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2005-03-08
- IROD Drives Hybrid Awareness at Ford Championship |
 FORT WORTH,
Texas — With a two-time Masters champion
and a British Open champion playing IROD Hybrid
shafts this week at the Ford Championship at
Doral, the trend toward playing true hybrid shafts
is growing among PGA Tour pros, and the IROD
Hybrid shaft by United Sports Technologies is
clearly the hybrid of choice.
According to the Darrell Survey at the Ford Championship
at Doral, shafts counted on the Hybrid Wood Shaft
Count made up nearly 13% of the tournament’s
total shaft tally. Of those numbers, UST’s
IROD Hybrid shaft was the single most popular
hybrid graphite shaft among the PGA pros...again.
“IROD continues to do extremely well on
the PGA Tour,” says Jim McIntosh, PGA Tour
representative for UST. “Whether for fairway
or utility use, the IROD’s interlinked
carbon fiber technology is clearly visible in
each model and
enhances the feel and stability of the shaft
on every shot. The high modulus graphite fibers
are specially woven to provide hoop strength
and stiffness, and fibers running vertically
provide stiffness while the fibers running at
90 degrees prevent the shaft from deforming or
flattening under load.
“This is really is ‘true hybrid’ technology,” adds
McIntosh, who expresses concern that all clubmakers
and golfers may not be aware that some golf companies
simply install a common iron or wood shaft into
a hybrid club and then claim the shaft is a hybrid. “The
truth is that pairing a shaft with a hybrid club
does not make the shaft a true hybrid shaft.
The IROD is a true hybrid and we’re trying
build awareness of the truth behind the technology.”
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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