When Nike Golf, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy hit the range, no cup is safe.
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Nike Golf, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy!
Nike, Inc. (
pron.:
/ˈnaɪkiː/; NYSE: NKE) is an American multinational corporation that is
engaged in the design, development and worldwide marketing and selling
of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. The company
is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan
area. It is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and
appareland a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in
excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (ending May 31, 2012).
As of 2012, it employed more than 44,000 people worldwide. The brand
alone is valued at $10.7 Billion making it the most valuable brand among
sports businesses. Nike and Precision Castparts are the only Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the state of Oregon, according to
The Oregonian.
The company was founded on January 25, 1964 as
Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight,and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1978. The company takes its name from Nike (Greek
Νίκη,
pronounced [nǐːkɛː]), the Greek goddess of victory. Nike markets its
products under its own brand, as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air
Jordan, Nike Skateboarding, and subsidiaries including Cole Haan,
Hurley International, Umbro and Converse. Nike also owned Bauer Hockey
(later renamed Nike Bauer) between 1995 and 2008.In addition to
manufacturing sportswear and equipment, the company operates retail
stores under the Niketown name. Nike sponsors many high-profile athletes
and sports teams around the world, with the highly recognized
trademarks of "Just Do It" and the Swoosh logo.
Eldrick Tont "
Tiger"
Woods
(born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose
achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all
time. Formerly the World No. 1, he was the highest-paid athlete in the
world according to Forbes for several years.
Woods turned
professional in 1996, and by April 1997 he had already won his first
major, the 1997 Masters in a record-breaking performance. He first
reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997.
Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 264
weeks from August 1999 to September 2004 and 281 weeks from June 2005 to
October 2010 as world number one. From December 2009 to early April
2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage
after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were revealed by
several different women, through many worldwide media sources. This was
followed by a loss of form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of
No. 58 in November 2011. He snapped a career-long winless streak of 107
weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011. As of January 14, 2013, he is ranked No. 2.
Woods
has broken numerous golf records. He has been world number one for the
most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any
other golfer. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record ten
times, the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a
record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in nine
different seasons. He has won 14 professional major golf championships,
the second highest of any player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 74
PGA Tour events, 2nd all time behind Sam Snead. He has more career major
wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the
youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and
fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Additionally, Woods is only the
second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam
three times. Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships, and won at
least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began
in 1999.
Rory McIlroy MBE (born 4 May 1989) is a Northern
Irish professional golfer from Holywood in County Down who is a member
of both the European and PGA Tours. He is
the current World Number One and a two-time major champion. He won the
2011 U.S. Open, setting a record score of 16-under-par on his way to an
eight-shot victory. The following year he won the 2012 PGA Championship
at Kiawah Island by a record eight shots for his second major
championship victory. He has been cited as the most exciting young
prospect in golf and having the potential to become one of the highest
earners in sports in terms of endorsements.
McIlroy has
represented Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, and Ireland as both an
amateur and a professional. He had a successful amateur career, topping
the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week as a 17-year-old in 2007.
Later that year he turned professional and soon established himself on
the European Tour. He had his first win on the European Tour in 2009,
and on the PGA Tour in 2010. He represented Europe in the 2010 and 2012
Ryder Cup. In 2011 at the age of 22, he became the youngest player ever
to reach €10 million in career earnings on the European Tour. In 2012 he
became the youngest player to reach $10 million in career earnings on
the PGA Tour.
SportsPro has McIlroy rated as the second most marketable athlete in the world
while the Golf Club Managers' Association's Golf Club Management
magazine ranked him as the second most powerful person in British golf.
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