Dicks buys Golfsmith

[PaPaD]

Reuters: Dick's Sporting Goods buys up Golfsmith stores at bankruptcy auction - Golf Digest

 

[limpalong]

When does the FTC step in? Dick's owns Golf Galaxy, GolfWorks, and Golfsmith. Golf USA is about toast. Eddie Watts is in financial trouble. Pretty soon, the only golf retailer out there will be Dick's or one of their subsidiaries. Price fixing????

 

[PaPaD]

When does the FTC step in? Dick's owns Golf Galaxy, GolfWorks, and Golfsmith. Golf USA is about toast. Eddie Watts is in financial trouble. Pretty soon, the only golf retailer out there will be Dick's or one of their subsidiaries. Price fixing????

It's a freaking monopoly!! Dick's and Walmart will own the planet soon!

BTW - Edwin Watts got bought out. The new owners (Worldwide Golf) kept the name up but they're back in the black. http://www.worldwidegolfshops.com/e...cquires-Edwin-Watts-Golf-Shops-NEAR-FINAL.pdf

 

[limpalong]

It's a freaking monopoly!! Dick's and Walmart will own the planet soon!

BTW - Edwin Watts got bought out. The new owners kept the name up but they're back in the black.

Won't last long if all the competition is owned by Dick's and they can cut prices to run you out of business.

 

[PaPaD]

Won't last long if all the competition is owned by Dick's and they can cut prices to run you out of business.

They offer the best playability/return policy in the biz. 90 days, no bullshit, take them back.

 

[azgreg]

Won't last long if all the competition is owned by Dick's and they can cut prices to run you out of business.

Aren't club prices set by the manufacturer anyways?

 

[PaPaD]

Aren't club prices set by the manufacturer anyways?

It's depends. PING, for example very tightly controls their retailers. I am not sure about others, but I think most of the big companies do as well.

 

[azgreg]

I was in Dick's today and talked to the golf dept. manager. It was his understanding that they will close all but about 30 Golfsmith's. The ones that stay open will be under the Golf Galaxy name.

 

[ualtim]

Kind of a blow for culbmaking. Golfsmith and Golfworks made competing club making equipment, essentially a monopoly now.

 

[PaPaD]

Kind of a blow for culbmaking. Golfsmith and Golfworks made competing club making equipment, essentially a monopoly now.

Golfmsith hasn't really been a player in the component biz for years. I miss the Snake Eyes line too.

 

[ejdahl21]

I say the Shottalk "family" should get behind this endeavor. Good luck to McDavis, Azgreg and Glark.


Oh, wait. You meant the sporting goods giant. When you said "Dicks" I immediately thought.....my mistake.

 

[limpalong]

I say the Shottalk "family" should get behind this endeavor. Good luck to McDavis, Azgreg and Glark.


Oh, wait. You meant the sporting goods giant. When you said "Dicks" I immediately thought.....my mistake.

Can you "Like" this multiple times????

 

[PaPaD]

I say the Shottalk "family" should get behind this endeavor. Good luck to McDavis, Azgreg and Glark.


Oh, wait. You meant the sporting goods giant. When you said "Dicks" I immediately thought.....my mistake.

 

[limpalong]

Golfmsith hasn't really been a player in the component biz for years. I miss the Snake Eyes line too.

My very first set of clubs was some MacGregor irons with aluminum shafts from a pawn shop. As soon as I began breaking the aluminum shafts, I had a guy make me a set of the Golfsmith "Copperhead" irons. They were knock-offs of Ping's BeCu Eye 2's. Great irons!!!
As the years went on, Golfsmith picked up Snake Eyes when Ernie Vaderson closed it down. Then, Killer Bee and Lynx followed. In the more recent past, didn't they also pick up MacGregor?
They were a real player in the component business, competing with Maltby's GolfWorks. Now, those will all be under one roof. Sad......

How will Dick's handle all the brands they now own? Snake Eyes, Lynx, Killer Bee, Maxfli, Top Flite, MacGregor, Walter Hagen, Slazenger, and probably some more that don't immediately come to mind...

 

[PaPaD]

My very first set of clubs was some MacGregor irons with aluminum shafts from a pawn shop. As soon as I began breaking the aluminum shafts, I had a guy make me a set of the Golfsmith "Copperhead" irons. They were knock-offs of Ping's BeCu Eye 2's. Great irons!!!
As the years went on, Golfsmith picked up Snake Eyes when Ernie Vaderson closed it down. Then, Killer Bee and Lynx followed. In the more recent past, didn't they also pick up MacGregor?
They were a real player in the component business, competing with Maltby's GolfWorks. Now, those will all be under one roof. Sad......

How will Dick's handle all the brands they now own? Snake Eyes, Lynx, Killer Bee, Maxfli, Top Flite, MacGregor, Walter Hagen, Slazenger, and probably some more that don't immediately come to mind...

I'd love to see the Snake Eyes XC forged line come back in components.
These were outstanding heads.