MEMPHIS, TN. — The best 64 players from the Official World Golf Ranking squared off in single-elimination at this weekend’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, and this year’s winner triumphed with the ultra-light Grafalloy® Blue graphite shaft in his driver and 3-wood. Blue features Micro-Meshâ?¢ tip technology that creates a perfect balance between low torque and optimum tip stability, a combination that reduces clubhead lag and improves ball contact.
The first rookie to win on the PGA TOUR in 2007, the champion trusted Blue to engrave his name in the history books. Not only was the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship his first start as an official member of the PGA TOUR, but he became the first PGA TOUR rookie to win a World Golf Championships event.
In addition to two tour wins in three weeks, the Grafalloy brand generated excitement among golfers and industry experts recently with its introduction of the all-new Grafalloy Epic®. The revolutionary Epic shaft harnesses the superior strength properties of nano-crystalline metals and fuses them at the molecular level with a composite polymer substrate. One thousand times smaller than the grain size of typical metallic structures, the nano-crystalline molecules are able to penetrate millions of specially engineered fissures within the composite polymer substrate creating the revolutionary Nanofuse material.
"Not only does the Epic shaft increase a golfer’s distance off the tee," says Graeme Horwood, Vice President of Engineering/R&D for Grafalloy, "the Epic delivers 35 percent greater shot dispersion than other graphite shafts and the combined improvement in distance and accuracy drives the ball as much as 15 to 20 yards closer to the pin from the tee."
For drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, the Epic shaft will be available through aftermarket distributors and major OEM’s in March 2007.
For more information on the all-new Epic or other Grafalloy products, visit www.epicshaft.com and www.grafalloy.com. Media contact is Chad Hall, director of marketing, at 901.746.2047 or chad.hall@truetemper.com.
The leading manufacturer of golf shafts in the world, True Temper is consistently the number one shaft brand on all professional tours globally. True Temper markets a complete line of shafts under the True Temper®, Grafalloy® and Rifle® shaft brands, and sells these brands in over 30 countries throughout the world. True Temper Sports is proudly represented by over 850 individuals in ten facilities located in the United States, Europe, Japan, China and Australia.
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