PEORIA, ARIZ. – The Antigua Group, Inc.-celebrating its 30th year in business in 2009 as one of the nation’s leading designers and marketers of genuine golf and sports apparel under its Antigua brand-is proud to announce its 2010 Tour staff.
The twelve-player staff includes five PGA TOUR and five LPGA TOUR standouts and two Nationwide Tour players. Representing the PGA TOUR are Notah Begay III, Craig Bowden, Billy Mayfair, Kevin Streelman and Jerod Turner. LPGA TOUR representatives on the 2010 Antigua tour staff are Brittany Lang, Dorothy Delasin, Stacy Prammanasudh, Alison Walshe and Wendy Ward. Representing the Nationwide Tour are Scott Sterling and DJ Brigman.
“We’re very proud of these outstanding golfers, all of whom represent everything Antigua stands for,” says Ron McPherson, President and CEO of Antigua. “Golf fans look up to every one of these players. Having them wear our exciting 2010 apparel on their respective tours is a great honor, as well as showcase, for us.”
Begay III owns four PGA TOUR victories. Bowden has three career Nationwide Tour victories and qualified for the 2010 PGA TOUR thanks to this season’s 22nd-place Nationwide Tour finish. Mayfair has five PGA TOUR wins and is 34th in career PGA TOUR earnings, and Streelman won $1,007,444 with two top-10 finishes in 2009.
Meanwhile, Lang earned $675,065 with seven top-10 finishes on the 2009 LPGA Tour while Delasin owns four career LPGA victories. Prammanasudh has two career LPGA wins and earned $217,971 with one top-10 finish in 2009. Walshe graduated to the 2010 LPGA TOUR after a ninth-place finish on this year’s Duramed Futures Tour while Ward, who has four career triumphs, finished 2009 with $326,395 in earnings and two top-10s.
The entire Antigua TOUR staff will wear the company’s Spring and Fall 2010 lines throughout the season. The Spring 2010 line features sophisticated color palettes and comfortable, technologically advanced fabrications. The centerpiece of Spring 2010’s line is the new lightweight DESERT DRY™ XTRA-LITE (D2XL) moisture-management styles. It combines Antigua’s exclusive DESERT DRY™ moisture-wicking feature with specially constructed ultra-light fabrics for maximum wicking performance and optimum comfort. Additional benefits of DESERT DRY™ XTRA-LITE include wicking moisture more rapidly, lighter weight on the body, less heat trapped on the body and less restrictive movement. More product information can be found at www.antigua.com and http://shop.antigua.com.
“Not only will our entire tour staff look great on the course in 2010, they also will be wearing golf’s most technologically advanced apparel,” McPherson says. “We’re proud of our tour staff members not only as Antigua ambassadors, but, most importantly, as people with character.”
Headquartered in Peoria, Ariz., The Antigua Group, www.antigua.com and http://shop.antigua.com, through its license sports division, holds license agreements with Major and Minor League Baseball (MLB), the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), along with numerous American universities and colleges for men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, headwear and outerwear. Antigua additionally designs, produces and supplies product for corporate America and specialty retail managed under its corporate division. Its golf division also holds license agreements with the PGA TOUR, LPGA and the PGA of America.
Contact:
Mary Beth Lacy at mb@mblacy.com or call (760) 346-6942.
