In short: Shaft flex should suit your swing speed. Powerful golfers use stiff, average golfers use regular, and golfers struggling for distance use senior. Good lady golfers often use men’s clubs. The flex is usually printed on the shaft or its label, just below the grip.
Which flex suits you
- Stiff (S): powerful golfers with a fast swing. Extra stiff (X) is for the very fastest swings.
- Regular (R): the average golfer.
- Senior (A or M, sometimes called lite): golfers who are struggling for distance or have a slower swing.
- Ladies (L): the softest flex, for a slower swing. Good lady golfers often use men’s clubs with a regular or senior shaft.
Where to find the flex on your clubs
Look at the shaft just below the grip, or at the label or band on it. Graphite shafts usually have the flex printed on them as a letter or a word: R, S, A or L, or Regular, Stiff, Senior or Ladies. On steel shafts it is often part of the shaft’s name: a True Temper Dynamic Gold R300 is regular and an S300 is stiff. Most of our listings give the flex in the title, for example REGULAR STEEL SHAFT or LADIES GRAPHITE SHAFT.
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Questions about shaft flex
It should suit your swing speed: powerful golfers use stiff, average golfers use regular, and golfers struggling for distance use senior.
Usually on the shaft just below the grip, or on its label, as a letter (R, S, A, L) or a word. On steel shafts it can be part of the name, such as Dynamic Gold R300 for regular.
Yes. Good lady golfers often use men's clubs, usually with a regular or senior flex.
They are True Temper Dynamic Gold steel shafts: R300 is regular flex and S300 is stiff.