NEW GEAR: Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue Shaft from True Temper

The Latest Dynamic Gold Shaft Could Add Some MPH to Your Swing
At 120g the new Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue is about 10g lighter than the original.

By Tony Dear

For many, the shaft is the most important of a golf club’s three main components. For everyone, it is surely the most misunderstood. So when True Temper releases another new version of its incredibly successful Dynamic Gold shaft whose history dates back to 1942, non-shaft experts such as me and, I suspect, you are going to scratch their heads and wonder what it could possibly offer that its predecessors haven’t.

Introduced last week, the Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue is the tenth True Temper shaft boasting the Dynamic Gold or DG decal. With so many weights, flexes, kick points, thicknesses, and step patterns already available, surely the benefits of hitting the new Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue could be felt elsewhere.

Sure enough, the characteristics of the classic Dynamic Gold shaft were altered very little when creating the 120 Tour Issue, according to Dayson Flory, True Temper’s alloy engineering manager. “Dynamic Gold is the most successful golf shaft ever created so we saw no reason to change its playing characteristics,” he adds. “However, golfers are transitioning into lighter-weight golf clubs to provide greater club head speed and make the club a bit easier to swing which is where the Tour Issue 120 comes in.”

Recent breakthroughs in technology, Flory continues, have enabled True Temper to reproduce the characteristics golfers admire about the Dynamic Gold shaft in a lighter-weight product. “Without giving away too much information, I can say that our materials and methods have improved allowing us to be more aggressive with our designs,” Flory says. “We are able to produce thin-wall steel shafts like never before, while controlling the balance point of the shaft so that a lighter-weight shaft will have the same swingweight as its heavier counterpart.”

Because it’s lighter, the 120 Tour Issue is significantly easier to swing, says Flory. ‘Easier to swing’ is a phrase that might appeal to the senior golfer, but, Flory asserts, there are many players on the PGA Tour who prefer shafts weighing 120g or thereabouts. “We wanted to give these players the opportunity to play Dynamic Gold at their preferred weight,” he adds. “’Tour Issue’ does not mean it is only for Tour players. It simply means that these shafts are the best of the best – the same shafts we send to the Tour. These shafts are sorted to the tightest weight tolerances in the industry.”

Players looking for the playing characteristics of Dynamic Gold but feel more comfortable with a lighter weight shaft will benefit greatly from the new 120 Tour Issue, says Flory. “This could be the weight that people feel most comfortable with,” he says. “It could also be a good choice for players who have been playing Dynamic Gold their entire lives, but who would now do better with something a little lighter.”

True Temper is not able to share the names of players that are playing the new shaft, but Flory does say several PGA Tour, European Tour, Champions Tour, Web.com Tour, and LPGA players have been fitted for the 120 Tour issue.
If you think you would benefit from swinging a lighter shaft, perhaps you should join them.

$60/shaft. $420 4-PW. $480 3-PW.
truetemper.com

You can be fitted for the new Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue at one of five True Temper Performance Fitting Centers in Colorado:

• Gott Golf in Aurora
• D’Lance Golf in Englewood
• Club Champions Golf in Highlands Ranch
• Weitzel Golf in Highlands Ranch
• Accufit Golf Studio in Colorado Springs

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