17 Comments

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   tlmck

   Apr 1, 2015 at 10:54 pm

   It could be that a lot of people bought 3 year old clubs off the clearance rack as I did instead of the “supposedly new” stuff at full price.

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   marcus

   Mar 29, 2015 at 9:57 am

   It’s an unfortunate fact that golf companies (not just tmag) need to make money – and the only way to do so is roll out new product at a frenzied pace. But golf equipment is like toilet paper. You can only add so much softness and ply-strength. After that you’re just re-polishing the turd.

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   KK

   Mar 27, 2015 at 9:21 pm

   TM is selling 4 irons relabeled as 6 irons and passing it off as engineering. What a sham. They deserve another 28% decline in sales this year.

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     Eej

     Mar 28, 2015 at 5:26 am

     You’re an eejit.

     Try hitting old 4 irons as high as these new ones. You won’t get anywhere close.

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   Paul

   Mar 27, 2015 at 4:30 pm

   Why would you buy a “new” Taylormade club with the “latest” technology when you knew it would be old in a couple months. Ping releases clubs every other year and presumably does a couple years of R&D in between. TM….some thing new every 3 months.

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5. 

   4pillars

   Mar 27, 2015 at 3:00 pm

   Guy never stood a chance. Like whatshisname taking over from Alex Ferguson.

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     hillhairyhouse

     Mar 28, 2015 at 5:40 pm

     David Moyes.

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6. 

   THE SWEET THONG

   Mar 27, 2015 at 2:17 pm

   He probably ran out of dumb names for the clubs!

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   tim

   Mar 27, 2015 at 12:31 pm

   They really need to start putting some R&D into their putter line. The latest release (Ghost Black) looks cheap and tired. And I have been a huge fan of their putters over the years…Spider, The Rossa AGSI line, DLL. But you go into any golf store now and Odyssey is dominating. TM has a rack of putters no bigger than Cleveland.

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     Bill

     Mar 27, 2015 at 4:27 pm

     They don’t care about selling putters. They want to sell drivers! Like Titlest and golf balls, TM needs to stay the number one driver on tour. After that comes iron sales. They took a huge sales hit last year so I’m guessing that was the “personal reasons” that he stepped down!

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   Truth

   Mar 26, 2015 at 9:58 pm

   so does that mean more of the same clubs every year or that they are actually gonna do some R&D

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9. 

   Mark

   Mar 26, 2015 at 2:04 pm

   The best part is King who started the whole trend -is still rewarded with the job at Adidas

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     Wisconsin Terrapin

     Mar 27, 2015 at 4:17 pm

     Musical chairs – it leaves the person of that division the fall guy. Sorry, Ben, it only crumbled under its own weight after Mark got bumped. Inevitable. The question is will David get enough latitude to really change direction, or will Mark still be basking in the glow of his success that it will take another bad year to find the root.

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10. 

    Mike J

    Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    I have a feeling you are 100% correct

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11. 

    Vinnie

    Mar 26, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    Im sure this headline had something to do with it “TaylorMade sales decline 28 percent in 2014”

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      Tim

      Mar 26, 2015 at 4:19 pm

      According to their breakdown 20% of that “28% decline” was a buyback of older product to ease the inventory in the market.

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        Greg

        Mar 27, 2015 at 5:56 pm

        will be interesting to see their ‘factory outlet stores when they open … 1 in Myrtle Beach I am told

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