Nippon Shaft Posts Second Straight Victory On The Champions Tour

2010-09-28

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - Nippon  Shaft recorded its second consecutive victory on The Champions Tour Sunday  (Sept. 26) and also finished tied for fourth at The TOUR Championship, the PGA  TOUR's final FedEx Cup playoff event. 

The 51-year-old Champions Tour  victor, who won the most recent Champions Tour event in South Korea two weeks  ago using Nippon Shaft products, prevailed his second event in a row on the  senior circuit. The left-handed Kentuckian finished with a 54-hole total of  14-under par on rounds of 64-67-71at the SAS Championship at Prestonwood  Country Club in Cary, N.C. His final round 1-under 71 enabled him to hold off  the tournament's defending champion by two strokes.

Meanwhile, at the  TOUR Championship, Nippon Shaft recorded another world-class finish at East  Lake Country Club in Atlanta. The same 31-year-old Englishman who finished  runner up at the BMW Championship on Sept. 12 recorded a T-4, shooting 5-under  par 66-71-69-69-275.

"Nippon Shaft is pleased that our steel shaft  products for irons continue to perform for players of highest caliber on the  world's most competitive tours," said Hiroyuki Fukuda, head of sales and  marketing for Nippon Shaft. "We congratulate the players who use our products  so skillfully for their tremendous performances both on the Champions Tour and  the regular PGA TOUR."

The SAS Championship winner took home a check  worth $315,000 while the T-4 regular TOUR finisher at East Lake earned  $330,000.

"Nippon Shaft is committed to manufacturing the world's best  shafts for the world's most elite players, as well as for avid amateurs and  casual golfers," Fukuda said. "We are pleased and excited that the pros who  have been using our products have been performing so well."

Nippon  Shaft has more than 100 professional victories worldwide. Based in Yokahama,  Japan, Nippon Shaft is the No. 1-selling steel shaft in Asia, where it  controls 80 percent of the golf shaft market. In North America, Nippon Shaft  is the No. 2-selling steel shaft and is growing.

Nippon Shaft is a  privately-held subsidiary of NHK Spring Co. LTD, a Japanese automobile parts  manufacturer. Nippon Shaft's North American headquarters is in Schaumburg,  Illinois.