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When a shaft company introduces a new product that showcases their capacity for shaft building, excitement builds. For Matrix, the release of the TPHDe shaft includes incredible technology and material in an extremely good looking package. Discussing the shaft characteristics recently, it sounds like I can anticipate an offering that is stout in flex readouts, yet offers feedback to suggest something slightly softer. With that in mind, I plan to enter this experience with a completely open mind to feedback, flighting, and overall execution quality. Albeit a very optimistic open mind.
THP offered a great inside look regarding the TPHDe shaft with Matrix at the PGA show this year:
Matrix technology built into the TPHDe is nothing short of impressive;
Their popular HD design, which offers a 16 sided internal structure for more stability and consistency across the body of the shaft.
Angular Velocity Fulcrum, utilizing the butt section for energy transfer, which allows for greater launch and spin control.
Circumferential Flexural Integrity, to guarantee consistency in flex throughout the shaft
And the remarkable Interply Hybrid Technology, which is a six day process that includes twelve steps utilizing carbon, boron (from Russia), Zylon, GMAT (from the United Kingdom), and the interply laminate/clocking method. They believe that the execution process allows the materials to work together to create effects that are greater than the sum of their parts, causing a notable effect on ball speed and sidespin reduction.
The shaft in for review in the TP6HDe, which is a 68 gram shaft defined as low/mid launch and mid spin. It will be paired with a Callaway Big Bertha Alpha driver set to varying lofts.
From a Matrix Media release in May:
The Matrix R&D department, responsible for the creation of multiple Major winning shafts, is pleased to announce the release of the OZIK TPHDe, the next generation TPHD.
Created with the finest materials available, all brought together from different countries around the world, the TPHDe joins the OZIK families most premium line. The multi-material Interply design combines boron, zylon and GMAT, to create this advanced structure, more stable and more detailed than any design structure ever before released.
The TPHDe design follows the same state-of-the-art techniques as the original TPHD shaft, however the HD technology that is used in the TPHDe has actually been extended through the shaft, e=extended. With its 16 sided internal platform (hexadecagonal), HD design allows for new levels of structural strength.
“Not only did we redesign the structure of the TPHDe with the extension of the HD design, we re-defined the flex profiles and optimized them with feedback we received from PGA Tour Players to create a tour caliber shaft,” said Director of R&D, Tom DeShiell.
This mid-spinning, mid-launching shaft features a modern day design concept unlike anything ever designed by Matrix before. The MSRP for the TPHDe is $1250.00 and is available at a Matrix dealer near you.
In Hand Photos
THP offered a great inside look regarding the TPHDe shaft with Matrix at the PGA show this year:
Matrix technology built into the TPHDe is nothing short of impressive;
Their popular HD design, which offers a 16 sided internal structure for more stability and consistency across the body of the shaft.
Angular Velocity Fulcrum, utilizing the butt section for energy transfer, which allows for greater launch and spin control.
Circumferential Flexural Integrity, to guarantee consistency in flex throughout the shaft
And the remarkable Interply Hybrid Technology, which is a six day process that includes twelve steps utilizing carbon, boron (from Russia), Zylon, GMAT (from the United Kingdom), and the interply laminate/clocking method. They believe that the execution process allows the materials to work together to create effects that are greater than the sum of their parts, causing a notable effect on ball speed and sidespin reduction.
The shaft in for review in the TP6HDe, which is a 68 gram shaft defined as low/mid launch and mid spin. It will be paired with a Callaway Big Bertha Alpha driver set to varying lofts.
From a Matrix Media release in May:
The Matrix R&D department, responsible for the creation of multiple Major winning shafts, is pleased to announce the release of the OZIK TPHDe, the next generation TPHD.
Created with the finest materials available, all brought together from different countries around the world, the TPHDe joins the OZIK families most premium line. The multi-material Interply design combines boron, zylon and GMAT, to create this advanced structure, more stable and more detailed than any design structure ever before released.
The TPHDe design follows the same state-of-the-art techniques as the original TPHD shaft, however the HD technology that is used in the TPHDe has actually been extended through the shaft, e=extended. With its 16 sided internal platform (hexadecagonal), HD design allows for new levels of structural strength.
“Not only did we redesign the structure of the TPHDe with the extension of the HD design, we re-defined the flex profiles and optimized them with feedback we received from PGA Tour Players to create a tour caliber shaft,” said Director of R&D, Tom DeShiell.
This mid-spinning, mid-launching shaft features a modern day design concept unlike anything ever designed by Matrix before. The MSRP for the TPHDe is $1250.00 and is available at a Matrix dealer near you.
In Hand Photos
