CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubs and balls from Callaway
Golf (NYSE: ELY) were once again used in professional tour victories around
the world this past weekend. Staff Professional Jim Thorpe became the first
tour professional to win using the Company's new Hawk Eye(R) VFT(TM) Tungsten
Injected Titanium Irons and Staff Professional Dean Wilson became the latest
pro to win using the ERC(R) II Forged Titanium Driver. Both Thorpe and Wilson
used Callaway Golf's Rule 35(R) Firmfeel(TM) ball in their victories.
At the rain-shortened Kroger Senior Classic near Cincinnati, Thorpe used
his new Hawk Eye VFT Irons to post matching 65s and then won the tournament
with a birdie on the first playoff hole. He led the field by hitting
83.3 percent of greens in regulation at the Golf Center at Kings Island.
"This week was my week," said Thorpe, whose victory elevated him to sixth on
the Senior PGA Tour money list with $1,371,130. "I felt like I was going to
hit it tight every time I had an iron in my hand."
Wilson's victory in Japan was his second this year with the ERC II Forged
Titanium Driver, following his win at the Japan PGA Championship. In his
victory Sunday at the Japan PGA Match Play Championship, Wilson used
10 Callaway Golf(R) clubs, including a Steelhead Plus(TM) 4-wood,
Steelhead(TM) X-14(R) Pro Series Irons and an Odyssey(R) White Hot(R)
5 Putter, along with the Rule 35 Firmfeel ball. Wilson is enjoying an
outstanding season, leading the Japan Golf Tour 2001 Order of Merit.
Thorpe made spectacular use of three other pieces of Callaway Golf
equipment to force the playoff. Needing an eagle-3 on the final hole of
regulation, Thorpe found the middle of the fairway with a 301-yard drive using
his Big Bertha(R) Hawk Eye VFT Pro Series Titanium Driver and then hit a
monster approach shot with his Big Bertha Steelhead Plus 3-wood from 245 yards
that rolled to within two feet for a tap-in eagle.
Thorpe's victory was the third consecutive win on the Senior PGA Tour for
the Rule 35 ball, and the triumph also extends Callaway Golf's streak of five
consecutive weeks with at least one golf ball win. The Rule 35 ball has now
been used to win a total of 40 pro victories in 2001, with 31 of the wins
coming on the world's five major professional tours combined this year through
Sept. 2. Callaway Golf is No. 2 in golf ball wins and usage (15.2 percent)
across the PGA, Senior PGA, LPGA, Buy.com and PGA European tours combined this
year.
Odyssey Golf, a brand of Callaway Golf, also recorded a pair of putter
victories in North America this past week. The winner of the Air Canada
Championship earned the first victory of his PGA Tour career using an Odyssey
TriHot(TM) 3 Putter. Meanwhile, the winner of the LPGA State Farm Classic
shot a final-round 63 using her Odyssey Dual Force(R) Rossie(R) 2 Putter.
Callaway Golf Staff Professionals Annika Sorenstam, Emilee Klein and Jill
McGill all finished in the event's top 10 using Odyssey Putters and Rule 35
balls.
Callaway Golf Company makes and sells Big Bertha(R) Metal Woods and Irons,
including Big Bertha ERC(R) II Forged Titanium Drivers, Big Bertha Hawk Eye(R)
VFT(TM) and Big Bertha Hawk Eye VFT Pro Series Titanium Drivers and Fairway
Woods, Big Bertha Steelhead Plus(TM) Stainless Steel Drivers and Fairway
Woods, Hawk Eye VFT Tungsten Injected(TM) Titanium Irons, Steelhead(TM)
X-14(R) and Steelhead X-14 Pro Series Stainless Steel Irons. Callaway Golf
Company also makes and sells Odyssey(R) Putters, including White Hot(R),
TriHot(TM), and Dual Force(R) Putters. Callaway Golf Company makes and sells
the Callaway Golf(R) Rule 35(R) Firmfeel(TM) and Softfeel(TM) golf balls, and
the CB1(TM) Red and CB1 Blue golf balls. For more information about Callaway
Golf Company, please visit our Web sites at http://www.callawaygolf.com and
http://www.odysseygolf.com.
SOURCE Callaway Golf Company
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