‘The Hottest Shafts In Golf” has won 16 driver, 24 wood and 26 of 26 hybrid shaft counts so far this season
POWAY, Calif. – With a total of 54 Tour Blue and Tour Green and 23 Rogue shafts in play, Aldila swept the shaft manufacturer counts at The Players Championship. “The Hottest Shafts In Golf” had four more driver shafts, 31 more wood shafts and 23 more hybrid shafts in play than their closest competitor, according to the Darrell Survey.
Nearly 25 percent of the field at The Players Championship played an Aldila shaft in their driver, more than 27 percent played one of Aldila’s shafts in their wood club and more than 34 percent played one in their hybrid club.
In 26 events on the PGA Tour this season, “The Hottest Shafts In Golf” has won 15 driver shaft manufacturer counts and tied for first in one other, captured 24 wood shaft manufacturer counts and won all of the hybrid shaft manufacturer counts.
The top two driver shaft brand models at The Players Championship were Aldila’s Rogue and Tour Green 65. The top three wood shaft brand models were Aldila’s Rogue, Tour Blue 85 and Tour Blue 75 shafts.
“Because of the extremely exotic, high-performance materials that are used in the construction of the Rogue shaft, it has very limited availability,” said John Oldenburg, Aldila’s Vice President of Engineering and Product Development. “Typically the materials are incorporated into only high-performance military projects and Aldila is one of the first companies to have access to the material for commercial use.”
The Rogue shaft is built on Aldila’s ultra-successful new “TOUR” platform using the same tapered tooling and Nex Gen Micro-Laminate Technology™ that provide the exceptional performance of the Tour Green and Tour Blue shafts.
“By incorporating this new material, Aldila is able to make the shaft stiffer and lower torque without adding weight,” Oldenburg said. “At the same time, the placement of the material in top third of the shaft (grip end) allows Aldila to slightly counterbalance the shaft to work well with today’s heavier driver heads and the longer length of modern drivers.”
Aldila’s Next Generation Micro Laminate Technology is comprised of ultra-thin layers of premium, low resin aerospace grade materials. This design evolution eliminates inconsistent shaft performance caused by material variability. Redesigned tooling also raises the shaft balance point, making this the perfect upgrade for today’s modern club head designs.
Aldila (www.aldila.com) offers patented shaft design technologies that consistently outperform other shafts available. This technology advantage is the reason Aldila is the most popular graphite shaft on the PGA Tour. Tour professionals recognize Aldila’s advanced performance and year after year that there are more Aldila wood and hybrid shafts in play on Tour than any other shaft manufacturer. Whether the Micro Laminate Technology™ first introduced in Aldila NV™, the most popular graphite ever or today’s Next Generation Micro Laminate Technology, Aldila engineers are continually pushing and advancing high performance graphite golf shaft technology well beyond any other manufacturer.
ABOUT ALDILA
Aldila Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Rayon America Inc. Aldila Inc. is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of carbon fiber shafts. Aldila is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of carbon-based composite products and materials used in various end markets. Aldila’s competencies are the development of carbon-based composites and the implementation of manufacturing processes that support the commercialization of these composites. Aldila is a vertically integrated supplier of composites across three primary end markets: carbon-based pre-impregnated composite fibers, graphite golf shafts and archery products.
For more information on the Aldila RIP® Series, VooDoo, VS Proto™, and NV™ shafts, visit Aldila’s Web site www.aldila.com. Follow what’s new on www.Facebook.com/AldilaGolf.
About MRA
Mitsubishi Rayon America Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. MRA’s business is centered around MMA (methyl methacrylate) and AN (acrylonitrile) business complexes as basic raw materials and finished products. For more information, visit http://www.mrany.com.
About MRC
Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. MRC’s business is centered around chemical and plastics, fibers, carbon fibers and composite materials, and aqua businesses. For more information, visit http://www.mrc.co.jp
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