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    ScottyCameron

    JAT Proto *New $200 Cover inc.

    Newport 2 TeI New 9.5/10 Never Seen Golf Course $190

    Coranado Gun Blue conservitive 8/10 $140

    Titleist

    PT 13* S-300 Used Like New 9/10 $160 PENDING

    Vokey 60* Oil Can Used Excellent Condition $70 PENDING

    975 f 18.5* EI-70 Stiff Used 7/10 $100 PENDING

    Taylormade

    r7 weightkit, brand new $130

    TP r7 mag. cover $30 (Weights and cover combo $150)

    r7 retail new 9.5 stiff cover and wrench incl. $330

    300 Tour 8.0 (Tour Issue) Graffalloy Stiff $185 Used Excellent Condition PENDING

    2-iron Tour Satin RAC MB (Tour issue) $80 X-100 Pending

    Used Perfect Condition Swirl Face

    TourStage

    Forged wedges

    Z Series Brand New Never Used

    52*-56*-60* $75 each, Set $200

    Mizuno

    MP-14 2-iron HEAD ONLY $70 SOLD

    Brand new never used

    MP-29 3-PW 6.0 Rifles $150 pending

    Used Some Chrome Loss

    No major dings, good condition/except for chrome loss

    ALL ITEMS are OR BEST OFFER

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    Excellent Combo

    Tour r7 TP Quad $800

    Tour Issue

    Orange Aldila R/D Proto 75-S Shaft

    9.5 Comes with 2-2oz and 2-7oz weights

    No additional weights

    r7 Cover and wrench included

    TP Logo on Toe

    NO Serial #

    r7 Quad TP 8.5 $600

    Fuji 757 Speeder Stiff

    Cover and wrench included

    no weights

    Scotty Camerons

    1997 Limited Edition C.L.N. (Cameron Long Neck) Prototype. New $400

    J.A.T. Prototype Putter Studio Design New $225

    Inspired By Davis Love III Putter New $350

    Blk Baby T Grip, IBDL III Cover

    Newport 2 TeI insert New $225

    All Clubs are subject to offers and included shipping.

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    Phil Mickelson has been released 16 months early from his endorsement contract with Titleist, Golfweek has learned. Mickelson has not secured a new deal with another equipment company, although Callaway Golf appears to be the front runner.

    According to sources familiar with Mickelson’s dealings with Titleist, Mickelson and his agent, Steve Loy of Gaylord Sports Management, began shopping for a new equipment deal before the Masters. After Mickelson won his green jacket, those sources say, he approached Titleist with a request to renegotiate his contract, which runs through December 2005 and is worth a reported $4 million per year.

    Titleist refused, sources said, but discussions ensued to release Mickelson from his contract if he could find a better deal. Nearly five months later, the two parties have agreed to dissolve the relationship.

    Officials from Titleist declined comment, and Callaway officials could not be reached. Loy also could not be reached for comment; he was expected to meet with Mickelson on Thursday.

    Mickelson’s friend and swing coach, Rick Smith, said he was unaware that Mickelson had been seeking a new equipment deal.

    “It’s not Phil shopping as much as it is Titleist not wanting to pay him,” said Smith, noting that Mickelson’s contract with the equipment company likely is laced with lucrative performance incentives, many of which have been reached during Mickelson’s banner 2004 season.

    Mickelson has been an enthusiastic pitchman for Titleist products since signing with the Fairhaven, Mass.-based company in 2000, after a long run with Yonex Golf. He once touted Titleist’s Pro V1 ball as having a greater impact on golf than when steel replaced hickory in club shafts.

    But the relationship has been strained at least since last September, when Mickelson – nearing the end of his most disappointing season as a pro – made headlines by attempting to pitch for baseball’s Toledo Mud Hens, the Detroit Tigers’ Triple-A farm club.

    Mickelson also got into hot water last fall when he called his friend, Mike Galeski, who is head of PGA Tour player relations for Callaway, and left a voice mail praising Callaway for its new HX Tour ball and ERC Fusion driver. Galeski saved the message, and it was played for Callaway sales reps at a national sales meeting in September. When news of that episode reached Titleist, the company threatened legal action against Callaway and Mickelson. (Callaway stopped using the tape and Titleist did not litigate.) Earlier in 2003, Mickelson was involved in a controversy with Nike, when he said Tiger Woods was playing with “inferior equipment.”

    Signing Mickelson would be a shot in the arm for Callaway, which has not performed up to shareholders’ expectations in recent months and fired CEO Ron Drapeau on Aug. 2. Callaway’s lead endorser on the PGA Tour is Charles Howell III. The signings of “young guns” such as Ty Tryon, Jeff Quinney, Ricky Barnes and Casey Wittenberg have done little to move the marketing needle.

    Mickelson is enjoying unprecedented popularity this season on the heels of capturing his first major in April, and making runs at the three other majors. He won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in January, has 13 top-10 finishes in 18 starts and ranks second in PGA Tour earnings with more than $5.6 million.

    Smith, who was with Mickelson as recently as Aug. 31, said he knew nothing of an impending Mickelson-Callaway deal.

    “I would have heard that,” Smith said. “Callaway is not a done deal . . . If he has been released by Titleist, then he’ll be looking for the best ball and the best equipment he can find. I think he’ll be testing a lot of people’s equipment.”

    Mickelson, expected to return to the Tour to play the Bell Canadian Open Sept. 9-12 before competing in the Ryder Cup, is in a unique position. His Tour earnings, plus multimillion dollar deals with Ford Motor Co. and the business consulting firm Bearing Point, allow him the luxury of taking time between equipment deals. He’s not likely to change clubs before season’s end.

    Smith said he was surprised by how “underutilized” Mickelson had been in Titleist marketing.

    “If there’s a guy who can shift market share, it’s Phil,” Smith said.

    It’s well known, however, that Titleist – which paid Tiger Woods to play its ball and clubs early in his professional career before he went 100 percent Nike – strongly adheres to a credo that no individual endorser is more important than the brand.

    The departure of Mickelson leaves Titleist with three full staff members among the top seven money earners on the PGA Tour in 2004: Ernie Els (No. 3), Adam Scott (6) Davis Love III (7).