TRUE TEMPER AWARDS PGM SCHOLARSHIP
Sponsors Mississippi State University Player of the Semester

Starkville, MS - May 8, 1998 - True Temper Sports awarded two scholarships today to the Professional Golf Management Program at Mississippi State University. The scholarships were awarded to the top two finishers in the semester long tournament point standings. The point race concluded with the season ending Tournament of Champions held at Dancing Rabbit Golf Club in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

The Player of the Semester, John Hagerty, a senior from Sommerdale, New Jersey, was awarded a $500 scholarship, while the second place finisher, Andy Hilts, a senior from Wales, Wisconsin, received a $250 scholarship. Mississippi State is one of four PGA sanctioned Professional Golf Management Programs in the country. “True Temper is proud to be involved with the PGM program,” says Jim Bembenek, Assistant Marketing Manager for True Temper and a 1993 graduate of the PGM program at Mississippi State. “Future involvement will not only include tournament sponsorship activities but also educational opportunities for students in the program.”

True Temper Sports is the largest producer of golf shafts in the world and is consistently the number one shaft on the PGA tour. True Temper manufactures a full line of steel and graphite shafts.