The White Board, Blue Board and Red Board versions of the Diamana shaft are still widely recognized by professional golfers and ardent amateurs.Īlthough the White, Blue and Red shafts with the Diamana name remain available (roughly $275 in the aftermarket), a new generation of the Diamana family is out there as well - ‘ahina, ‘ilima and Kai’li (retail approximately $360). It was a tribute to Mitsubishi that golfers around the world latched onto the Diamana shaft name. Any golfer who knows all these names is surely a certified golf fanatic. However, Mitsubishi Rayon is very different in one respect: It makes shafts with tongue twister names. The Japanese company, like a handful of other elite shaft makers, produces highly sophisticated shafts.
This entry was posted in Driver Shafts, Mitsubishi Chemical, Russ Ryden - Fit2Score on Septemby Russ.Shaft question of the day: Translated to English, what does Kuro Kage mean?īefore investigating the new Kuro Kage golf shaft, let’s take a look at its manufacturer, Mitsubishi Rayon. Its always nice to see that a technical improvement in a golf product actually results in improved performance and is not just more marketing hype. That in a shaft with a softer tip than he has in his gamer. Mark commented during the tests that the tip of the Kuro Kage with the TiNi felt more stable. That gave us an opportunity to test the fiber by comparing the two shafts with a PGA tour quality ball striker, Mark Maness.Īs you can see from this composite FlightScope report, the TiNi material did indeed add distance, reducing launch and spin with a slight increase in club head speed. The difference between the previous version of the KUROKAGE Silver and the 2014 model is the addition of 8 inches of Titanium Nickel wire in the tip section. Those using the X flex models need the control of low torque. Evidence of player profiling design, the players using the R & S will load the shaft less and get more feel from higher torque. What we do see in the Kuro Kage Silver TiNi is slightly higher torque in the R & S flex models than the Diamana and Fubuki series. And this shaft proves the manufacturing technology exists. In a marketplace where every driver shaft has a rotating hosel, we should expect no less.
I cannot ever remember having 6 shafts in my hand that at most, varied by 1 CPM from hard to soft plane. While this is a mid priced shaft, $300 MSRP, in the Mitsubishi family of golf shafts you would not know that by looking at the radial quality. Both have a slight mid zone stiffness bump, like the Diamana White Board with that bump occurring closer to the tip in the Kuro Kage Silver to promote a little higher launch. The Fubuki K and its predecessor, the Fubuki Tour continue to stiffen from 11″ to the tip, while the Kuro Kage Silver softens.
The EI Bend Profile Signature is similar to the Fubuki K. The KuroKage line was the first of the Mitsubishi products to use high density pregreg, The Kuro Kage shafts have this high density material added to the lower third of the shaft. The graphics are slightly different and the tip bears the TiNi logo used on Mitsubishi shafts with Titanium Nickel wire tip reinforcement. The Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Silver has been updated in 2013 with the addition of 8 inches of Titanium Nickel Wire wrapped into the tip section of the shaft.
The Golf Center at the Highlands, Carrollton Texas Mitsubishi KURO KAGE Silver with TiNi By Russ Ryden, Fit2Score, A Dallas Fort Worth Club Fitter & Club Maker