Brand?s LPGA Count Beats Next Two Competitors Combined
(Vista, CA – March 18, 2008) Fujikura was the #1 Driver and All Woods Shaft Brand at the LPGA MasterCard Classic and the AT&T Champions Classic, completing a triple play of wins this week that also included the PGA Tour Arnold Palmer Invitational as announced earlier.
At the LPGA event, Fujikura beat its next two competitors combined, extending its winning streak to that Tour’s first four 2008 events. The LPGA event winner used the Fujikura Speeder 652 shaft. The brand also extended its streak to six and ten tournaments respectively on the 2008 Champions Tour and PGA Tour.
“These impressive wins for Fujikura this weekend continue to demonstrate that our shafts can improve the performance of players of all skill levels,” says Peter R. Sanchez, President/COO of Fujikura. “As the season gains momentum across all Tours, Fujikura is clearly the leading choice of these premier Tour professionals.”
“We are especially excited about these accomplishments because these talented and discriminating players respect the innovative material design and technology, and superior performance of Fujikura shafts in tandem with our OEM clubmakers,” 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.
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
