Equipment

Fourteen Golf: Tour staffer Ted Oh won the PGA Tour’s First Qualifying Stage of Q-School, posting a 20-under 268 at the Dayton Valley Country Club in Dayton, NV. For the exception of his putter, Oh played a full complement of Fourteen Golf clubs.

Utopia Golf Products: Putter manufacturer initiates a corporate program in which putters can be milled with a company logo or name.

Titleist: Brand Ambassadors Rickie Fowler and Troy Matteson duel in Frys.com Open playoff, and secure 2010 PGA Tour cards.

Yes! Golf: Promotion kicks off the holiday season. Consumers who purchase a C-Groove putter receive a free Yes! Golf embroidered towel.

Honma Golf: Company releases the third generation Beres 6-Series, a new senior men’s iron model – the MG603. Each iron has a specific structure flow design, double-layer plating and a satin finish.

GolfBallSelector.com: Site to conduct new ball testing in December. Results of the testing is scheduled for a February release.

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Tiger Shark: New SuperStroke Lite Fatso grip helps Matt Bettencourt lead Frys.com field in Putts Per GIR. Also, Fatso grip was the most used oversized putter grip.

Quagmire: Record sales of its spring 2010 men’s and women’s collections during the last month are announced while the company celebrates its five-year anniversary at buying shows in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. “We created Quagmire for guys and girls like us,” said Geoff Tait, Quagmire co-founder. “The goal was to offer pieces that could be worn to either the bar on Friday night or the course on Saturday, and be appropriate in both settings. It’s about being relaxed wherever you are, and the response to the new Spring 2010 collections has been incredible.”

Feel Golf: Company will unveil a new line of wedges and irons at the 2010 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, FL. The lines will go by the names of Satin and Gun Metal.

Bridgestone: Tour staff member Matt Every won Nationwide Tour Championship with company’s B330-S and J36 Combo irons in his bag. The victory clinched Every’s PGA Tour card for 2010.

TaylorMade: Tour staffer Matt Every played the R9 driver, R9 3-wood, Burner 5-wood and Adidas Golf footwear en route to winning the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship. Every was one of 15 players affiliated with TaylorMade-Adidas Golf who earned their 2010 PGA Tour cards.

PrideSports: Company’s proprietary Performance Insert System will serve as original equipment for Adidas’ Tour360 4.0 shoe. The news comes on the heel of PrideSports announcing that its ThinTech cleat design will also be original equipment in the shoe line.

Aldila: Frys.com Open winner plays the NV shaft in his driver en route to also setting a 36-hole tour record score of 122 – a pair of 61s.

Fourteen: Masters GC Ladies champion played the company’s MT-28 V4 wedges (52, 56 and 60 degrees), along with three SF-206 woods (No. 3, No. 5 and No. 7).

TaylorMade: Staff professionals Michael Jonzon and Phil Blackmar win European Tour’s Castello Masters and Champions Tour’s AT&T Championship, respectively. For Jonzon, winless in 12 years, the victory secured his European Tour card for 2010.

Rife Putters: Abaco and Aussie mallet putters used by the respective winners of the Champions Tour’s AT&T Championship and Nationwide Tour Championship. At the AT&T Championship, Rife won the putter count with eight more putters in play than its nearest competitor.