TORONTO, June 14, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Element 21 Golf Company ("E21") (OTCBB:EGLF) announced today that E21's new Hybrid club received Golfing Magazine's prestigious 2006 "Players' Choice Award" for "Feel" in the Hybrid category.
Golfing Magazine's (formerly Pub Links Golfer Magazine) annual Player's Choice Awards for Hybrid clubs included 21 sets of irons from leading internationally recognized club manufacturers, including Callaway, Taylor Made, Ping, Cleveland, Mizuno, Wilson, Ben Hogan, Nike, Srixon, Sonartec, Tour Edge and Dunlop, among others. Golfing Magazine's testing process for the Player's Choice Awards utilizes Professional Golfers' Association of America ("PGA") professionals to supervise amateur golfers who test the clubs, both on the range and over at least one round of golf. Testers are asked to rate clubs on appearance, feel, forgiveness, accuracy, distance and value using a scale of 1 to 10. E21's Hybrid club received an 8.5 rating.
The rankings, announced in this month's edition of Golfing Magazine, provided the following review of E21's LGL Scandium irons: "A louvered effect on the crown plate of the club creates a corrugated effect providing additional strength to the club head design and allows more weight to strategic points within the sole of the club head to improve distance and accuracy. A hollow body design is filled with a patented high rebound aerospace polymer insert, which transfers more energy to the ball for livelier performance as well as maintaining a lower center of gravity. The scandium metal alloy shafts are one key factor in generating increased distance and significantly improving accuracy of these clubs." One Tester's comments - "Felt different than anything I tried, very solid, great sound."
"To receive this award when so many leading golf manufacturers were tested is very satisfying and is in keeping with the feedback we are getting from players using our Hybrids," commented Mr. Bill Dey, E21's General Manager and Executive Vice President. "We also ranked very high in several other categories including appearance, forgiveness, accuracy, and playability," reported Mr. Dey.
About Golfing Magazine:
Headquartered in Wethersfield, CT, Golfing Magazine is a national magazine that is published 6 times per year and is directed at the public, municipal, semi-private and resort-course player -- who account for 85% of U.S. Golfers. The publication also provides nine regional editions further broken down into over 56 local editions all sharing the same national section. It's the National Magazine with a local flavor ... and the only golf magazine whose target audience is the daily fee player.
About Element 21 Golf Company:
E21 holds the exclusive right to manufacture golf products using proprietary E21 Alloys. Through a sophisticated multi-technology production path E21 manufactures shafts, drivers, and other clubs with marked improvements in distance, accuracy and feel over competing products. In recent months a number of high profile golf professionals have switched to or began testing E21's Eagle One shafts. E21 Alloys are 55% lighter and offer 25% strength to weight advantage over Titanium alloys, the current standard in the golf equipment industry. The advanced dynamics of E21 Alloys and the material economics offer a performance-enhanced alternative to manufacturing driver clubs with Titanium, the largest segment of the annual $5.5 billion golf equipment marketplace.
E21 recently announced its "Golf Shot Around the World Mission" in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s historic Apollo 14 Mission. Just about every single record for distance in the golf industry will be shattered this fall when an astronaut will hit a golf ball into orbit around the earth -- using an E21 golf club. It is only natural that this event takes place on the International Space Station, considering that E21 Alloys are also used on the Space Station in high strength, fatigue resistant applications.
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Media members interested in testing shafts or other E21 products for an editorial review or receiving further information please contact:
The Media Group
Joe Wieczorek or Bart Henyan
(847) 956-9090
joe@themediagroupinc.com
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