TORRINGTON, Conn. — Demonstrating why the best players in the world prefer high-performance steel shafts, premium Rifle shafts won the PGA Grand Slam of Golf and helped this year’s champion achieve an amazing 13-under 59. The PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Poipu Beach,  Hawaii, is a showcase competition featuring the year’s four major winners and was a strong reminder this weekend that Rifle shafts won more majors in 2004 than any other steel shaft.
 
“We congratulate Phil Mickelson on an incredible performance this weekend and a great win,” says John Lauchnor, president and CEO of Royal Precision, maker of Rifle-branded shafts. “Rifle-branded shafts have won more than 40 tournaments this year, and the PGA Grand Slam event was a spectacular way to end the 2004 season.”
 
Reviewing the Major tournament victories for 2004, premium Rifle steel shafts won two Majors — The Masters and the U.S. Open — while two other brand names each claimed one major title at the British Open and PGA Championship.
 
Designed by Royal Precision — America’s first steel shaft manufacturer — Rifle-branded steel shafts combine four advanced technologies to produce steel shaft innovation unparalleled in the industry. Only Rifle steel shafts offer: Frequency Matching that perfectly matches a set of clubs through electronic calibration; Stepless Design Technology that eliminates the energy-robbing ‘steps’ found on most other steel shafts, and provides greater accuracy and a smooth, yet solid, feel at impact; Patented Internal ‘Rifling’ that transfers energy more efficiently than other steel shafts, reduces vibration and increases distance; and advanced Flighted Technology that features produces variable ball trajectories for different clubs within a single set.