Soft-stepping (the opposite of hard-stepping or tipping when you’re talking about wood shafts) is when you build a set of irons with a 3-iron shaft in the 4-iron, 4-iron shaft in the 5-iron ...

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His irons have MCA MMT Proto 115TX shafts. Joaquin is fast, as in 185 mph of ball speed fast. So when you see a 5-hybrid in the part of the bag where a 4-iron should be, it’s pretty wild.