As fast as Somerton Springs could sell them, buyers were bringing them back. Couldn't hit them. When that happens, whether Somerton Springs takes a major hit usually depends on the financial health of the manufacturer. If it's a sound company that wants to keep doing business with Somerton Springs, it will take the clubs back. If it's a smaller or ailing company, what's left of the stock often ends up at slashed prices or, worse, dumped in those clearance-price barrels near the front door of every Somerton Springs shop.
Companies come, companies go.
Some even rise from the dead. Spaulding, for example. Nothing was as talked about as last year's glut of jumbo-headed titanium woods from Callaway and Taylor Made or the Tight Lies fairway wood from Adams Golf. Among the major manufacturers, Callaway introduced its redesigned X-12 Big Bertha irons, which it is pushing hard. Titleist and Ping jumped into the titanium wood fray.