NIPPON SHAFT WINS FIVE PREMIER GLOBAL TOURNAMENTS

By
Dan Owen
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Players using Nippon Shaft products on Sunday (Aug. 14) won on the PGA Tour, the DP World (European) Tour, the PGA Tour Champions, the Ladies European Tour and at the U.S. Women’s Amateur.

The 25-year-old PGA Tour player secured his first Tour victory on the third hole of a sudden death playoff at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Tennessee outside Memphis. He played the N.S.PRO MODUS³ Hybrid X flex shaft in his #3 utility on route to his victory, shooting 15-under par in regulation. He earned $2.7 million for the win.

A 26-year-old Scotsman won the ISPS Handa World Invitational using the N.S.PRO MODUS³ Tour 120 X flex steel shafts in his irons and wedges to shoot a 12-under par total and score his second DP World Tour victory in his rookie year. He shot 61-70-68-69 at Galgorm Castle in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, earning a winner’s cheque of €247,185.

At the same event as above, a 22-year-old from Sweden won the women’s division of the ISPS Handa World Invitational using Nippon Shaft’s AWT 2.0 steel shafts in her irons and wedges. The Ladies European Tour member shot 20-under par for the tournament, including a course-record final round of 63, which included 10 birdies. In addition to earning $225,000 for the victory, she earned status on the LPGA Tour for 2022 and 2023.

The famed pony-tailed Spaniard won the PGA Tour Champions’ Boeing Classic using the N.S.PRO MODUS³ Tour 105 S flex steel shafts in his irons and wedges to shoot 15-under par in the 54-hole event. The 58-year-old recorded rounds of 70-64-67 at The Club of Snoqualmie Ridge in Washington outside Seattle. In his last 45 holes he made 14 birdies and no bogeys to earn a two-shot victory – his 13th on the Champions circuit – and $330,000 in first-place prize money.

Across the state, a 17-year-old became the second Japanese woman to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur, obliterating her final match play opponent 11 and 9 at Chambers Bay Golf Course in Washington outside Tacoma. The champion used Nippon Shaft’s N.S.PRO MODUS³ Tour 105 S flex steel shafts in her irons and wedges to win her first USGA title. With the victory, she earned an exemption to play as an amateur in next year’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links.

“Nippon Shaft congratulates all five winners of these very prestigious worldwide tournaments,” said Hiro Fukuda, sales and marketing for Nippon Shaft. “Nippon Shaft is proud and gratified that more and more players around the world are trusting our meticulously designed and manufactured shafts to compete and win at golf’s highest levels.”

More than 200 players on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, DP World Tour and Korn Ferry Tour use Nippon Shaft’s MODUS³ series steel shafts to help gain their desired distance, accuracy, and trajectory.

Nippon Shaft products are available globally either as stock or custom shafts in many of the world’s top iron brands. Details of these can be found at www.nipponshaft.com