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2005-09-07
- UST Showcases New Putter Shaft with Champions
Win |
 FORT
WORTH, Texas — Introducing the first real
putter shaft innovation in nearly 70 years, United
Sports Technologies® unveiled its all-new
Frequency Filtered™ prototype putter shaft
on the Champions Tour with victorious results.
In its first-ever outing on a pro tour, the new
graphite putter shaft — which provides
instant feedback and better feel than standard
steel putter shafts — won the Pro-Junior
division of The Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble
Beach.
Still only available as a Tour prototype, the
new Frequency Filtered putter shaft is the result
of a joint venture between United Sports Technologies
and Alabama-based Balance Certified, an equipment
technology company well known for its Tour-proven
Pro-Balance shaft weighting system. The goal
was to design a system that significantly improved
a player’s ability to perceive or ‘feel’ exactly
where ball impact occurs on the putter face.
This feedback to the player results in improved
putting ability since the player quickly learns
to stroke more putts on the putter’s sweet
spot.
Skip Pankewich, product developer for UST, describes
the new Frequency Filtered shafts as being analogous
with stereo equipment. “When listening
to your radio, any static noise just gets in
the way of the quality of sound,” he says. “A
good sound system which filters out the static
noise leaves you with only sounds that are meant
to be heard. This is similar to what happens
with the Frequency Filtered shaft. There are
many different types of vibrations that occur
when a putt is struck. Some of these vibrations
are always there, but don’t provide the
player any useful feedback about the putt. I
equate these vibrations to static noise on your
radio. The Frequency Filtered shaft filters out
these “static noise” vibrations,
leaving only vibrations that provide feedback
about how the putt was struck. Your feel becomes
clearer.”
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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