I bought an Autoflex 3 years ago and put it on a Sim2 Max head. No fitting, just an expensive experiment. I really liked the feel of it and would hit a few really long drives. I took it in this year to see if any of the new offerings could beat the Autoflex. Nothing could match it. I spent a lot but now I'm saving a lot because I won't be buying anything new for a while.

Love the channel, thanks for your hard work

Always good to see comparisons as close as you can get. Great job 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Very interesting and actually something I have recently been looking into trying

Thanks for a great video! Would be interesting to see the Brava on your wall vs the Autoflex

Really interesting test, you can adjust very quickly! Shows your knowledge and experience, it would take me a while or I’d need a lesson 😂 got a workout in at the end too! Never seen you without a jumper on 🤣

Just got fitted for a qi10 max with accra gx m3 150. Swing speed smooth 102mph. Very nice shaft & club combo.

Great video. Being a senior golfer with about a 90mph driver swing, I am always looking for more distance. I played the autoflex 405 for a while and found it to be too soft and wobbly. If you have to change your whole swing to fit a shaft, it's the wrong shaft for you. Played around with the various autoflex type shafts and ended up with the Accra fx 140 M0. It is not the same feeling as autoflex. Much more stable and as you found out is way more accurate. At first, I was playing at 45.5" and would hit the occasional bomb, but dispersion was a little bit wide. So I shortened it to 45" by taking 1/4" off the tip and the butt. Now it's very controllable and predictable and when flushed long too. I feel Accra is a bit stiffer than other brands. Turfinteractionsgolf mentioned the TPT shafts and I was looking into the Power 20 or 21 Hi as an alternative too as my shaft guy now carries the brand. The TPTs have very similar cpm, weight and torque as compared to the Accra. The TPT offers some high tech materials and construction that nobody else does. Why can't I just be happy with what I have now that works?

been waiting for this since the FX haha

Awesome vid. So much info...not good for anyone who dropped $700#. Well done.

I tried a similar experiment. The light soft flex shaft went slighty further with more dispersion especially misses to the left.

Good test Ross. Not sure how many shots you hit in the first data set but some very consistent numbers with very small std deviation. Would love to see rest of data.

I am a longer hitter and put the new XX auto flex into my current driver and immediately added easily 10 to 15 yards and tightened up my dispersion. Unfortunately, I was just trying out a friend and haven’t gotten it myself, but I was blown away with how much of an improvement I got immediately I was averaging around 305 inside on the simulator. And was getting 320 to 325 with the auto flex. I felt like I could swing harder and not get punished for it so I was even creeping up to the 330 range. It was so laser straight to it literally felt like cheating. From a feel perspective, it felt much softer. When I flushed the driver, it gave a much nicer impact feel than my traditional Ventus white S-Stiff. I haven’t ponied up the money, but if this new version can perform anything like the auto flex, I would buy it in a heartbeat. It’s hard to justify $700 for shaft and I have the matching shaft lineup in my five and three hybrid, which means it would cost $2100 to do all three graphite shafts, which is absolutely insane. I didn’t have my swing speed measured, but I’m typically about a 121 -122 with the Ventus. would be curious to see if it was from an increase in swing speed or just timing up the delivery of the club had much better which is how it felt

I play the TZ6 in my driver it’s like a ventus red on steroids. Best feeling shaft I’ve ever played

clearly works for some 8mph increase in club speed carry distance up 30 yards

Would really like to see how the accra performs with the ping g430 range esp the max

Thanks for this you’ve just saved me £500. Accra 100% or I’ll stick with my 60g Tensie

I'm back again 😂 Nice vid mate 👍🏼

Most of the people I know with an Autoflex are 80-90 swing speed. I think that 85 (definitely no more than 90 to compare to your other tests) would be a nice test

Really surprised you didn't see any club speed gain from the AF or Accra. I've been averaging about 95mph with my oem shaft, and then I tried an Autoflex and I'm cruising at 100mph (can hit 105 if I really get after it).

Great stuff. What was the playing length?

Just bought a 42” m0 flex and extended it to 43-3/4”. Only cost me $60 bucks, so why not test it out haha

The Accra looked more consistent and more controllable

I swing anywhere between 112-117 depending on the day, I was fit into a X flex shaft last year, actually it worked pretty well for me but unfortunately it got damaged. When I went back to the fitting centre a few months ago to get a replacement I was messing around with softer shafts while I was waiting, turns out I loved the feel and after some real testing ended up with a TPT 18hi which is 235cpm, so kinda similar to what you're playing here. I hit about 30 balls and about 20 of them were the same shot. It's a bit lighter and way softer than the previous shaft, i feel it's less effort to swing and it's more consistent than my previous shaft so for me it was a no brainer. I just wish they had the even softer ones in stock that I could have tried to see if even softer still and even lighter would have worked even better for me but i'm more than happy with what I ended up with.

I tried 2 autoflex shafts and my consistency was bad I don't care if it goes longer now and then I'd rather have consistent strikes

I wonder if the Accra in the M0 flex would have been any different, what do you think?

Based on your comment around 15:10, I assume I’m not understanding downward deflection. If the Autoflex is whippier with more downward deflection wouldn’t we expect the strike to be higher on the face, not lower?

Thank God, somebody’s going to talk CPM

Do the main big box golf stores in the states carry both shafts?

I’m a bit new here. What is your normal swing speed?

Did you say if the Auto was 505x or xx?

What model Accra?

You need to test it on a swing speed less than 80/hour .

I’ve said it before but if these shafts were legitimately better, most of the pros would use them.

First!

It would seem the Mitsubishi Vanquish would make a better comparison. Would anyone from the UK buy anything that isn’t black or dark blue anyway. Regardless of performance. 😂😂

There’s a new autoflex and the price is even worst then the old one .. no idea who had 2k aud to buy it here

totally missing the point you do not thrash the autoflex for a senior it’s a no brainer 30!yards gained with minimal effort

The only way it would be worth so much would be if it produced a hole in one on every par 4.