{"id":54256,"date":"2016-10-03T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/?p=54256"},"modified":"2016-10-02T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:10:01","slug":"ecco-golf-the-legend-fred-couples-re-signs-as-ambassador-of-the-golf-shoes-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/ecco-golf-the-legend-fred-couples-re-signs-as-ambassador-of-the-golf-shoes-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"ECCO Golf \u2013 The Legend Fred Couples re-signs as Ambassador of the golf shoes brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECCO-Fred-Couples-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECCO-Fred-Couples-1.jpg\" alt=\"ECCO-Fred-Couples-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECCO-Fred-Couples-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECCO-Fred-Couples-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 3, 2016 &#8211; <\/strong><strong>ECCO Golf<\/strong> has announced that a new multi-year agreement has been reached with ambassador <strong>Fred\u00a0Couples<\/strong>, extending the partnership between the parties.<\/p>\n<p>Couples, the World Golf Hall of Famer and Golf Digest\u2019s \u201cCoolest Golfer of all Time\u201d, will continue to compete with the <strong>ECCO Golf<\/strong> logo on the side of his hat, and showcase the Danish company\u2019s multi-award winning Hybrid shoes during tournament play.<\/p>\n<p>Couples\u2019 relationship with <strong>ECCO Golf<\/strong> is widely credited with sparking the Hybrid shoe revolution. His performance at the 2010 Masters tournament, where he competed in the company\u2019s pioneering Golf Street model, forever altered the global golf footwear market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve competed in ECCO Golf shoes for a decade now, and I can honestly say I can\u2019t see a time where I wear anything else,\u201d<\/em> said <strong>Fred Couples<\/strong>. <em>\u201cThe comfort provided is second-to-none and I love the look of the new innovations coming in 2017.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the most popular golfers to ever pick up a club,\u00a0Couples\u00a0has captured 15 PGA Tour titles, including the 1992 Masters. His other notable achievements include winning the 1984 and 1996 PLAYERS Championships, twice earning PGA Tour Player of the Year and Vardon Trophy honours in the same season (\u201991, \u201992), subsequently becoming the first American to reach No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings (six years after the system debuted).<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Champions Tour in 2011,\u00a0Couples\u00a0has won 11 titles, highlighted by the 2012 Senior Open Championship and 2011 Senior Players Championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFred\u00a0Couples\u00a0is synonymous with ECCO Golf,\u201d<\/em> said <strong>Jesper Thuen<\/strong>, Head of ECCO Golf \u2013 Asia-Pacific and responsible for sponsorship. <em>\u201cI\u2019m delighted that our agreement has been extended as he\u2019s been an incredible ambassador for us.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information at <a href=\"http:\/\/ecco.com\/golf\" target=\"_blank\">ecco.com\/golf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holgolf.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.holgolf.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 2016 &#8211; ECCO Golf has announced that a new multi-year agreement has been reached with ambassador Fred\u00a0Couples, extending the partnership between the parties. Couples, the World Golf Hall of Famer and Golf Digest\u2019s \u201cCoolest Golfer of all Time\u201d, will continue to compete with the ECCO Golf logo on the side of his hat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3715,154,155],"class_list":["post-54256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-tour-events","category-ecco-golf-en","category-holiday-golf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}