News

AHEAD: Reports on the positive response from the American Junior Golf Association to the company’s sponsorship support.

Kentwool: Reports a nearly 600 percent year-over-year increase in sales of its premium performance socks. The growth has been spurred by a tripling in the number of on-course shops carrying the brand of socks.

Tifosi Optics: Introduces Slope, a new sport fashion eyewear model for 2011.

Sunice: Announces a new fabric for the Typhoon category, Zephal. The fabric is lightweight and quieter, and lends itself well to the pops of color and stylish plaids of the Typhoon collection.

Performance Sports Brands: Announces Energy Athletic Golf, golf apparel that features exclusive and patented IonX ionized energy fabric and has a negatively charged, electromagnetic field embedded into its structure.

True Linkswear: Opens online sales of its second edition shoe, the Stealth, which was unveiled at the PGA Merchandise Show earlier this year.

Divots Sportswear: Staffer Sonny Skinner earned honors as the low PGA Club Professional at the recent Senior PGA Championship.

Kate Lord: Tour staffer Brittany Lincicome won the ShopRite LPGA Classic in the brand’s new spring performance collection.

Hollas: Will add a collection of core apparel styles for juniors for spring 2012.

Zero Restriction: Introduces its ZR-290x performance enhancing tech wear collection.

Trion:Z: Adds Ryo Ishikawa to its U.S. Open promotion, joining fellow Trion:Z golf staffers Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy. If one of the three wins the U.S. Open, the company will give out 1,000 free red, white or blue Active Series wristbands.

Dressed 4 the Nines: Debuts its new line of golf accessories at the Hartford Golf Club Chip In For a Cure Tournament in Hartford, CT.

Quagmire: Unique ColorFusion boys polos are now available at select Golf Galaxy locations nationwide, and online at GolfGalaxy.com.

Bermuda Sands Apparel Co. Appoints Chris Armbruster as its new sales representative for the company’s line of men’s, women’s and youth golf shirts.

Sundog Eyewear: Selected as the official eyewear of the Palmer Cup, a Ryder Cup format collegiate competition, June 9-11 in Greenwich, CT.

True Linkswear: Opens online sales of its second edition shoe, the Stealth, which was unveiled at the PGA Merchandise Show earlier this year.

Divots Sportswear: Staffer Sonny Skinner earned honors as the low PGA Club Professional at the recent Senior PGA Championship.

Trion:Z: Announces a promotion tied to the U.S. Open being held at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, MD. If either tour staffer, Rickie Fowler or Rory McIlroy, wins the company will give out 1,000 Active Series red, white or blue wristbands.

ProQuip USA: Announces a Father’s Day promotional discount for retailers and customers.

Performance Sports Brands: Announces that Energy Athletic Golf has introduced game improvement technology in its new line. The apparel features patented IonX Ionized Energy Fabric, which features a negatively-charged, electromagnetic field embedded into its structure.