October 25, 2004

With more than 80 golf courses around the world, the United States Air Force launches as many golf balls each day as it does airplanes. Now SST PURE ® Shaft Alignment is helping make sure the golf balls fly as far and straight as possible.

Strategic Shaft Technologies has licensed its industry-leading SST PURE shaft alignment process to the Air Force. The SST PURE equipment has been installed at the Air Force course at Hurlburt Field in Pensacola, Fla., but will be available to service personnel at all Air Force courses.

"Obviously the Air Force is on the cutting edge of technology in the aerospace field, so it makes sense for us to offer SST PURE, the best technology in golf clubmaking, to our personnel," said Eric Sudy, the Air Force Golf Program Director. "The Air Force won the Armed Forces Golf Championship again this year, and we know SST PURE will help us keep that tradition."

Using proprietary computer software and sensitive data-acquisition sensors, the SST PURE shaft alignment process analyzes the structural irregularities that exist to some degree in every golf shaft and locates the shaft's most stable orientation. By assembling the club with the shaft in its PURE orientation, off-line bending and twisting of the shaft are minimized and impact repeatability on the center of the clubface by the golfer improves up to 51 percent. The process can be performed on existing clubs, new clubs or new shafts - steel or graphite - from most major manufacturers.

"I'm not aware that this agreement has any precedent in the golf industry," SST founder Dick Weiss said. "We are very proud of the fact that the U.S. military recognizes the value of our technology and has chosen to offer it to their personnel."

Headquartered in Miami, Strategic Shaft Technologies, LC, was founded by clubmaker Dick Weiss, who was the creator of the SST PURE® process. The patented SST PURE process of club assembly - deemed in compliance with USGA standards - locates each shaft's irregularities and aligns the shaft to neutralize them, so that each club bends in the direction it should - straight down the target line. Upon having his shafts SST PURE aligned, a player receives a personalized computer printout confirming the process and an SST PURE shaft label for every shaft that has been PUREd. The SST PURE process of golf shaft alignment is available at SST PURE licensees around the United States and internationally.

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SSTraight, DiSSTance, ConSSTant, HoneSSTy in clubmaking. You cannot be sure unless all of your shafts are SST PURE aligned and assembled.

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