Backed By Softspikes® Pulsar? & Black Widow? Cleat Victories, PrideSports Products Capture Weekend Wins & Leaderboards On All Professional Tours
Brentwood, Tennessee, October 20, 2008 … PrideSports, maker of Softspikes® cleats, the #1 cleat brand on TOUR, captured another weekend sweep in professional golf, as the Company’s products, including the Pulsar™ and Black Widow™ cleat models, won the PGA TOUR’s Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals For Children Open, the LPGA Tour’s Kapalua Classic and the Champions Tour’s Administaff Small Business Classic. PrideSports also captured the weekend leaderboards on all professional tours, including the Nationwide Tour’s Chattanooga Classic.
In capturing the weekend leaderboards, the winner, wearing Black Widow cleats, and 20 of the top 24 finishers at the PGA TOUR’s Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals For Children Open wore PrideSports products. Also, the winner, the top 6, and 29 of the top 33 finishers at the Champions Tour’s Administaff Small Business Classic wore PrideSports. Rounding out the weekend leaderboard domination, 33 of the top 27 finishers at the Nationwide Tour’s Chattanooga Classic also wore PrideSports products.
“It was another great weekend for PrideSports and the Softspikes brand on tour, as a majority of the top finishers wore our products,” said Joe Zeller, President, PrideSports. “Regardless of the event, the location or the weather conditions, PrideSports’ stable of products continues to be the choice among the game’s best players.”
Additionally, PrideSports’ patented Fast-Twist™ Insert System was featured in nearly 85% of the shoes worn by players during the PGA TOUR’s Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals For Children Open. The #1 insert system on the PGA TOUR, Fast-Twist is the overwhelming choice by golf footwear manufacturers, as 8 out of the top 10 leading companies utilize the revolutionary golf cleat insert system as original equipment, including market leader FootJoy, as well as adidas, Bite, Bridgestone, Callaway, Etonic and Oakley.
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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Glenn Mastro (gmastro@mastrocomm.com)
Mastro Communications, Inc. @ 732-469-5700
