Collectors Set Of Penfold Heart Golf Balls

By: FSWL team

Published:
2008-08-25

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

20th August 2008
The Penfold Heart, the golf ball favoured by 007 and made famous in the 1960s, is finally back in action. Penfold Golf is relaunching its HEART™ ball on-line to commemorate the Ian Fleming Centenary 2008.

The golf ball with the heart logo was made famous by the 1967 Bond film, Goldfinger. 007 plays with a Penfold Heart ball in defeating arch-villain Auric Goldfinger. Sean Connery (playing Bond for the third time in the
third Bond movie) became a keen golfer as a result of playing golf in the blockbuster film. Co-star, the Penfold Heart, also shot to stardom - orders for the British-made Penfold Heart poured in after the release of
Goldfinger.

Penfold's world class history
Started in Birmingham in the 1920s, this British manufacturer of golf balls became world famous for exporting its one and two-piece golf balls. In the 1960s, the world's greatest golfers signed up to play for Penfold:
Seve Ballesteros, Gary Player, and Curtis Strange were joined in the 1970s by Peter Oosterhuis, Christy O'Connor, Howard Clark and Nick Faldo.

Anyone who was anyone either played for Penfold or played with a Penfold.

In the most famous golf match in literature, Fleming based the fictitious game between 007 and Goldfinger at a club closely mirroring his beloved Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent. This summer, The
Royal St. George's traced Penfold Golf back to its Birmingham roots to commission Penfold Hearts with the 007 logo on. These were premièred in a charity golf match for The British Heart Foundation, hosted as part of
the Ian Fleming Centenary events.

Making the 007 golf balls encouraged Penfold Golf to re-instate the famous Heart golf balls. A limited number of collector's sets of Penfold Hearts are being launched in two waves. The first wave launches this week. A
donation will be made to The British Heart Foundation from each of the 500 collector's sets.

The collector's 12-ball sets, costing £50 are only available from www.penfoldgolf.com

"Each set comes in a commemorative slipcase, with a sequentially-numbered card to validate its authenticity as a collector's limited edition," explains Penfold Golf director, William Baird, who has guided the
manufacture of golf balls for some 30 years.

"We are anticipating demand from both golfers and Bond fans, as both Penfold and 007 have a quintessentially British appeal, which is why we are launching the collector's sets in two phases," adds Baird.

NOTE
The Penfold Hearts are only available to buy from this website, but, thanks to our Dutch friend Remmert van Braam who runs the excellent website Bond Lifestyle - You only live once, live like James Bond there is a chance to win a pack of these unique golf balls.
www.penfoldgolf.com/catalogue/12penfoldhearts/index.html

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