#1 Brand on Tour Takes Top Honors on PGA, LPGA, and EPGA
Marlborough, MA-June 2nd,, 2008. CHAMP Spikes dominated this weekend’s golf events as the winners of The Memorial on the PGA Tour, The LPGA’s Ginn Tribute, The Wales Open on the European Tour and the Aurora Health Care Championship on the Duramed Futures Tour all chose CHAMP spikes for their traction needs.
On the PGA Tour the story was one that has been heard before, CHAMP Stinger™ on the shoes of the winner, who opted to remove the spikes that came in his shoes as original equipment in favor of the new and improved CHAMP Stinger. The CHAMP Stinger was improved this year to provide more traction and stability to golfers looking for superior all around performance from their spikes. An astounding 72% of the players who chose CHAMP switched from the original spikes that came in their shoes.
It was another tournament victory for CHAMP Stinger at The Ginn Tribute hosted by Annika. While it took one extra hole to decide the winner, it didn’t take any extra time for 75% of the players to choose CHAMP Stinger over the spikes that originally came in their shoes. A staggering 56% of the entire field decided to go with CHAMP for their traction needs.
It was all about CHAMP at the Wales Open this weekend as CHAMP’S traditional metal Cermec® spike provided the winning traction for the champion. The numbers continue to be impressive as CHAMP’s Stinger led the field with 64 players. Of the 101 players, including the top seven finishers, an overwhelming 65% chose CHAMP.
On the Duramed Futures Tour, Mindy Kim won her second consecutive tournament, firing a final round of 1-over-par 73 on Sunday. She posted a three-day total of 3-under-par 213. All of the top 10 finishers sported CHAMP spikes.
“Each week the greatest golfers in the world trust CHAMP Spikes, as they are proven to provide the best traction available on the market,” said Harris MacNeill, President of CHAMP. “To be there at the end of a tournament, on Sunday, when it really counts, when one shot can mean so much, CHAMP spikes have been the overwhelming choice. All you have to do is look at the winners each week and they have one thing in common, CHAMP.”
CHAMP spikes have been worn by the winners on the PGA or LPGA Tour for the last 12 weeks. CHAMP spikes have been worn by the winners of 15 of 23 PGA events, nine of 15 events on the LPGA Tour and all the events on The Duramed Futures Tour.
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About MacNeill Engineering and CHAMP Spikes
CHAMP is a division of MacNeill Engineering Worldwide, which has been designing and manufacturing athletic footwear components since 1931. The company has been a pioneer in cleat technology since it introduced the world’s first locking spike: SURE-LOK. Since then, MacNeill Engineering has grown to be the world leader in the sport cleat industry with revolutionary offerings which include the CHAMP Q-LOK System®, used in all Nike®, Hi-Tec®, Ecco®, Puma® and Bite® golf shoes; the CHAMP TRI-LOK® system, which fits shoes by Foot Joy® and Adidas®; as well as the most complete line of innovative spikes in the world, including the new CHAMP Scorpion STINGER™ spikes, CHAMP Lady STINGER™ spikes, CHAMP ScorpionSpike®; and CHAMP TRAC™ spikes.
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