My experience with graphite iron shafts is a little dated. I used to write for a golf clubmaker’s magazine and I co-authored a book on club fitting. At that time, shafts may not have been as consistent as they are today. Universally though, most men play shafts that are too stiff for them. This results in loss of distance and accuracy. I found myself, that I was more consistent and comfortable with SENIOR flex steel shafts. Very often in blind testing, I found men would push shots to the right with a shaft that was too stiff, or hook a shaft that was not stiff enough. Sometimes this can result in bad habits that mess things up when the player is fitted with an appropriately flexed shaft. I will say that at the time, graphite shafts felt real nice, but inconsistency in their manufacture caused problems, and we tested hundreds of shafts.