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Winner of the Tour Championship and Champions Tour Both Relied on Graphite Design

Carlsbad, CA – September 13, 2017 – Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announced today that the winner of the season ending TOUR Championship held at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia played a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-7 Black Edition X Stiff flex wood shaft in his TaylorMade 2017 M2 9.5° Driver and a Graphite Design Tour AD BB-8 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in a special black color in his TaylorMade 2017 M1 15° #3 Fairway metal wood.

Additionally on the Champions Tour, the winner of the PURE Insurance Championship held at Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey Peninsula, CA played a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-6 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in his Driver.

In Japan, the winner of the JGTO Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup held at the Caldeonian Golf Club in Sanbu, Chiba, played a Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-6 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in his Bridgestone Driver and a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-7 X-Stiff flex in his #3 and #5 fairway metal woods.

 

   

 “Congratulations to the winner of the 2017 TOUR Championship. What an amazing rookie PGA Tour season, finishing 3rd in the FedEx Cup ranking”,
stated Erik Boysen, VP of Tour Promotions, Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc.

These recent wins bring the count to 21 global professional tour wins this season for a Graphite Design Tour AD DI shaft model and a total of 41 global professional tour wins for a Graphite Design brand model shaft.

The Tour AD DI model is the first Graphite Design shaft design that was integrated with Toray Company’s original NANOALLOY material technology in the tip section of the shaft. This material technology has now come to be known as “DI Technology”. This unique material technology promotes additionally shaft stability without the loss of feel and allows the player to create greater club head speed and thus greater ball speed while still providing exceptional feel and control.

The Tour AD DI also utilizes premium, aerospace quality 50t carbon-fiber materials to provide the best performing shaft available. The softer mid-section bend profile of the Tour AD DI allows the player to load the shaft properly, yet it maintains a firm enough tip section through IMPACT promoting a high launch and low spin ball flight condition. The result, the Tour AD DI delivers players to the next level in shaft performance and will create a “DEEP IMPACT” on your game!
  

About Graphite Design:
With 27 years of designing and manufacturing premium graphite golf shafts, 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 44 Global tournament victories in 2016 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 150 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 and has been for the past fourteen years.
 
About Pro’s Choice:
Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Europe, S. Africa, S. America and Australia. Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts including the new 2017 Tour AD TP wood shafts as well as the YS Nano Reloaded, Tour AD GP, Tour AD MJ, Tour AD MT, Tour AD BB, and Tour AD DI model shafts. The company is located in Carlsbad, California with a distribution warehouse located in San Diego.

To learn more about Graphite Design shafts and Pro’s Choice, please visit proschoicegolfshafts.com or Like us on Facebook at
facebook.com/Graphite-Design-Golf-Shafts-163466990355904

For sales and media inquiries please contact Bill McPherson at 619-454-6283 or b.mcpherson@proschoicegolfshafts.com. For Pro Tour promotions inquiries, please contact Erik Boysen at 760-519-2362 or e.boysen@proschoicegolfshafts.com.

Fantastic Weekend Brings 3 Professional Tour Wins for Graphite Design

Carlsbad, CA – September 13, 2017 – Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announced today that the winner of the inaugural Indy Women in Tech Championship held at the Brickyard Crossing Golf Course in Indianapolis, Indiana played a Graphite Design Tour AD GP-6 Stiff flex wood shaft in her Cobra King LTD 13° 3 fairway metal-wood.

Additionally on the European Tour, the winner of the Omega European Masters held in Crans-Montana, Switzerland played a Graphite Design Tour AD BB-7 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in his Taylormade M2 Driver and a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-8 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in his Ping G model #7 fairway metal wood.

In Japan, the winner of the JGTO Men’s ISPS Handa Match Play event held in Ichihara-shi Chiba, Japan played a Graphite Design Tour AD TP-6 X-Stiff flex wood shaft in his Driver, a Tour AD TP-7 X-Stiff flex in his #3 fairway metal wood as well as a Tour AD TP-8 X-Stiff flex in his #5 fairway metal wood.

