BOULDER, Colo. – After winning the Memorial Tournament last week on the PGA Tour, the all-new premium KBS steel shafts continued their hot streak on the European Tour with a victory at the Bank Austria Open. Just as many professional golfers have done this season, this year’s Austria Open champion recently switched to KBS Tour steel shafts in his irons and the shaft have provided excellent stability and smooth energy transfer at impact.
KBS Tour steel shafts also won another second-place finish at the Stanford St. Jude Championship on the PGA Tour which marks the seventh tour event in the last six weeks that KBS steel shafts have won either first- or second-place on the PGA or European Tour. Manufactured by golf’s steel shaft specialists, FEMCO Steel Technology (FST), KBS Tour steel shafts feature new Moment of Inertia Technology and provide excellent stability and smooth energy transfer at impact.
“KBS steel shafts made their tour debut this season and the results we have received on tour are unlike anything I have ever seen,” says KBS engineer Kim Braly, whose steel shaft designs are currently being played by some of the Top 10 players in the world. “The KBS Tour shafts provide superior performance down the stretch and the player feedback has been outstanding. We have applied a completely new approach with our MOI analysis and the success stories on tour have been exciting.”
Braly explains premium KBS steel shafts achieve new levels of performance and feel through innovative MOI analysis and the new design reduces shaft ‘interference’ during the swing which means greater performance with every shot. The KBS Tour shafts are engineered for better players and deliver optimum stability by reducing the mass and radius of each step in equal proportions along the shaft’s center line. The result is more efficient energy transfer from the player’s hands to the clubhead.
The KBS Tour steel shafts incorporate FST’s high-quality precision manufacturing processes, such as: Exclusive ‘Oil-Quench’ tempering method which produces shafts that are arrow-straight from butt to tip; Tapered tip construction to provide a solid metal-to-metal bond in the hosel and tour-proven feel; higher-than-traditional center of gravity construction to allow for more mass in the clubhead; and matching shaft weight and frequency to strict tolerances to ensure peak playing performance and guaranteed repeatability.
Last month, the all-new KBS steel shafts won the Open de España and the BMW Asian Open and finished second at the AT&T Classic and Crowne Plaza Invitational.
For more information about FST and FST products, visit www.fstshafts.com.
Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., FEMCO Steel Technology (FST) is a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-quality steel golf shafts, including the premium KBS Series of shafts which features Moment of Inertia technology. Since 1949, FEMCO has remained committed to creating and providing high-quality and cost-effective steel products and services worldwide. For more information, visit www.fstshafts.com
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