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词条 Wilson Staff
释义

  1. Wilson Staff's place in golf history

  2. Equipment

  3. Major championships

  4. Sponsorship deals

     Players  European Tour  Ladies European Tour  PGA Tour  Advisory Staff  Former players 

  5. References

{{Infobox company
|name = Wilson Staff
|logo = Current Day Wilson Staff Logo (2011).jpg
|logo_caption = Current Day Wilson Staff Logo (2011)
|foundation = 1914
|location = Chicago, Illinois
|industry = Golf
|products = Golf equipment
|homepage = {{URL|wilsonstaff.com}}
}}

Wilson Staff is the professional and advanced amateur golf products division of Wilson Sporting Goods. Wilson designs and manufactures a full range of golf equipment, accessories, and apparel using the Wilson Staff, Wilson, ProStaff, Profile, Ultra and Hope brands. Wilson's other lines are generally considered to be "big box," "value," or "economy" brands, while the Wilson Staff line provides higher quality equipment used on all major professional golf tours.

Many of the world's top professional golfers have used Wilson equipment, including Gene Sarazen (who had a 75-year relationship with the company, the longest-running contract in sports history). Other golfers who have used Wilson Staff equipment include Sam Snead, Walter Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Patty Berg, Nick Faldo, Payne Stewart, John Daly, Ben Crenshaw, and Vijay Singh. Palmer and Crenshaw both used Wilson 8802 putters, with Crenshaw's receiving the moniker Little Ben due to his proficiency with it. Current Wilson Staff players include Open and USPGA champion Pádraig Harrington as well as Kevin Streelman.

Wilson Staff's place in golf history

In 1932 Wilson Advisory staff member Gene Sarazen was inspired by the aerodynamics of an airplane's wing to create a club head that would glide smoothly through sand. Sarazen welded a piece of steel to the sole of the club and ground it producing ‘bounce’. This marked the introduction of the sand wedge and in 1933 alone, Wilson sold 50,000 of these clubs, marketed as the R-90, which went on to be the most popular sand wedge in golf.[1]

In 1933 Wilson Advisory Staff member Willie Ogg created a design for distributing weight away from the heel of the club head, moving it towards the “sweet spot” of the blade. This design feature was used in the Wilson Ogg-mented irons, the forerunner of perimeter weighted or cavity back irons.[2]

In 1948, then Wilson Sporting Goods President Lawrence Icely provided the financial backing for Patty Berg and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to form the Women’s PGA, predecessor of today's LPGA.[3]

In 1954 Wilson began producing the Wilson Staff ball which was seen as revolutionary due to its ability to launch up to 40 percent faster than the golf club's head speed.[4]

In 2005 Wilson Staff claims to be the first golf company to utilize nanotechnology in golf equipment.[5]

Equipment

Wilson Staff currently markets the following equipment.

Drivers
  • Wilson Staff: Cortex, D300, D300 Women's, C300
Fairway Woods & Hybrids
  • Wilson Staff: FG Tour F5 Fairway Woods, FG Tour F5 Hybrids, D300, D300 Women's, C300
Irons
  • Wilson Staff: FG Tour 100, FG Tour V6, FG Tour F5, FG Tour V4, C200, D100, D300, D300 Women's, DEFY Hybrid Irons, C300, C300 Forged
Wedges
  • Wilson Staff: FG Tour PMP Wedges (includes FG Tour PMP Tour Frosted, Gun Blue PVD, and Oil Can PVD), Harmonized (Black and Classic), Harmonized Hope Women's
Putters
  • Wilson Staff: 8802, Infinite Series (Windy City, Michigan Ave, Lake Shore, Grant Park, North Side, South Side, Women's Windy City), Vizor Level 2 M1, Vizor Level 2 M2, Vizor Level 2 M3, Vizor Level 2 M4
Balls
  • Wilson Staff: FG Tour, DUO Urethane, DUO Soft, DUO Soft Spin, DUO Optix (in multiple colors), Fifty Elite, Fifty Elite Orange, Fifty Elite Yellow, Fifty Elite Pink, Zip
Miscellaneous items and Accessories
  • Wilson Staff: golf caps and visors, belts, golf towels, golf bags (staff, cart and stand types as well as golf bags with NFL team logos), travel bags, golf umbrellas, golf club head covers and golf gloves.

Major championships

Wilson Staff claims that its line of irons has "more majors won than any other brand."[6] Players using Wilson Staff clubs have won a total of 61 majors.

{| class="wikitable sortable"


|-		 Year Tournament Winner
|-
| 1922 || U.S. Open || Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1922 || PGA Championship|| Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1923 || PGA Championship || Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1928 || U.S. Open || Johnny Farrell
|-
| 1932 || The Open Championship || Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1932 || U.S. Open || Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1933 || PGA Championship || Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1935 || The Masters || Gene Sarazen
|-
| 1935 || PGA Championship || Johnny Revolta
|-
| 1936 || PGA Championship || Denny Shute
|-
| 1937 || PGA Championship || Denny Shute
|-
| 1937 || U.S. Open || Ralph Guldahl
|-
| 1938 || U.S. Open || Ralph Guldahl
|-
| 1939 || The Masters || Ralph Guldahl
|-
| 1941 || PGA Championship || Vic Ghezzi
|-
| 1942 || PGA Championship || Sam Snead
|-
| 1946 || U.S. Open || Lloyd Mangrum
|-
| 1946 || The Open Championship || Sam Snead
|-
| 1947 || PGA Championship || Jim Ferrier
|-
| 1948 || The Masters || Claude Harmon
|-
| 1949 || The Masters || Sam Snead
|-
| 1949 || U.S. Open || Cary Middlecoff
|-
| 1949 || PGA Championship || Sam Snead
|-
| 1951 || PGA Championship || Ben Hogan
|-
| 1952 || The Masters || Sam Snead
|-
| 1954 || The Masters || Sam Snead
|-
| 1955 || The Masters || Cary Middlecoff
|-
| 1956 || U.S. Open || Cary Middlecoff
|-
| 1958 || The Masters || Arnold Palmer
|-
| 1959 || The Masters || Art Wall
|-
| 1959 || U.S. Open || Billy Casper
|-
| 1960 || The Masters || Arnold Palmer
|-
| 1960 || U.S. Open || Arnold Palmer
|-
| 1961 || The Open Championship || Arnold Palmer
|-
| 1962 || The Masters || Arnold Palmer
|-
| 1962 || The Open Championship || Arnold Palmer
|-
| 1963 || U.S. Open || Julius Boros
|-
| 1965 || PGA Championship || Dave Marr
|-
| 1966 || U.S. Open || Billy Casper
|-
| 1968 || U.S. PGA Championship|| Julius Boros
|-
| 1969 || The Masters || George Archer
|-
| 1970 || The Masters || Billy Casper
|-
| 1974 || U.S. Open || Hale Irwin
|-
| 1976 || U.S. Open || Jerry Pate
|-
| 1976 || The Open Championship || Johnny Miller
|-
| 1978 || U.S. Open || Andy North
|-
| 1979 || U.S. Open || Hale Irwin
|-
| 1981 || The Open Championship || Bill Rogers
|-
| 1984 || The Masters || Ben Crenshaw
|-
| 1985 || The Masters || Bernhard Langer
|-
| 1985 || U.S. Open || Andy North
|-
| 1989 || U.S. PGA Championship|| Payne Stewart
|-
| 1990 || U.S. Open || Hale Irwin
|-
| 1991 || U.S. Open || Payne Stewart
|-
| 1993 || The Masters || Bernhard Langer
|-
| 1995 || The Open Championship || John Daly
|-
| 1998 || PGA Championship|| Vijay Singh
|-
| 1999 || The Open Championship || Paul Lawrie
|-
| 2007 || The Open Championship || Pádraig Harrington
|-
| 2008 || The Open Championship || Pádraig Harrington
|-
| 2008 || PGA Championship|| Pádraig Harrington
|}

Sponsorship deals

In the past, Wilson has had many of the world best golfers under contract, including 6 time major winner Nick Faldo. Wilson Staff currently has endorsement deals with many professional golfers who compete on all the major tours.[7]

Players

European Tour

  • {{flagicon|DEN}} Andreas Hartø
  • {{flagicon|SCO}} Paul Lawrie
  • {{flagicon|GER}} Marcel Siem
  • {{flagicon|DEN}} Steen Tinning
  • {{flagicon|ENG}} Anthony Wall
  • {{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Waring

Ladies European Tour

  • {{flagicon|RUS}} Maria Verchenova

PGA Tour

  • {{flagicon|USA}} Ricky Barnes
  • {{flagicon|IRE}} Pádraig Harrington
  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Rhein Gibson
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Troy Merritt
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Kevin Streelman
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Brendan Steele
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Gary Woodland

Advisory Staff

  • Meghan Hardin
  • Rick Sessinghaus
  • Carly Werwie
  • Michael Sainz
  • Adam Whiting
  • Joe Stevens
  • Joseph Langer

Former players

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  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Brad McIntosh
  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Stewart Ginn
  • {{flagicon|AUT}} Markus Brier
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  • {{flagicon|ENG}} Sir Nick Faldo
  • {{flagicon|SWE}} Jesper Parnevik
  • {{flagicon|ESP}} José Manuel Lara
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  • {{flagicon|USA}} Ben Crenshaw
  • {{flagicon|USA}} Arnold Palmer
{{col-3}}{{col-end}}

References

1. ^Gene Sarazen develops the Wilson R-90 Wedge
2. ^Wilson Ogg-mented irons
3. ^Lawrence Icely of Wilson Sporting Goods financial backing for Women's PGA
4. ^Wilson Staff Ball
5. ^Wilson Staff introduces nanotechnology
6. ^More Majors Won Than Any Other Brand
7. ^Golf players sponsored by Wilson

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