{"id":2167,"date":"2008-03-21T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2008-03-21T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T23:32:32","slug":"taylor-made-sues-over-who-has-biggest-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Taylor-Made Sues Over Who Has Biggest Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/end-080312.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/end-080312.jpg','popup','width=164,height=123,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/end-080312-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"End 080312\" \/><\/a>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandweek.com\/bw\/news\/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003728972\" target=\"_blank\">BrandWeek<\/a><\/strong>, Carlsbad-based company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormadegolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TaylorMade<\/a><\/strong> is suing competitor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nickentgolf.com\/newweb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nickent<\/a><\/strong> over ads that the company has been running on TV and in print that &#8220;lead consumers to believe that its 4DX driver is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickentgolf.com\/to_pr-080225_ewan.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 driver model<\/a><\/strong> on the <strong>PGA Tour<\/strong> and <strong>Nationwide Tour<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Occasionally fringe companies in the industry try to encroach on our territory as the No. 1 driver in golf by misrepresenting the facts,&#8221; said <strong>Bob Maggiore<\/strong>, TMaG&#8217;s vp-marketing. &#8220;Being the No. 1 driver model at a Nationwide Tour event does not equate to being the No. 1 driver on tour. TaylorMade has been the No. 1 driver brand on the PGA Tour, as well as the Nationwide Tour, since 2001. That more than qualifies us to question Nickent&#8217;s logic and judgment in making claims that are misleading at best, and blatantly false at worst.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See what tough times in the golf industry lead to? Semantics battles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandweek.com\/bw\/news\/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003728972\" target=\"_blank\">BrandWeek<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BrandWeek, Carlsbad-based company TaylorMade is suing competitor Nickent over ads that the company has been running on TV and in print that &#8220;lead consumers to believe that its 4DX driver is the No. 1 driver model on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour.&#8221; &#8220;Occasionally fringe companies in the industry try to encroach on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}