PTS, The #1 Performance Wood Golf Tee Brand On Tour, Leads The Way As 90% Of PGA TOUR Players Utilize Pride Golf Tees
Brentwood, Tennessee, March 4, 2009 … PrideSports, maker of Softspikes® golf cleats – the #1 cleat on Tour – has reported that the Pride Golf Tees, led by the Professional Tee System™ (PTS), the #1 performance wood golf tee brand on Tour, dominated the fields at the PGA TOUR’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the Mayakoba Golf Classic, with more than 90% of the players utilizing the Company’s tees in competition.
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 work 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. Today, PrideSports golf tees are the most played product in the game of golf.
In January 2009, PrideSports complemented the PTS line with the debut of a new performance alternative golf tee innovation, PTS Offset™, the first plastic golf tee to feature a 30-degree offset angle, and “the most advanced tee allowed by the USGA.” The proprietary new offset design was developed to increase ball visibility, while creating contact with the club at its maximum speed and optimum trajectory, resulting in longer drives. With the combination of PTS Offset and the Professional Tee System wood tee models, PrideSports expects to further enhance its domination on the PGA TOUR and across all professional golf tours.
“While a simple product, and a staple of the game, professional players on all levels demand the quality and performance features of PrideSports PTS-brand tees,” said Joe Zeller, President, PrideSports. “We have maintained our leadership in the golf tee business for decades, because we place great emphasis on quality. That is why PrideSports products are used by more professional and amateur players the world over and more than any other piece of golf equipment in the game today.”
About PrideSports
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.
About the Professional Tee System™ (PTS)
Professional Tee System™ (PTS) is a color-coded tee system that allows golfers to easily identify golf tee lengths that work best for today’s diverse oversize and hybrid golf club models. The 2⅛” golf tee – the former 100-year standard – is now 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.
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