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Shaſt experts Nippon Shaſt have just made two tour prototype steel shaſts available to the public. Sales manager Garry Price describes the new Pro Modus 3 Tour 105 and 125, and reveals how they fit in to the brand’s line-up


Both shaſts


deliver a little help with launch, but overall a slightly lower-spinning and lower-flying option


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leſt you try to send it, the further right it ends up. On an equipment level, tour pros using your product is one of the strongest endorsements it can receive; and yet gear designed for and used by tour pros can oſten have limited value to the typical club player. With shaſts, however, it’s a different story. Get the


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weight and flex right and any level of golfer will benefit from the consistency and quality of a tour level shaſt. This no doubt explains why shaſt experts


Nippon Shaſt have great expectations for two new steel shaſts, tested and refined exclusively on the world’s professional tours but now made available to the public; the N.S Pro Modus 3 Tour 105 and 125. “These may be our newest product for retail, but


olf has its fair share of conundrums. The harder you try to pummel the ball, for example, the shorter it flies; and the further


in fact the 105 has been a tour prototype, the ST, for some six years,” says Nippon Shaſt sales manager Garry Price. “It’s been refined over that period, but it can claim eight wins on the PGA and European Tours and more than 25 players are using it. The 125 has also been a tour prototype, though not around for quite as long. But it has had a surprising level of success on the Japanese pro tours, with eight wins.” Like all Nippon Shaſt shaſts, the N.S Pro Modus 3


Tour 105 and 125 have been designed with three sections – tip, mid, butt – in mind. However, both new shaſts have uniform wall widths, setting a middle-of-the-road rigidity profile in all three areas. “Both shaſts deliver a little help with launch, but overall a slightly lower-spinning and lower-flying option,” Price explains. “The difference is simply in the weight. We wanted to bring out a lighter version as there is a definite trend towards this in the game, even at the elite level; we’ve noticed that on the


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