TRUE TEMPER & GRAFALLOY POST RECORD YEAR ON PRO GOLF TOURS

Orlando, FL - February 4, 2000 - True Temper Sports strengthened its leadership position on the world’s professional golf tours in 1999 with another record setting performance. Players using True Temper and/or Grafalloy shafts played their way to the winner’s circle over 100 times. Highlights include the number one position in total wins with over 77% of all wins attributed to players using True Temper shafts. Other highlights:

#1 Steel Shaft on PGA Tour
Dynamic Gold wins 27 of 47 official events

25 SensiCore Wins in 1999
Over 60 Tour Professionals Play SensiCore

#1 Graphite Shafts on Tour
ProLite and EI-70 Combine for 34 Wins and
lead Darrel Survey wood shaft count

All Tour Money Leaders Play True Temper and Grafalloy
PGA - Tiger Woods - Dynamic Gold
SPGA - Bruce Fleisher - Dynamic Gold & ProLite
Nike - Carl Paulson - Dynamic Gold
LPGA - Karrie Webb - Dynamic Gold SensiCore

This year is shaping up to be another record-setter for True Temper. With the addition of new products like Tri-Gold™, which already has five sets in play on the PGA and Senior PGA tours, True Temper’s presence on tour will only become stronger.

True Temper Sports is the leading manufacturer of golf shafts in the world and is consistently the Number One shaft on Tour. The Company markets a complete line of shafts under the True Temper, Grafalloy, and True Temper Titanium shaft brands, and sells these brands in over thirty countries throughout the world. True Temper Sports employs over 700 people in seven facilities located in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.