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Ladies Golf Association Tour sponsored by Canon
Mark Peters : August 3th 2006 - 10:38 CET
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 Ladies Golf Association Tour sponsored by Canon : Continuing its support for professional golf, Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced that it has entered into a sponsorship agreement with Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour Professional Natalie Gulbis for the 2006 LPGA season. The 23-year-old Natalie Gulbis, born in Sacramento, California achieved more than 10 top-10 finishes in 2005, including a tie for fourth place at the U.S.Women's Open, and has posted several top-five finishes already in 2006. Natalie Gulbis also qualified for her first Solheim Cup, a biennial USA vs. Europe team match play competition that is viewed as the premier event in women's world golf, in 2005.
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 Ladies Golf Association Tour 2006
"Natalie is one of today's rising stars on the LPGA tour, and has become synonymous with the future of women's sports," said Tod Pike, senior vice president, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. "We welcome Natalie into the Canon family and look forward to supporting her during this golf season." Canon has long-standing relationships with the PGA TOUR, the Metropolitan Golf Association and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA). Canon is the official copier, facsimile, MFP, printer, scanner, camera and binocular of the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour. The company has also been the title sponsor for the Canon Cup, the leading junior golf match play competition, since 1990. In addition to Gulbis, Canon has sponsorship agreements with PGA TOUR Professionals Jay and Bill Haas, Briny Baird and Billy Andrade, as well as LPGA Professionals Michelle McGann and Brittany Lang.
About Natalie Gulbis
Natalie Anne Gulbis, born January 7, 1983 is a professional golfer. She was born in Sacramento, California, and played in her first LPGA event as an amateur at the age of 14. She turned professional at age 18 after playing for one season on the women's golf team at the University of Arizona. She is the stepsister of American golf semi-professional Mason Monsevais Gulbis is considered to be one of the LPGA's sex symbols. When she released her calendar for 2005 just before the 2004 U.S. Women's Open, which featured Gulbis in different pictures that showed her playing golf, in addition to striking poses in swimwear, the United States Golf Association (USGA) barred it from being sold at the event, deeming it inappropriate, though the calendar was sold very openly at Golf Canada. The USGA was criticized for overreacting. Gulbis also posed for the November 2004 issue of the magazine FHM, an issue that also gave away a chance to play golf with her at her home course, the Lake Las Vegas Resort, where her calendar photo shoot took place. Gulbis has said that she likes the attention, she has endorsement deals with Taylor Made Golf, Adidas, Canon, Amstel Light, and Lake Las Vegas Resort.
About Ladies Professional Golf Association
The Ladies Professional Golf Association is the longest-running women's sports association in the world, having celebrated its 50th anniversary in the year 2000. The organization has grown from its roots as a playing tour into a non-profit organization involved in every facet of golf. The LPGA Tour and the LPGA Teaching & Club Professional (T&CP) Membership comprise the backbone of what has become the premier women's sports organization in the world today. The LPGA maintains a strong focus on charity through: its tournaments; its grassroots junior and women's programs; its affiliation with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation; and the formation of The LPGA Foundation. The LPGA is under the guidance of Commissioner Carolyn Bivens and is headquartered in Daytona Beach, FL.
About Canon USA
Canon USA delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. The Company is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is rated #35 on the BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." Its parent company Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ) is a top patent holder of technology, ranking second overall in the U.S. in 2005, with global revenues of $31.8 billion.
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