Golf Items

Cutter & Buck, which creates a premier line of golf-inspired apparel for men and women who appreciate innovative, high-quality sportswear, is renewing its supporting partnership of Golf Retirement Plus through 2014. Cutter & Buck has served as a partner of the program since 1999.

Cutter & Buck was founded in 1990, in Seattle, where it forged a tradition of offering consumers the best fabrics and trims, classic styling and a wide range of colors to create clothing that looks and performs impeccably.

Clearwater, Florida-based Norwood & BIC Graphic North America today announced Cycle 3 promotions are out and will be in effect through December 31, 2011. 

August's My Best Promotion shows how a distributor created a Florida-themed promotion for a data communications company's national sales conference in Orlando, Fla.

Not satisfied with simply sponsoring a hole for the Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce's annual golf outing, distributor Newton Manufacturing, Newton, Iowa, shook-up the event with a fun photo contest for participants.

Wielding the Odyssey White Ice Sabertooth Putter from Gold Bond is the golf equivalent of listening to "Eye of the Tiger" before a boxing match: it guarantees you will KO Clubber Lang in the late rounds. It's also a great putter.

If a customer tattoos the company brand on his or her skin, is that considered brand loyalty or brand obsession? Even Titleist, the world's No. 1 golf ball maker and a brand that receives quite a lot of customer loyalty, isn't sure.

Callaway Golf Co., which derived about 17 percent of its $967.6 million in revenue from Japan last year, is evaluating what effect, if any, a nuclear power plant breakdown in Japan might have on its business.

In March's issue of Promo Marketing, we looked at some of the latest styles and features in golf apparel. Check out a sample of spring's hottest looks here.

Golf is one of the few sports that encourages individual fashion. The styles worn by golfers show their character, professionalism and dedication to the game. A golf course is often an outdoor office for much of corporate America.

Golf is the sport of stuff. Big stuff, little stuff, expensive stuff, cheap stuff, shiny stuff, fuzzy stuff, flying stuff, stuff you push into the ground, electronic stuff, divoted stuff, even tiny hexagonal pencil stuff (which is maybe one of the rarest kinds of stuff there is).