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2005-10-25
- UST® Wins Third Straight at SBC Championship |
 FORT
WORTH, Texas — Winning for the third consecutive
week and garnering its fourth pro victory in
five weeks, graphite shafts by United Sports
Technologies® (UST) are easily the hottest
graphite shafts on the pro tours. This week,
UST’s high-performance HTD® Counter
Balance graphite shaft helped post a 14-under
199 to win the SBC Championship in San Antonio.
Within the past five weeks, UST graphite shafts
have won the Michelin Championship at Las Vegas
on the PGA Tour; Greater Hickory Classic, The
Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach (pro-junior
division) and SBC Championship on the Champions
Tour; and the Albertson’s Boise Open on
the Nationwide Tour.
“The HTD shafts are one of the most successful
high-performance shafts ever played on the Champions
Tour,” says Jamie Pipes, product testing
and field research manger for UST. “The
HTD is well suited for many different swing types
and particularly senior players. The 65-gram
HTD Counter Balance model, for example, produces
a draw-bias ball flight that is perfect for many
senior players because it allows them to turnover
the clubhead with far less effort.”
The high-performance HTD was designed with feedback
from world-renown golf instructor Butch Harmon
and his brothers — Craig, Billy and Dick — and
features an ‘active’ tip section
that performs significantly different from the
tip section found in most shafts. The active
tip section is possible because of extra carbon
fiber material used to distribute additional
weight in the butt section and to move the shaft’s
balance point towards the butt end, thus providing
more stability and control in a player’s
hands. HTD offers players the ability to swing
confidently, increase ball speed and add more
distance.
HTD graphite shafts are offered as stock and
custom upgrade options in most popular original
equipment manufacturer (OEM) products either
as a stock or custom upgrade option. For more
information on HTD shafts or other 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. |
