News

Abacus: Has been selected to outfit the 2011 European Solheim Cup team.

Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp.: Will present its Player’s Shoe, complete with personalized cedar shoe trees, as a gift to all competitors in the 92nd PGA Championship. The new style will debut at the year’s final major.

Heritage Cross Apparel: Staff player David Frost won the Champions Tour’s 3M Championship on Sunday. The win was Frost’s first on the senior tour.

Sundog Eyewear: Tour staff player Hunter Mahan won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday and qualified for the U.S. Ryder Cup team.

Heritage Cross Apparel: Staff player David Frost won the Champions Tour’s 3M Championship on Sunday. The win was Frost’s first on the senior tour.

Buffalo Communications: Hires Tammy Portnoy as a public relations specialist whose focus will be on apparel, footwear, accessories and related markets.

GustBuster: To provide umbrellas for the United States team that will compete in the 16th World Golfers Championship, scheduled Oct. 30-Nov. 6 in Thailand.

FootJoy: Announces a new line of tour-proven performance apparel developed specifically for golf and all playing conditions. The 2010-11 outerwear line features new materials, patterns and silhouettes engineered around a new FJ Layering System.

TaylorMade-adidas Golf: Announces that Camilo Villegas, ranked No. 25 in the world, will join the company’s tour staff in 2011. As part of the agreement, Villegas, 28, will play various TaylorMade equipment and wear Adidas Golf footwear.

Pilla High Performance Eyewear: Reports that Christina Kim used the company’s Two Frame golf system en route to a ninth-place finish at the Ricoh Women’s British Open.

Ecco: Staff player Stuart Appleby wore its World Class GTX golf shoes en route to winning the Greenbrier Classic, while Fred Couples chose the company’s New Classic Premier model during his runner-up finish at the U.S. Senior Open.

Pilla High Performance Eyewear: Reports that Christina Kim used the company’s Two Frame golf system en route to a ninth-place finish at the Ricoh Women’s British Open.

Pima Direct: Receives $1 million revolving line of credit from First Capital, a commercial finance company.

Fila Golf: Announces that its apparel lines are now available on Amazon.com.

Divots Sportswear: Reports on its new moisture-wicking apparel lines, Aero Cool and Div-Dry.

Fenix Golf: Named the official apparel provider to Golf in a Kindgom: The Thai Golf Experience, a consortium of leading courses and five-star hotel partners. … HMX Group: Promotes Jared Henzlik as national sales and operations manager of Bobby Jones. … Town Talk Headwear: Hires Jim Hook as sales rep covering the states of Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Washington.

Golf Grappler: Endorser Mike O’Barsky wins the Re/Max World Long Driver Championship’s local senior qualifier at Deer Run Golf Club in Berlin, Md.

Imperial Headwear: 2011 catalog is now available. The catalog is the largest in the company’s 95-year history, featuring more than 200 styles and encompassing 60 pages.

Tehama, Izod G: Hires Peter McNamara as its East Coast regional manager.

Etonic: Hires Ken Maly as the company’s New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, sales representative.