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| Golf Bag: Golfers Inc. Names Molloy COO Posted: 22 Jan 2011 09:06 PM PST Golf industry veteran Matthew Molloy has been named chief operating officer and vice president of global distribution for Golfers Inc., a national golf brands and media company. Molloy is well-known in the golf business as the driving force behind the success of Rife Putters, a company he helped launch and then led to become the fifth largest putter distributor in the United States. Golfers Incorporated is a family of companies specializing in national golf product development, television and video production, media advertising and global distribution. Well-known products brought to market by the company's media division, The Golf Agency, include the Orlimar Trimetal, the SkyCaddie, AJ Golf, F2 Golf, Roger Fredericks Flexibility and others. In 2010, one of the company's products, the Tour Striker training club, endorsed by Gary McCord, was introduced. The company also launched marketing campaigns for the Vharness trainer, endorsed by Rocco Mediate and Jimmy Ballard, and the OptiShot home golf simulator with Roger Maltbie. "Our company is poised for tremendous growth in 2011," said Mike Abram, president of Golfers Incorporated. "Matt has a unique knowledge of how to bring new products to market and then effectively distribute them globally. His marketing creativity, operations, logistics and distribution knowledge are the key elements to why we brought him on board." Molloy is a former professional tour player and inventor of The Plane Stick, a golf-training product that was launched in 2002. In 2004, Molloy teamed with putter designer Guerin Rife and helped bring the "Two Bar" putter design to market via an infomercial campaign. Molloy was named president of Rife Putters in 2007 and in less than a year the company had doubled sales, earning approximately 5 percent of the U.S. putter market share. Rife Putters also developed one of the top Tour programs of any independent putter company in the industry. Under Molloy's leadership, Rife had become the No. 1 one putter used on the Champions Tour and had wins by many top players around the world, including Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, Andres Romero, Karrie Webb, Tom Kite, John Cook, Dana Quigley and Andy Bean. For more information on Golfers Incorporated and its products, visit www.golfersincorporated.com. GWAA: The Golf Writers Association of America will meet in Southern Pines the weekend before the Masters golf tournament for its annual golf outing. For years the weekend was staged in Myrtle Beach. The national writers group will come to the Sandhills area April 1-4 and will play Pine Needles, Mid Pines and the Country Club of North Carolina (Dogwood). Pine Needles will be the host resort. Approximately 50 writers from around the nation are expected to participate. Wolfpack School: The 23rd annual Wolfpack Golf School will have four summer sessions at Wildwood Green Golf Club and at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course on the N.C. State University campus, both in Raleigh. The four-day schools are set for June 13-16, June 20-23, and June 27-30 at Wildwood Green, and July 5-8 at Lonnie Poole. The unique learning experiences are directed by N.C. State coaches and players and are open to boys and girls aged 6-18. "These sessions are a great opportunity for young boys and girls to learn the game," said Chip Watson, general manager of the Lonnie Poole course and one of the featured instructors. Wolfpack golf coach Richard Sykes, Hall of Famer Roger Watson and members of the State golf team are also featured teachers. Watson said that coaches and players from other colleges will serve as guest instructors. The student-teacher ratio will be 5:1 and instruction will cover all phases of the game. The classes will be conducted daily from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. except for the June 27-30 session, which will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The costs are $275 per person for the short schools and $410 for the full-day instruction. For more information, visit wildwoodgreen.com or Lonniepoolegolf course.com, or call (919) 846-1536. Contact Howard Ward at howardward@att.net. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Golf-Hoops time gives Woodland extra confidence at the Hope Posted: 22 Jan 2011 08:01 PM PST LOS ANGELES, Jan 22 (Reuters) - American Gary Woodland plans to draw on his college basketball experience when he goes into Sunday's final round of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta, California in a tie for the lead. Although this is unfamiliar territory for him in a PGA Tour event, the 26-year-old from Kansas believes the ability to "stay in the moment" applies to every sport. "You got to stay in the moment," the long-hitting Woodland told reporters after ending Saturday's fourth round of the 90-hole event level with Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas at 24-under 264. "That's the main deal. Even if you have a six-shot lead, these guys out here on this golf course, that's nothing. You can make six shots up in four or five holes." Woodland considered a career in basketball while playing at college level for Washburn University but he then switched to a golf scholarship at Kansas University. "I was on a full ride to play basketball," he said after firing a sparkling six-under 66 in near-perfect scoring conditions at La Quinta Country Club on Saturday. "Kansas was the only school that recruited me out of college to play golf. I had a lot of schools for basketball but Kansas, when I told the coach there I was going to play basketball, he followed me. "I played one year of basketball (at Washburn) and called him and he had a (golf) scholarship for me." Woodland, one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour, cites playing basketball for Washburn and competing for them against Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse as his biggest thrills outside golf. He is now well placed to enjoy the biggest thrill of his golfing career as he seeks his first victory in that sport since he triumphed in a mini-tour event at the end of 2008. "I won the High Plains pro-am, a small tournament out in Kansas," he said of his success three years ago. "I also won four times in college and I led all four going into the final round. "So stay in the moment here, one shot at a time. Try and get the ball in the fairway is the key for me, because if I get in the fairway, I can attack pins. "That's my goal tomorrow is just to drive it well and roll some putts in. It's going to be a shoot-out tomorrow and the conditions will be perfect again." (Writing by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Peter Rutherford; To comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com) Please click on the newslink: for more golf stories for more sports stories This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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