CARLSBAD, Calif., May 6, 2002 (BW SportsWire) -- For the second time in as many weeks, the winner on the world's most prestigious golf tour used a golf ball manufactured by Callaway Golf Company (NYSE:ELY). The winner of the Compaq Classic of New Orleans on the PGA Tour used Callaway Golf's CTU 30(TM) Red in his impressive four-stroke victory on the hard, fast greens of the English Turn Golf & Country Club on Sunday. Meanwhile, Malcolm Mackenzie used a HX(TM) Red ball from Callaway Golf to win the Novotel Perrier Open de France on the PGA European Tour by one stroke at the Golf National Course in Versailles.

Those two victories for Callaway Golf balls highlighted another impressive weekend on the world's tours for Callaway Golf(R) products. On the LPGA Tour, the winner used a Steelhead Plus(R) Driver, Steelhead Plus 4-wood and 5-wood, a Steelhead(TM) 7-wood and an Odyssey(R) White Hot(R) 2-Ball Putter in her two-stroke victory at the Eagle's Landing Country Club outside Atlanta. And the Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball Putter also was used by the sudden-death winner of the Bruno's Memorial Classic on the Senior PGA Tour.

The Senior PGA Tour champion made a pressure-packed 10-foot birdie putt with his Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball Putter on the second playoff hole, giving the 2-Ball Putter its first Senior PGA Tour win and its 7th of the year on the world's six major tours. In all, seven of the top 10 finishers at the Senior PGA Tour event used Odyssey putters, five of the top 10 finishers on the LPGA Tour used Odyssey putters, five of the top 10 finishers on the PGA European Tour used Odyssey putters, and five of the top 10 finishers on the Japan Golf Tour used Odyssey putters.

Callaway Golf now has 15 golf ball wins across the world's six major professional tours combined -- the second-highest total of any golf ball manufacturer this year. Callaway Golf balls are the No. 2 ball in play worldwide among professionals on the combined six major professional tours.

Callaway Golf Company makes and sells Big Bertha(R) Metal Woods and Irons, including Big Bertha C4(TM) Compression Cured Carbon Composite Drivers, Big Bertha ERC(R) II Forged Titanium Drivers, Big Bertha ERC Forged Titanium Fairway Woods, Big Bertha Hawk Eye(R) VFT(R) and Big Bertha Hawk Eye VFT Pro Series Titanium Drivers and Fairway Woods, Big Bertha Steelhead(TM) III Stainless Steel Drivers and Fairway Woods, Hawk Eye VFT Tungsten Injected(TM) Titanium Irons, Big Bertha Stainless Steel Irons, Steelhead X-14(R) and Steelhead X-14 Pro Series Stainless Steel Irons. Callaway Golf Company also makes and sells Odyssey(R) Putters, including White Hot(R), TriHot(TM), and Dual Force(R) Putters. Callaway Golf Company makes and sells the Callaway Golf(R) HX(TM) Blue and HX Red balls, Rule 35(R) Firmfeel(TM) and Softfeel(TM) balls, the CTU 30(TM) Blue and CTU 30 Red balls, the HX 2-Piece Blue and HX 2-Piece Red balls, and the CB1(TM) Blue and CB1 Red 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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