UST Dominates Top Money at PGA Championship

Gxgolfer · August 23, 2006

FORT WORTH, Texas — As the PGA Tour’s elite squared off in the final major event of the year, the best players custom-fit with the best equipment rose to the challenge. In fact, graphite shafts designed and manufactured by United Sports Technologies (UST®) won five of the Top Seven money positions at the 88th PGA Championship, including second- and two third-place positions.

Of the five top UST players at the PGA Championship, four favored the new Proforce V2 — an incredibly powerful, super low-torque golf shaft that masterfully balances torque, weight, spin and launch angle and that optimizes the performance of today’s 400cc to 460cc heads.

“The PGA Championship is one of the most challenging tournaments of the year, and we’re very pleased that so many players trusted the consistency and performance of UST graphite shafts,” says Gene Simpson, vice president of sales and marketing for UST. “With its unique low-torque design, the V2 performed phenomenally well and completely dominated the driver shaft usage among the top echelon players.”

Simpson explains that most of today’s larger driver and fairway wood heads position the center of gravity further away from the shaft’s center line, a design characteristic that causes more twisting pressure on the shaft. However, the low-torque design of the V2 helps prevents clubheads from twisting open on impact and enhances shot dispersion.

Unlike other shafts on the market, the Proforce V2 utilizes a proprietary graphite fiber orientation to enable the shaft to recover faster when loaded or flexed and to give the shaft an incredibly stable feel in the golfer’s hands. Combining fiber orientation with lower torque engineering and enhanced flexibility, the V2 provides unparalleled stability and consistency, and balances the tip section to launch the ball higher with increased ball speed, while the optimized torque reduces spin for superior control.

Year after year, UST repeatedly surpasses other graphite shaft manufacturers in innovative shaft technology that excels in performance and consistency. For more information on UST or UST products, call 800.277.0534 or visit www.ustgolfshafts.com.

United Sports Technologies makes graphite golf shafts for golf consumers and many original equipment manufacturers, such as Callaway, Cleveland, Nike, Ping, Sonartec, Titleist, Wilson Sporting Goods and many others. UST also produces and distributes such world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce, ACCRA, IROD and HTD which are played in more than 100 tour events on the PGA, Champions, LPGA, 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.ustgolfshafts.com.