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2005-07-18
- UST Brands Tag-Team the BC Open |
 FORT
WORTH, Texas — Three different graphite
shaft brands, engineered by United Sports Technologies® (UST),
provided superior distance, accuracy and hybrid
performance to claim UST’s second consecutive
victory at the BC Open and its third straight
win on the PGA TOUR. Finishing with a second
straight 6-under 66 on Sunday, this year’s
champion maximized his shot performance using
three different UST shaft brands, setting a new
BC Open record with a 24-under 264 and winning
his first PGA TOUR victory.
In only his second year on Tour, the BC Open
champion won with a Harmon Tour Design (HTD®)
shaft in his Titleist 983E driver, an Accra® SC75
shaft in this Titleist 904F 3-wood, and an IROD® Hybrid
shaft in his TaylorMade Rescue FW hybrid club.
“With another win at the BC Open and our
third straight PGA win in three weeks, UST shaft
brands
are once again reaffirming our reputation as
one of the world’s most innovate, high-performance
shaft companies in the world,” says Gene
Simpson, vice president of sales and marketing
of UST brands. “Our engineers have virtually
revolutionized the graphite shaft industry with
creative, high-performance designs that satisfy
the demands of the best golfers in the world,
and we’re clearly growing in popularity
every day. In fact, UST shaft usage at the 2005
BC Open was up 39 percent over last year’s
event.”
Among the three UST brands used to win the BC
Open, the HTD graphite shafts have won acclaim
on the professional tours for their distance
and accuracy achieved through a combination of
Tour-proven Proforce tip technology and a new ‘Counter
Balance’ design. The HTD features an ‘active’ tip
section that is torsionally stable to control
the clubhead, but more flexible to provide some
feel and kick at impact. Premium ACCRA shafts
are a culmination of high modulus materials,
creating a patent-pending blend of low torque
engineering and a soft tip design that provides
skilled players with the launch conditions they
need to maximize their carry distance. While,
the IROD Hybrid graphite shaft — No. 1
Hybrid shaft on the PGA TOUR — features
custom-engineered Interlinked Carbon™,
an innovative carbon fiber technology that is
specially woven to provide hoop strength and
stiffness. The IROD Hybrid shafts are available
as a driver, fairway wood and long iron designs.
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.
©2004 United Sports Technologies. All rights
reserved. |
