CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Odyssey Golf, a brand of Callaway
Golf Company (NYSE: ELY), posted a pair of tour victories yesterday --
including a record-tying performance on the Senior PGA Tour. The winner of
the Senior Tour's Gold Rush Classic credited his sizzling 22-under-par total
to the Odyssey(R) White Hot(R) 2 Putter he put in play just prior to the
tournament.
"I have been hitting the ball as well or better than anyone on this tour,
but I have been just worthless on the greens," said the Gold Rush Classic
winner, who earned his first senior victory in 15 months. "I putted a lot
better this week. This is how I have hit the ball all year. Look at the
stats: I'm in the top 10 in about everything, but about 70th in putting."
His new Odyssey White Hot 2 Putter significantly improved his putting.
The champion averaged just 28 putts per round in his victory, compared with
his average of 30.4 for the entire 2001 Senior PGA Tour season. During his
second-round 62, he took just 24 putts. Four of the top-10 finishers at the
event used Odyssey Putters, and Odyssey Golf was the No. 1 brand in putter
usage with 34.6 percent of the putters in play at the event.
Odyssey Golf also scored a victory on the Buy.com Tour, where the winner
of the Inland Empire Open used an Odyssey Dual Force(R) Rossie(R) 2 Putter to
win a playoff. One of the event's second-place finishers used an Odyssey
TriHot(TM) 3 Putter, giving Odyssey Golf two of the top three places on the
leaderboard. Odyssey Golf now has 50 wins on the world's five major
professional tours combined through Sept. 30. Odyssey Putters are No. 1 in
usage on the five major professional tours combined with 31.7 percent of all
putters in play this year, compared with 26.5 percent for the nearest
competitor.
Meanwhile, Callaway Golf's newest ball product made a strong opening
statement in just its first week on the professional tours. A total of
31 golfers used the aerodynamically advanced HX(TM) ball across the PGA,
Senior PGA, LPGA and Buy.com tours. Jim Colbert, Bruce Fleisher and Walter
Hall all scored top-10 finishes using the HX Red model at the Gold Rush
Classic. A total of 18 seniors used the HX ball, making it the No. 2 ball in
play on the Senior PGA Tour the first week it was available to tour
professionals. Colbert used the HX Red to win the Georgia-Pacific Super
Seniors title on Saturday, and he added more than 20 yards to his driving
average using the HX -- jumping from his previous average of 268.5 yards to
288.8 yards in driving distance this past week. The HX also made an impact on
the Japan Golf Tour, where Tohru Taniguchi finished tied for second at the
ACOM International using the HX Red model.
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(R) 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 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) HX(TM) Red and HX Blue balls, Rule 35(R) Firmfeel(TM) and Softfeel(TM)
balls, the CTU 30(TM) Red and CTU 30 Blue balls, and the CB1(TM) Red and CB1
Blue 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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