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Post by Richie3Jack on Nov 17, 2010 9:33:49 GMT -5
Saw this over at Ralph Perez's blog. www.scratchgolf.com/tour/ryan-moore/My guess is that Scratch Golf felt that they couldn't afford to have Ryan as part owner and Ryan probably didn't like the ROI he was getting from being part owner in Scratch. 3JACK |
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Post by gmbtempe on Nov 17, 2010 14:30:37 GMT -5
Saw this over at Ralph Perez's blog. www.scratchgolf.com/tour/ryan-moore/My guess is that Scratch Golf felt that they couldn't afford to have Ryan as part owner and Ryan probably didn't like the ROI he was getting from being part owner in Scratch. 3JACK I don't own Scratch stuff and have no experience with them but reading the threads at WRX its downright scary how long it takes to get clubs, and for your wait you are paying premo prices. I am not sure Moore was happy with the product, he switched irons during the year and last month was playing Pings, well before this was announced. |
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Post by Richie3Jack on Nov 17, 2010 15:21:37 GMT -5
It's a bit hard to figure out what the breakup between Scratch and Moore is about because Moore is a bit of a different cat and he's going to Adams Golf and I don't think he's owning any part of the company, nor will he be doing it for free.
Expansion destroys businesses as often as businesses who never get off the ground.
3JACK
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Post by gmbtempe on Nov 17, 2010 16:48:00 GMT -5
It's a bit hard to figure out what the breakup between Scratch and Moore is about because Moore is a bit of a different cat and he's going to Adams Golf and I don't think he's owning any part of the company, nor will he be doing it for free. Expansion destroys businesses as often as businesses who never get off the ground. 3JACK like Nickent |
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Post by Richie3Jack on Nov 18, 2010 8:31:23 GMT -5
According to Ari, the backorder issue has been resolved. He mentioned that there were issues with the Asian manufacturing. I worked for a company years ago that unfortunately had their products made in China and it's a really volatile place to do it because one second the market will operate at one price with one set of rules, etc. Then the next second everything will drastically change.
Nickent's problem is that they should've stuck to hybrids. They made pretty good drivers, but you can't compete in the driver market unless you're willing to shell out $$$$ to the players on Tour and you need too much funding for that. Or you need to have a new piece of technology that is so good that the Tour players have a tough time ignoring that. That's what Callaway had, the funding, the innovation and smarts to really market the hell out of the titanium drivers.
Endorsement contracts these days usually require players to play their irons and their driver. So the iron market probably wasn't the smartest idea to get into either. I think Scratch felt that they could make a nice, small sized, niche irons market for themselves. But once it exploded it grew bigger than a small, niche market.
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