Leads Premier Field In First 2008 World Golf Championship Event
(Vista, CA – February 25, 2008) Fujikura won the Driver and All Woods shaft brand count, which includes hybrids, at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, the first Word Golf Championship event of 2008.
“Considering this elite field of the world’s top 64 players, we are very proud of being the #1 Driver and Wood shaft brand at the Accenture Match Play,” says Peter R. Sanchez, President/COO of Fujikura. “After winning the first six full-field events this year and now this premier event, we continue to build on our leadership position running for seven years now on the PGA Tour.”
“Leading this count with the most talented and discriminating golfers in the world is a strong validation of Fujikura’s superior performance when fitted with our clubmaker partners’ respected products,” says John Hovis, Fujikura PGA Tour Representative.
“With my playing experience against and now working with these great players, I can uniquely appreciate that being the #1 shaft clearly demonstrates our innovative technology and material design,” says Mike Sposa, Fujikura PGA Tour Representative and former Tour professional.
The company has introduced a new series of shafts for 2008 inspired by its Tour performance leadership and partnership with the world’s leading clubmakers and its extensive global Charter Dealer network.
New shafts include the Rombax Z™ designed for top-level Tour and amateur players that desire a low, penetrating ball flight; and the E 200™Series designed to fit the broadest range of golfers, desiring mid-launch and mid-spin characteristics for control and maximum distance; creating a series exclusive to the Fujikura network of Charter Dealers.
Fujikura’s premier tour position was highlighted by being the #1 Driver Shaft Brand at all four men’s majors in 2007. On the LPGA and Champions Tours, Fujikura was the #1 Driver and Wood Shaft brand at their respective U.S. major championships.
The brand showed dramatic, consistent growth over the last three years across all handicaps and ages in shafts used in new drivers and fairway woods/hybrids, according to the most recent Darrell Survey National Consumer Report. The report shows that Fujikura grew 189% in New Driver Usages and 200% in New Fairway/Hybrids, exceeding leading competition from 2005 to 2007.
The company’s new shafts and Tour success are the results of Fujikura’s new Fit-On Academy, an innovative, proprietary research and development system designed to create and test new breakthrough shaft designs and materials. Based at the company’s Vista CA offices, the Fit-On Academy uses the most advanced analysis and simulation technology to track golfer’s real swings and range of swing speeds to produce exclusive insights used to test and design performance shafts customized for the Tour and all levels of players of ages, skills and handicaps.
Fujikura is the primary supplier to many national brand OEM’s offering both proprietary and brand product shaft designs. Fujikura products also can be custom fitted through its network of over 900 Charter Dealers. To learn more about Fujikura, visit www.fujikuragolf.com.
Contact:
John Castle
Fujikura
(760) 598-6060
jcastle@fujikuragolf.com
Kevin Donnellon
Macali Communications
(312) 560-8065
kevin@macalicomm.com
