{"id":2644,"date":"2008-06-06T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2008-06-06T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:16:24","slug":"the-war-of-the-carlsbad-stick-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"The War Of The Carlsbad Stick Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/execfea-golf-titans-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/execfea-golf-titans-large.jpg','popup','width=372,height=226,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\/06\/execfea-golf-titans-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"121\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Execfea-Golf-Titans-Large\" \/><\/a>According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/executives\/features\/2008\/06\/06\/Clash-of-the-Titaniums\" target=\"_blank\">Conde Nast Portfolio.com<\/a><\/strong> there is a battle going on right here in <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> between <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormadegolf.com\/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">TaylorMade<\/a><\/strong> CEO <strong>Mark King<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callawaygolf.com\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Callaway<\/a><\/strong> CEO <strong>George Fellows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rivalry between the two top equipmentmakers teed off more than a decade ago, but the competition has grown more intense as growth in the industry as a whole has slowed. Adding to the tension for these two companies is their proximity to one another: Both Callaway and TaylorMade, which is owned by German sporting-goods company Adidas Group, are headquartered in Carlsbad, California. Executives from both firms often dine at the same place&#8212;the popular local brewery and restaurant <strong>Karl Strauss<\/strong>&#8212;but at distant tables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the rest of the inside dirt on the local leaders of the golf industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/executives\/features\/2008\/06\/06\/Clash-of-the-Titaniums\" target=\"_blank\">Portfolio.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story on Conde Nast Portfolio.com there is a battle going on right here in Carlsbadistan between TaylorMade CEO Mark King and Callaway CEO George Fellows. The rivalry between the two top equipmentmakers teed off more than a decade ago, but the competition has grown more intense as growth in the industry as [&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\/2644"}],"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=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}