Carlsbad, CA – Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announced today that the winner of the PGA Tour Champions Chubb Classic event held at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, FL, was playing a Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-5 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in his Driver. The champion shot a 3-day score of 64, 70, 65 to win the tournament by 3 stokes capturing his 45th PGA Tour Champions victory and tying the record for most wins on the PGA Tour Champions.
Additionally, the winner of the Ladies European Tour Aramco Saudi Ladies International event, held at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Saudi Arabia, was playing a Graphite Design Tour AD IZ Hybrid shaft in her Ping Hybrid. The World’s #1 golfer shot -21 under par over the course of the 4-day tournament to claim her 3rd victory in 4 starts.
“Congratulations to both champions on their historic wins this past weekend. We are elated that they both chose the Tour AD IZ shaft model to be a part of their respective bags” stated Bill McPherson, Vice President of Sales, Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc.
The Graphite Design Tour AD IZ – “Into the Zone”, designed and manufactured at the Graphite Design Japan factory headquarters, has a very stealthy look to it in black with white/orange accents and a sleek new matte finish. The Tour AD IZ shafts are available in 40g R2, R1 and S flex, 50g R2, R, S and X flex, 60g SR, S, X and TX flex, 70g S, X and TX flex and 80g S and X flex.
The Tour AD IZ, like all of the premium Tour AD wood shafts, utilizes premium, aerospace quality 50t carbon-fiber materials in order to deliver the best feeling and performing shaft available to golfers.
The Tour AD IZ shaft has a firm stiffness starting at the handle, and medium center section and a firm+ tip profile to promote a high launch angle and low-ball spin rates. The Tour AD IZ also utilizes TORAYCA ® T1100G carbon-fiber pre-preg with NANOALLOY ® technology in the tip section of the shaft for additional shaft stability, exceptional feel and precise ball control.
Reach out to your local Golf Club Fitting professional and ask about how to get your Driver or Fairway metal wood “Into the Zone” using the Tour AD IZ model of premium Graphite Design graphite golf shafts.
About Graphite Design:
Located in the city of Chichibu, Japan, Graphite Design has 33 years of experience designing and manufacturing premium graphite composite golf shafts. Numerous Graphite Design shafts can be seen in play by the best professional players on all tours worldwide. Validating the company’s “Tour AD” logo, all of Graphite Design’s Tour-proven shafts specifically promote “Accuracy and Distance”. On Tour, Graphite Design shafts recorded 51 Global tournament victories in 2022 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 500 tour victories and multi-millions of dollars in prize money since inception. Graphite Design continues to be the most dominant, #1 shaft brand on the Japanese JGTO Professional Tour for the past twenty years.
About Pro’s Choice:
Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, UAE, S. Africa, S. America, and Australia. Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts including the new 2023 Tour AD CQ model of wood shafts as well the Graphite Design MAD, Tour AD UB, Tour AD HD, Tour AD XC, Tour AD VR, Tour AD IZ, Tour AD TP, Tour AD GP, Tour AD BB, and Tour AD DI models of shafts. The company is located in Carlsbad, California with a distribution warehouse located in San Diego.
For more information about Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts or Graphite Design shafts, please contact Bill McPherson at 619-454-6283 or b.mcpherson@proschoicegolfshafts.com, or visit www.proschoicegolfshafts.com. For tour promotions inquiries, please contact Erik Boysen at tour@proschoicegolfshafts.com.
