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| For Immediate Release |
| 11/29/2004 |
For more information contact:
Evan Zorn, Bartlesville Development Corporation
918-337-0001 or ezorn@bartlesville.com |
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| Big Name in Golf Coming to Bartlesville |
The Bartlesville City Council approved an incentive package for DeLaCruz Golf, a
company currently headquartered in Vista, California, and founded by well-known golf
club designer, Dick DeLaCruz . The Council agreed to the package that includes some
cash payments for moving expenses and job creation in addition to two years free rent
on a 75,000 square foot building owned by the Bartlesville Development Corporation and
formerly occupied by Components Manufacturing Company. The company also received
an option to purchase the building after three years for a reduced rate if it has created 500
jobs by the end of that time period. Currently DeLaCruz Golf employs 27 workers in
California. Seventeen of those workers are expected to move to the Bartlesville area.
“Bartlesville is a golf town, so we are excited to have one of the biggest names in
golf club design locating his company here,” said Evan Zorn, BDC President. “The
move will be a cost saving one for the company, and I believe that they will find that our
workers and business environment are the best in the nation,” he added.
Dick DeLaCruz, a name known throughout the golf world, started DeLaCruz Golf in
2001. Prior to this venture, he designed and manufactured automated machinery for the
golf industry. He was also vice president for Callaway Golf, which now employes 3,800
in Carlsbad. While working there, his accomplishments included the designing of the S2-
H2 System, the design upon which all Callaway golf equipment is based to date.
DeLaCruz is known by many golf enthusiasts for being the designer of the “Big Bertha”
driver, one of the clubs in the S2-H2 series, and the Cobra Oversized Clubs.
Dick has also designed clubs for and worked with the following companies: Wilson,
MacGregor, True Temper, Palmer, Spaulding, Callaway, Cobra Golf, Founders Club,
Godwin Golf, Kenneth Smith, Orlimar, Coors, and Bridgestone. In 1995 DeLaCuz
served as CEO and Vice Chairman of Goldwin Golf-USA, a start-up golf company that
was grossing $65,000,000 in annual sales by the end of its third year. Goldwin currently
has 400 employees.
As a part of the arrangement with the City, DeLaCruz Golf has agreed to begin its
move to Bartlesville by March 2005 with completion by July 2005.
For more information refer to the company’s website www.delacruzgolf.com. |
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