DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., February 16, 2009 – The Duramed FUTURES Tour today announces Aruba Sport as the Tour’s official sunglass provider. As an official sponsor, Aruba Sport will be the exclusive brand of sunglasses promoted to Duramed FUTURES Tour tournament organizers.
Additionally, the company will provide select Duramed FUTURES Tour players with sunglasses complete with microfiber carry bags bearing the Tour’s logo.
“We are excited to enter into the professional golf arena and look forward to a long relationship with the Tour and its players,” said Marc McKinney, Aruba Sport CEO. “The Tour is a great venue for us to not only showcase our performance sunwear product line for golf, but to also utilize the Tour and its players for their valuable input on new technologies and products we are working on.”
Aruba Sport, based in Dallas, Texas, manufactures more than 10 styles of performance sunglasses, including prescription lenses. The company specializes in sunglasses designed to enhance comfort and visibility for competitive athletes in eight sports, including tennis and golf.
“We are proud to have Aruba Sport as the official sunglass provider of the Duramed FUTURES Tour,” said Nancy Henderson, COO of the Duramed FUTURES Tour. “We appreciate their commitment to women’s professional golf and look forward to helping them build the Aruba Sports brand among golfers. Their sunglasses combine sport and fashion and will pair beautifully with our talented professionals from around the world.”
About Aruba Sport
Based in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, Texas, Aruba Sport has built support for its sport and fashion sun-protective eyewear over the last six years. The company specializes in performance sunwear in polarized and non-polarized styles for runners, cyclists, golfers and tennis players. All styles are made from high-impact Arubaflex nylon frames and shatterproof polycarbonate lenses. “No distortion” lenses with special coatings to reduce glare and repel water are a special design feature of Aruba Sport eyewear. The company stands behind its product with an unconditional lifetime warranty. Duramed FUTURES Tour alumnae Kellee Booth and Christine Boucher are sponsored by Aruba Sport. Visit: www.ArubaSportOnline.com.
About the Duramed FUTURES Tour
The Duramed FUTURES Tour, the LPGA’s developmental tour, is in its 29th competitive season. The Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour. The top 10 money winners each season earn automatic memberships on the LPGA Tour for the following season. With more than 300 alumnae as current members of the LPGA through 2008, former Duramed FUTURES Tour players have won a total of 345 LPGA titles, including 37 major championships. Duramed FUTURES Tour events have contributed more than $4.5 million to charitable organizations throughout the nation since 1989. For more information, visit www.duramedfuturestour.com.
Contact:
Lisa D. Mickey, Duramed FUTURES Tour Communications, 386-274-6216, lisa@duramedfuturestour.com; Sheryl Fish, Duramed FUTURES Tour Marketing, 386-274-6294, sheryl@duramedfuturestour.com.
