Press Release
Tokyo, Japan, Apr 15, 2009
 
BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CONCLUDES GOLF SUPPLY USAGE CONTRACT
FOR 2009 WITH 370 PROFESSIONALS
Bridgestone Sports has concluded golf supply usage contract with 370 professionals. There are 235 male professionals for domestic tournaments including 17 seeded professionals and 5 overseas male professionals for US PGA Tour. And there are 127 female professionals for domestic ladies tournaments including 17 seeded professionals and 3 overseas female professionals for US LPGA Tour

2009 Male Professionals for Domestic Tournaments (seeded players: 17, total players: 235)
Seeded Male Professionals for JGTO Tournaments
As of April 13th, 2009
No. Name 2008 money ranking Ball Club Cap Bag Shoes Glove Umbrella Wear
1 Katsumasa Miyamoto 16 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
2 Tomohiro Kondo 18 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
3 Yasuharu Imano 22 ○ ○   ○   ○ ○  
4 Kaname Yokoo 24 ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
5 Kiyoshi Miyazato 32 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
6 Yusaku Miyazato 33 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
7 Shigeki Maruyama 38 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
8 Tadahiro Takayama 46 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
9 Yuta Ikeda 52 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
10 Shinichi Yokota 55 ○         ○    
11 Tetsuji Hiratsuka 56 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
12 Ryuichi Oda 61 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
13 Eddie Lee 64 ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
14 Nobuhiro Masuda 70 ○       ○ ○    
15 Taigen Tsumagari 73 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
16 Naomichi Ozaki L.T.S. ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
17 Masahiro Kuramoto L.T.S. ○ ○ ○ ○   ○ ○  
L.T.S.: Long Term Seed

Top Male Professionals for JGTO Challenge Tournaments/Pro-Test
As of April 13th, 2009
No. Name 2008 ranking Ball Club Cap Bag Shoes Glove Glove Wear
1 Shigeru Nonaka 3 on ChallengeTournament ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
2 Taichiro Kiyota 5 on ChallengeTournament ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
3 Norihiko Furusyo 4 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
4 Ryutaro Nagano 13 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
5 Katsufumi Okino 19 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
6 Nobuyuki Okuwa 23 on QT ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
7 Daisuke Kataoka 25 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
8 Yoshinobu Tsukada 31 on QT ○         ○    
9 Akinori Tani 32 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
10 Masato Yamauchi 34 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
11 Yuki Ishikawa 36 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
12 Kosaku Makisaka 40 on QT ○              
13 Keisuke Kitta 45 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
14 Kouki Idoki 46 on QT ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  

2009 Female Professionals for Domestic Ladies Tournaments (seeded players: 17, total payers: 127)
Female Seeded Professionals for Domestic Ladies Tournaments
As of March 2nd, 2009
No. Name 2008 money ranking Ball Club Cap Bag Shoes Glove Umbrella Wear
1 Lee Ji Hee 2 ○     ○   ○ ○  
2 Jeon Mi Jeong 6 ○ ○   ○   ○ ○  
3 Eun-A Lim 9 ○              
4 Ayako Uehara 14 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
5 Hiromi Mogi 18 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
6 Miki Saiki 20 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
7 Maiko Wakabayashi 21 ○              
8 Lee Ji Woo 22 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
9 Chie Arimura 23 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
10 Saiki Fujita 29 ○              
11 Yuko Saitoh 34 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
12 Yasuko Satoh 38 ○         ○    
13 Julie Lu 41 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
14 Yui Kawahara 43 ○         ○    
15 Hiromi Takesue 48 ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
16 Yuki Ichinose 49 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
17 Michie Ohba 52 ○              

Female Professionals for domestic Ladies Tournaments on 2008 Pro-Test
As of March 2nd, 2009
No. Name 2008 pro-test ranking Ball Club Cap Bag Shoes Glove Umbrella Wear
18 Tomomi Hirose 4 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
19 Mika Takushima 5 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
20 Tamie Durdin 6 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
21 Ikuyo Shiotani 8 ○         ○    
22 Yuriko Ohtsuka 12 ○ ○   ○   ○ ○  
23 Nobuko Kizawa 13 ○   ○ ○   ○ ○  
24 Yuko Shinsakaue 19 ○   ○ ○   ○ ○  
25 Na-Ri Lee 20 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
26 Megumi Shimokawa 28 ○       ○ ○    
27 Yuko Fukuda 30 ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
28 Itsumi Okada 33 ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  
29 Ｈａｎａｅ　Ｃｈｉｋａｍｏｔｏ 36 ○              
30 Zhang Na 50 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  

2009 Bridgestone Male and Female Professionals for US Tournaments
Seeded Male Professionals for US PGA Tour
As of April 13th, 2009
No. Name 2008 PGA Ranking Ball Club Cap Bag Glove
1 Brandt Snedeker 59 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
2 Charles Howell III 69 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
3 Matt Kuchar 70 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
4 Fred Couples 109 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
5 Will Mackenzie 114 ○   ○ ○ ○

Male Professionals for US Champions Tour
As of April 13th, 2009
No. Name 2008 Champion Tour Ranking Ball Cap Bag Shoes Glove Umbrella
1 Nick Price 12 ○ ○     ○  
2 Naomichi Ozaki 31 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
N. Ozaki: Listed as a seeded professional for JGTO Tournaments also

Female Professionals for US LPGA Tour
As of March 2nd, 2008
No. Name 2008 LPGA ranking Ball Club Cap Bag Shoes Glove Glove Wear
1 Paula Creamer 2 ○              
2 AiMIyazato 46 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
3 Mika Miyazato 12 on QT ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

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