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2005-04-12
- IROD® Dials Up Huge Hybrid Numbers |
 FORT
WORTH, Texas — One of the world’s
largest and most successful graphite golf shaft
manufacturers, United Sports Technologies (UST®)
appears to have taken complete command of the
Hybrid Shaft category. Not only were IROD® Hybrid
shafts the single most popular hybrid shaft at
last weekend’s 2005 BellSouth Classic,
but IROD Hybrid shafts have been the No. 1 Hybrid-design
graphite shaft for 14 consecutive weeks, ever
since the opening day of the 2005 PGA season.
“The PGA Tour players demand the highest
possible performance from their equipment, and
the IROD
Hybrid has proven to be one of the most consistent
shafts on the market,” says UST Tour rep
Shawn Mullin. “It’s really exciting
to think that one out of every four hybrid clubs
at the BellSouth, for example, was fit with an
IROD Hybrid shaft.”
According to Mullin, the growing popularity of
hybrid shafts and clubs has led to some confusion
as to what a hybrid shaft really is. As golf’s
independent authority for reporting equipment
usage at pro tournaments, the Darrell Survey
defines a ‘Hybrid Shaft’ as any shaft
used in a hybrid club. However, UST engineers
are more specific with their definition, and
describe hybrid shafts as shafts specifically
designed for performance improvement in hybrid
clubs. Thus, golfers and clubmakers should be
aware that only a few shafts, such as IROD, offer
true ‘Hybrid Technology’ while golf
companies simply install a common iron or wood
shaft into a hybrid club.
“Pairing a shaft with a hybrid club does
not make the shaft a true hybrid shaft,” says
Mullin. “IROD
Hybrid shafts possess unique design characteristics
which optimize the performance of hybrid clubs.
That’s why IROD makes great shots easy!”
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.
©2004 United Sports Technologies. All rights
reserved. |
