Pending TaylorMade Announcement

[bladehunter]

Light up the industry just doesn’t sound like the impact a ball deal would have, but hyperbole in advertising isn’t anything new that’s for sure!

 

So signing away a lifelong titleist ball user with the star power of a Rickie Fowler to their first ball/glove only deal wouldn’t light up the industry? Imo it would be closest thing to a game changing signing there is outside of Tiger or Phil by a company

 

Nope. Not even close. Rickie playing a Tm ball is equal to Hudson swafford sighning with Rays short haul trucking for a hat deal. Most people couldn’t tell you which ball he played anyway. Why would they notice if he swapped ? It’s what’s on the hat that matters.

[Air23]

Maybe one of those Youtubers?

[Cwebb]

Cheyenne Woods

[bogeyk]

[tatertot]

Anyway TM found a way to get Phil away from Callaway?

[andrieddle]

Fleetwood is the best guess but does he light up the industry?

 

Curry is all Callaway and why would they think signing a basketball star would help with selling golf clubs?

 

or maybe with the hyperbole, it is Rickie with ball deal

[Here comes the Boom]

Michelle Wie

[anth]

El Tucan

[exitlowandleft]

I say Cameron champ...longest player on pga tour playing their ball...could boost tmade ball sales

[Railroading13]

Koepka?

[vanillafunk616]

Rick shiels? Maybe it can be the YouTube golf version of east coast vs West coast beef with Mark crossfield.

[Bingo1976]

Light up the industry just doesn't sound like the impact a ball deal would have, but hyperbole in advertising isn't anything new that's for sure!

 

So signing away a lifelong titleist ball user with the star power of a Rickie Fowler to their first ball/glove only deal wouldn't light up the industry? Imo it would be closest thing to a game changing signing there is outside of Tiger or Phil by a company

 

Ricky has yet to win a major and is no longer the next young thing. He's like Rory without the great early years.

 

I don't care much who plays what, as I am sure 99% of golfers don't, but even if I did, this would not be it - he's never been OWGR number 1, and is not even top 10 now

[Lamb]

" will light up the industry and enhance the impact of our brand like never before" - it's official! Whoever TM are bringing in has more pulling power than Tiger, Rory, JD and the rest of their team. Cant wait to find out who it is.

 

It def cant be a golfer based on the above quote.

 

Stephen Curry

Lebron James

 

TM now competing for clothing brand market share since Adidas sold them?

[OldTomMorris]

The bar has been set very high, extremely intriguing. Time will tell.

[rukahs]

Donald Trump.

 

 

[rxk9fan]

Fleetwood

He is on the front page "spotted" with TM TW irons and it has been up since at least last night. Doesn't this give us a clue?

 

"Fleetwood looks to be looking to alternatives ahead of next week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, judging from the pictures below. It’s not surprising, then, given the apparent similarity between the P-7TW iron and Nike VR Pro Blade, that Fleetwood would opt to put the irons to the test early in the year."

[the bishop]

Fleetwood

He is on the front page "spotted" with TM TW irons and it has been up since at least last night. Doesn't this give us a clue?

Fleetwood would be a real nice signing given his high profile play of late. Not sure if it "lights up the industry" but still a solid signing if he does come on.

[GoGoErky]

Light up the industry just doesn't sound like the impact a ball deal would have, but hyperbole in advertising isn't anything new that's for sure!

 

So signing away a lifelong titleist ball user with the star power of a Rickie Fowler to their first ball/glove only deal wouldn't light up the industry? Imo it would be closest thing to a game changing signing there is outside of Tiger or Phil by a company

 

Ricky has yet to win a major and is no longer the next young thing. He's like Rory without the great early years.

 

I don't care much who plays what, as I am sure 99% of golfers don't, but even if I did, this would not be it - he's never been OWGR number 1, and is not even top 10 now

 

Yet he still moves a ton of Puma clothing and hudson swafford isn’t even in the same marketing league as Rickie. Having Rickie play a tp5 Nd bring sble to use it against titleist would be huge for Tm.

 

There’s a lot more people who buy golf related items based on tour usage than those who don’t. If that wasn’t the case there would be no need for companies to sponsor players.

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Light up the industry just doesn’t sound like the impact a ball deal would have, but hyperbole in advertising isn’t anything new that’s for sure!

 

So signing away a lifelong titleist ball user with the star power of a Rickie Fowler to their first ball/glove only deal wouldn’t light up the industry? Imo it would be closest thing to a game changing signing there is outside of Tiger or Phil by a company

 

My guess is no. It will definitely garner attention to see him in a commercial with DJ, Rory and the rest, but long term I think seeing a company logo on the players hat, or bag/head covers has more of an impact by association.

[755]

I received a letter/email from David Abeles at TaylorMade the other day. This is what he said:

 

"In addition to our continued product leadership, we are preparing to make one of the most significant announcements in company history - a new addition to our athlete team that will light up the industry and enhance the impact of our brand like never before. Please stay tuned. You will hear from us in a couple of weeks!

 

We believe 2019 will be our best year yet. We are inspired by the momentum in our industry and all of the work being done across channels to drive participation in golf. We are proud of the progress we are making in our business together, bullish about our growth plans for 2019, and looking forward to an early spring with strong demand for our new products.

