The NY Post recently ran an interesting article on why Nike really failed in the golf equipment business – “Equipment failure exposes Nike’s absurd Tiger Woods lie“. Surprise, it has a lot to do with Tiger Woods and overestimating the trend-consciousness of golfers. I don’t think it’s 100% accurate, but it’s a good read anyway.
Here’s my favorite sentence of the piece:
But most amateur, weekend golfers played Nike clubs, wore Nike spikes and swung at Nike balls because they, for the moment, liked them, and in the case of Nike balls, because they found them.
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