IRVINE, CA – August 2, 2010 – FOURTEEN GOLF, recognized as a worldwide leader in wedge design and a known favorite amongst top touring golf professionals, proudly announced that the company was credited with both a solid second and fifth place finish at the Ricoh Women’s British Open.
The Royal Birkdale with its coastal dunes and valleys demands precision shot making and twenty-nine of the world’s best golfers used a FOURTEEN GOLF wedge to do exactly that.
According to FOURTEEN GOLF COO Marcy Kamoda, “The MT-28 V5 Wedge continues to be a tour favorite. Its new head with the reverse taper design combined with the new trapezoidal grooves provides these professionals exceptional control, spin, and distance.”
This final major staged a real battle between two players – right up to the last hole. The Australian who posted scores of 68, 74, 66 and 70 missed taking home the title by one stroke. She played a MT-28 V5 Wedge in both a 52 and 56 degree loft. Her second place finish is her best of the 2010 season.
The fifth place finish at the Women’s British Open celebrated by FOURTEEN GOLF marks the company’s (56) Top-10 finish. It also is a personal best for this young LPGA Professional who also played a MT-28 V5 Wedge but in a 50, 54, and 58 degree lofts.
The classically designed MT-28 V5 Wedge features the signature FOURTEEN “reverse taper design” but has been improved by adding a groove strategically located in between the club sole and blade portion of the wedge. This structural change allowed the engineers to move the CG to a higher more stabilizing position for more precise shots.
The sole of the MT-28 V5 possesses a flatter shape with a trailing edge and heel relief. This new dynamic combination allows any player to fully utilize the club’s bounce and execute pure or solid shots out of any type of rough.
The MT-28 V5 boasts a rounded leading edge that promotes confidence at address and its clubface has been engineered so that the player can easily open or close the face. The head is manufactured with a Nickel chrome moliben alloy which conforms to the 2010 USGA club regulations. It is available in both a chrome and non-plated black finish.
In preparation for the new groove policy on the professional tours such as the PGA and LPGA, the company spent years engineering a new trapezoidal shaped groove for the MT-28 V5 Wedge. This distinctively sharp-edged trapezoidal groove also undergoes a mirror-face milling process which precisely and carefully mills each groove for optimal spin.
The professionally designed MT-28 V5 comes in a variety of lofts, a 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 (2), 58 (2) and a 60 degree. Two steel shafts, a Dynamic Golf and NS Pro 950GH are available. A proprietary rubber grips finishes these classic wedges.
FOURTEEN GOLF has cumulated eight 2010 professional tour victories:
LPGA / Cyber Agent Cup
LPGA / Evian Masters
Nationwide Tour / South Georgia Classic
European Tour / Maybank Malaysian
Duramed Futures Tour / Ladies Titan Tire Challenge
Duramed / Teva Championship
Hooters Tour / Bentonville Open at Lost Springs Golf
Hooters Tour / Carolina Series
This weekend’s success takes FOURTEEN GOLF and their Top-10 finishes to 56 in total:
(11) PGA TOUR:
Verizon Heritage, Shell Houston Open,
The PLAYERS Championship, HP Byron Nelson (2)
The Memorial Tournament, St. Jude Classic, U.S. Open, AT&T National
RBC Canadian Open (2)
(4) NATIONWIDE TOUR:
BMW Pro-Am
(2) Stadion Athens Classic at UGA
Fort Smith Classic
(41) LPGA TOUR:
HSBC Women’s Championship (4), Kraft Nabisco (2)
Honda PTT Thailand (2), Kia Classic Presented by J Golf (3)
Mojo Jamaican Invitational, Tres Maria Championship
Bell South Micro LPGA Classic (2), HSBC Brazil Cup (3)
Sybase Match Play Championship (6), LPGA State Farm Classic (3)
Shop Rite LPGA Classic (2), LPGA Championship (2)
Jamie Farr Corning Classic (4), U.S. Women’s Open (2)
Evian Masters (2), Women’s British Open (2)
For more information on FOURTEEN GOLF call 949-852-8811 or visit the company website at www.fourteengolf.com. For media information, please contact Vanessa Price at 714-544-6515 or at readthegreens@aol.com or Tracy Nackel at 760-420-1602 or at tnackel@cox.net.
Contact:
Vanessa Price, Read the Greens, 714-544-6515
Tracy Nackel, Read the Greens, 760-420-1602
