Sanford, FL – Rife Putters would like to congratulate the winner of the Nationwide Tour’s Athens Regional Foundation Classic held this past weekend at the Jennings Mill Country Club in Athens, GA. Using his Rife Barbados putter, the winner fired a 4 under par final round on Sunday and drained a 22 foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to capture victory and earn a paycheck for $99,000.
After telling his caddie he needed to birdie 2 of the last 3 holes to force a playoff, he did just that, making an unlikely 3 on the par-4 16th, the second-toughest hole on the course, where only seven other birdies were made all day. After a par on the 17th, he hit a perfect approach shot to 8 feet on the final hole of regulation and sank the putt to force a sudden death playoff.
For the first hole of the sudden death playoff, they returned to the par-5 18th hole, where his approach shot with a 9-iron drifted right and ended up just a few inches off the green. He then stepped up and coolly drained the 22-footer from the fringe for birdie and the victory.
This was his second career win as a professional and his first time competing in a playoff. He has played five full seasons on the PGA TOUR since 2003 with more than $3.8 million in earnings. He finished 128th on last year’s PGA TOUR money list and came to Athens after not getting into the field at the Verizon Heritage. This win guarantees fully-exempt status on the Nationwide Tour for the remainder of this year and all of 2010.
Week in and week out players on the PGA, Champions and Nationwide Tours rely on RIFE’s RollGrooveTM Technology to earn their paychecks. With over $40 Million in earnings and no endorsed players, its obvious that RIFE Putters has found that for the Tour Players, winning is everything.
About Rife Putters
All of Rife’s Putters are high-end CNC milled putters that offer the same patented RollGrooveTM Technology and patent pending Lie-Aline System.
Rife Putters, LLC is the true innovator behind horizontal grooved face putter technology with a patent on specifically sized grooves since 1997. These precisely spaced grooves allow the putter to gently press into the cover of the ball and grip and lift it into an instant forward roll. Guerin Rife states, “just as grooves in irons help control spin so do grooves in a putter face.” Other companies are now trying to imitate this patented technology but the spacing of the grooves is the true key to the gripping and lifting effect of grooved face putter technology. Horizontal RollGrooveTM faced putters create the truest “no skid” roll in golf no matter where you hit the ball on the putter face.
For more information on RIFE Putters or their product lineup for 2009 visit their website at www.rifeputters.com.
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