Wilson Staff is the golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 division of Wilson Sporting Goods

Wilson Sporting Goods

The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports....

. The company designs and manufactures a full range of golf equipment

Golf equipment

Golf equipment encompasses the various items that are used to play the sport of golf. Types of equipment include the golf ball itself, implements designed for striking the golf ball, devices that aid in the process of playing a stroke, and items that in some way enrich the playing...

, accessories and apparel using the Wilson Staff, Wilson, Profile, and Hope brand

Brand

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Many of the worlds top professional golfer

Professional golfer

In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...

s have used Wilson equipment including Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...

 and Ben Crenshaw

Ben Crenshaw

Ben Daniel Crenshaw is an American professional golfer.Crenshaw was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas, where he won three NCAA Championships from 1971 to 1973...

 both of whom used a Wilson 8802 putter, Crenshaw's receiving the moniker Little Ben such was his proficiency with it. Current Wilson Staff players include Open

The Open Championship

The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...

 and USPGA

PGA Championship

The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...

 champion Pádraig Harrington

Padraig Harrington

Pádraig P. Harrington is an Irish professional golfer who plays on The European Tour and The PGA Tour. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, also in 2008.-Background:...

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Equipment

Wilson Staff currently market the following range of equipment.
Drivers

• Wilson Staff: Shockwave, DXi
• ProStaff

Fairways & Hybrids

• Wilson Staff: FyBrid, DXi
• ProStaff: Fairway, Hybrid

Irons

• Wilson Staff: Di11, Di9, Di7, Ci9, Ci7, Ci6, Fg62, FgTour
• ProStaff

Wedges

• Wilson Staff: Tw9, FgTour
• ProStaff

Putters

• Wilson Staff: 88 Series
• Wilson Staff: Vizor
• ProStaff

Balls

• Wilson Staff: FgTour, C:25, D:25, Zip
• ProStaff: Boost
• Ultra: Straight

Sponsorship Deals

In the past, Wilson has had many of the world best golfers under contract, including 6 time major winner Nick Faldo

Nick Faldo

Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

. Wilson Staff currently has endorsement deals with many professional golfer

Professional golfer

In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...

s who compete on all the major tours.

Former players

Brad McIntosh Stewart Ginn

Stewart Ginn

Stewart Ginn is an Australian professional golfer.Ginn was born in Melbourne. He grew up behind the twelfth green of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club and started caddying at the age of ten. In the 1970s and 1980s he won several professional tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia and one on the...

 Markus Brier

Markus Brier

Markus Brier is one of relatively few Austrian touring professional golfers, and as of 2008 is his country's highest ranked player....

Nick Faldo

Nick Faldo

Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

 Jesper Parnevik

Jesper Parnevik

Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings in 2000 and 2001.-Early years:...

Ben Crenshaw

Ben Crenshaw

Ben Daniel Crenshaw is an American professional golfer.Crenshaw was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas, where he won three NCAA Championships from 1971 to 1973...

 Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...