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Article: Golf still a consuming passion
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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PHILIP REID on how while times may be tough, all the usual
suspects still figure in retailers' best sellers list
IF YOU golf, you've got to buy golf balls. If you golf, you've
got to buy clubs. If you're any way serious about your golf, you've
got to spend money . . . on clothing, tee pegs, gloves, training
aids. The whole shebang. Yet, in these tough economic times, there
are mixed messages coming from the retail sector, with announcements
of huge growth from some in this specialist sector and, conversely,
of closures and liquidations.
While a creditors meeting has been scheduled for Green 18 - one
of the largest golfing megastores, based in Sandyford in Dublin, and
only two years in ...