Golf Items

Hixson, Tennessee-based Gold Bond Inc. presented its new holiday program, Gold Bond with a Bow, to provide distributors with more than one hundred solutions for holiday and event giving.

Hopkins, Minnesota-based River’s End Trading Company, a leading supplier of imprintable apparel and accessories, announced the addition of Custom Branded Sportswear dba PING Apparel to its lineup of brands for distribution to the promotional products marketplace.

SALT LAKE CITY -- rulegolf announced that it has seen a 200% increase in total sales for Q1 & Q2 of 2010 over last year. The company continues to grow as a brand leader in the golf accessories category through expanded distribution and continued product evolution.

Carlsbad, California-based Callaway Golf Company today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2010.

Net sales of $303 million, an increase of 11percent as compared to net sales of $272 million for the first quarter of 2009. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates favorably affected net sales by $15 million. On a currency-neutral basis (i.e. translating the company's first quarter 2010 results at first quarter 2009 exchange rates), net sales would be $288 million, an increase of 6 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009.

Event planning is a field well-suited for promotional product use, but for golf tournaments and events, this is especially so. Not only do you have all the sales opportunities of a regular event, like T-shirts for volunteers and staff, you also have a multitude of golf products available to bear your client’s logo. From clubs and balls to sunscreen and umbrellas, what follows below are a few tips and tricks to picking the right items* for each part of a golf promotion.

Sponsors who stuck by Tiger Woods are ramping up to profit from his return to the golf course.

Baseball's top sluggers have even more incentive to drive the ball deep this season, as Carlsbad, California-based Callaway Golf Company announced an initiative to reward the game's most aggressive home run hitters.

… And then the businessman woke up in a bathtub filled with ice only to find his kidney was gone! Eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke will cause stomach damage! Walt Disney has been cryogenically frozen! The best urban legends revolve around some rather unsavory themes, don’t they? Here’s one more you might not have heard: “Golf” is actually an acronym for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden.” Not true.

James Canning, vice president of marketing for Gold Bond Inc., Hixson, Tenn., announced a hire for a pivotal position within the company.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. - Tiger Woods will feature a new Nike logo on his golf bag, replacing AT&T, when he returns to play at the Masters next month, his agent said Friday.