If you're a stock market dabbler then you need to read this article over at Bogey Lounge and take advantage. The big golf manufacturers are only going to get bigger with Asia opening up to golf in a big way.




Hey if the big guys are going to cash in on asia why can't us little guys do the same.




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Great stock tips....Cally is going private and do not expect much of a premium at all to current share value. Titleist is a brand operated by Acushnet which is owned by Fortune Brands. All of the brands put together by Acushnet contribute less than 20% to the sales total of FO.

Take the stock listings out of the newspaper and put them on the wall, throw a dart at it from 10 feet. Whatever company it lands on is probably a better pick.

Be careful with Callaway, many believed that Nike was going to buy them out, thus sticking it to Adidas/TaylorMade. If you buy into private companies you usually get burned, due to buy outs and mergers. If I were really thinking about buying stock in golf companies, buy stock from a company that owns an expanded array of equipment (i.e. Adidas, Nike, Acuschnet etal). Check publicly traded companies on the website of each of these companies you can find there stock market code and then you can follow it daily in the NY Times or W/S Journal.

i used to own a few shares in fortune brands.

New flash - word has it that Hogan is on the market by Callaway which means Cally is setting the table for something to happen. Insiders say that Barry Schneider over at MacGregor has big Wall St. backing with investment bankers to buyout Callaway and Callaway has to shake off some dust hanging over them first. Remember you heard it here first on Golfwrx. It is kind of the same tune that Topflite played when they sold to Cally...sell off Etonic, declare bankruptcy to shake off debt, sell assets of Hogan, Topflite, Strata to Cally.