TRUE TEMPER SENSICORE™ SETTING NEW TOUR AND SALES RECORDS

MEMPHIS, TN - July 11, 1996 - True Temper Sports reports exceptional sales results for it’s line of SensiCore™ shafts. Scott Hennessy, True Temper President, notes that sales and booked orders are projected to exceed 1,000,000 units by the early fall: “We have increased our production schedules three fold in an effort to satisfy the positively overwhelming response of touring professionals and golf club companies.”

SensiCore™ is a patented vibration dampening technology that dampens up to 70% of the vibration of a steel shaft. The composite polymer core, positioned inside the shaft between the club head and the golfer’s hands, improves the feel of hitting a golf ball. SensiCore™ reduces the vibrations better than graphite while having the consistency and accuracy of steel. SensiCore™ is now available in a complete range of shafts designed to fit a wide range of playing abilities including Dynamic Gold® , Release™ , and Stratus™. The company intends to further expand the SensiCore™ product line at the Sept. International Golf show in Las Vegas.

PGA players have responded extremely favorably to the new technology. Currently playing SensiCore™ are Davis LoveIII, winner of the 1996 Buick Classic; Greg Norman, runner up at the 1996 Masters and John Cook, winner of the 1996 Fed-Ex St. Jude Classic who recorded the best 54-hole score (189) in PGA history, just after switching to SensiCore™ shafts earlier in the week. Other players taking advantage of the technology include Nick Price, David Duvall, Jim Furyk, Tommy Armour III, Larry Mize, Jim Gallagher, Bob Murphy, Jim Dent and David Graham.

True Temper Sports is the largest producer of golf shafts throughout the world and is consistently the number one shaft used on the PGA Tour, bypassing all other shaft companies combined.