Archived Golf Industry News


1999 Industry News Stories December 1999 Oshman's Losing Sales TearDrop Finance Reaches Maturity Avid Sportswear Files to Join SEC Public Market Callaway Recommended as "Strong Buy" Callaway Announce Resignation Doctor To Speak For Champ Cleats GolfGear Agrees Licence with PowerBilt Taylor Made Wins Industry Award Royal Precision Expands Order Fulfilment Ashworth Increases Consumer Usage Wilson: Forging Farewell Cleveland Owners Show Profit MacNeill Launch Champ Golf Cranbrook Launch Membership Scheme UK Politics: Beith Defends Golfers Gibbons Buys Chart Hills PGA Awaiting Tribunal Outcome World Golf Championships: Creating a Greener Environment The Committed to Green Foundation An Environmental Management Programme for Sport The Valderrama Declaration: Golf & The Environment November 1999 Club Car Changes Name Izod Off to Oxford Acushnet Sue Taylor Made Softspikes Buy British Company Aldila Boss Stepping Down Callaway Appeal to be Heard Celtic Rivalry for Ryder Cup Toro's New Products for the Millennium UK Firm Gain China Contract Hever for Ever Golf Club for Sale Callaway - New VP of Sales & Marketing Cutter & Buck Open in Orlando Fresh Funds for ClubCorp Callaway on the Mend Clubhaus to Spend Millions on Nizels Big Plans for Little Hay Monty Goes Back to School Edenbridge in New Hands Germain's New Name at Tudor Park New Chairman at Royal Precision Rizzo Takes Over at Dunlop Maxfli Six Million Dollar Website October 1999 Callaway Awarded Payment from Fairway to Heaven Callaway - Third Quarter Results Nevada Bob's Stores Merge Teardrop Funding Confirmed Sharp Practice at PGA Show Japanese Slump Continues Callaway Split with Sumitomo Wilson in the Black Professional Caddie Certification Programme UK: VAT Countdown Under Way Reebok and Dunlop Part Company Leisure Links Take Over Whitewebbs Park, London Adams Beefs Up Sales Staff Pro Dismissed by Slinfold Park Loughborough University: Management Training Adams Golf: New Appointment Dubai Exhibition Opens - Permanently DTI Boost for Orlando Exhibitors Charterhouse Turf: New Appointment The Player Declares Figures Golf World Sales Down Again Links Leisure: New Appointment American Golf Discount: New Appointment Remote Control Irrigation Chesteron to Market Flaxby Park Kardex Solves Spares Problem Taiwan Factories Undamaged Cutter & Buck Expanding US: Golf Spending Analysis ClubCorp Go Shopping Down Under Carbite Golf Sign Deal with Daiwa PGA Show: Big Names Leaving Vegas Apollo Golf File Chapter 11 Kettlewell Joins Norman Collection Cross Creek Pull Out of Europe NEC Confirm Retailing at Golf Expo 2000 Pringle: Diamonds are not Forever Callaway Successor Named Teardrop's Osbourn Resigns SALTEX Expansion Diamond Golf MD Treacy to Step Down European Golf Expanding Top Marks for Munich Trade Show Callaway and Sumitomo Rubber Agree in Japan Plimsoll Publishing Releases "Golf - Decade Edition" Callaway Seeks Additional Court Order Against Former VP July to September 1999 Secretaries Form New Institute Norman Sued by Video Company Cutter & Buck Fakes Flushed Out Callaway and Orlimar Settle Differences Textron Bail Out Teardrop Nevada Bob's Merger Plans Spalding Sales Drop Acushnet Consolidation Manson to Take Wildwood American Golf Acquire More Clubs Clubhaus Steps up Spending Golf World Sales Down Again Decathlon Arrive in UK Callaway Injunction Against Mark King Revealing Trade Secrets Sabotage at the London Golf Club Callaway Ends Contract with John Daly Reebok and Dunlop Split Visual Edge CFO Resigns Cobra's New Campaign Hartmax Sales Decline Ashworth Results PGA Show has New Slant Adams Golf Announcements Teardrop Stock Drops Callaway and Orlimar Settle Lawsuit Callaway Take Ex-Vice President to Court Nike Revenue Drops American Golf Acquires Oak Park at Crondall, Hants Genesis Management Acquires Pro Style Clubhaus Announces Record Interim Results Callaway Declares Second Quarter Dividend Callaway names President American Golf Acquires Abbotsley Golf Hotel Home of Golf Launches Degree in Course Designed Callaway Report Second Quarter Sales and Earnings New Faces at Ashworth San Diego Police Make Arrest in Callaway Investigation Callaway Completes Reincorporation April to June 1999 Toro Announces New UK Manager Stapleford Park Announces New Course Carnoustie Announces International Membership Callaway and US Customs Carry Out Raids Club Car UK Launches Aftersales Service National Integrated Services Look to buy Golf Club Craibstone Golf Cente Development Callaway and Taiwanese Government Take on Counterfeiters Golf World Circulation Dips Toro Dealer, John Shaw, Wins Award Golf Science International Relaunched Callaway Announces First Quarter Results BMF Sports Equipment Testing Open Their Doors Club Car Announces New Rough Terrain Vehicle Toro Completes Purchase of Multi-Core Cowdry Park Golf Course Announces Re-Designed Competition January to March 1999 Ashworth Announces New Managing Director Ashworth Announces New Finance & Operations Director New Huxley Division for All Weather Golf Surfaces Octagon Announces Acquisition of Pros Inc American Golf-UK Purchase Chartham Park GC Carnoustie Golf Course Hotel appoints Andrew Burnet European Golf Industry Association - PGA Merchandise Show American Golf UK Acquisition Flurry Bioseed Probiotic Products Price rise predicted for grass seed prices in 1999 News Archive 1999 \| 2000 \| 2001 \| 2002 - August 2002+