{"id":10742,"date":"2012-04-06T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:54:20","slug":"callaway-golf-gets-dicks-on-top-flight-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10742","title":{"rendered":"Callaway Golf Gets Dicks On Top Flight Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Top-Flite_balls2_r620x349.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Top-Flite_balls2_r620x349.jpg','popup','width=620,height=349,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\/2012\/04\/Top-Flite_balls2_r620x349-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Top-Flite Balls2 R620X349\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> golf industry giant <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callawaygolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callaway<\/a><\/strong> is reportedly selling their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topflite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Flight<\/a><\/strong> brand (in its entirety) to big box sporting goods retailer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickssportinggoods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dicks Sporting Goods<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/apr\/05\/callaway-unloads-top-flite-brand\/\" target=\"_blank\">U-T San Diego<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bud Leedom<\/strong> of <strong>Leedom Asset Management San Diego<\/strong> called the purchase \u201cone of the worst moves I have seen in the golf industry. It just lacked so much understanding of how much Top Flite had deteriorated over the years from lack of investment.\u201d . . The sale is a sign that new Callaway Chief Executive <strong>Chip Brewer<\/strong>, who was hired from <strong>Adams Golf<\/strong>, is steering Callaway back to its roots in premium golf equipment, said Leedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as we all know &#8220;getting back to our roots&#8221; is corporate America&#8217;s way of saying, &#8220;we got way over extended, screwed up and now we&#8217;re struggling to put the pieces back together.&#8221; Wonder what Callaway Creative Director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10468\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Timberlake<\/a><\/strong> has to say about this move?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/apr\/05\/callaway-unloads-top-flite-brand\/\" target=\"_blank\">U-T San Diego<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s golf industry giant Callaway is reportedly selling their Top Flight brand (in its entirety) to big box sporting goods retailer Dicks Sporting Goods, according to a story in the U-T San Diego. Bud Leedom of Leedom Asset Management San Diego called the purchase \u201cone of the worst moves I have seen in the golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10744,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions\/10744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}