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2005-02-23
- Prototype Proforce Wins Nissan Open |
 FORT
WORTH, Texas — The Tour buzz about an all-new
Proforce shaft had been growing louder recently.
This week, after a sudden death playoff win at
the Nissan Open in Pacific Palisades, Calif.,
the buzz exploded with the dramatic re-emergence
of the popular Proforce shaft series by United
Sports Technologies ® (UST). The victory
was a tremendous introduction for the new shaft — known
by the pros as the Proforce V2.
The win was made even more spectacular by the
fact that this year’s champion had been
a long time user of steel shafts in his driver,
and he only recently switched to the Proforce
V2.
“When a player who uses a steel shaft in
his driver finally makes the jump into graphite,
you can
bet it’s for something really special,” says
world-acclaimed golf instructor Butch Harmon,
the coach of this year’s Nissan Open champion. “I’ve
never seen him drive the ball so well as he does
with the new Proforce V2 shaft.”
Currently, the new Proforce V2 shafts are offered
in 55-, 65-, 75-, 85- and 95-gram versions, however,
the new shaft is only available as a prototype
on Tour and additional information is limited.
According to Shawn Mullin, PGA Tour Manager for
UST, the proprietary details regarding the shaft’s
performance characteristics, design and construction
are closely guarded information at this time
because of the highly competitive nature of the
graphite shaft industry.
“
All I can say,” offers Mullin, “is
that the shaft was introduced only a few short
weeks ago, and UST’s new V2 is already
causing quite a stir.”
For more information on UST or UST products,
contact UST Sales and Public Relations Manager
Randy Stuart at 281.250.8465 or visit http://www.ustgolfshaft.com, |
United
Sports Technologies makes graphite golf shafts
for golf consumers and many original equipment
manufacturers, such as Nike, Tommy Armour, Sonartec, Wilson Sporting Goods, Hogan, Spalding, and many
others. UST also produces and distributes such
world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce,
ACCRA, PURE Gold, IROD and Harmon Tour Design
which are played in more than 100 tour events
on the PGA, SPGA, Nationwide and European tours.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, UST operates
four manufacturing facilities throughout the world
and produces more than four million graphite shafts
a year for original equipment manufacturers and
custom clubmakers. For more information about
UST, please visit our website at www.ustgolfshaft.com.
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reserved. |
