Read on, my fellow golfers, because after much research, I found the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAre there any golf balls made in the US?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Four well-known<\/a> golf ball brands are manufactured on US soil. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the story doesn\u2019t end there, because even these four companies with PGA-quality products didn\u2019t become the golf giants they are today overnight. Let\u2019s look at the details a little further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The golf balls we use on the course require a whole team of experts to build. Even just one ball has to go through multiple, complex processes to end up in our golf bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each of the four major companies I mentioned earlier are located in either Georgia, Massachusetts, or South Carolina<\/a>. To become the world-renowned brands they are today, the folks in those states had to fight tooth and nail, not only to make good products, but to keep their livelihoods!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may have heard the story of how many American jobs were outsourced<\/a> to foreign countries, especially the manufacturing sector, but many golf ball producers made sure that their workers would still have employment at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even to this day, these producers still resist and persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts,<\/a> the golf ball titan, Titlelist employs 1,200 people domestically. Even when bought out in 2011 by the South Korean company Fila, the big-wigs at Titlelist made sure that their local employees would still have good-paying jobs doing what they loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To those factory workers, a golf ball is so much more than something that gets hit by a club and sinks into holes and traps alike. When they see a golf ball, they \u201csee our life, we see the people that we\u2019ve been close-knit to.\u201d When passion and quality are combined, we know that we\u2019ll see an excellent product as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the same state but a different town of\u00a0Chicopee<\/a>, we see another golf industry giant, Callaway, doing more-or-less the same thing. Even when faced with the risk of bankruptcy in 2003, both the Callaway CEO and President made sure that local jobs wouldn\u2019t be outsourced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With unionized workers, the latest in automation technology, and a special golf ball that uses graphene at its core, Callaway has ensured that not only are its products better for the golf market as a whole, but the company also helped save several local towns from complete economic collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even when faced with \u201cfinancial people\u201d trying to advocate for the bottom line, locals such as former Chicopee Mayor, Kos, recognized the importance of keeping the company the way it had been for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to those that work at Titleist, Callaway employees don\u2019t see their jobs as just jobs, but ways of life they can\u2019t live without.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also known as the \u201cHollywood of the South,\u201d Covington, Georgia<\/a>, hosts most manufacturing for Bridgestone. Their story is slightly different from what happened in Massachusetts, with the Tokyo-based company opening up business within Covington in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investment gave locals a serious boost to morale on top of quality employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Isn\u2019t a golf ball just a golf ball?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What do you mean (looking at the history)?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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