FORT WORTH, Texas – Jan. 27, 2005 – Following winning 40-plus consecutive weeks as the No. 1 Hybrid Shaft on the PGA Tour in 2004, the IROD Hybrid graphite shaft by United Sports Technologies (UST) once again won the hybrid shaft count at the Buick Invitational. According to the Darrell Survey, the IROD Hybrid brand tallied 13-hybrid wood and iron shafts, outnumbering other branded hybrid shafts.

“We’re extremely pleased that the IROD Hybrid shaft has continued driving an immense popularity for hybrid technology,” says Gene Simpson, vice president of sales and marketing for UST brands. “At UST, we produce IROD Hybrid shafts for Hybrid clubs. Some companies install shafts commonly intended for woods or irons without regard for specific performance requirements of new hybrid clubhead designs.

Golfers and custom clubmakers should carefully consider accepting just any shaft in a hybrid head, because true hybrid shafts possess unique design characteristics, which optimize the performance of hybrid clubs. After all, there’s a good reason why IROD makes great shots easy!”

The IROD Hybrid Fairway shaft produces a tight shot dispersion, while the IROD Hybrid Utility shaft technology focuses on both accuracy and maximum distance control. The IROD Long-Iron shaft is specifically designed to put the difficult-to-hit 2-, 3- and 4-irons back in the golf bag by producing a high trajectory shot from the most difficult lies.

With such great success on the PGA, Nationwide, European, Australian and Asian Tours, UST shafts are arguably the most popular high-performance graphite golf shafts in the world. For more information on UST products, visit the website at http://www.ustgolfshaft.com, or call 817-267-2219.

United Sports Technologies makes graphite golf shafts for golf consumers and many original equipment manufacturers, such as Nike, Tommy Armour, Sonartec, Wilson Sporting Goods, Hogan, Spalding, and many others. UST also produces and distributes such world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce, ACCRA, PURE Gold, IROD and Harmon Tour Design 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 clubmakers.

For more information about UST, please visit our website at http://www.ustgolfshaft.com.

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