This is already a tip-stiff profile, but the wires placed down there keep it from twisting and bending as much as possible to create a tighter more consistent shaft."Īccording to Gunther, when the fibers are stressed on the downswing, they deform and then immediately recover to their original state at impact.
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What they do is further stabilize the tip of the shaft. "The wires are located in the tip section of the shaft and extend up about 12 inches. "The titanium-nickel wires in the shaft are one of a group of super-elastic alloys, so when you stretch it, it wants to return to its previous state," Gunther said. The Kuro Kage prototype McIlroy used at Merion had identical graphics and a similar bend profile - stiff tip and mid section, and softer butt section - to the current Kuro Kage model, but as Mark Gunther, Mitsubishi Rayon's director of sales, confirmed recently, the new version has TiNi Fiber Technology in the tip section, a unique Titanium and Nickel alloy that was added to reinforce the graphite. Open, swapping out his Mitsubishi prototype for another prototype - Mitsubishi's Kuro Kage Silver 70TX. “So you may see additional Kuro Kage products come out over the following year.By Jonathan Wall, PGATOUR.COM Equipment InsiderĪfter opening the season with a Mitsubishi Diamana prototype shaft in his Nike VR_S Covert Tour driver, Rory McIlroy made a shaft change at the U.S. “Typically we like to do things in families,” Gunther said. However, Gunther said that the Kuro Kage Silver – which will be available in 60-, 70- and 80-gram options – is softer in the butt section. The popular Mitsubishi Diamana White Board shaft used by Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler does that, too.
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They really help to stabilize the tip.”īecause it is tip-stiff, Mitsubishi says that the new Kuro Kage Silver is ideal for players who need to reduce spin off the tee. Now, from a Tour perspective, there are longer strips of the wires, and they are positioned lower to ensure there isn’t extra bending or ovaling. “In light, soft-profile shafts it helped to create a snapping effect. “When we first started using wires like this, we put them into our super-lightweight shafts, but that wasn’t really a shaft for a lot of Tour guys, so there wasn’t a lot of recognition about it,” Gunther said. According to Gunther, that action should help golfers square the face more effectively to create more consistency. Then, as the golfer releases the clubhead, the wires naturally snap back to their normal length as the shaft unloads. The wires that are encased in the graphite sheets of the shaft stretch when the shaft bends during the downswing. “We’ve been working on the concept for the last year and there were two prototypes that ended up on tour, and one of those was the shaft that Rory ended up playing.” “There are elastic, titanium-nickel wires in the tip section that extend up about 12 to 14 inches,” Gunther said. Now, the company has announced that it will make the final version of that shaft available to the public for $300 starting in August.Īccording to Mark Gunther, Mitsubishi Rayon’s director of sales, the new Kuro Kage (which means ‘Black Shadow’ in Japanese) will have a similar bend profile to its predecessor, but it’s got a trick up its sleeve.
#KURO KAGE SILVER DRIVER#
Open at Merion, Rory McIlroy changed the shaft in his driver to a new Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Silver prototype.
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In the days leading up to the start of the U.S.