Dramatic PGA Tour Win for Dual Force(R) 380 /

Odyssey(R) is No. 1 at PGA Seniors' Championship CARLSBAD, Calif. (PROTEXT) - The winner of the PGA Tour MCI Classic used a putter made by Odyssey Golf, a division of Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY), to sink a dramatic 35-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff at Harbour Town Golf Links. The winner used an Odyssey Dual Force 330 putter with the company's patented Stronomic insert to claim his first career PGA Tour victory, $450,000, to move into the top 20 on the PGA Tour money list. Meanwhile, Odyssey putters were the No. 1 putter at the PGA Seniors' Championship in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. A total of 52 competitors at the second major championship of the Senior PGA Tour season used Odyssey putters, compared to 23 for the nearest competitor, Never Compromise. Odyssey putters have been the most- played putter on the Senior PGA Tour in 1999, with 27.5 percent of the putter count, according to the Darrell Survey. Overall, Odyssey putters are also the most-played putters on the world's five major tours combined, according to the Darrell Survey. Through April 18, 1999, Odyssey had accounted for 26.1 percent of the putters put in play on the PGA, Senior PGA, LPGA, NIKE and PGA European tours. Carlsbad-based Odyssey Golf Inc., a division of Callaway Golf Company, produces the Dual Force Putter line, Dual Force Wedge line, and the new TriForce(TM) putter line. For more information, please contact Odyssey Golf Inc., 2285 Rutherford Road, Carlsbad, CA 92008-8815, or visit the Company's World Wide Web site at www.odysseygolf.com. ots Original Text Service: Odyssey Golf Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Jim Grundberg of Odyssey Golf, 760-931-1771 Web site: http://www.odysseygolf.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Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug.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