“What another fantastic weekend it was for the winners of these 3 events and for the Graphite Design brand of premium golf shafts. To have professional golfers worldwide relying on Graphite Design shafts to help them capture the win is very gratifying for us”, stated Bill McPherson, VP of Sales, Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc.

These 3 professional tour wins brings the total to 38 global professional tour wins for a Graphite Design brand model shaft within the 2017 season.

Designed and manufactured at the Graphite Design Japan factory headquarters, the Tour AD GP wood shaft is available in 45g R2, R1 and S Flex, 55g R2, R1 and S flex, 65g SR, S and X flex, 75g S and X flex and 85g S and X flex.

The Tour AD GP -6 and -7 models are also available in a Black color scheme and are called Tour AD GP – Black Edition. The shaft structure of the Tour AD GP Black Edition shafts are exactly the same as the Tour AD GP Teal color shafts and the only difference is the color.  The Tour AD GP, like its predecessors, utilizes premium, aerospace quality 50t carbon-fiber materials in order to deliver the best feeling and performing shaft available to golfers.  The Tour GP-4’s are unique and designed for a player that is looking for a light weight shaft with a soft tip to butt profile that will help launch the ball higher.  The Tour AD GP-5’s, 6’s, 7’s and 8’s are designed with a very stiff tip and stiffer mid to butt section to promote a mid-launch condition and low spin.

The Tour AD GP also utilizes the latest in graphite material from Toray Industries, Inc., 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.  If you are looking for a super-premium graphite golf shaft for your Driver or Fairway woods, the new Tour AD GP may just be for you and the Greatest Performing shaft you ever hit.

About Graphite Design:

With 27 years of designing and manufacturing premium graphite golf shafts, 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 44 Global tournament victories in 2016 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 150 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 and has been for the past fourteen years.

About Pro’s Choice:

Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Europe, S. Africa, S. America and Australia.  Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts including the new 2017 Tour AD TP wood shafts as well as the YS Nano Reloaded, Tour AD GP, Tour AD MJ, Tour AD MT, Tour AD BB, and Tour AD DI model shafts.  The company is located in Carlsbad, California with a distribution warehouse located in San Diego.

To learn more about Graphite Design shafts and Pro’s Choice, please visit proschoicegolfshafts.com or Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/Graphite-Design-Golf-Shafts-163466990355904

For sales and media inquiries please contact Bill McPherson at 619-454-6283 or b.mcpherson@proschoicegolfshafts.com. For Pro Tour promotions inquiries, please contact Erik Boysen at 760-519-2362 or e.boysen@proschoicegolfshafts.com.

Graphite Design Wins LPGA and JGTO

Carlsbad, CA – September 6, 2017 – Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announced today that the winner of the 2017 LPGA Cambia Portland Classic Presented By JTBC held at the Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, OR was playing a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-6 Stiff flex wood shaft in her Taylormade M1 Driver.

Meanwhile in Japan on the JGTO Men’s Tour, the winner of the Fujisankei Classic, held at Fujizakura Country Club in Minamitsuru, Yamanashi, Japan played Tour AD BB-7 X-Stiff shafts in his TaylorMade Driver and 3 Wood and Tour AD DI-95 X-Stiff flex hybrid shafts in his Titleist 17° and 21° hybrid clubs.

  “Congratulations to the LPGA winner on a fantastic victory! We are happy she played Tour AD to get back in the winner’s circle”, stated Wayne Ageno, President, Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. The win at the Cambia Portland Classic and in Japan at the Fujisankei Classic brings the count to 19 global professional tour wins this season for a Graphite Design Tour AD DI shaft model, the 16th win on the LPGA Tour during the 2017 season and a total of 35 global professional tour wins for a Graphite Design brand model shaft.

