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Callaway, legally Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., is an American global sports equipment manufacturing company that designs, manufactures, markets and sells golf equipment, more specifically clubs and balls, also including accessories such as bags, gloves, and caps.
(By way of comparison, many drivers of recent years have head sizes up to the USGA legal maximum of 460 cm 3 (28 cu in) and are made of more exotic materials such as titanium.) Since the introduction of the original Big Bertha, Callaway has introduced further clubs and lines of clubs with similar names, such as the "Great Big Bertha", the ...
Irons in a golf bag. An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole.Irons typically have shorter shafts and smaller clubheads than woods, the head is made of solid iron or steel, and the head's primary feature is a large, flat, angled face, usually scored with grooves.
This was the reason Golfsmith owed $5.5 million to Callaway Golf Co., $5.1 million to Taylormade Golf Co. Inc., $3.5 million to Nike, $2.3 million to PING Inc. and $2.1 million to Titleist. Golfsmith CEO David Roussy blamed "a recession-driven decline in golf participation and an oversized brick-and-mortar retail presence" for its situation.
The company was founded in 1973 by Thomas L. Crow, winner of the 1961 Australian amateur golf championship.He was inspired by the notion that golfers in the United States typically bought clubs at a whim, with the hopes that they may make their game better. [2]
Grey cast iron is characterised by its graphitic microstructure, which causes fractures of the material to have a grey appearance. It is the most commonly used cast iron and the most widely used cast material based on weight. Most cast irons have a chemical composition of 2.5–4.0% carbon, 1–3% silicon, and the remainder iron.
In 2000, one year after acquiring Callaway Golf Media Venture, [6] Callaway Editions moved from being a "book packager" to a publishing house. According to its founder, one of the reasons for the change was "the new channels of distribution", which would allow it to reach broader markets, while still serving the US region through specialty retailers.
On the street, Callaway's C12 was a complete reworking of its C5 Corvette brother with only the roof and greenhouse left untouched. In total, 20 cars were produced with exposed headlights, two taillights as opposed to the traditional four, complete leather-covered interiors dyed to the owner's specifications.