When a shaft snaps flush with the barrel, the threaded stub stays behind — and an extractor is the one tool that gets it out cleanly.

It grips the broken section and backs it out without damaging the thread, which is what usually happens when people improvise with something sharp.

This is a tool that stays unused until the moment nothing else will do, and shafts tend to break at the club rather than at home — so it earns its place in a case rather than a drawer. The aluminium versions hold up better under the force you need to apply than plastic ones, which matters when a stub is properly seized in the thread.