1.   The spade and fork have longer shafts, providing better leverage.

2.   Fruhwirth said she originally had another shaft in the driver, but that a switch has proved dramatic.

3.   Some golfers might have Harrison shafts and not even know it, although the company specializes in custom shafts.

4.   The brace is a simple hand tool that has a shaft with a chuck at one end and a head at the other.

5.   The glands have a shaft leading down through the epidermis, the thickest layer of the skin, to a mazelike ball where sweat collects.

6.   The earliest clubs had shafts that were not too tapered, he said.

7.   The mallets were larger and some had graphite shafts.