Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) today announced that Popular Science
magazine honored its popular Callaway uPro® golf GPS device with a 2009
Best of What’s New Award. The award comes just as the Company’s latest
golf GPS device, Callaway uPro Go, arrives at retail. Pre-loaded with
more than 18,000 golf courses from uPro’s growing global database,
Callaway uPro Go lets golfers go straight to the course from the golf
shop with a cutting edge, full-color GPS device.
Popular Science’s Best of What’s New Awards, now in their 22nd
year, highlight the top 100 technological innovations of the year. With
this recognition, Popular Science asserts that the Callaway uPro
represents a significant step forward in golf GPS systems and
recreational devices.
"Callaway Golf is thrilled to be recognized by Popular Science
for the contributions that our uPro GPS device has made to the
Recreation category,” said Alan Hocknell, Senior Vice President,
Research & Development, Callaway Golf. "We’re confident that our new
uPro Go will also be well received, particularly by players who have yet
to experience how a GPS device can enhance their game.”
The new Callaway uPro Go contains many of the same award-winning
features and benefits of the Callaway uPro. uPro Go is designed for
players that desire advanced GPS assistance in a device that comes
pre-loaded with more than 18,000 courses, allowing them to go straight
to the course from the golf shop.
The uPro Go has an easy-to-use interface and features a large,
full-color screen that displays vibrant images, even in direct sunlight.
At nearly half the weight and size of other golf GPS devices, it also
fits comfortably into a pocket without hindering the golf swing.
Taking the best from both GPS devices and rangefinders, Callaway uPro Go
features AnyPoint™ Technology within its GoMode™ setting, which allows
golfers to acquire accurate distances from any spot on the golf course.
GoMode also features the Virtual Green View, which uses a proprietary
imagery process that shows the green and its surrounding area in vivid
detail with precise distances. Accessing the GoMode features requires
only a one-time activation fee.
Callaway uPro Go’s Basic Mode has access to the same massive database of
courses and contains free offerings of Green View and Hazard View. Green
View provides accurate distances to the front, center and back of the
green. Hazard View shows the distance to the front and back of all
hazards, as well as the type of hazard.
The original Callaway uPro,
honored by
Popular Science,
is the only dedicated golf GPS system on the market that provides
golfers with actual hi-resolution aerial photography of golf courses. In
its patent-pending ProMode™, aerial photography and state-of-the-art
graphics allow golfers to accurately visualize holes and clearly see
hazards, providing precise distances so golfers can navigate the course
and plan their strategy.
The new Callaway uPro Go GPS device is now available at retail and
features a new product introduction retail price of $299.
For more information on these products and Callaway Golf’s complete
lineup of equipment, footwear and accessories, please visit www.callawaygolf.com.
High-resolution images of all products are available for immediate
download via the Media Center portion of Callaway Golf’s website: www.callawaygolf.com/Global/en-US/MediaCenter.html.
About Callaway Golf
Through an unwavering commitment to innovation, Callaway Golf Company
(NYSE:ELY) creates products and services designed to make every golfer a
better golfer. Callaway Golf Company manufactures and sells golf clubs
and golf balls, and sells golf accessories, under the Callaway Golf®,
Odyssey®, Top-Flite®, and Ben Hogan® brands in more than 110 countries
worldwide. For more information please visit www.callawaygolf.com
or shop.callawaygolf.com.