Callaway Golf's Great Big Bertha II Titanium Driver is a Winner At Season-Opening Champions Tour Event.Business & Sports Editors/Golf Writers & Columnists CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2003 Callaway Golf Company Callaway Golf Company is an American golf company based in Carlsbad, California. They manufacture woods, irons, wedges, putters and golf balls and license its name for apparel, footwear, timepieces and accessories. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ELY) started the 2003 Champions Tour season on a victorious note yesterday, as the winner of the MasterCard Championship used 14 of the Company's golf clubs. The eight-time senior champion used Callaway Golf's new Great Big Bertha Big Bertha Either of two different sets of long-range artillery produced by the Krupp works (see Thyssen Krupp Stahl) in Germany during World War I. The first were 420-mm (16.5-in.) howitzers used by German forces advancing through Belgium in 1914. (R) II Titanium Driver, along with a Big Bertha(R) Steelhead(TM) III 7-wood, Steelhead X-14(TM) Irons, a pair of Callaway Golf(R) Forged Wedges and an Odyssey(R) Putter. The 55-year-old winner shot three rounds in the 60s to post a 18-under-par score of 198 and earn a two-stroke margin of victory at Hualalai Resort Golf Club in Hawaii. "Every part of my game is clicking," said the tournament winner, who earned a career-best $250,000 first-place check. "I'm putting better than ever. I'm dedicating myself this season to becoming one of the best putters out here. I felt when I came out here I'd be ready to play, and I was." Three of the top-10 finishers at the MasterCard Championship used Great Big Bertha II Titanium Drivers. That includes Callaway Golf Staff Professional Bruce Fleisher Bruce Lee Fleisher (born October 16 1948) is an American golfer. Fleisher was born in Union City, Tennessee. He attended Miami-Dade Junior College and Furman University. He won the U.S. Amateur in 1968 and turned professional in 1969. , who used a Great Big Bertha II Pro Series Titanium Driver to finish tied for seventh. Fleisher used a total of 14 Callaway Golf clubs, including Hawk Eye(R) VFT VFT Venus Fly Trap (dionaea muscipula) VFT Vogel-Fulcher-Tamman (polymer science equation) VFT Variable Frequency Transformer VFT Virtual Flight Test VFT Visual Function Test (R) Tungsten Injected(TM) Titanium Irons, two Callaway Golf Forged Wedges and a new Odyssey DFX DFX Design for Excellence (X = Manufacturability, Testability, Cost-Effectiveness) DFX Desferrioxamine-b DFX Dimensional Fx DFX Dao Record Field Exchange DFX Digital Flat DFX Digital Effects (TM) 6600 Putter, along with a CTU CTU Colorado Technical University CTU Czech Technical University in Prague CTU Counter Terrorist Unit CTU Clinical Trials Unit CTU Catholic Theological Union CTU Chicago Teachers Union CTU Computer Training Unit CTU Control Unit 30(R) Red golf ball. Callaway Golf also won every category of the club usage count at the MasterCard Championship. The Company's products led the way in drivers (10), fairway woods (28), irons (9), wedges (29) and putters (17) at the 36-player event. Callaway Golf was second in golf ball usage. Callaway Golf Company makes and sells Big Bertha(R) Metal Woods and Irons, including Great Big Bertha(R) II Titanium Drivers and Fairway Woods, Big Bertha Steelhead(TM) III Stainless Steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. Drivers and Fairway Woods, Hawk Eye(R) VFT(R) Tungsten Injected(TM) Titanium Irons, Big Bertha Stainless Steel Irons, Steelhead X-16(TM) and Steelhead X-16 Pro Series Stainless Steel Irons, and Callaway Golf Forged Wedges. Callaway Golf Company also makes and sells Odyssey(R) Putters, including White Hot(R), TriHot(R), DFX(TM) and Dual Force(R) Putters. Callaway Golf Company makes and sells the Callaway Golf(R) HX(R) Blue and HX Red balls, the CTU 30(R) Blue and CTU 30 Red balls, the HX 2-Piece Blue and HX 2-Piece Red balls, the CB1(R) Blue and CB1 Red balls, and the Warbird(TM) golf balls. For more information about Callaway Golf Company, please visit our Web sites at www.callawaygolf.com and www.odysseygolf.com. |
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