by Steve Pike | Feb 10, 2023 | Golf News, Personalities
Ashworth Golf, which returned to the U.S. market in 2022, now is back in UK and Ireland golf stores, thanks to a new agreement between brand owners YGM Group and ProQuip Golf. “Ashworth is making a long-awaited comeback in the UK and Ireland. The brand enjoyed...
by Steve Pike | Feb 9, 2023 | Golf News, Personalities
Two long-time partners in Bobby Jones Links have assumed key new roles. “As our company continues to grow, I am pleased to announce we have promoted two of our long-time team members and company partners, Gautam Patankar and Mike Nolen, to very important new...
by Steve Pike | Feb 7, 2023 | Golf News, Personalities
Ashworth Golf is proof positive that you can go home again. The brand that changed the golf apparel industry in the late 1980s and ‘90s basically had been dormant since 2016 after adidas sold its then-parent TaylorMade Golf to KPS Capital Partners. Newtimes Group,...
by Steve Pike | Feb 3, 2023 | Golf News, Personalities, Resorts, Travel News
As he stood in the sand surrounded by the mossy oak trees and scrub bushes of North Central Florida, Ben Cowan-Dewar reflected on the first time he saw the former World Woods Golf Club he is developing into Cabot Citrus Farms. “I first heard about (World Woods) in the...
by Steve Pike | Feb 2, 2023 | Golf News, Personalities
Original Penguin Golf, a division of Perry Ellis International, has signed PGA Tour rookie Nico Echavarria as a brand ambassador. Echavarria is making his PGA Tour debut this season wearing the company’s Spring 2023 collection. “We are thrilled to welcome Nico...
by Steve Pike | Feb 2, 2023 | Golf News, Personalities
John Fought, one of my favorite golf course architects, will return this spring to Windsong Farm, west of Minneapolis, to begin creating a second course next to the original 18-hole, par-71 layout he co-designed in 2003 and renovated in 2015. “I generally don’t like...