Callaway Staff Pro Eichelberger Continues Sizzling

3.08.1999, 09:47

Senior Pace With Second Victory in Four Weeks CARLSBAD, Calif., A (PROTEXT) - Winning is now becoming ahabit for Callaway Golf (NYSE: ELY) Staff Professional DaveEichelberger. Fresh from his victory at the United States SeniorOpen three weeks ago, Eichelberger birdied two of the last threeholes at the Utah Showdown this past weekend and then parred thefirst hole of a sudden-death playoff at Park Meadows Country Clubin Park City, Utah. The win was Eichelberger's fifth on the Senior PGA Tour andmarked the first time in his professional career that he has hadmultiple victories in a season. Eichelberger used 11 Callaway(R)clubs -- including a Great Big Bertha(R) Hawk Eye(R) TitaniumDriver, a Big Bertha(R) Steelhead(TM) 3-wood and Big Bertha X-12(R) Irons -- to shoot 19-under-par 197 in the 54-hole event. "My overall golf game has never been better," saidEichelberger, whose earnings rose to a career single-season highof $800,359 with the $202,500 first-place check. "I am reallydriving the ball better than I ever have and my control of myirons has been outstanding." Callaway Golf continued its outstanding professional tourperformance across the board during the week of July 29-Aug. 1.The winner of the Du Maurier Classic on the LPGA Tour usedCallaway fairway woods, as did the third-place finisher -- whoalso used a Callaway driver -- in that major championship. Thewinner of the Dakota Dunes Open on the Nike Tour used a Callawaydriver, Callaway fairway wood and Odyssey(R) putter. The runner-up in that event used a Great Big Bertha Hawk Eye TitaniumDriver, Big Bertha X-12 Irons and an Odyssey Tri Force(TM)putter. For the year to date, on the combined PGA Tour, SeniorPGA Tour, LPGA Tour, PGA European Tour and Nike Tour, CallawayGolf is #1 in driver usage, #1 in fairway wood usage, and #1 inirons. Odyssey Golf, a division of Callaway Golf, is #1 inputters on those five tours combined. For more information about Callaway Golf Company, please visitthe Company's website at www.callawaygolf.com. For more information about Odyssey Golf, please visit theCompany's website at www.odysseygolf.com. ots Original TextService: Callaway Golf Company Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Larry Dorman, Mike Galeski orJamie Taylor, 760-931-1771, all of Callaway Golf Web site:http://www.odysseygolf.com Web site: http://www.callawaygolf.com

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