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Lincoln, CA - Maggie Will, a three-time winner on the LPGA Tour, will put in play this weekend the Louisville Golf Stimp 10CB putter at the Long's Drugs Challenge. It is the first Louisville Golf putter used on the LPGA Tour since 1997 when Laura Davies used a Louisville Golf Earthwood. The Louisville Golf Earthwood was a top ten putter on the LPGA Tour that year.

Will, who hails from North Carolina, has been a member of the LPGA Tour since 1989. Her victories include two sudden-death playoff wins in both the Children's Medical Center Classic (1994) and the Sara Lee Classic (1992). Her first win on the LPGA Tour came in 1990 at the Desert Inn LPGA International.

"We are very excited to be returning to the LPGA Tour," said Mike Just, Louisville Golf president. "And to have a player like Maggie Will with our putter, is a real bonus. We wish her the best of luck this weekend."

Will, who's golf coach is PGA club professional Rick Schuller, has been struggling with her putting since a shoulder injury limited her season in 1998 to 13 events. Schuller used a Louisville Golf Dogwood mallet putter at the 2001 PGA Championship where he was the only club pro to make the cut, finished 19th in putting for the week and finished with the third lowest 72-hole total by a PGA Professional in the history of the event.

Click here for information about Rich Schuller's 2001 PGA performance: http://www.louisvillegolf.com/library_schuller.html

"Rick had a great week with our putter (at the PGA Championship). He turned his student Maggie on to our putters when she came to him for instruction and was struggling with her putting," said Josh Fischer, Vice President of Marketing at Louisville Golf. "She really liked the way the Stimp 10CB lined up and felt to her.

"Rick was struggling with his putting before he turned to our putters, and it helped him turn his performance on the greens around. We hope it will do the same for Maggie."

The Stimp 10CB by Louisville Golf is a center-shafted, Persimmon `polie' mallet putter with a copper insert. The `polie' design refers to heal and toe indentations on the back of the putter that creates a ridge that helps as an alignment feature.

The center-shafting reduces leverage around the shaft, thus lessening slicing and pulling of putts. This feature also provides a linear alignment to the hole, allowing the golfer to stroke the putt directly at the target. The Stimp 10CB is the first center-shafted model offered in Louisville Golf's popular Stimp Series Perisimmon putters.

"Maggie really liked the way the Stimp 10CB lined up at address," said Fischer. "She told us she really felt confident over the ball."

Schuller, who affectionately calls his Louisville Golf putter "woody," encouraged his student to give her putter a name. Will chose the name "Black Magic."

"We hope our putter gives Maggie all the magic she needs this weekend," said Just. "She is really itching for another win, and we all know how important putting is to a golfer. We'll really be rooting her on this weekend."

The Golf Channel will air the Longs Drugs Challenge this weekend from 12:30 to 3:30 EST Thursday and Friday and 4:30 to 7:30 EST Saturday and Sunday. The total purse is $900,000. Se Ri Pak won the event last year getting by Laura Diaz who finished second.

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