MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada – Sligo Wear, one of the fastest growing apparel companies in the golf industry, has signed Nationwide Tour player Justin Hicks to its staff lineup. Hicks joins an impressive Sligo Wear staff that includes PGA Tour players Brian Gay and Ben Crane, and fellow Nationwide Tour players Steve LeBrun and Bubba Dickerson. Well-known PGA teaching professional Jeff Ritter, Director of Instruction at the ASU Karsten Golf Academy in Tempe, Ariz., also sports Sligo Wear’s fashion forward designs.
Hicks, who made headlines last year when he was the first round co-leader at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, is off to a strong start in 2009 with a T13 at the Panama Digicel Championship this past January. A native of Wyandotte, Mich. and a graduate of the University ofMichigan, Hicks finished 33rd on the Nationwide Tour money list ($184,861) in 2008. He won the 2008 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic Presented by Samsung in a playoff against Casey Wittenberg.
“Justin is a solid player with a tremendous future,” said Sligo Wear Director of Sales Shawn Aucoin. “He’s another example of a player who knows what he likes in apparel and knows what looks good and feels good for him. That’s a tremendous compliment to Sligo Wear considering that we don’t pay any of our staff players to wear our product.”
Sligo Wear was founded by a group of friends and active golfers each of who were frustrated by a lack of fashionable and proper fitting affordable golf apparel in the market place. At Pro Am to the Azores in early 2004, they noticed a different fashion for golf apparel and upon their started Sligo Wear Inc.
Sligo Wear was an immediate success in the Canadian market and in 2007, the company signed a deal with Fairway Styles Inc. ofRichmond, Va., to bring fashion change to the U.S. market.
The 2009 Sligo Collection is available to view at www.sligowear.com.
For more information on Sligo Wear Inc., contact Shawn Aucoin at shawn@sligowear.com or call 519-21-SLIGO.
About PAR
Bradley Paskievitch of Paskievitch Athlete Representation (PAR) represents Hicks. PAR is a full-service agency focusing exclusively on the management and marketing of professional golfers. Bradley Paskievitch founded PAR with one mission: to maximize his clients’ opportunities by serving them with honesty, integrity and perseverance. Paskievitch is an experienced attorney and marketing professional, a competitive amateur golfer, and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Paskievitch can be contacted at bradley@paskievitch.com
Contact:
Shawn Aucoin at shawn@sligowear.com or call 519-21-SLIGO
