ALDILA ANNOUNCES 1999 NEW PRODUCTS TOUR GRADE FITTING SYSTEM FEATURING TGw AND TGi GRAPHITE SHAFTS

SAN DIEGO, CA (August 24, 1998) Aldila, golf’s leading designer and manufacturer of superior performance graphite wood and iron shafts, today announced its new 1999 product series.

The new Aldila Tour Grade series incorporates the best design features of Aldila’s most successful Tour shafts into a completely new line of high performance shafts designed for professionals and better players. In addition, The unique TG Tour Grade Fitting System matches weight, flex and torque to provide optimum trajectory and performance.

“The new TGw and TGi Tour series will provide golfers with a superior and creative graphite shaft product that provides maximum consistency and performance,” said Mike Rossi, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Aldila has been the leader in graphite golf shaft design and manufacturing for over 25 years, and the new Tour Grade Series of shafts represents the integration of today’s state-of-the-art design features with the latest process technologies to meet the changing needs of golfers throughout the world.”

TOUR GRADE WOODS: TGw60, TGw70, TGw80, TGw90
Aldila’s TGw graphite wood shafts are offered at 60, 70, 80 and 90 grams in R, S or X flexes to provide the required shaft flex at the weight desired. In addition, tip stiffness in the TGw series has been formulated separately to provide golfers the optimum trajectory.

TOUR GRADE IRONS: TGi100, TGi120
Tour Grade Series iron shafts are sold in two weights and two flexes. The 100 gram shaft is available in R and S flexes and the 120 gram shaft in S and X flexes, both with either a .355" taper tip or .370" parallel tip design. The TGi shafts are sold in frequency matched sets with every shaft in a set individually designed at a constant weight and the same torque. The shafts also feature a swing weight similar to conventional steel shafts.

In addition, both the TGi100 and TGi120 products are manufactured with progressively stiffer tip designs, moving from longer to shorter irons. The softer tip of longer irons produces high trajectory and the stiffer tip of the shorter irons results in lower trajectory for better control.

Aldila is the leading consumer shaft brand and number one on the PGA and LPGA professional tours. The company will produce over 5.5 million graphite shafts at all price points in 1998 for leading club manufacturers and custom clubmakers throughout the world.

Founded in 1972, Aldila utilizes approximately 165,000 square feet of shaft manufacturing space in San Diego, California, Tijuana, Mexico and Zhuhai, China. In addition, the company operates a carbon fiber manufacturing facility in Evanston, Wyoming. By early 1999, a second shaft manufacturing facility will be fully operational in Zhuhai, China, near Aldila’s original operation. The new 80,000 square foot plant will be the most efficient and productive graphite plant in the world, capable of producing both premium and value shaft products and graphite prepreg material.