FORT WORTH, Texas — The No. 1 wood shaft and hybrid wood shaft brand at the 2007 THE TOUR Championship, UST® (United Sports Technologies) was also the preferred shaft for the top players finishing the inaugural PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedEx Cup. Five of the Top 10 finishers played high-performance shafts by UST and received more than $6.1 million in winnings.
"It’s very rewarding to see the world’s most successful professional golfers trust UST graphite shafts for the consistency, accuracy and distance they need to compete at the highest levels of the game," says Gene Simpson, vice president of sales and marketing of UST brands. "Just as in THE TOUR Championship, the Proforce V2 was the most popular of the UST shaft models played by the Top 10 FedEx Cup finishers. The FedEx Cup showcases the hottest players on tour, and we think it’s fitting that the hottest graphite shaft on tour — the V2 — play such a dominate role in the final FedEx Cup standings."
Providing much anticipated drama for the PGA Tour, the FedEx Cup marks the first time that men’s professional golf has had ‘playoffs’ styled after a NASCAR-like points race. From the Mercedes-Benz Championship to the Wyndham Championship (January 4 to August 19, 2007), PGA Tour players earn points in each event they play with the ultimate goal to be among the Top 144 points leaders. After the Wyndham Championship, the point totals are reset and the 144 players square off at The Barclays, Deutsche Bank Championship, BMW Championship and finally THE TOUR Championship to win the Cup. The 2006 Comeback Player of the Year continued his winning ways, and found himself in second-place after the final event, playing a Proforce V2 86-gram in his Titleist driver and fairway wood.
Designed and manufactured by UST® (United Sports Technologies), the Proforce V2 graphite shaft provides shot-enhancing benefits and features low-torque characteristics that have received industry acclaim for optimizing performance of today’s 400cc to 460cc driver heads. The modern trend toward larger driver and fairway wood heads has increased hit-ability for many golfers, but the center of gravity (CG) of most larger clubheads is positioned further away from the center line of the shaft, a design trait which places more stress and causes more twisting on the shaft. The V2’s low torque design provides the power and control needed for today’s 400cc to 460cc heads. Also, because the low-torque V2 prevents clubheads from twisting open on impact, the V2 reduces the amount of back spin imparted onto the ball and enhances shot dispersion.
High-performance UST graphite shafts are trusted by world-renowned golfers such as Jim Furyk, Davis Love III, Rod Pampling and many others trust UST shafts. For more information on UST or UST products, call 800.277.0534 or visit www.ustgolfshaft.com.
UST makes graphite golf shafts for golf consumers and supplies many original equipment manufacturers, such as Titliest, Ping, Nike, Callaway, Cleveland, TaylorMade, Adams, Nickent, Wilson, Sonartec and others. UST also produces and distributes such world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce, ACCRA, IROD and Frequency Filtered Putter shafts 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 club makers. For more information about UST, visit www.ustgolfshaft.com.
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