Last year, the Mitsubishi Chemical C6 Lineup hit some of your local club fitters. If you haven’t heard of the C6 line before, it might be because it’s only available at select, custom club fitters around the country.  The C6 Lineup from MCA Golf strives to bring an exclusive line of premium, custom-fit shafts that can be fine tuned to any golfer, at more affordable prices.

In order to take a deeper dive into the Mitsubishi Chemical C6 line, we sat down with one of the best in the biz, master club fitter Kyle Morris from Club Champion, the #1 Custom Club Fitter in golf.

What’d Kyle Have to Say?

Tommy: Let’s start with the obvious.  Do I really need a custom shaft fitting in general?  Is it worth it?  Don’t I just pick my typical flex and weight in whatever brand I want?

Kyle: First of all, there is no universal standard measurement (like all things in golf) when it comes to shaft flex. One company’s ‘Regular’ can frequency to another company’s ‘Stiff’ or ‘Senior,’ and so on and so forth.

Many times shaft weight is more important than flex. A change in shaft weight can affect the tempo and also the delivery of the shaft in the transition forcing someone to come even more from the inside or outside.

Shaft length is often overlooked. “Centeredness” of contact and the ability to keep it close to the center of the face is super important. When driver shafts in a big box store average close to 46 inches but the best players in the world play an average length sub-45 inches, there’s a huge disconnect.

Tommy: So clearly shaft, weight, and length are all super unique yet important in a fitting.  So with that, what is the C6 Lineup from MCA Golf and who are they geared towards?

Kyle: The C6 line is a club-fitter-only line designed by MCA that allows premium club fitters, such as Club Champion, to fine tune a shaft with a golfer’s specific tendencies and needs for weight, launch, frequency, etc. So really, they can be fit for anyone!

Tommy: Well that makes sense, it seems like they have two different shafts, the C6 Blue and the C6 Red, so they can fit more golfers.  So what’s the difference between the two?

Kyle: The blue is a great work horse shaft that fits a wide range of golfers. For MCA I’d say it’s more of a mid-launch, low spin shaft. The red is a more of a high launch and mid-spin shaft. This is great for the smooth tempo, slower swinger who needs help keeping it in the air longer.

Tommy: Sounds like the Blue is going to be the best for me.  Can’t wait to hit them. But can they really fit any range of golfer?

Kyle: They really can. The beauty of the C6 line is that you have different weights and flexes that fit all golfers – red can go soft 40 gram weights and blue goes up to stiff 70 gram weights.

Tommy: Well, looks like they can.  But with so many shaft options out there, what makes the Mitsubishi C6 Line different?

Kyle: Many tip-soft shafts are also soft in the butt section as well, making the shaft feel like an absolute noodle for the golfer. The stiffer butt section of the C6 line gives the shaft an entirely different feel than most other shafts in that category.

Tommy: That sounds great and all, but it also sounds expensive.

Kyle: Well, that’s where you’re wrong. The C6 shaft offers great performance similar to shafts almost double in price for a wide variety of golfers.

Tommy: Yeah, there are a ton of options out there these days and it gets confusing.  What makes Mitsubishi so good?  I mean you see a ton of their shafts at the top of the leaderboard on Tour every week.  What sets them apart?

Kyle: Even the most high-end golf shafts utilize the same toray prepreg, whereas Mitsubishi creates their high-end shafts from start to finish in house – from raw materials to the end product. Having that control allows for greater consistency from shaft to shaft and also allows for them to introduce more expensive materials into the process while keeping end-user costs to a minimum.

Tommy: Sounds to me like it’s a high-quality product with high-quality performance, for a much lower price point.  That’s tough to argue with in this market.  Makes the C6 Series well worth checking out.

Final Thoughts – Mitsubishi Chemical C6 Series

Since I couldn’t contain my excitement any longer, it was time to try out the C6 lineup.  If you want to see the results of my fitting, check out my review of the Mitsubishi Chemical C6 Blue.  And a huge thanks to Kyle of Club Champion for sitting down and chatting with us!