SANKI
SANKI redefines golf fashion
Sanki Planaria is a golf shaft manufacturer located in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Our work is completed by exchanging words with first-class craftsmen, trial and error, uncompromising, and repeating it over and over again.
1995
Munenori Arai began playing golf at the age of 16. He was the only person playing golf in
Yokosuka city, where golf was considered an old man's sport at the time. He enrolled at
Izawa Golf
School operated by Toshimitsu Izawa, a Japanese Tour Champion.
He trained hard to become a professional golfer.
1998
1998 Joined Sanki Co., Ltd.Munenori was employed at a precision parts
manufacturing company owned byMunenori's father. There, he learned about the processing of
precision
parts while working to become a professional.
2000
Munenori aspired to become a professional golfer, but was unable to do so, he
gave up
that dream, left his father's company, and worked for a paint company to become a paint
artist.
There he learns the skills of painting.
2008
In 2008, he embarked on developing graphite shafts, focusing on fishing rod
technology as a foundation for golf shafts. Straying from conventional designs, his
expertise as a
paint craftsman informed unique visuals.
He identified a scarcity of lightweight, robust shafts, prompting a search for materials
capable of
enduring expansion and contraction. This pursuit yielded a player-friendly shaft, achieved
through
meticulous material selection.
2012
Research on graphite shafts for drivers was completed. Sale of the new shaft,
Sanki Planaria, began.
After 4 years of research and development, he completed the driver shaft.
Normally, the shaft that matches the swing is selected by fitting However, the Sanki
Planaria shaft is one where the flex point changes depending on the swing. The
characteristic is that the movement of the shaft changes depending on the head
speed and swing type. The Sanki Planaria shaft improves the head speed and ball
speed for any player.
2018
Munenori established Arithree Co., Ltd.. The company was originally owned by
his
father; his older brother became president.
He completed the development of steel shafts as well as graphite shafts.
The characteristic of the steel shaft lies in the fact that it is all hand-decorated. This
is
different from other companies, which process the shafts with plating.