by Steve Pike | Dec 27, 2025 | golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Opinion
By Brian Sommer I have written about my initial encounters with Bridgestone Golf’s new VS prototype golf balls, specifically the Black and Blue models, which are being ushered in as successors to the venerable Tour B X and Tour B XS. That exercise alone...
by Steve Pike | Dec 9, 2025 | golf balls, golf business, Golf News, Opinion
By Brian Sommer One does not easily forget his or her first encounter with a genuinely superior golf ball, particularly in an era when most offerings were little more than over-hyped mediocrity. My own conversion occurred in the mid-1990s, when I discovered the...
by Steve Pike | Nov 19, 2025 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, golf entertainment, Golf News
Topgolf Callaway Brands (MODG) CEO Chip Brewer said all the right things on a Nov. 18 conference call that followed the company’s announcement it had agreed to sell a 60 percent stake in its Topgolf unit to private equity firm Leonard Green Partners for $1.1 billion....
by Steve Pike | Nov 18, 2025 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, golf entertainment, Golf News
Wall Street appeared mixed this morning on news that Topgolf Callaway Brands (MODG) has signed a “definitive agreement’’ to sell a 60 percent stake in its Topgolf and Toptracer businesses to private equity funds managed by Leonard Green & Partners. The transaction...
by Steve Pike | Nov 10, 2025 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, Golf News, golf shoes
Titleist and FootJoy (GOLF) parent Acushnet is forecasting full-year 2025 revenue to be in the range of $2.52 billion-$2.54 billion. Acushnet CFO Sean Sullivan recently told Wall Street analysts that the company expects “low single-digit growth’’ in the second half in...
by Steve Pike | Nov 7, 2025 | Equipment, golf balls, golf business, golf entertainment, Golf News
Topgolf Callaway Brands (MODG) CEO Chip Brewer this evening told Wall Street analysts that the company recorded an incremental tariffs expense of $12 million in Q3 of 2025 across its businesses. “We continue to forecast approximately $40 million for the full year,’’...
