APRIL 21, 2014
TWO-WIN WEEKEND
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ee Westwood and Miguel Ángel Jiménez followed up impressive Masters performances with dominating wire-to-wire victories on the European and Champions tours, respectively. Westwood, after a 7th at The Masters, gave the Ketsch putter its first win with a seven-shot victory at the Maybank Malaysian Open. Jiménez, who was fourth at The Masters at age 50, earned the Greater Gwinnett Championship title in his debut on the Champions Tour. Westwood made 23 birdies for the week and made several long putts with his Ketsch in a bogey-free 4-under 68 in the final round. Jiménez, who won the Hong Kong Open in December, became the first player in history to win European and Champions tour events in the same season.
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KETSCH PUTTER 1-2 IN MALAYSIA
PING PRODUCTS WIN ON PGA TOUR
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ee Westwood relied on PING’s new Ketsch putter to win the Maybank Malaysian Open on Sunday, and Louis Oosthuizen, who was T2, also had the easy-to-aim model in his bag. Westwood plays a standardlength Ketsch at 34”, with a shaft bend that gives him a straight stroke type. Oosthuizen uses a counterbalanced version at 37” with a 400-gram head. It is a slight-arc stroke type.
Alignment lines make the Ketsch easy to align, and an aluminum head with a 17-4 stainless steel sole weight creates a high MOI. Among mallets, it recently ranked #1 in accuracy from multiple distances in testing done by mygolfspy.com.
G25 3-wood, along with Anser hybrids (20º and 23º) were in the winner’s bag at the RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour Sunday. PING technology has contributed to 13 wins on various professional tours since the start of the year.
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PGA TOUR
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Zurich Classic of New Orleans
April 24-27 TPC Louisiana, Avondale, La.
PING PROS in the field: Mark Calcavecchia Daniel Chopra Chris DiMarco Derek Ernst Luke Guthrie Billy Horschel David Lingmerth Edward Loar Alex Prugh Heath Slocum Daniel Summerhays Michael Thompson Mark Wilson
EUROPEAN Volvo China Open
April 24-27 Genzon GC, Shenzen, China
PING PROS in the field: Alejandro Cañizares Nacho Elvira Gregory Havret Tom Lewis Matthew Nixon John Parry Julien Quesne Andy Sullivan
WEB.COM WNB Golf Classic
April 24-27 Midland CC, Midland, Texas
PING PROS in the field:
Camilo Benedetti, D.J. Brigman, Alex Carpenter Matt Fast, Scott Harrington Mackenzie Hughes, Doug LaBelle II, Bill Lunde, Trevor Murphy, Nick O’Hern, Martin Piller, Steve Saunders
LPGA Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic April 24-27 Lake Merced GC San Francisco, Calif.
PING PROS in the field:
Maria Hernandez, I.K. Kim, Pernilla Lindberg, Caroline Masson, Lisa McCloskey, Azahara Muñoz, Giulia Sergas, Angela Stanford, Ayako Uehara
In a move completed last week, PING’s famous Gold Putter Vault has a new, larger home at headquarters in Phoenix. The most prominent addition will be a gold-plated replica of Bubba Watson’s Anser Milled 1 putter that he used to win his second Masters recently (Bubba will receive a solid-gold version). Two more models will be added from Sunday’s victories by Lee Westwood and Miguel Ángel Jiménez. Westwood has now won tournaments with 12 different models and he has 40 putters signifying wins, the most of any PING pro. Since the start of the PGA Tour season, PING models have contributed to 16 victories on multiple tours worldwide.
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WESTWOOD, JIMÉNEZ WIN With the Ketsch, Westwood was 2nd in putts per G.I.R. at 1.638 in capturing his 23rd European Tour victory and the 40th of his career. He was 18-under on rounds of 65-66-71-68. It was the largest margin of victory in his career. For Jiménez, 13 of his 20 European Tour wins have come since the age of 40. Relying on the i25 driver that was #1 in accuracy at The Masters, he was delighted by his two-stroke victory.
But he has made it his goal to qualify on points for Europe in this fall’s Ryder Cup, and will play mostly overseas. He would be the oldest player in history to represent Europe.
MIGUEL ÁNGEL JIMÉNEZ
WHAT’S IN THE BAG Driver i25, 8.5º@9.6º, Aldila Tour Blue 65-X, tipped 1 , 46 , D5
FAIRWAY WoodS i25, 14º@13.9º, Aldila Tour Blue 85-X, tipped 1.50 , 43.50 i25, 18º@17.6º, Aldila Tour Blue 85-X, tipped 2 , 43 i25, 21º, Aldila Tour Blue 85-X, tipped 2”, 42.50
Irons
i25
PING’s Champions Tour Success
PING pros have won back-to-back events on the Champions Tour, and 3 of the season’s 6 tournaments (Kirk Triplett, Jeff Maggert and Jiménez). Maggert and Jiménez both prevailed in their Champions debuts.
S55, 4-PW, True Temper Dynamic Gold Superlite X100 w/Sensicore, ¼ club strong, D1+
Wedges Tour Gorge, 52ºSS, 60ºSS, TT DG Superlite X100 w/Sensicore
Putter Scottsdale Pickemup, 34 , 18º lie, 2º loft