Nike-Best Tour Staff?

[texashigh10]

IT always seems Nike always has a few staffers in the top 10 every week. I know Titleist may have a couple more, but they also have 3x as many staffers. It looks like Nike picked players that are not as marketable (except for the guy with ETW as his initials) but picked guys they wouldn't have to pay a ton but rather have them fish high in the leader-board as their way to get recognition on tour while Tiger gives it all the publicity several top 10's won't get.

[bchet12]

i do personally think that they are one of the best wether its choi, leonard, ames, immelman, or cink to name a few, i mean they all seem to be the most dominate players on nike's staff (besides el tigre), and they all seem to finish much better than some of the other companies players, and some who have more. so in my opinion maybe the 2nd best

[twgolf]

Here are the totals for top 10 finishes year to date on the PGA Tour, at the end of the match play and the Mayakoba:

 

Titleist: 15

 

Nike: 15

 

Titleist shows on their website a total of 65 staffers. Some of those are Champions Tour, European, and Nationwide tour.

 

Nike shows a total of 16 staffers on the PGA tour on their website.

 

This would prove by percentages, that Nike has a higher percentage of their staffers finishing in the top ten versus Titleist. I would also add that Nike has two victories and Titleist has none. Then again Nike has more players in the top 50 in world rankings as well compared to Titleist. Titleist has a lot of young talent on their staff and some old stale mates. Both have four staffers ranked in the Top 25 in the world golf rankings.

 

I am a big Titleist fan but their staff is a little to be desired over the last couple years. Just think of the top players over the last ten years that they have lost.

 

Tiger Woods

Phil Mickelson

Ernie Els

David Duval

Paul Casy

Lucas Glover

 

Nike has done a very good job at compiling a very solid stable of staffers that are consistent week in and week out, not to mention the best golfer we have ever seen play the game. Titleist owns the ball market, but they seriously need to get some big guns on their staff and start producing some wins or they are going to be left behind by Nike, Callaway, and Taylormade, and up and coming Srixon and Bridgestone in equipment. I think that Titleist had four wins on Tour last year. Two by Stricker, one by Hoffman, and one by Scott. I would love to see DLIII get a win, but I am afraid it may be too late. He can't put four consistent rounds together for the last 2-3 years.

[jpembry]

nike for sure has a solid staff.. even without tiger.. KJ, cink, paul casey, leonard.. come on, you cant touch that.. it seems like every company has one or two standouts, but nike has a bunch.

[nunee]

Even Rory....when he WAS on Nike Staff. He was performing fairly consistenly. His attitude was another story (and topic) but he was showing up most of the time.

[gamer]

I agree, very talented players and you have to question whether the technology is helping their players. Stewart Cink was excited about his new Nike ball in his press conference during last weekend's Match Play, saying he's getting more distance.

 

Nike ran a cool new ball commercial during Sunday's round;

 

Should be interesting to watch the rest of the season.

[BRS216]

IT always seems Nike always has a few staffers in the top 10 every week. I know Titleist may have a couple more, but they also have 3x as many staffers. It looks like Nike picked players that are not as marketable (except for the guy with ETW as his initials) but picked guys they wouldn't have to pay a ton but rather have them fish high in the leader-board as their way to get recognition on tour while Tiger gives it all the publicity several top 10's won't get.

 

Nike has the best staff on the PGA Tour no question. They have beaten out Titleist for the last 2 young guns to come out on tour. Anthony Kim and Pablo Martin both chose Nike over Titleist. Nike has been very successful at signing up and coming talent or stealing top 50 players when they become available.

 

 

Here are the totals for top 10 finishes year to date on the PGA Tour, at the end of the match play and the Mayakoba:

 

Titleist: 15

 

Nike: 15

 

Titleist shows on their website a total of 65 staffers. Some of those are Champions Tour, European, and Nationwide tour.

 

Nike shows a total of 16 staffers on the PGA tour on their website.

 

This would prove by percentages, that Nike has a higher percentage of their staffers finishing in the top ten versus Titleist. I would also add that Nike has two victories and Titleist has none. Then again Nike has more players in the top 50 in world rankings as well compared to Titleist. Titleist has a lot of young talent on their staff and some old stale mates. Both have four staffers ranked in the Top 25 in the world golf rankings.

 

I am a big Titleist fan but their staff is a little to be desired over the last couple years. Just think of the top players over the last ten years that they have lost.

 

Tiger Woods

Phil Mickelson

Ernie Els

David Duval

Paul Casy

Lucas Glover

 

Nike has done a very good job at compiling a very solid stable of staffers that are consistent week in and week out, not to mention the best golfer we have ever seen play the game. Titleist owns the ball market, but they seriously need to get some big guns on their staff and start producing some wins or they are going to be left behind by Nike, Callaway, and Taylormade, and up and coming Srixon and Bridgestone in equipment. I think that Titleist had four wins on Tour last year. Two by Stricker, one by Hoffman, and one by Scott. I would love to see DLIII get a win, but I am afraid it may be too late. He can't put four consistent rounds together for the last 2-3 years.

