GEL Golf is celebrating its second tour victory today following Hsu Mong-nam’s victory in the Omega China Tour’s Shanghai Championship at the Orient Golf and Country Club, Shanghai. Chinese Taipei’s Hsu, who has spent most of the last decade plying his trade on the Asian Tour, was playing with a GEL Jade putter when he clinched victory in what was his fourth appearance on this year’s Omega China Tour.

Hsu, 34, emulates thesuccess of American Bryan Saltus who secured the US $300,000 Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open on the Asian Tour in December using a GEL Topaz putter. Saltus immediately gave credit to his GEL Groove Putter for helping him lift his first ever major tour title.

This latest victory, in a tournament where two other players in the top five were also using a GELPutter, marks another landmark in the short history of GEL Golf which hasquickly set out its stall as one of golf’s most innovative technology manufacturers. Launched just 18 months agoat the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, GEL Golf has already brought the huge benefits of groove technology in putters using horizontal precision-cut, aluminium inserts to the attention of the golf industry and media as well asprofessional players.

The rationale behind grooveand insert technology that GEL uses in its putters is based on scientific testing that has proved that the use of groove technology in putters creates instant forward roll on the golf ball, thus reducing the unwelcome effects of skidding and giving a truer roll.

“GEL is extremely pleased to be celebrating its second Tour victory in the space of six months given we only entered the market in 2007,” commented Alec Pettigrew, managing director of Hong Kong-based GEL Golf, following Hsu’s win. “To have established ourselves so quickly in what is an extremely competitive market and to have secured two tournament wins at such an early stage proves that we have a product that pros not only like to use, but that really benefits their putting.”.

Most recently, GEL teamed up with sports biomechanist and putting coach, Dr Paul Hurrion, to produce the GEL Paul Hurrion Signature Range of groove putters which were introduced to the international golf market early this year, garnering an overwhelming response..

Hsu Mong Nam wins Shanghai Open with GEL Putter