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TITLEIST PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE TO SPONSOR INAUGURAL GOLF FITNESS SUMMIT

(December 20th, 2005) Carlsbad, CA (December 20, 2005) - Some of the world's top strength and conditioning experts for golf will gather in March 2006 at a first-of-its-kind World Golf Fitness Summit. Hosted by Titleist Performance Institute cofounders Dave Phillips and Dr. Greg Rose, the three-day seminar in Orlando will focus on the growing discipline of golf specific fitness. An assembled panel of world-renowned experts and TPI Advisory Board members from various fields will deliver presentations on topics such as understanding golf swing biomechanics, testing for physical limitations that affect performance, nutritional considerations during golf, team building for player development, and exercise progressions for developing posture, stability, mobility and power.

The Summit is expected to attract several hundred attendees from a wide
variety of disciplines including golf professionals and instructors, doctors, chiropractors and physical and personal trainers among others both within and outside the golf industry who have an interest in taking their instruction skills and menu of services to the next level. The Summit will be broken down into three distinct areas of golf fitness and instruction:

Posture - How does the address position or set-up posture affect performance of the golf swing? This presentation will include video analysis of common postures found in most golf swings; how to perform a quick physical screen to help diagnose any postural imbalances; and treatment options and exercise progressions to help re-establish good
posture.

Backswing - How does the takeaway or backswing affect performance of the golf swing? This presentation will include an advanced video review and line drawing techniques to help diagnose any major swing faults found in the backswing; how to perform a physical screen to help determine if your player has any mobility or stability imbalances that can cause backswing compensation; and exercise progressions to help eliminate any imbalances and re-establish a good backswing movement.

Downswing - Focus will be on the downswing and follow-through, beginning with advanced video review and line drawing techniques to help diagnose any major swing faults. Participants will learn how to become more skilled at performing physical screens to that will assist in determining if their player has any mobility or stability imbalances that can cause downswing compensation. Exercise progressions will be discussed to help eliminate any imbalances and re-establish a good downswing.

Other special topics will include On-Course Nutrition, Rotator Cuff
Stabilization Techniques and 3D Motion Capture Systems and Capture Methods.

The keynote address will be delivered by Acushnet Company Chairman and CEO Wally Uihlein. Additional presenters will include Phil Cheetham, Gray Cook, Robert Duvall, Tom House, Peter Mackay, Denis McDade, Ramsay McMaster, Robert Mottram and Robert Yang.

The Summit will take place from March 9-11, 2006 at Walt Disney World's
Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando. The event will be limited to 500 attendees with an all-inclusive fee of $650 per person. For a complete seminar schedule and on-line registration, biographies of Dave Phillips, Dr. Greg Rose and the list of presenters, please visit the World Golf Fitness Summit page at: http://www.titleistperformanceinstitute.com/.

For more information, please contact Chamonie Senteno at the Titleist
Performance Institute at 1.888.TPI.2004.