The Tour AD DI model is the first Graphite Design shaft design that was integrated with Toray Company’s original NANOALLOY material technology in the tip section of the shaft. This material technology has now come to be known as “DI Technology”. This unique material technology promotes additionally shaft stability without the loss of feel and allows the player to create greater club head speed and thus greater ball speed while still providing exceptional feel and control.

The Tour AD DI also utilizes premium, aerospace quality 50t carbon-fiber materials to provide the best performing shaft available. The softer mid-section bend profile of the Tour AD DI allows the player to load the shaft properly, yet it maintains a firm enough tip section through IMPACT promoting a high launch and low spin ball flight condition. The result, the Tour AD DI delivers players to the next level in shaft performance and will create a “DEEP IMPACT” on your game!

Revolutionary technology, design and the most advanced materials are trademarks in all Graphite Design shafts, making them the highest quality premium golf shafts on the market today. Validating the company’s “Tour AD” logo, all of Graphite Design’s PGA Tour-proven shafts are specifically designed to promote a gain in Accuracy and Distance.

About Graphite Design:

With 27 years of designing and manufacturing premium graphite golf shafts, 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 44 Global tournament victories in 2016 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 150 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 and has been for the past fourteen years.

About Pro’s Choice:

Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Europe, S. Africa, S. America and Australia.  Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts including the new 2017 Tour AD TP wood shafts as well as the YS Nano Reloaded, Tour AD GP, Tour AD MJ, Tour AD MT, Tour AD BB, and Tour AD DI model shafts.  The company is located in Carlsbad, California with a distribution warehouse located in San Diego.

To learn more about Graphite Design shafts and Pro’s Choice, please visit proschoicegolfshafts.com or Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/Graphite-Design-Golf-Shafts-163466990355904

For sales and media inquiries please contact Bill McPherson at 619-454-6283 or b.mcpherson@proschoicegolfshafts.com. For Pro Tour promotions inquiries, please contact Erik Boysen at 760-519-2362 or e.boysen@proschoicegolfshafts.com.

New Product News – Tour AD IZ

CARLSBAD, CA – September 1, 2017 – Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announces that the new 2018 Tour AD IZ “Into the Zone” wood shafts will be available on Monday, October 2, 2017 through Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. and their Authorized Dealer network in the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa and Australia.

Designed and manufactured at the Graphite Design Japan factory headquarters, the new Tour AD IZ wood shaft will be available in 40g R2, R1 and S flex, 50g R2, R1 and S flex, 60g SR, S and X flex, 70g S and X flex and 80g S and X flex. Additionally, Graphite Design will offer a 50 gram X Flex within the Tour AD IZ model line-up for the first time.

The new 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 graphics of the Tour AD IZ has a very stealthy look to it in black with white/orange accents and a sleek new satin finish.

The Tour AD IZ shaft profile 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 new Tour AD IZ model of premium Graphite Design graphite golf shafts.  The Graphite Design Tour AD IZ wood shafts will carry a MSRP of $500.00.

About Graphite Design:

With 27 years of designing and manufacturing premium graphite golf shafts, 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 44 Global tournament victories in 2016 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 150 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 and has been for the past fourteen years.

About Pro’s Choice:

Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Europe, S. Africa, S. America and Australia.  Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts including the new 2017 Tour AD TP wood shafts as well as the YS Nano Reloaded, Tour AD GP, Tour AD MJ, Tour AD MT, Tour AD BB, and Tour AD DI model shafts.  The company is located in Carlsbad, California with a distribution warehouse located in San Diego.

To learn more about Graphite Design shafts and Pro’s Choice, please visit proschoicegolfshafts or follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

For sales and media inquiries please contact Bill McPherson at 619-454-6283 or b.mcpherson@proschoicegolfshafts.com. For Pro Tour promotions inquiries, please contact Erik Boysen at 760-519-2362 or e.boysen@proschoicegolfshafts.com.