Elite Alpha Team Takes Command on Long Drive Tour

Press Release

Posted 2004-07-25

With the Long Drivers of America (LDA) Tour at the mid-point of the season, the elite Alpha Team has already earned ‘Top Dog’ status by demonstrating an overwhelming dominance over the rest of the pack and winning first-place titles in every event this year.

Alpha Golf's dedication to performance and distance has produced driver designs so superior that the results have attracted some of the biggest names in Long Drive. More than a half-dozen past and present Re/Max World Long Drive champions — power hitters such as Mike Gorton, Carl Wolter, Greg Wellong, Vince Howell — and dozens more have joined the Alpha Team to compete in a sport most often won by feet and inches, rather than yards.

So far this year, the Alpha Team — affectionately known as "Alpha Dawgs" — have used Alpha drivers to accumulate six first-place victories, nine second-place, three third-place, eight fourth-place finishes. In fact, players using Alpha drivers have claimed 75 percent of all the possible money positions in the Open, Senior and Woman divisions of the 2004 LDA season.

Perhaps, the current 2004 LDA Tour money-leader and Alpha Team member, Danny Luirette best sums up the Alpha attraction. “Technology plays a huge role in driving for distance,” he says, “and Alpha’s technology speaks for itself. Alpha Golf doesn’t have to look for players to use their clubs. The players are coming to Alpha.”

Some of the notable Long Drivers currently using Alpha drivers include:

Carl Wolter, Champion Open Division, 2002 Re/Max World Long Drive Champion
Vince Howell, Champion Open Division, 2002 Pinnacle LDA Tour Championship
Eric Jones, Champion Senior 2003 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship
Pat Dempsey, Champion Senior Division, 2002 Re/Max World Long Drive Champion
Danny Luirette, 10th place Open Division, 2003 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship
David Mobley, 3rd place Open Division, 2000 Re/Max World Long Drive Champion
Kurt Moore, 2nd place Senior Division, 2003 Re/Max World Long Drive Champion)
Greg Wellong, 6th Open Division, 2003 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship
Tom Celone, Champion, Battle in Seattle
Mike Gorton, Champion Senior Division, 2002 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship; Champion Open Division, 2000 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship; Member of the LDA Hall-of-Fame

The Alpha Team will next be in Long Drive competition this weekend, July 16th in Toronto. To learn more about Alpha Golf products, call 800.222.1186 or visit http://alphagolfclubs.com/.

With more and more past and present Long Drive champions playing Alpha Golf drivers, Alpha Golf is truly ‘The Long Distance Leader.’ Located in Chatsworth, Calif., Alpha Golf is a premier designer, manufacturer and distributor of superior quality golf clubs well-known for their extreme performance and distance. Alpha Golf is a division of Kent Sports Inc. For more information or for a Alpha Golf catalog, call 800-222-1186 or visit www.alphagolfclubs.com.