 

Nike has 3 wins this year so far and should have 4 if not for Justin Leaonard chocking earlier this year with a 3 stroke lead with 9 to play. If leonard would have won then Nike would have won 3 straight weeks on Tour.

 

 

I agree, very talented players and you have to question whether the technology is helping their players. Stewart Cink was excited about his new Nike ball in his press conference during last weekend's Match Play, saying he's getting more distance.

 

Nike ran a cool new ball commercial during Sunday's round;

 

Should be interesting to watch the rest of the season.

 

Nike has a plan to win events not counts like TM. Nike Golf made a decision they could not compete with TM and Callaway when it comes to product pools on tour and the counts. Nike is more concerned with the number of wins and not the number of people using their peoducts on Tour. They have been extremely successful with this plan.

Nike has been the winningest Driver;IRon;Fairway and Wedge on Tour the last 3 years. If you took Tiger out of the Equation they are #1 or # 2 in every catagory for wins by product. They know what they are doing...

[joecollege]

IT always seems Nike always has a few staffers in the top 10 every week. I know Titleist may have a couple more, but they also have 3x as many staffers. It looks like Nike picked players that are not as marketable (except for the guy with ETW as his initials) but picked guys they wouldn't have to pay a ton but rather have them fish high in the leader-board as their way to get recognition on tour while Tiger gives it all the publicity several top 10's won't get.

 

Nike has the best staff on the PGA Tour no question. They have beaten out Titleist for the last 2 young guns to come out on tour. Anthony Kim and Pablo Martin both chose Nike over Titleist. Nike has been very successful at signing up and coming talent or stealing top 50 players when they become available.

 

 

Here are the totals for top 10 finishes year to date on the PGA Tour, at the end of the match play and the Mayakoba:

 

Titleist: 15

 

Nike: 15

 

Titleist shows on their website a total of 65 staffers. Some of those are Champions Tour, European, and Nationwide tour.

 

Nike shows a total of 16 staffers on the PGA tour on their website.

 

This would prove by percentages, that Nike has a higher percentage of their staffers finishing in the top ten versus Titleist. I would also add that Nike has two victories and Titleist has none. Then again Nike has more players in the top 50 in world rankings as well compared to Titleist. Titleist has a lot of young talent on their staff and some old stale mates. Both have four staffers ranked in the Top 25 in the world golf rankings.

 

I am a big Titleist fan but their staff is a little to be desired over the last couple years. Just think of the top players over the last ten years that they have lost.

 

Tiger Woods

Phil Mickelson

Ernie Els

David Duval

Paul Casy

Lucas Glover

 

Nike has done a very good job at compiling a very solid stable of staffers that are consistent week in and week out, not to mention the best golfer we have ever seen play the game. Titleist owns the ball market, but they seriously need to get some big guns on their staff and start producing some wins or they are going to be left behind by Nike, Callaway, and Taylormade, and up and coming Srixon and Bridgestone in equipment. I think that Titleist had four wins on Tour last year. Two by Stricker, one by Hoffman, and one by Scott. I would love to see DLIII get a win, but I am afraid it may be too late. He can't put four consistent rounds together for the last 2-3 years.

 

Nike has 3 wins this year so far and should have 4 if not for Justin Leaonard chocking earlier this year with a 3 stroke lead with 9 to play. If leonard would have won then Nike would have won 3 straight weeks on Tour.

 

 

I agree, very talented players and you have to question whether the technology is helping their players. Stewart Cink was excited about his new Nike ball in his press conference during last weekend's Match Play, saying he's getting more distance.

 

Nike ran a cool new ball commercial during Sunday's round;

 

Should be interesting to watch the rest of the season.

 

Nike has a plan to win events not counts like TM. Nike Golf made a decision they could not compete with TM and Callaway when it comes to product pools on tour and the counts. Nike is more concerned with the number of wins and not the number of people using their peoducts on Tour. They have been extremely successful with this plan.

Nike has been the winningest Driver;IRon;Fairway and Wedge on Tour the last 3 years. If you took Tiger out of the Equation they are #1 or # 2 in every catagory for wins by product. They know what they are doing...

 

Interesting stat. Does the Tour wins, excluding Tiger, use retail equipment-or- is the equipment manufactuered in Japan i.e. Endo,Miura and stamped accordingly? I figure that this topic is floating somewhere but since you bring up counts, I would like to get your read on it.

[M-Grind]

Yep, Nike have done a good job with selecting their tour staff.

 

Nike's always been great at marketing though.

[K2_2]

They also have one of Japan's top players, Shingo Katayama, and a few other solid players on the Asian Tour (names are escaping me at the moment, sorry).

 

What is their depth on the Euro tour like?

