Golf Review: Shaft Skinz adding color and attitude to your golf shafts

By Brian Weis

Golfers have been known for their flashy clothing and accessories. (pastel pants, white belts and wild headcovers) If you want to add some attitude or pizzazz to your game without committing a fashion faux pas, check out the new Shaft Skinz you can apply to your golf shafts.

Currently, the Shaft Skinz comes in 7 styles, each having several color options - Champaign Bubbles, Camouflage, Confetti, Fire Flames, Puzzle Pieces, Skull & Cross Bones and Snake Skin.

Applying the Shaft Skinz is relatively simple, slide the sleeve over the club and use a high powered hair dryer to shrink wrap the material around the shaft. Cut away the excess and your club has a whole new look. Since no adhesive is used, removing the skinz can be done with a razor blade. Amazingly no stickiness or residue is left behind.

Professional players have started donning the colorful skinz. Most notable is Rory Sabbatini who plays with a black skull and cross bones on his putter.

Admittedly I was a tad skeptic that this sleeve would change the weight of the club or stiffness of the shaft. Martin Greeves the founder and president of Shaft Skinz, reassured me that the Shaft Skinz were independently tested with a shaft analysis machine (used by over 75% of the tour pros). The findings showed that there was negligible difference between the stiffness of the shaft before and after sleeving. (less than 0.005%). That difference is not perceptible to the human hand. Greeves also shared that the Shaft Skinz conformed to the USGA and R&A Rules of Golf.

Shaft Skinz's motto is "Play With Color." My putter and wedge now display the blue flame shaft skinz and my short game now has some serious attitude.

More information on the Shaft Skinz and where to buy them can be found at www.shaftskinz.com.

Revised: 05/05/2009 - Article Viewed 34,589 Times

About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.