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For the 11th time in his illustrious career,
the current #2 money earner on the PGA Tour pushed himself
to a first place finish on the PGA Tour. The sudden death
victory at the Wachovia Championship Sunday was extra
sweet due to the fact that the winner hadn’t won
a playoff in 10 years and because he has been so close
to winning in recent weeks.
The champion used a 20-degree 3DX Ironwood by Nickent
Golf in his dramatic playoff victory, a club that has
been in his bag for four Top 3 finishes in 2006. The club
was used several times each round and produced longer
shots that landed softly on the greens. |
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Like a wildfire spreading with extreme
winds, the hybrid category is burning up the PGA Tours.
Last week, 109 hybrids were put into play on the Nationwide
Tour, a new record for hybrids in play in a PGA Tour
event. This week at the BMW Charity Pro Am at the Cliffs,
that record was shattered with 135 hybrids in play.
That’s equivalent to 80% of the field having a
hybrid golf club in play!
At the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans
this week, 51% of the field played a hybrid golf club.
Among PGA Tour professionals, 168 players used a hybrid
through the first 10 events this season, 35 more than
in all of 2005 and 72 more than in 2004, according to
Darrel Survey. Nickent is currently the #2 most played
hybrid on the PGA Tour. |
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winner of the BMW Charity Pro Am at the Cliffs used a
Nickent 3DX DC Ironwood in his first-ever Nationwide Tour
win Sunday, Nickent Golf’s third Nationwide Tour
victory in the last year. Four of the top 5 finishers
were playing Nickent’s new 3DX DC Ironwoods at the
event.
In his 83rd Nationwide Tour event, the champion birdied
the par five 17 hole to shoot 13 under, earning him $112,500
and jumping him up to 5th on the Nationwide Tour money
list.
Ten of the top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour money
list are using 3DX hybrids and with 38 clubs in play last
week , Nickent was the # 1 hybrid for the third straight
event. |
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a field where a record 109 hybrids were put into play,
the most hybrids ever used in a single event on the PGA
Tours, Nickent Golf battled the odds and prevailed as
the # 1 hybrid on the Nationwide Tour. Thirty-one 3DX
hybrids were put into play at the Athens Regional Foundation
Classic in Georgia last week.
It is the third consecutive year that Nickent has earned
the hybrid crown in a Nationwide Tour event. They began
using the Nationwide Tour as a ladder to the PGA Tour
in late 2004. The strategy of seeding their product to
the up-and-coming Nationwide Tour has paid dividends on
both tours: Nickent is currently the # 2 most played hybrid
on the 2006 PGA Tour, according to the Darrell Survey. |
 Nickent
Golf’s hybrids were in the bags of a Top 10 finisher
and a Top 25 finisher at the Masters Sunday.
The player finishing 8th earned his third Top 10 in six
years at the Masters, while earning $210,000 in the process.
The # 8 ranked player in the world finished 22nd, netting
him $67,200.
In a field of 103 players, 50 total hybrids were in play
at the Masters. Because of length additions, hole No.
11 was turned into a 505-yard par-4. It ranked as the
hardest hole on Augusta National Golf Course for the four-day
tournament and made the golf course demand players to
hit a long ball that would stop easily on Augusta's slick,
undulating greens. |
For the third consecutive year, Nickent Golf has earned
the #1 hybrid title on the Nationwide Tour. The # 1 ranking
came at the Livermore Wine Classic last week in California,
where 26 players put a 3DX hybrid into play.
Four players with Nickent hybrids finished in the Top
10 of the event.
Nickent began using the Nationwide Tour as a ladder to
the PGA Tour in late 2004. The strategy of seeding their
product to the up-and-coming Nationwide Tour has paid
dividends on both tours: 3DX hybrids are currently the
# 2 most played hybrid on the 2006 PGA Tour, according
to the Darrell Survey. |
Joo Mi Kim’s dream of
being a champion on the LPGA Tour was realized Saturday,
besting a fellow Korean player on the second playoff hole
of the SBS Open at Turtle Bay in Hawaii.
In the first LPGA event of the season and Kim’s
first event using the PIPE Putter, she led the field in
putting with a 26.33 putts per round average. Kim sank
a 14-foot putt on the first playoff hole for birdie to
push the playoff hole. She then stuck a wedge to two feet
and used her brand new PP-001 double-bend PIPE Putter
to seal the victory.
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 In
an amazing turn of events, Nickent Golf finished the season
as # 1 hybrid on the PGA Tour! The introduction of the
3DX DC prototype hybrid helped push the 3DX family of
hybrids to # 1 at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic, the
last full-field event of the 2005 PGA Tour.
Nickent finished as the # 3 overall hybrid on the 2005
PGA Tour in their first full year with representation
on professional golf’s biggest stage. To achieve
this much club usage was a victory onto itself given that
up-and-coming Nickent does not have a staff of PGA Tour
players and does not compensate players to use their clubs. |
In an event where almost half the field
will be playing on the PGA Tour next year, Nickent Golf’s
3DX Ironwood once again proved it was “king”
at this week’s Nationwide Tour Championship.
Fifteen players used 16 3DX’s in six different lofts
at the year-end event that features the Nationwide Tour’s
Top 60 players. In the Darrell Survey club count, Nickent
bested the #2 hybrid manufacturer by a 6-club margin.
One player who is carrying two 3DX Ironwoods at the event
explained why he thought Nickent had such a big advantage
over the competition.
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