How do you decide whether to purchase graphite or steel golf club shafts?
Graphite is usually 20-30% lighter than steel so you can indeed swing faster with less effort. Yes – cheap graphite has worse tolerance (even shaft wall thickness and even torque (twistiness)) than steel – which is bad. Good quality graphite is beneficial to most beginner to average golfers but lets get the cart before the horse. Most beginner to average golfers would do better to buy high quality steel ((True Temper Dynamic Gold Regular) and spend the money they saved on lessons and range balls.
