Brand?s Dominates LPGA Count; More Than Doubles Leading Competitors Combined
(Vista, CA – February 26, 2008) Fujikura won the Driver and All Woods shaft brand count, which includes hybrids, at both the LPGA Tour Fields Open in Hawaii and PGA Tour Mayakoba Classic in Mexico.
Fujikura more than doubled its next two competitors combined in the LPGA count that featured an exceptionally large number of 549 woods played in this full-field event.
Meanwhile at the Mayakoba Classic, the company extended its 2008 winning streak to the first seven consecutive full-field PGA Tour events, building on Fujikura’s seven-year leadership as the #1 Driver and Wood Shaft brand on the PGA Tour.
“We are impressed by winning these counts this weekend, and especially by our dominance at the LPGA Fields Open with a very accomplished field,” says Peter R. Sanchez, President/COO of Fujikura. “As the season unfolds on all Tours, Fujikura is clearly the leading choice of Tour professionals.”
“These weekend wins continue to represent the respect these players have for the superior performance of our innovative technology and design when fitted with our clubmaker partners’ advanced products,” says John Hovis, Fujikura PGA Tour representative.
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; the new Sakura Sport designed specifically for the female golfer with a faster, stronger swing tempo for drivers, fairway woods and irons 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
