No player survey of tee usage has ever taken place
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., May 31, 2012 … PrideSports, the world’s leading producer of wooden & alternative golf tees, responds to the ever increasing claims of tee usage on the PGA Tour. For decades, Darrell Survey has been the voice of brand usage on the PGA tour – and to date has never conducted an official survey on tee usage by PGA professionals.
“We view Darrell Survey as the official source of brand usage on the PGA Tour,” says John Hohman, VP of Marketing for PrideSports. “Darrell Survey has never conducted an official survey of golf tee usage by PGA professionals and any claims made on the number of players using a certain product are pure fabrication. We provide a wide range of golf tees to the PGA , Nationwide, LPGA and Symetra tour players on a weekly basis and until Darrell conducts a survey, we will not make any claims on player usage.
“Companies that make these claims have no idea what the player is putting into play once the tournament starts,” Hohman added. “Many of these claims are being made based on a player taking a sample of the product earlier in the week. This does not constitute usage by the player. If it did, between our PTS, Evolution and Custom printing program, we would command close to 90% of the field.”
Pride Golf Tee, a division of PrideSports, is the largest supplier of Golf Tees to Retail, Golf Specialty and Green Grass locations around the world. With manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Asia, Pride Golf Tee is the only company who can supply a full range of plain and printed wood, plastic and other specialty tee products.
About PrideSports
PrideSports was formed in January 2003 following Pride Manufacturing Company’s purchase of Softspikes, Inc., and its sister company Trisport, Ltd. of England. This acquisition essentially formed the world’s premier golf accessories company, as Pride and Softspikes are the world’s leading golf tee and golf cleat lines, respectively. Today, PrideSports is the world leader in the design and manufacturing of cleats, spikes, receptacles, tees and accessories for the golf industry.
Contact:
Lane Dycus
(ldycus@pridesports.com)
