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Tiger testing different shafts for his driver

Tiger Woods is not much of a tinkerer, which is to say he will never be mistaken for the likes of Bob Estes or Steve Flesch. But the world No. 1 seemed to be busy last week testing shafts for his Nike SQ Dymo driver.
 
On Thursday at Quail Hollow, the TW sweepstakes seemed to go to newcomer Oban Composites, a Glenview, Ill.-based company. Woods, who had played Mitsubishi’s Diamana White shaft through the Masters, used a prototype shaft from Oban called the Mach4 on his way to an opening-round 65.
 
On Oban's website, the Mach4 is said to deliver a low- to mid-launch and low spin for a more piercing ball flight.
 
"It's exactly the same weight, just a different company," Woods said on Thursday of his new shaft.
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