? And why? The engineers over at LA Golf created a design that weaves a proprietary boron alloy layer through the entire length of the shaft to improve stability and strength. This use of boron, combined with LA Golf’s 16-Sided Mandrel Construction should offer golfers extreme stability and consistency no matter what weight or flex shaft fits their swing the best.

LA Golf also manufactures its own prepreg composite fibers to ensure high quality and a better feel. If you are looking for a shaft with a higher launch and mid spin the Gold Series could be an option for you. The Gold Series shaft profile is a very stiff handle section, a stiff mid section, and a soft tip for players who might have a slightly faster tempo but need added launch for optimizing their launch conditions.

The LA Golf Gold Series is available now in 45g, 55g, 65g, and 75g weights and flexes from women’s all the way to Tour X-stiff.

Pricing for the Gold Series shafts is $349.

Full spec chart below.

Equipment

From the GolfWRX Classifieds: Titleist Vokey Proto Wedges 54M, 60T

Published

31 mins ago

Jun 11, 2026

Will Schube

At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @Putt4Dough is selling some prototype wedges from Vokey Wedgeworks. These include a 54 degree wedge with the M grind and a 60 degree wedge with a T grind.

From the listing:

(1) Titleist Vokey Proto Wedge 54M with a Tour Issue DGS400 shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet (logo down). Standard length, lie, and loft. BB&F ferrule. Raw wedge in good condition. No initials. Price is $200 shipped. Buy both wedges for $380 shipped.

(2) Titleist Vokey Proto Wedge 60T with a KBS Tour 130X shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet. Standard length, lie, and loft. Raw wedge in good condition. No initials. Price is $200 shipped. Buy both wedges for $380 shipped.

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules.

Whats in the Bag

Ryan Palmer WITB 2026 (June)

Published

33 mins ago

Jun 11, 2026

Will Schube

Driver: Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond (9 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Blue RDX 60 TX

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS T1100 70 6.5

5-wood: TaylorMade SIM2 Max (18 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 80 TX

Irons: Srixon ZXiU (23 degrees), Srixon Z785 MB (5-PW)
Shafts: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 100 6.5 (4), KBS Tour 130 X

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (50-08F, 54-10S, 58-04T @59)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X

Putter: Odyssey Dual Force Rossie II

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Check out more in-hand photos of Ryan Palmer’s clubs here.

Equipment

Slab city on the Korn Ferry Tour — Lead Tape Report

Published

21 hours ago

Jun 10, 2026

Andrew Von Lossow

This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.

Joel Thelen

Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.

First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.

Mitchell Meissner

Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed.