| Srixon sign Henrik Stenson
Srixon sign Henrik Stenson
Srixon Sports have announced that 30 Year Old Swedish Ryder Cup player HENRIK STENSON, who is currently Number 12 in the Official World Rankings, has signed a worldwide contract to endorse Srixon equipment and play golf balls from their Z-UR Series to be effective from November 29th 2006 – the Nedbank Challenge.
Srixon are thrilled to have beaten most of the Golf Industry’s leading companies to his signature and this brings further credibility to the brand’s fast growing reputation as one of the World’s leading manufacturers of golf equipment.
His signing adds another very high class player to a Srixon Tour Staff of more than 250 players Internationally and he will be used extensively in the Company’s Marketing alongside Current World Number 2 and 2006 Vardon Trophy Winner – Jim Furyk.
He will be especially strongly featured in the UK and European Markets, where with Srixon gaining the Number 2 position in the UK Golf ball Market, the company’s strategy is now focused at growing their golf ball business in a similar manner on the Continent.
Stenson’s career has gone from strength to strength each year, since representing Sweden in the Eisenhower Trophy in 1998 and turning Professional the same year with a handicap of +4.
In 2000, his talent became clear as he won The European Challenge Tour Rankings, with 8 top ten finishes and 3 wins.
In 2001 he won the Benson and Hedges Tournament and in 2004 won The Heritage Tournament at Woburn.
In 2005, the Dubai based player had a string of high placed finishes in Europe and climbed to 8th place in the Order of Merit. He was in the money in 21 out of 26 events, with 9 top 10 finishes and was leading points scorer in the Seve Trophy in the same year.
2006 has seen him win twice more in Europe at the Qatar Masters and the BMW International and this enabled him to qualify and make his debut in the 2006 European Ryder Cup team, where he was again in the right place at the right time, as he coolly holed the putt that won the trophy again for Europe.
Indeed he is gaining quite a reputation as a formidable opponent in Team Events.
He finished in 6th place in the 2006 Final Order of Merit.
He also had a third placed finish at the 2006 TPC at Sawgrass.
Stenson has also gained a strong reputation over recent years as one of the game’s longest hitters and this also makes him one of it’s most exciting players to watch and yet he also possesses one of the finest short games around.
Stenson will be using Srixon 506 Irons and will be working with the company to get the maximum number of Srixon products into his Srixon bag in the minimum possible time. He will be using Golf Balls from the Z-UR Series and will also be wearing Srixon caps and using Srixon gloves.
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