Press Release
PROQUIP SIGNS TRIO OF MAJOR
CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS
North Berwick, Scotland – March 5, 2008 PROQUIP USA, the American distributor for ProQuip Golf, has announced the signing of three Major Championship winners as global ambassadors for the world’s leading lightweight weatherwear brand.
The signing of world No. 8 and former U.S. Open Champion Jim Furyk, former U.S. Masters Champion Craig Stadler, and LPGA Hall of Fame member Juli Inkster, is the first act of ProQuip USA’s new proprietor Gary Markel, a Florida-based businessman who acquired majority ownership to ProQuip Golf’s North American distribution rights in January.
Gary Markel said: “We are truly fortunate to forge partnerships with a quality individuals as Jim, Craig and Juli. They will be consummate ambassadors for the company, and certainly punctuate our commitment to positioning ProQuip as the world leader in golf weatherwear.”
Markel is president of Clearwater, Florida-based Gary Markel Companies, which focuses on the insurance and real estate industries.
Markel also is a limited partner in a professional sports franchise, the Tampa Bay Rays (Major League Baseball).
Furyk, Stadler and Inkster will all wear ProQuip weatherwear on their respective tours, and appear in ProQuip print advertising, while Furyk will also appear in ProQuip broadcast advertising.
Furyk will wear ProQuip’s Silk Touch rain suit on Tour, while Stadler and Inkster will wear both rain and wind apparel.
The breakthrough Silk Touch fabric, developed exclusively by ProQuip, features a silky soft and virtually silent outer fabric, plus a unique stretchable inner lining for ultimate playing performance and comfort.
“It’s great to finally have a rain suit that I have the confidence to wear in competition,” says Furyk. The company is just minutes from my home in Ponte Vedra Beach, so I have had a chance to do a lot of testing of their technical rainwear. To me it’s the very best in the world.”
Inkster is no stranger to ProQuip weatherwear. She wore ProQuip Ladies Ultralite in cold, wet and windy conditions last September at the Solheim Cup in Halmstad, Sweden, and was undefeated in four matches.
ProQuip was the preferred weatherwear supplier to The U.S Solheim Cup Team.
The 47-year-old LPGA Hall of Fame member will wear ProQuip’s new Ladies Liberty and Ultralite rain suits, and Ladies Silk Touch windshields on the LPGA Tour.
Website: http://www.proquipgolf.com>
CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS
North Berwick, Scotland – March 5, 2008 PROQUIP USA, the American distributor for ProQuip Golf, has announced the signing of three Major Championship winners as global ambassadors for the world’s leading lightweight weatherwear brand.
The signing of world No. 8 and former U.S. Open Champion Jim Furyk, former U.S. Masters Champion Craig Stadler, and LPGA Hall of Fame member Juli Inkster, is the first act of ProQuip USA’s new proprietor Gary Markel, a Florida-based businessman who acquired majority ownership to ProQuip Golf’s North American distribution rights in January.
Gary Markel said: “We are truly fortunate to forge partnerships with a quality individuals as Jim, Craig and Juli. They will be consummate ambassadors for the company, and certainly punctuate our commitment to positioning ProQuip as the world leader in golf weatherwear.”
Markel is president of Clearwater, Florida-based Gary Markel Companies, which focuses on the insurance and real estate industries.
Markel also is a limited partner in a professional sports franchise, the Tampa Bay Rays (Major League Baseball).
Furyk, Stadler and Inkster will all wear ProQuip weatherwear on their respective tours, and appear in ProQuip print advertising, while Furyk will also appear in ProQuip broadcast advertising.
Furyk will wear ProQuip’s Silk Touch rain suit on Tour, while Stadler and Inkster will wear both rain and wind apparel.
The breakthrough Silk Touch fabric, developed exclusively by ProQuip, features a silky soft and virtually silent outer fabric, plus a unique stretchable inner lining for ultimate playing performance and comfort.
“It’s great to finally have a rain suit that I have the confidence to wear in competition,” says Furyk. The company is just minutes from my home in Ponte Vedra Beach, so I have had a chance to do a lot of testing of their technical rainwear. To me it’s the very best in the world.”
Inkster is no stranger to ProQuip weatherwear. She wore ProQuip Ladies Ultralite in cold, wet and windy conditions last September at the Solheim Cup in Halmstad, Sweden, and was undefeated in four matches.
ProQuip was the preferred weatherwear supplier to The U.S Solheim Cup Team.
The 47-year-old LPGA Hall of Fame member will wear ProQuip’s new Ladies Liberty and Ultralite rain suits, and Ladies Silk Touch windshields on the LPGA Tour.
Website: http://www.proquipgolf.com>
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