Callaway Golf Staff Professional Kyi Hla Han Wins Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit

CARLSBAD, Calif. (PROTEXT) - Callaway Golf (NYSE: ELY) Staff Professional Kyi Hla Han clinched the Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit today by making the cut at the tour's season-ending championship event in Shenzhen, China. Han becomes the third Callaway Golf Staff Professional to finish 1999 atop his tour's money list, joining Colin Montgomerie (PGA European Tour) and Bruce Fleisher (Senior PGA Tour). Entering the Omega PGA Championship, Han had won $192,920 in 14 events this year. The only competitor with a chance to catch Han missed the cut at the tour championship. "Every time I tee it up now against the best players in the world I have the confidence to try and beat them," said Han, 38, who plans to play several events on the PGA European Tour in 2000. "Much of my confidence comes from my Callaway Golf clubs. My goal next year will be to try and win a big tournament early on in the year. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me, but I feel very good now about my game." The Myanmar-born Han won the China Open earlier this year in commanding fashion, winning by seven strokes after birdieing the first five holes of the final round. Han used a Callaway(R) titanium driver, Big Bertha(R) Steelhead(TM) 4-wood, Big Bertha X-12(R) Irons and an Odyssey Dual Force(R) Rossie 2(R) Putter in his victory. For more information about Callaway Golf Company, please visit the company's website at www.callawaygolf.com. For more information about Odyssey Golf, please visit www.odysseygolf.com. If you would like to receive Callaway Golf's press releases via e-mail in the future, please send your request to: newslist@callawaygolf.com. ots Original Text Service: Callaway Golf Company Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Larry Dorman, Mike Galeski, or Jamie Taylor of Callaway Golf Company, 760-931-1771 Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/124825.html or fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 124825 Web site: http://www.odysseygolf.com Web site: http://www.callawaygolf.com Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT