Web Street Golf Daily Pulse
Originally Posted May 4th 2010 at Web Street Golf Daily Pulse
The LPGA’s Developmental Tour, the Duramed FUTURES Tour, announced today that it has signed a corporate partnership with Antigua, one of the nation's leading designers and marketers of genuine golf and sports apparel. Under the terms of the partnership, Antigua will be designated a “Preferred Sponsor of the Duramed FUTURES Tour” for the 2010 season.
"We are excited to partner with a company like Antigua who is recognized as a leader in golf apparel,” said Zayra F. Calderon, Chief Executive Officer for the Duramed FUTURES Tour. “They a great brand in the golf industry with a solid reputation among tournaments and tour professionals."
The new partnership enables Antigua, a LPGA Licensee, to be the preferred line of apparel offered to Duramed FUTURES Tour Tournament Organizers as well as provide apparel for use by Tour staff and at Tour owned events. Key terms of the agreement include displaying the Antigua logo on tournament signage as well as on the Duramed FUTURES Tour Mobile Office trailer that travels to every tournament, and providing a direct link between www.Antigua.com and www.DuramedFUTURESTour.com Additionally, Antigua will work with Duramed FUTURES Tour Professionals to make promotional appearances on behalf of Antigua as well as creating a Player Advisory Council to provide product feedback.
“All of us at Antigua are proud to be the preferred apparel partner of the Duramed Futures Tour,” said Ron McPherson, President and CEO of The Antigua Group, Inc.
“Introducing our products and services to the future stars of the LPGA Tour and the event organizers and staff is an outstanding initiative for our company.”
The Duramed FUTURES Tour will bring the world’s top young women golfers to 17 events in 2010. The 30th anniversary season of the Tour will feature a purse of nearly $2 million as well as its first full-field international event, to be held in Mexico. The schedule includes 16 returning tournaments, to be held in 13 states, in addition to Mexico. For the first time in the Tour’s history, all stops on the Tour will boast purse amounts of $100,000 and over.