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2005-03-17
- UST Shafts Dominate Top 10 Driver Use |
FORT WORTH,
Texas — Showcasing its leadership role
in graphite shaft performance, United Sports
Technologies® (UST) dominated driver usage
by 2-to-1 among the Top 10 players at the Honda
Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
According to Darrell Survey reports from the
Honda Classic, twice as many Tour pros in the
Top 10 chose UST-branded graphite shafts for
their drivers than shafts of other graphite brands.
Among the Top 10 players, four drivers were assembled
with UST-branded graphite shafts; two used Grafalloy
shafts; two Fujikura; one Graphite Design; and
one Mitsubishi shaft.
Another highlight of the weekend was the performance
of UST’s all-new Proforce V2 graphite shaft.
Still somewhat of a mystery to most golfers,
the new V2’s successful introduction as
a Tour prototype has a lot of pros talking, especially
since the shaft has taken fourth-place at the
Honda Classic and won the Nissan Open, all within
a few weeks of its PGA Tour debut. According
to Shawn Mullin, PGA Tour Manager for UST, the
new V2 is available in 55-, 65-, 75-, 85- and
95-gram versions, however, more details on the
V2’s performance characteristics, proprietary
design and construction are extremely limited
due to the highly competitive nature of the graphite
shaft industry.
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A PGA Tour player’s trust in shaft performance
is never given; it must be earned. So, it’s
extremely satisfying to see UST technology favored
by so many Tour pros,” says Mullin. “The
professional tours are the ultimate test for
high-performance golf shafts, and all of our
UST-branded shafts — IROD, Accra, Proforce
and Harmon Tour Design — are built to unrelenting
tolerances for the best players in the world.”
For more information on UST or UST products,
contact UST Sales and Public Relations Manager
Randy Stuart at 281.250.8465 or visithttp://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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