TRUE TEMPER CELEBRATES ANOTHER STELLAR YEAR ON TOUR
2001 Shaft Counts - 36th Week in a Row on Top

Memphis, TN - August 23, 2001 - In a extremely competitive equipment market that sees manufacturers paying Tour players “tee-up” money at each event in an attempt to top weekly usage counts, True Temper Sports has led the Darrell Survey at every PGA event this year in both wood and iron usage. What makes this all the more impressive is that True Temper has no PGA Tour members under endorsement contract and pays no weekly incentives to encourage shaft use.

This year’s success is familiar ground as True Temper has yet to lose an iron shaft count since the Darrell Survey Company began keeping track in 1932. In today’s “pay-to-play” Tour environment, the world’s best players trust their games to the performance and quality of the finest golf shafts in the industry--True Temper!

2001 PGA Tour Highlights:

► 22 total wins on Tour YTD
►  3 Major Championship Wins
►  BiMatrx shaft used to make the most famous hole-in-one in major championship history on the 243 yard 15th hole at the PGA Championship.
►  #1 ranked player in the world used Dynamic Gold in woods and irons to capture Masters.
►  #2 ranked player in the world used EI-70 in driver and Dynamic Gold in irons to capture British Open
►  BiMatrx shaft used to set 72-hole scoring record at Phoenix Open.

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 and Grafalloy® 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.