5 of the Top 10 Finishers Utilized the World’s #1 Selling Golf Tee Brand
Brentwood, Tennessee, July 8, 2008 … PrideSports, maker of Softspikes® golf cleats – the world’s best selling cleat brand, and Fast-Twist™ – the #1 insert system on the PGA TOUR, has reported that the Professional Tee System™ (PTS), the world’s #1 selling golf tee brand, was utilized by 5 of the Top 10 finishers at the AT&T National.
PrideSports, the country’s only wooden golf tee manufacturer and the world’s leading producer of golf tees, created the Professional Tee System™ (PTS) based on golfer demand, at both the professional and amateur levels, for a system to identify the golf tee lengths that worked best for today’s diverse oversize and hybrid golf club models. As a result, PrideSports abandoned the decades-old style of identifying golf tee lengths by inches and created PTS, a proprietary system of color-coded tees that allows for easy identification of length, and which matches the tee to a clubhead size.
Now, the 2⅛” golf tee – the former 100-year standard – is called Shortee™. It is offered in a red color code and is perfect for irons and low profile hybrids, or fairway woods. The 2¾” tee, now called ProLength™, features a yellow color code and is ideal for most 3 and 5 woods, and drivers up to 360cc. ProLength Plus™, a 3¼” tee, is best for today’s super oversize drivers and comes in a blue color code. In addition, ProLength MAX™, PrideSports’ largest tee offering, is a 4″ tee that features a green color code and is the longest tee allowed by the USGA.
“From today’s oversize drivers to the latest hybrid golf club offerings, many of the game’s leading instructors have become strong proponents of teeing the ball up higher,” said John Hohman, Director of Marketing, PrideSports. “While we do not lay any claims to improving distance for golfers, simple physics dictate that the proper launch angle will positively impact distance. For this reason, the Professional Tee System provides golfers with a variety of tee lengths, while educating them on which tees work best for their particular clubhead size.”
PrideSports was formed in January 2003 following Pride Manufacturing Company’s purchase of Softspikes, Inc., and its sister company Trisport, Ltd. of England. This acquisition essentially formed the world’s premier golf accessories company, as Pride and Softspikes are the world’s leading golf tee and golf cleat lines, respectively. Today, PrideSports is the world leader in the design and manufacture of cleats, spikes and receptacles for the entire golf footwear industry.
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