 

On behalf of the entire TaylorMade Golf team, we thank you for your continued dedication to our partnership and for all that you do to make this possible.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

David Abeles

CEO TaylorMade Golf"

 

 

So, my question is, will this be the Rickie Fowler ball/glove deal announcement or is this something else? Obviously the Rickie deal is the second worst kept secret behind Rose/Honma, but I don't think he is going to be playing their new TruVis copycat ball until later in the spring, so why announce it now? And that announcement certainly doesn't fit or live up to the type of hype insinuated in this letter. I love Rick and wish him the best but he wouldn't even be the third most successful player on their tour staff. Talk about disappointing if that's the real announcement.

 

Which leads me to my second question... are they seriously going to make a big announcement during the PGA Show, which they are not attending? What a joke. Hopefully they postpone it until well after the show.

 

I'm interested to hear what the truth is behind this "most significant announcement".

 

Just curious, but what do you do that you would get a letter/email from the CEO of TaylorMade Golf?

 

 

I am still waiting for the OP to answer this question.

[MattyO1984]

For those saying it is Fleetwood, I think that is unlikely. I accept that he new seems to be bagging a set of Taylor Made irons but a change of irons for him was due given that he was running out of sets of Vr Pro's. Added to that, it seemed like Crossfield was filming with the Titleist guys yesterday. That included Fleetwood, it would seem strange to me that Fleetwood and Titleist would want to waste time having him film spots when he is about to relocate and start using a different ball.

 

It has to be Fowler but he and pretty much no one they could announce will have the effect they are talking about. More nonsense from Taylor Made.

[BogeyPutt34]

The google says fleetwood was spotted playing tm irons.

Looks like a “tw” prototype he was playing in Abu Dhabi

[bladehunter]

Light up the industry just doesn't sound like the impact a ball deal would have, but hyperbole in advertising isn't anything new that's for sure!

 

So signing away a lifelong titleist ball user with the star power of a Rickie Fowler to their first ball/glove only deal wouldn't light up the industry? Imo it would be closest thing to a game changing signing there is outside of Tiger or Phil by a company

 

Ricky has yet to win a major and is no longer the next young thing. He's like Rory without the great early years.

 

I don't care much who plays what, as I am sure 99% of golfers don't, but even if I did, this would not be it - he's never been OWGR number 1, and is not even top 10 now

 

Yet he still moves a ton of Puma clothing and hudson swafford isn’t even in the same marketing league as Rickie. Having Rickie play a tp5 Nd bring sble to use it against titleist would be huge for Tm.

 

There’s a lot more people who buy golf related items based on tour usage than those who don’t. If that wasn’t the case there would be no need for companies to sponsor players.

 

Hudson swafford was a joke. Goodness

 

 

I’m telling you nobody knows which ball rickie plays outside this site. They only know cobra/puma.

 

It very likely is Rickie. But he isn’t going to change anything for anybody. Just more smoke and mirrors from TM as they try to stay afloat. Maybe they are sweetening the pot for the next buyer ?

[Golfingfanatic]

Maybe it is a bunch of pros switching to the TM ball and Rickie as the “star” of the group? The big thing would be TM doing ball/glove only deals and not fowler per sé.

[Llortamaisey]

I received a letter/email from David Abeles at TaylorMade the other day. This is what he said:

 

"In addition to our continued product leadership, we are preparing to make one of the most significant announcements in company history - a new addition to our athlete team that will light up the industry and enhance the impact of our brand like never before. Please stay tuned. You will hear from us in a couple of weeks!

 

We believe 2019 will be our best year yet. We are inspired by the momentum in our industry and all of the work being done across channels to drive participation in golf. We are proud of the progress we are making in our business together, bullish about our growth plans for 2019, and looking forward to an early spring with strong demand for our new products.

 

On behalf of the entire TaylorMade Golf team, we thank you for your continued dedication to our partnership and for all that you do to make this possible.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

David Abeles

CEO TaylorMade Golf"

 

 

So, my question is, will this be the Rickie Fowler ball/glove deal announcement or is this something else? Obviously the Rickie deal is the second worst kept secret behind Rose/Honma, but I don't think he is going to be playing their new TruVis copycat ball until later in the spring, so why announce it now? And that announcement certainly doesn't fit or live up to the type of hype insinuated in this letter. I love Rick and wish him the best but he wouldn't even be the third most successful player on their tour staff. Talk about disappointing if that's the real announcement.

 

Which leads me to my second question... are they seriously going to make a big announcement during the PGA Show, which they are not attending? What a joke. Hopefully they postpone it until well after the show.

 

I'm interested to hear what the truth is behind this "most significant announcement".

 

Just curious, but what do you do that you would get a letter/email from the CEO of TaylorMade Golf?

 

It’s a corporate letter. Everyone even remotely attached to Taylormade in some fashion received that email. He’s trying to be funny like the letter was sent only to him but it came off rather lame. Either that or the OP really doesn’t know he wasn’t the only one who got that email.

 

[bladehunter]

Well crap. Need to check my inbox then. Lol.

[GMR]

TM signing Hosung Choi?

[lspky_muskie]

Maybe it is a bunch of pros switching to the TM ball and Rickie as the “star” of the group? The big thing would be TM doing ball/glove only deals and not fowler per sé.

 

This is what I heard.

[extrastiff]

Paige Spiranac?

No I heard Lucy Robson

 

[Jagpilotohio]

Anyway TM found a way to get Phil away from Callaway?

 

Yes....When they put him in the ground.