Local sites Entire Web Inq. Clubs are totally quiet.
Consumers just show no interest.
These are not the best of times in the business of manufacturing and selling golf clubs. Despite a continuing boom in the game, sales of golf equipment are down 10 to 15 percent this year from 1997, retailers and analysts say. And with the new 1999 lines due out in a few months, golf-club company executives are wringing their hands over warehouses full of clubs still unsold from this past season. Hardly a week passes these days that the golf-industry magazines don't carry tales of woe. Lynx went belly-up.