Nickent Golf
Has Top Finishes at Masters!
Hybrid Category Taking Over
Long Irons on PGA Tour
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.
One of the players using a Nickent 3DX hybrid told Bloomberg.com
that the best way to handle a hole like this was to hit the
ball high into the air to limit roll once it lands. The only
answer was to replace longer-hitting clubs like 3- and 4-irons
with a hybrid, a mix between an iron and a fairway wood.
“You can take it high in the air and have it land really
soft,'' said the Nickent 3DX user to Bloomberg. ``The ball
will stop easier on the green, instead of having it hit and
roll off the back of the green, which is what happens with
long irons.''
It’s not just the course changes that are getting hybrids
into play. Even players who consider themselves top be “iron
players” are seeing that a hybrid goes straighter, lands
softer and goes farther than their long irons.
One hundred sixty eight PGA Tour players used a hybrid through
the first 10 events the 2006 season, 35 more than in 2005
and 72 more than in 2004, according to Darrel Survey.
The use of hybrids at the Masters is likely to increase sales
of the clubs, said Nickent Golf Equipment Chief Executive
Michael Lee, whose City of Industry, California-based company's
hybrids are among the most-used on the PGA Tour.
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