Natalie Gulbis 2008 Wall Calendar

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The talented and beautiful LPGA star strays away from swimsuits and showcases her game face in an all-golf calendar for 2008, with photos that capture her on the golf course and highlight her competitive spirit and drive to succeed.

The long awaited follow up to Natalie Gulbis' best selling calendar is here as the 2008 Natalie Gulbis Wall Calendar is finally available for purchase.

This is anticipated to be Natalie Gulbis' biggest selling calendar to date, passing all her other previous efforts. If you've seen Natalie Gulbis' previous calendars you'll know what we mean. Each one has been better than the one before it.

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This is a 12" x 9", 12 month, Natalie Gulbis 2008 Calendar featuring new images of rising LPGA golfer Natalie Gulbis. The Natalie Gulbis 2008 Calendar presents the many interesting faces of gorgeous Natalie Gulbis. Her outgoing personality, athleticism, fashion sense, and drive for success make Natalie Gulbis a fascinating and fun player to follow on the Women’s LPGA Tour. Natalie Gulbis fans will enjoy never-before-seen shots of Natalie in different settings and attire, from swimwear to casual attire and golf outfits. Like Natalie, the Natalie Gulbis 2008 Calendar is simply delightful.

About Natalie Gulbis
Natalie Anne Gulbis (born January 7, 1983) is a Latvian American professional golfer. She was born in Sacramento, California, and played in her first LPGA event as an amateur at the age of 14. She turned professional at age 18 after playing for one season on the women's golf team at the University of Arizona. She is the stepsister of American golf semi-professional Mason Monsevais.

Gulbis is considered to be one of the LPGA's sex symbols. When she released her calendar for 2005 just before the 2004 U.S. Women's Open, which featured Gulbis in different pictures that showed her playing golf, in addition to striking poses in swimwear, the United States Golf Association (USGA) barred it from being sold at the event, deeming it inappropriate, though the calendar was sold very openly at Golf Canada. The USGA was criticized for overreacting. Gulbis also posed for the November 2004 issue of the magazine FHM, an issue that also gave away a chance to play golf with her at her home course, the Lake Las Vegas Resort, where her calendar photo shoot took place. Gulbis has said that she likes the attention she gets, even if it is for her appearance; she has endorsement deals with Taylor Made Golf, Adidas, Canon, Amstel Light, and Lake Las Vegas Resort

In 2006, Gulbis began writing a monthly golf advice column in FHM. In November 2005, a reality television show, The Natalie Gulbis Show, made its debut on The Golf Channel. The show had its second season premiere on October 18, 2006.

Gulbis Grabs First LPGA Victory
After six long years the golden girl of women's golf scores big with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff at the Evian Masters

July 29, 2007

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) - Natalie Gulbis broke through at the Evian Masters, winning her first LPGA Tour title with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff with Jang Jeong of South Korea on Sunday.

Jang and the 24-year-old American finished the fourth round tied at 4-under 284. Gulbis had a final round 70, and Jang birdied the last hole to finish with a 72.

"Obviously it was meant to be for me," said Gulbis, in her sixth season on the LPGA Tour. "Before the playoff, I was very upset at myself because I felt like I had given away this tournament. I thought I needed to get to 7 under to win and I end up at, what, four? Going in today, I never thought that four under would have won this tournament."

Jang, the 2005 Women's British Open champion, birdied three of the last four holes to tie Gulbis.

"What does it mean? How long do you have?" Gulbis said. "I was really close last year when I lost a playoff and coincidentally it was right after the Match Play. It was like deja vu" coming off the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship last week.

At the first extra hole, the 18th, Jang missed the green with her second shot, but Gulbis did not.

"I usually can't reach that green in two," Gulbis said. "I hit a really good drive and hit my rescue club in. It was about 25 feet and I thought the eagle putt was in. Fortunately, it ended about a foot away and I tapped it in. I wouldn't have wanted it to be much farther than that."

By JEFFREY KELLEY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
The LPGA Tour's biggest sex symbol is having her image revamped -- and de-vamped -- by a Richmond branding agency.

Natalie Gulbis, the 24-year-old golfer best known -- at least until recently -- for her good looks, will be rebranded by Circle S Studios.

A 2008 calendar and day planner designed by the marketing shop in Old Manchester follows Gulbis' first LPGA Tour title at the Evian Masters in France in June.

The blonde Gulbis has done calendars since 2004. Pictures in her 2005 calendar -- in swimsuits or dresses -- were deemed provocative by the U.S. Golf Association. Though it was criticized for overreacting, the USGA banned the calendar's sale at the U.S. Women's Open.

The 2008 calendar, by contrast, is all golf and pushes Gulbis' game face.

"With the original stuff, she was in a beautiful bathing suit, tights and things and that certainly got the attention of a lot of people," said Circle S President and Managing Partner Susan Hogg. "But we're trying to scoot it more to who she is and where she wants to take [her career and name] . . . and being a role model, specifically to young girls and women in general. That's the brand we're trying to portray."

Hogg described the company's work as "a refinement of a truer image of who she is. Sometimes the media can start to control your brand, and we're trying to take control of the brand."

Still, it's not as though the tall, blue-green-eyed Gulbis will leave the minds of the males who know her. "They're still beauty shots. She's an attractive, wonderful athlete," Hogg said.

And there's more planned for Gulbis, the brand, besides 12-month planners.

"The calendar is just one element of how you get perceived in the marketplace, so we tried to step back and look holistically in terms of how is she being positioned" in public, Hogg said.

The firm, which occupies a converted box warehouse, is putting together "a series of recommendations, a strategic marketing plan" to Gulbis' sports-marketing firm, Octagon, Hogg said. Circle S is considering new merchandise and interactive features on the Web to help cater to the female teenage demographic -- conveying an all-American girl who eats well, exercises and works hard. "That's how you rise to the top, instead of the sex symbol, which is how it started out," Hogg said.

Circle S was brought on board by Octagon, and its golf and outdoors division at 7100 Forest Ave.

Kim King, senior manager in Octagon's golf division, said it is the hope that the "NG" brand Circle S creates extends beyond the calendar and its associated day planner, which contains tidbits about Gulbis' life.

For Circle S, Gulbis is the first time it has done branding on a person. The firm has done work for the Rocketts Landing development, AMF Bowling and Wachovia Securities Financial Network.

Unlike inanimate objects -- say, a box of cereal -- there's public opinion that develops around celebrities and sports stars and takes on a life of its own.