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Callaway Golf Staff Professional Annika Sorenstam Makes Skins Game History Using the New ERC Fusion Driver and HX Tour Golf Ball.


Business & Sports Editors/Golf Writers & Columnists

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2003

Callaway Golf (NYSE NYSE

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: ELY) Staff Professional Annika Sorenstam has made history again, and as usual she used the Company's clubs and balls to do so. Sorenstam's latest entry in the record books came this past weekend at The Skins Game, where she became the first woman to tee it up in the annual TV match. Sorenstam's spectacular play with her new ERC (database) ERC - An extended entity-relationship model. (R) Fusion(R) Driver and HX(R) Tour Golf Ball helped her finish second at the event with $225,000 and five skins won. Sorenstam squared off against Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson and Mark O'Meara, and made a big impression on her fellow competitors.

"I think she played terrific golf," said Couples, who won the event for a record fourth time. "I certainly didn't play better than Annika. I just made a few more putts and a couple of lucky shots."

Sorenstam relied on the powerful combination of the ERC Fusion Driver and HX Tour Golf Ball at The Skins Game, as she did to win twice down the stretch of the LPGA LPGA
abbr.
Ladies Professional Golf Association
 Tour season. The innovative ERC Fusion Driver -- which combines a forged titanium cup-face area with a precision-weighted composite body to produce explosive performance -- will arrive at selected golf shops this month, while the new HX Tour Golf Ball is scheduled to ship to retail in January.

Sorenstam also relied on a deft short game to capture her five skins. She won four skins with the most spectacular shot of the event, holing a 40-yard bunker shot for eagle on the 9th hole using a new 54-degree Callaway Golf(R) prototype wedge. She followed that with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole using an Odyssey(R) White Hot(R) 2-Ball Blade Putter for another skin. In all, Sorenstam used 13 Callaway Golf clubs at The Skins Game and wore shoes from the Callaway Golf Footwear Collection. Sorenstam's amazing year included six LPGA Tour victories, an historic PGA Tour appearance at the Bank of America
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 Colonial, induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame and LPGA Hall of Fame and a sixth Rolex LPGA Tour Player of the Year Award Several sports leagues honor their best player with an award called Player of the Year. In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award. The awards with the "player of the year" phrasing include these. .

Like Sorenstam, the winner of the Casio World Open The Casio World Open is an annual event on the Japan Golf Tour. It is played in November (and in recent years in Kochi) and attracts some of the leading international golfers. It was founded in 1981.  also used an Odyssey Putter. In fact, seven of the top 11 finishers at the Japan Golf Tour The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular (that is not for seniors) men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour.  event yesterday used Odyssey putters. The victory is the 62nd of the season for Odyssey Putters across the world's six major professional golf tours Top level professional golf consists of a year round schedule of weekly tournaments played all around the world. Most of the tournaments are organised into series called tours. There are separate tours for men and women. , making Odyssey Golf the leader in wins and usage on the PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used.

(2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA.
, Champions, LPGA, Nationwide, PGA European and Japan Golf Tours combined.

Callaway Golf Staff Professional Mark McNulty also used Callaway Golf equipment to take medalist honors at the Champions Tour Qualifying Tournament, shooting 13-under-par 275 for a 3-shot victory that gave him playing privileges on the Champions Tour for the '04 season. He used 13 Callaway Golf clubs, including a Great Big Bertha(R) II Titanium Driver, Big Bertha(R) Steelhead(R) III Strong 3-wood and Strong 4-wood, a Big Bertha 2-iron, Steelhead X-16(R) Pro Series Irons and a pair of Callaway Golf Forged Wedges. McNulty also used an HX Tour Golf Ball.

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.  makes and sells Big Bertha(R) Metal Woods and Irons, including ERC(R) Fusion(R) Drivers, Great Big Bertha(R) II Titanium Drivers and Fairway Woods, Big Bertha Steelhead(R) III Stainless Steel Drivers and Fairway Woods, Hawk Eye(R) VFT(R) Tungsten Injected(TM) Titanium Irons, Big Bertha Stainless Steel Irons, Steelhead X-16(R) 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) Tour balls, HX 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. Callaway Golf also owns and operates The Top-Flite Golf Company, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 that includes the Top-Flite(R), Strata(R) and Ben Hogan(R) brands. For more information about Callaway Golf Company, please visit our websites at www.callawaygolf.com, www.topflite.com and www.odysseygolf.com.
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