KBS Adds C-Taper Lite Parallel Shaft to its Line

For us club builders, the addition of a lighter weight C-Taper shaft in parallel tip is awesome news.  Building with parallel tip shafts gives us more flexibility in controlling flex and launch versus using taper shafts and either hard or soft stepping.  The problem really comes when building wedges with taper shafts as KBS makes only one shaft, a 9/PW for all clubs from 9i, PW, GW, SW, and LW.  Because the SW and LW in most clubs is significantly heavier than the PW and GW, controlling flex and swingweight is an issue with discrete length taper tip shafts.  That problem, for the most part, goes away with these new parallel tip shafts.  We like the C-Taper Lite for a player that needs a lighter weight shaft (roughly 10 gr. lighter) or the player that needs extra length but wants to keep the total club weight down.  Next step is to test them against their taper-tip brothers to see how they stack up in terms of launch and spin.  See the technical specs here…