Review for the Ust Proforce V2 5 Wood Shaft

By: Matt Saternus

If y'all've been following our recent series of MyGolfSpy Labs, you've seen us test shaft flex, weight, and torque independently. How were we able to isolate each characteristic? By using UST Mamiya's line of Proforce VTS shafts. The VTS line is unique in that it allows the golfer to pick the weight, flex, and torque that they want. Heavy, stiff, and high torque? No problem. Light, soft, and low torque? Just as easy.

Now all of those choices are peachy, but if the shafts don't perform it doesn't mean squat. So at present it'southward time to take off the lab coats and see how the Proforce VTS stacks up in our Ultimate Shaft Review.

"PROFORCE VTS is turning traditional shaft plumbing fixtures upside downward. By not isolating shaft performance to swing speed or physical strength alone, PROFORCE VTS shafts fine tune how weight, flex and torque piece of work in concert to create distance, control and experience". – UST-Mamiya

UST VTS Review

Notes, Experience, Price, and Miscellaneous

The Proforce VTS line uses color codes to indicate torque values: red for loftier, silver for medium, and black for depression. You lot can get the VTS in weights of 55, 65, 75, 85, and 95 grams. The flexes available are A-flex (senior), regular, stiff, SX (strong), 10-flex, and Tour Ten. For this review, we tested the Proforce VTS in ruddy, silver, and blackness in stiff and X-flex at 65 grams.

I will acknowledge that I came into this examination with a fleck of a bias against the Proforce proper noun: I never liked the experience of the former Proforce V2, and it was ugly. The UST addressed both my concerns with the VTS.

The experience of the VTS is very dependent on the color/torque that yous pick. The reddish feels smoother and torque-y, even in the 10-flex. The black feels very tight and controlled in stiff or X, and the silver is somewhere in betwixt. Overall, the VTS is a middle-of-the-road, mid-boot blazon of shaft when it comes to experience.

As far as looks, I remember the VTS is a legitimate head turner. Candy red on the butt end transitions to a vivid, sleeky white in the eye and tip of the shaft. The VTS logo is colored according to the torque value; I think the black is far and away the sharpest looking, which is a bonus since it's the best fit for my swing.

UST Proforce VTS shafts tin be purchased for $150.

Operation

For the Performance testing, I hit each of the shafts in a Callaway RAZR Fit 10.5 head on a FlightScope X2 launch monitor. I hitting 20 "adept" shots with each shaft, irresolute frequently and then that fatigue was not an issue, nor did I go grooved with one shaft to the detriment of fairness.

Testing was done at Golf game Nation in Palatine, IL, one of the best indoor golf facilities in the country.

Data

Analysis

As expected, my best results were accomplished with the low torque, VTS Black. I take an extreme hatred of hooks, so shafts with higher torque tend to lead me to steer the ball rather than swing. The results of that are bigger misses right and left, which you see with the VTS Scarlet. For other players, that higher torque feel is cracking. As always: it's all about the fit.

The spin numbers are besides a flake higher than normal. That can be "blamed" on some changes in my swing more the shafts. The ane thing that is worth noting is that, for me, the VTS Black allowed me to aggressively release the social club which led to a square/airtight-to-path clubface and lower spin.

Conclusion

With more combinations of weight, flex, and torque than any other shaft line on the planet, it would be well-nigh incommunicable not to discover a Proforce VTS shaft that fits your swing. There is not another shaft line that will permit yous and your fitter to find each individual characteristic that you like in a shaft. Huge kudos to UST Mamiya for creating a line of shafts around the thought of how to best fit the golfer rather than how to best serve the company'southward bottom line.

Langford Tiongens