Tim Mustone and Mike Fee Headed to Regional Qualifier of RE/MAX
World Long Drive Championship
WOBURN, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
KaZaK Composites, Inc., a premier provider of high value-added
composite engineering and design, is proud to announce today that two
of its employees have qualified for the RE/MAX World Long Drive
Championship competition. After competing in local qualifiers, Tim
Mustone, a Medford resident raised in Reading and Mike Fee of
Middleton will participate in the Northeast Regional Finals on August
22 and 23 in Conneaut Lake, PA.
"We are proud to have not one, but two members of the KaZaK team
involved in such an exciting golf competition," says John Schickling,
EVP/COO of KaZaK. "We try to support our employees having a good
work/life balance so it's gratifying to see Mike and Tim excelling in
an activity outside of the office."
Tim Mustone, engineering product manager at KaZaK, started playing
golf in the early 1990s and has reached the Long Drive Championships
twice, which only includes the top 128 hitters. He made it to the
finals in his very first year of entering the competition, 2004, and
he also reached the finals in 2007. His longest drive, in the 2004
World Competition, was 413 yards. Tim credits his superior golf swing
to the very skills that he needs to be successful at KaZaK in an
engineering role. "The good thing about being an engineer is that I
have a better understanding of how physics plays a role in the
mechanics of a good golf swing how that knowledge helps or hinders a
performance," says Tim. "I hope that will give me an edge on the other
competitors."
If that is the case, then Tim's main competition may be his friend
and colleague, fellow KaZaK employee Mike Fee. Although this is Mike's
first time in the competition he played golf all four years of college
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was the captain of the team in
his senior year. He plays with a 3 handicap and hit the ball 351.5
yards to qualify for the Northeast Regional Finals. "I've never
entered a long drive competition before this one so at the last minute
Tim let me borrow a club of his and I qualified, coming in second
place," says Mike. "I love the sport and I am excited to see how I can
do at the next round of play in Conneaut Lake, PA."
Long Drivers of America's (LDA) annual RE/MAX World Long Drive
Championship crowns champions in five competitive divisions and
identifies the golfer who has the longest drive in the world. The 2008
championship will have a purse of $600,000 and will pay the open
division champion $250,000. The finals take place in October in
Mesquite, Nevada after an eight-month qualifying process worldwide.
About KaZaK Composites
Headquartered in Woburn, MA, KaZaK Composites, Inc. integrates
engineering design and low-cost manufacturing to produce high
performance composites for the aerospace, military and commercial
markets. With specialization in large and unusual pultrusion
processing, KaZaK Composites, Inc. provides product value in the area
of material sciences that has enabled engineers to develop new and
creative ways to build structures. KaZaK has operations in Woburn, MA
and Hudson, NH. For more information, please visit
www.kazakcomposites.com.
KaZaK Composites, Inc.
Shannon Downey, 781-569-2542
sdowney@kazakcomposites.com
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