It is that part of the golf club that is located between the head and the grip. Golf shafts come in many different designs with a single purpose. And that is to provide the player with a way to generate centrifugal force in order to effectively strike the golf ball. Early golf clubs had wooden shafts whose high flexibility required more skill in swinging the club to propel the ball to its desired destination. Flexing quality differentiates one golf shaft from another.

In the early 1900s players began experimenting with steel shafts. They are still very much in use today. Steel shafts forced players to develop a more aggressive style of golf swing. Today, graphite shaft is used in almost all woods and iron sets. Graphite shafts boasts of increased flex for greater club head speed at the cost of slightly reduced accuracy.