Wins Moonah Classic in Australia Playing Shafts in Driver & Woods
(Vista, CA – February 29, 2008) Fujikura salutes the winner of the Nationwide Tour Moonah Classic in Australia who played Fujikura shafts in his driver and woods.
Battling high winds and tough competition, he cruised to victory with a final-round 66, winning by seven shots. He used the Fujikura VT 70 X, VT 70 X and E380 X shafts in his driver, three wood and five wood respectively.
“This is a great win, especially when Fujikura is the shafts in all his woods,” says John Hovis, Fujikura Tour Representative. “We are especially impressed with his outstanding final round 66 in windy conditions and against stellar competition.”
Fujikura has been the #1 Driver and Wood Shaft brand on the PGA Tour for the last seven years. The brand is off to a strong 2008 start, winning the Driver and All Wood Shafts including hybrids count at the Tour’s first seven full-field events.
The company’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.
Its Tour successes are the result of Fujikura’s new Fit-On Academy, an innovative, proprietary research and development system and laboratory 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
