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eRod v1.0
Just picked up this shirt at a store, clearance rack. Awesome material (nike sphere/under armour type), and beautiful colors. Never heard of it before. Anyone know who is the maker of this line, and where I can find more?

Update: Website is bare with no real info.

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jsherman02
The company folded last fall.

They were owned by COMO Golf. They also produce the Calvin Klein line of golf apparel.
eRod v1.0
Well that's good to know. Lol.
ZBigStick
So what store did you find it at?

Here is an excerpt from Golfweek Lifestyles:

Ready to wear: The old line about the difference between sales and marketing is that in sales, you try to find a customer to buy your product; in marketing, you try to find a product to sell your customer.

I think of that whenever I come upon the rare marketing-driven golf-fashion company. It’s rare because most companies, quite unremarkably, endeavor to build a brand around a single identity. They’ve got a point of view and they’re interested in finding a customer.
There are (a few) others who realize that fashion, even fashion on the golf course, is hardly limited to one point of view. So they offer multiple points of views. Rather than take a brand-centric stance, they take the portfolio approach to fashion. You want fashion, we got fashion. You want color, we got color. You want performance, we got performance. You want mercerized cotton, we got that, too.

We’re thinking this way because what’s coming down the pike is the unveiling of Calvin Klein Golf from Connecticut-based Windsong Sport. Now, what you’re thinking about Calvin Klein Golf has been thought before: There’s not a bigger 7th Avenue icon whose name could possibly hold less resonance on a golf course. (Not exactly true, but that’s beside the point.)

In the case of Calvin Klein Golf, there are several reasons to take notice. First, the people behind Calvin Klein Golf, or rather the most visible person: Fran Matthews. There are few as formidable as Matthews when it comes to launching, managing and overseeing the creative and sales efforts of a golf sportswear brand. She was director of merchandising for Polo Golf from 1988 to ’94. She ran Tommy Hilfiger Golf from 1994 to 1998. Matthews not only made sure David Duval look pretty good when he was winning all those tournaments, she actually gave him putting tips as well. (Well, we made that last part up, but you get the point.)

Matthews was not the only reason for those brands’ success in golf, but in both cases she helped build a bridge between the golf world and 7th Avenue when no organic connection existed. With impeccable taste and energy to match, she deserves credit for being among the first to prove that a designer name has validity on the golf course.
So what will Calvin Klein Golf look like when Matthews and her team unveil the collection in mid May at Westchester (New York) Country Club and then take it on a road show to a short list of the country’s top resorts for delivery next November and December?

“It’ll be so Calvin,” Matthews says. “Black, gray, white, tan. It’ll mirror what Calvin Klein does at retail. Clean lines, flat fronts. It’s the golfer who likes black instead of what the Europeans are doing with color.”

And if Calvin were all Matthews had going, it might look like a risky proposition. That, however, is the point of the portfolio. While Windsong is licensing Calvin’s name, it has developed its own PRX label (which recently shipped its first season for spring ’07) and it owns the venerable (but slightly checkered) Como Sport label.

David Sweedler, Windsong’s senior vice president of design and merchandising, positions PRX – a name that should benefit from simply sounding familiar (does RLX ring a bell?) – as a mix of updated performance fabrics directed at a customer who’s 25 to 40. The emphasis on performance comes from Sweedler’s own interest in hiking, cycling, basketball, rugby and soccer. Sweedler is also realistic that before he spreads his design concepts too thinly, he has to design and merchandise a collection that a green grass or retail professional can readily grasp.

He and Matthews are in agreement that PRX, in a design sense, could be a cross between Nike and Arc’Teryx. That’s an ambitious trajectory, but by no means unchartable.
Finally (but not lastly) there is Como Sport, a brand with a luxury heritage at prices that put it in the rarefied company of Bobby Jones. It also has Jeff Rose as a designer. Rose is the kind of increasingly rare soul who would probably rather crawl around some obscure silk printing factory in the hills of northern Italy than worry about business fundamentals, inventory or narrowing the collection to what’s saleable.
psygolf
I saw some of their shirts at either Saks or Bloomingdales last year on one of those websites.
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