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Cant find a shaft to fit your swing?

Looking for a new shaft design that isn’t like the rest?

Need a custom built shaft made especially for you or your company?

The fact is, most tour players are not using a standard shaft that you can buy from the golf store. Most likely the professional player is playing a custom, one of a kind design that is tailored especially for them. Carter Penley has had the opportunity to work with many great PGA players such as Lanny Wadkins, John Daly, Vijay Singh as well as Long Drive Champions such as Jason Zuback, Brian Pavlet, Sean Fister & many others, gathering data to design them the best shaft that gave them the best performance.
With this invaluable knowledge and experience, Carter Penley can offer you the highest echelon of custom designed golf shafts designed especially for you. Whether you are an avid golfer, or a company looking for a new and unique design to offer your clients, Penley can design shafts exclusively for you. Like the Rolls Royce, each client of Carter Penley’s Signature line can have a custom made golf shaft of the highest quality and individual personal attention given to you or your companies needs.

Carter Penley offers two design level packages: Premium- for the avid golfer that is ready to step up to Pro, and Professional- for the OEM and/or professional club maker who is ready to develop his own line.

Hybrid Heater2 Design Theory

* Increase shaft weight over original 80 gram model

* Higher kick point to keep the ball from ballooning to accommodate USGA groove rules

* Incorporate “Tip to Butt Aspect Ratio” (TBAR) to stabilize shaft integrity for maximum accuracy and “FEEL”.

Hybrid Heater2 Shaft Specs Flex Range Weight +/- 5g Length +/- .5″ Tip Diameter +/- 0.005″ Butt Diameter +/- 0.01″ Torque +/- .25 o TBAR Matched
X1 90 41.5 0.370 0.605 2.3 X
S1 90 41.5 0.370 0.605 2.5 X
R1 90 41.5 0.370 0.600 2.5 X

SPECIFICATIONS:

Length__________41.5 inches Weight-________90 grams

Kick Point________High Torque________2.4 degrees

Shaft Color_______Black Logo Color______Optic Yellow

PRD developed the Hybrid Heater2 specifically for Tour use, working with two major OEM Tour Vans in this design process. Ball trajectory is vital, a high trajectory (ballooning) leaves the player short and a low (flat) trajectory gives the player too much roll, overshooting the green.

The better ball strike is one that launches the ball a few degrees higher than the loft of the head and carries 80% of the distance to the target and then drops at a 50 to 55 degree angle to the target surface with virtually a soft impact and very little roll, allowing the player to achieve their desired distance with accuracy and confidence with every strike.
PRD golf shafts are designed to improve the player’s ball striking ability.

The ET2 shaft is an upgrade of the original ETA model Golf Shaft and was manufactured with “Feel”, “Control”, and “Distance” as the primary design drivers. All other parameters (Mechanical and Physical) compliment these three design attributes (refer to article “ETA” by Carter Penley).

Penley ET2 Shaft Specs Flex Range Weight +/- SG Length Tip Diameter +/- 0.005 Butt Diameter 0.01 Torque TBAR Matched
X 70 46 0.335 0.605 2.9 X
S 70 46 0.335 0.600 3.5 X
R 70 46 0.335 0.600 4.0 X

The TBAR Algorithm is the determining flex factor, although we do apply some common flex range description to help players determine which golf shaft is best suited for their level of play. Note: Carter Penley developed a specific flex range for the professional level player (PGA, LPGA, Long Drive and aspiring amateurs) and denotes that flex as ‘Z’. Players of this level may want to contact the factory to determine if the production mid-range TBAR shaft is suitable for their specific swing. The original ETA design was carried one step farther to include a range of players who play a better than average game of golf and specifically are endeavoring to improve on ‘Distance’ and ‘Control’. To accomplish this design application Carter Penley concentrated on player inconsistencies that generally affect control and distance (refer to article “Locating Spine” by Carter Penley). The major challenge of the ET2 project was to design and manufacture a golf shaft that would counteract some or all of these player inconsistencies therefore allowing a player to improve their game and most importantly lower their score-