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2005-10-18
- UST Sweeps 1st, 2nd & 3rd at Michelin
Championship |
 FORT
WORTH, Texas — Graphite shafts by United
Sports Technologies® (UST) dominated the
Michelin Championship at Las Vegas, claiming
first-, second- and third-place and delivering
a sudden-death win for UST’s all-new Frequency
Filtered™ prototype putter shaft. While
the second- and third-place money positions were
secured by UST’s award-winning Proforce
shafts, this year’s champion won the Michelin
Championship in dramatic fashion wielding a driver
upgraded with a HTD® Counter Balance graphite
shaft and a putter featuring UST’s prototype
Frequency Filtered™ putter shaft.
“UST produces several of the world’s
most innovative high-performance graphite shafts,
and winning the top three money positions at
the Michelin with four completely different models
is an incredible demonstration of the playability,
consistency and dependability of UST shafts,” says
Skip Pankewich, product developer for UST. “It
was especially rewarding to see the new Frequency
Filtered putter shaft contribute to yet another
win so soon after its introduction on the pro
tours.”
The first real putter shaft innovation in nearly
70 years, the new Frequency Filtered putter shaft
is the result of a joint venture between United
Sports Technologies and Balance Certified, which
is 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.
Pankewich compares the new Frequency Filtered
shafts with the performance of a quality stereo
system. “When listening to a radio, any
static noise will interfere with the sound quality,
but a good stereo system filters out the static
noise and leaves only sounds that are meant to
be heard. This is similar to what happens with
the Frequency Filtered putter shaft,” he
says. “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 a 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.”
One of the world’s largest and most successful
graphite golf shaft manufacturers, UST is well-known
for developing innovative golf shafts that have
won on every professional tour in the world.
In addition to its own award-winning shaft designs,
UST’s engineers regularly provide technical
expertise on new product development, component
compatibility and graphic customization for numerous
club manufacturers.
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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