Historical past was made at Royal Portrush Golf Membership on Sunday as Fujikura made it a clear sweep of winners throughout all 4 Main Championships in 2025.
In a season of unprecedented worldwide wins, the place of Fujikura because the constant selection of champions and the worldwide chief in shaft innovation was confirmed with all 4 Main winners utilizing the model’s VENTUS shafts of their driver – the primary time a specialist driver shaft model has achieved such a feat.
Fujikura registered its first Main win in 2001, and during the last 5 years has turn out to be essentially the most used driver shaft on the PGA Tour with numerous extra victories throughout golf’s greatest tournaments.
The 153rd Open Championship at Portrush demanded the easiest in energy and accuracy, because of the course’s tight and dog-legging fairways, and greens protected by devilish pot-bunkers and cruel run-off areas.
Finally, a capability to regulate the trajectory of the ball from the tee – in addition to having the ability to assault the par 5s with confidence from the green – ensured the winner, Scottie Scheffler, remained in management over the closing two rounds after topping the leaderboard following Friday’s second spherical.
The win in Portrush was the second Main success of the 12 months for Scheffler, following one other runaway victory within the 107th PGA Championship at Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte. On each events, the reigning world no.1 was capable of play with nice management from the tee, utilising the consistency of their lengthy recreation with a VENTUS Black 7-X of their driver.
Scheffler additionally trusted VENTUS in his fairway wooden shafts, utilizing a VENTUS Black 8-X of their 3-wood (Portrush and Quail Hole), and VENTUS Black 9-X of their 7-wood (Quail Hole). It was a shaft line-up that proved crucial in delivering two of essentially the most dominant wins of the season throughout two vastly completely different layouts.
Fujikura’s journey to creating historical past started at Augusta in April, with Masters’ champion Rory McIlroy showcasing the final word ranges of energy from the tee and fairway. Sealing a memorable victory towards a world-class subject after overcoming the stress of a play-off, the Northern Irishman had been capable of keep in rivalry and management throughout regulation play by hitting fairway after fairway with a VENTUS Black 6-X of their driver. McIlroy’s fairway wooden shaft line-up included VENTUS Black 8-X and VENTUS Black 9-X (3-wood and 5-wood respectively).
Of all of the Main wins in 2025, there was none extra thrilling than on the US Open. Contested over one of many hardest programs in main championship historical past at Oakmont Nation Membership – and with moist climate situations taking part in havoc with a congested subject through the ultimate spherical – there was a fair larger premium on accuracy from the tee throughout the closing phases.
And so, below essentially the most intense stress as gamers struggled with the course’s defences over the again 9, unheralded American JJ Spaun was capable of shut out victory utilizing the brand new VENTUS Black 6-X shaft in his driver with tournament-winning birdies on the 71st and 72nd holes, which included driving the inexperienced on the 314-yard par-4 seventeenth.
Designed with superior VeloCore+ know-how – the victory at Oakmont was the primary Main win registered for the brand new line of VENTUS with VeloCore+ – the VENTUS Black 6-X shaft would offer the steadiness, accuracy and distance wanted to beat one of the vital gruelling exams in golf.
With all 4 Main victories, the winners would put religion within the VENTUS line to maximise clubhead stability and promote constant centre-face contact, which in flip interprets to tighter dispersion and larger management from the tee and fairway.
Fujikura additionally backed up its place as essentially the most used driver and wooden shaft among the many world’s finest gamers. On the Open Championship, a formidable 43.9% of the sector selected the model’s shafts of their driver (69 out of 157), with 39.3% of gamers trusting Fujikura of their wooden shaft line-up.
Nonetheless, throughout all 4 Majors, the numbers show much more spectacular, with 44.9% trusting the model’s shafts of their driver (255 gamers out of 568), and 40.7% taking part in Fujikura of their wooden line-up. Compared, the closest competitor returned 24.8% of gamers utilizing their shafts within the driver, and 26% throughout wooden shafts.
To enrich Fujikura’s affect throughout the 4 Main Championships, early season success additionally got here by way of the unofficial ‘fifth main’, the PLAYERS’ Championship at Ponte Vedra Seaside, Florida. With climate delays including to the strain and a three-hole Monday morning play-off, Rory McIlroy trusted VENTUS Black 6-X in his driver, VENTUS Black 8-X in his 3-wood, and VENTUS Black 9-X in his 5-wood, to beat what’s arguably essentially the most aggressive subject within the recreation.
Eric Recher, Director of Advertising and marketing at Fujikura, stated: “We’re proud to have made historical past by supporting the winners of all 4 Main Championships in 2025. It’s testomony to the innovation and know-how that goes into our driver and wooden shafts that so lots of the world’s finest gamers depend on the consistency of VENTUS when the stress is at its most intense.
“Fujikura’s success throughout the 2025 Majors solely provides to our storied historical past of powering world victories throughout the skilled excursions. However we imagine the innovation that goes into each product we make will guarantee there’s a VENTUS shaft choice for each degree of participant all through their woods and utility golf equipment. Whether or not you might be chasing a Main or your finest spherical at your native course, VENTUS and Fujikura’s full line-up of shafts are designed to raise each participant’s recreation.”
