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WILSON RE-UPS AS OFFICIAL BALL, BAG AND
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Myrtle Beach, SC…The National Golf Association’s Hooters
Professional Golf Tour, presented by Hooters Restaurants and Naturally Fresh
Dressings, Sauces and Dips announces a multi year agreement with Wilson Golf to
be the official provider of golf balls, carry bags and golf gloves for the NGA/Hooters
Pro Golf Tour.
Wilson Golf is a division
of Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods, one of the world’s leading
manufacturers of sports equipment. The company focuses on developing
technologically advanced products, which help average players improve their
performance.
PGA Tour veterans Jesper Parnevik, Padraig Harrington, Grant Waite,
Michael Clark II and Ben Crenshaw are just a few of the players using Wilson
equipment.
"We are very excited about partnering with
Wilson Golf again. We feel their recent PGA player commitments and expansion
deeper into the competitive golf market will only lead to a win-win situation
for all," said NGA/Hooters Tour President Robin L. Waters. "This
partnership will enable our players to have even more accessibility to some of
the markets newest products."
The NGA/Hooters Tour is the 3rd
largest men’s 72-hole professional golf tour in the country behind the PGA and
Nationwide (Formerly Buy.com) Tours, and boasts alumni like 2003 Tour
Championship Winner Chad Campbell, 2003 PGA Champion Shaun Micheel, 2003 British
Open winner Ben Curtis, two time U.S. Open winner Lee Janzen, British Open and
PGA Champion John Daly, as well as British Open winner Tom Lehman, 2003 US Open
winner Jim Furyk, PGA Champion David Toms and TPC winner Craig Perks to name
just a few. All told, the NGA/Hooters Tour’s alumni have an incredible 9
“Majors” to their credit. The NGA/Hooters
Tour has helped more than 100 professionals acquire their PGA, Champions
Tour, and Nationwide Tour cards. In fact, 38% of the players that earned their
2004 PGA Tour card, and 33% of the players that earned full exempt status on the
Nationwide Tour started their careers on the NGA/Hooters Tour.
The
NGA/Hooters Professional Golf Tour also owns and operates a Central
Florida Winter Series, a Senior Series, as well as a West Coast Summer Series in
the Southern California desert.
