Tiger Woods Carries 460cc Nike Ignite Driver to Second Consecutive Win

Press Release

Posted 2004-12-18

Tiger Woods played the Host with the Most on Sunday at the Target World Challenge - the most fairways hit, the most greens in regulation, and eventually the most strokes below par - to win his annual "all-star" event at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. to which the top 11 players in the world are invited.

Woods' self-prescribed swing change has been showing signs of gelling late in 2004. In early November he also moved to the longer and more forgiving 460cc Ignite driver at The TOUR Championship where he finished in a tie for second before going on to win back-to-back at the Dunlop Phoenix and this past weekend at Target.

Woods was slow to change to the larger head Ignite when it was first available to him late in 2003. He was the first to tee up Nike Golf's next generation driver in September 2003, originally playing a prototype 340cc model but still featuring the proprietary NexTi face material and Around the Crown head construction. Woods moved to the stock-size 410cc mid-way through 2004 and picked up another 10 yards off the tee.

The 460cc Ignite, the largest driver head allowed within USGA standards, has an incomparable sweet spot due to the combination of NexTi material and Around the Crown construction making it long and forgiving even on mis-hits.

With a pair of wins under his belt, it seems likely that the 460cc Ignite driver will stay in the bag to begin the 2005 PGA Tour season. Woods is expected to play again at the season-opening Mercedes Championship in Hawaii, January 6-9.

Nike Golf's Forged Blade Irons and Forged Wedges (56-degree and 60-degree) have been in Woods' bag exclusively since September of 2002. He began playing the four-piece/three cover Nike One Gold golf ball midway through 2003.