KBS Shafts

[Stuart]

Does anybody have any experience with KBS shafts? I hear they have a similar flight to PX's but they feel much smoother. Are the shaft ratings similar? For instance if you play a 6.5 in PX's would you also play a 6.5 in the KBS shafts? Thanks for any help you can provide.

[hawkeye]

Just got them 2 weeks ago - fitted with them on Taylormade Tour Preferred irons. Hit a wide variety of itons - S300's were too light, X100's didn't feel great, Project X were decent but not as smooth as the KBS's.

When I was fitted, I didn't look or ask what I was hitting, just hit what they handed me and I told them how it felt, heavy/light/tip stiff/smooth etc and the KBS were way ahead.

Don't know that they come in the same frequency range as Project X's - I am hitting KBS Tour X- Stiff which come in at 133 gm. PX 6.5 are 130gm, PX 7.0 are 135gm. I was hitting them flatter than the PX 6.5's and sweeter and smoother.

I see on their website today that they boast winners of the last PGA and Senior PGA Tour events - Rory Sabbatini and Michael Allen. They're getting really popular on tour.

I only ever had standard shafts in irons - these are the business.

[youngskip40]

As far as I know. a 6.5 in one should equal a 6.5 in the other, but that's not to say that just because the sticker on the shaft says 6.5, that that's what it actually is (My old Rifle Flighted "6.5" shafts actually ranged from 7.0 to 7.7, when I got them measured at a fitting).

I don't have experience playing a full set of them, but if I'm not mistaken, the KBS have a little lower ball flight than the PX, but still higher than DG. But, again going off of memory, they are the least tip stiff of the batch. That was a no-no for me, so I stuck with the DG. I don't like the feeling of not being certain where the clubhead is at all times, and DG's allow me to feel the clubhead whether it be on or off plane.

This was a while ago, so I could be off on these, trying to rely on my memory.

[Stuart]

Thanks very much for your feedback. Do you know if your X stiff are 6.5's or 6.7's or 7.0's??

Just got them 2 weeks ago - fitted with them on Taylormade Tour Preferred irons. Hit a wide variety of itons - S300's were too light, X100's didn't feel great, Project X were decent but not as smooth as the KBS's.

[hawkeye]

Sorry I don't know. I just got fitted with exactly what they said. The form just said KBS Tour X- Stiff. I wasn't aware that they came in different frequencies like Project X's - didn't see it on their website either.

I'll try find out - hope to get 2 more wedges with KBS's in them when the next paycheque comes in.