Callaway

October 27th, 2009 by articles

The Callaway Golf Company is one of the world’s best known brands of premium golf equipment. Callaway manufactures several golf club including woods, irons, wedges, moreover putters. They with produce golf balls moreover licenses its name for apparel, footwear, furthermore accessories. Callaway Golf also owns also manufactures products under the Odyssey putter brand after perfectly after Best-Flite moreover Ben Hogan brands.

The company earliest made its name building clubs that were friendly moreover forgiving for amateur golfers, nevertheless became famous for its accomplishment concerning notable professionals also endorsers that include Phil Mickelson, Rocco Mediate, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, with Johnny Miller.

Callaway Golf is perhaps greatest known for its Grand Bertha drivers, the industry’s first widespread body, stainless steel wood next the club that launched the business to iconic status among pro with amateur golfers. The Enormous Bertha must put Callaway golf into the forefront of golfer’s minds when they realized that “Bertha” must aid them plus long drives beyond their own expectations.

The corporation was founded in 1982 by former Burlington Industries textile president Ely Callaway. A dynamic leader next famously successful businessman, Mr. Callaway sold his Temecula, CA-based winery for a nice profit then was enjoying a brief retirement before adding club maker to his resume.

Never one to sit idle, he was playing plenty of golf and was on the lookout for new company opportunities while he spotted a wooden pitching wedge in a Palm Springs-area golf shop. The club was reminiscent of the hickory-shafted clubs he had used once a child, nevertheless this shaft was hollowed also filled plus a steel middle for consistency furthermore strength. He bought half of Hickory Stick USA moreover renamed it the Callaway Hickory Stick USA.

Mr. Callaway was well known for thinking huge, next he did this a lot after forming furthermore growing his corporation. Today, the business continues to extend with manufacture technologically superior golf equipment, including its line of two- next three-piece golf balls, once properly whilst its Fusion FT-3 Driver, which combines titanium and carbon combined equipment also allows golfers to want internal weighting options that might counteract a slice or hook or increase a draw or fade.

Callaway is preparing to release their latest driver the, F-Ti - a fresh knowledge in drivers including a square head. Phil Mickelson used two versions of the driver – a draw furthermore a fade – in his 2006 Masters victory. Swedish sensation Annika Sorenstam, who has used next endorsed Callaway Golf things for her entire pro career, became the merely woman to shoot 59 in competition in 2001 furthermore in 2006 used the FT-3 Driver to earn her 10th significant challenge victory.