[BRS216]

IT always seems Nike always has a few staffers in the top 10 every week. I know Titleist may have a couple more, but they also have 3x as many staffers. It looks like Nike picked players that are not as marketable (except for the guy with ETW as his initials) but picked guys they wouldn't have to pay a ton but rather have them fish high in the leader-board as their way to get recognition on tour while Tiger gives it all the publicity several top 10's won't get.

 

Nike has the best staff on the PGA Tour no question. They have beaten out Titleist for the last 2 young guns to come out on tour. Anthony Kim and Pablo Martin both chose Nike over Titleist. Nike has been very successful at signing up and coming talent or stealing top 50 players when they become available.

 

 

Here are the totals for top 10 finishes year to date on the PGA Tour, at the end of the match play and the Mayakoba:

 

Titleist: 15

 

Nike: 15

 

Titleist shows on their website a total of 65 staffers. Some of those are Champions Tour, European, and Nationwide tour.

 

Nike shows a total of 16 staffers on the PGA tour on their website.

 

This would prove by percentages, that Nike has a higher percentage of their staffers finishing in the top ten versus Titleist. I would also add that Nike has two victories and Titleist has none. Then again Nike has more players in the top 50 in world rankings as well compared to Titleist. Titleist has a lot of young talent on their staff and some old stale mates. Both have four staffers ranked in the Top 25 in the world golf rankings.

 

I am a big Titleist fan but their staff is a little to be desired over the last couple years. Just think of the top players over the last ten years that they have lost.

 

Tiger Woods

Phil Mickelson

Ernie Els

David Duval

Paul Casy

Lucas Glover

 

Nike has done a very good job at compiling a very solid stable of staffers that are consistent week in and week out, not to mention the best golfer we have ever seen play the game. Titleist owns the ball market, but they seriously need to get some big guns on their staff and start producing some wins or they are going to be left behind by Nike, Callaway, and Taylormade, and up and coming Srixon and Bridgestone in equipment. I think that Titleist had four wins on Tour last year. Two by Stricker, one by Hoffman, and one by Scott. I would love to see DLIII get a win, but I am afraid it may be too late. He can't put four consistent rounds together for the last 2-3 years.

 

Nike has 3 wins this year so far and should have 4 if not for Justin Leaonard chocking earlier this year with a 3 stroke lead with 9 to play. If leonard would have won then Nike would have won 3 straight weeks on Tour.

 

 

I agree, very talented players and you have to question whether the technology is helping their players. Stewart Cink was excited about his new Nike ball in his press conference during last weekend's Match Play, saying he's getting more distance.

 

Nike ran a cool new ball commercial during Sunday's round;

 

Should be interesting to watch the rest of the season.

 

Nike has a plan to win events not counts like TM. Nike Golf made a decision they could not compete with TM and Callaway when it comes to product pools on tour and the counts. Nike is more concerned with the number of wins and not the number of people using their peoducts on Tour. They have been extremely successful with this plan.

Nike has been the winningest Driver;IRon;Fairway and Wedge on Tour the last 3 years. If you took Tiger out of the Equation they are #1 or # 2 in every catagory for wins by product. They know what they are doing...

 

Interesting stat. Does the Tour wins, excluding Tiger, use retail equipment-or- is the equipment manufactuered in Japan i.e. Endo,Miura and stamped accordingly? I figure that this topic is floating somewhere but since you bring up counts, I would like to get your read on it.

 

 

What??? here we go with retail or Muira/Endo. I guess Nike guys are the only guys that are using "special product". That logic is always used when the official Tour Stats for wins by Catagory become known. My question for you is are Phil's wins with retail equipment or otherwise? What about adam scott? That is a pointless discussion but will probably keep coming up since Nike will keep on winning.

[ghodges]

IT always seems Nike always has a few staffers in the top 10 every week. I know Titleist may have a couple more, but they also have 3x as many staffers. It looks like Nike picked players that are not as marketable (except for the guy with ETW as his initials) but picked guys they wouldn't have to pay a ton but rather have them fish high in the leader-board as their way to get recognition on tour while Tiger gives it all the publicity several top 10's won't get.

 

Nike has the best staff on the PGA Tour no question. They have beaten out Titleist for the last 2 young guns to come out on tour. Anthony Kim and Pablo Martin both chose Nike over Titleist. Nike has been very successful at signing up and coming talent or stealing top 50 players when they become available.

 

 

Here are the totals for top 10 finishes year to date on the PGA Tour, at the end of the match play and the Mayakoba:

 

Titleist: 15

 

Nike: 15

 

Titleist shows on their website a total of 65 staffers. Some of those are Champions Tour, European, and Nationwide tour.

 

Nike shows a total of 16 staffers on the PGA tour on their website.

 

This would prove by percentages, that Nike has a higher percentage of their staffers finishing in the top ten versus Titleist. I would also add that Nike has two victories and Titleist has none. Then again Nike has more players in the top 50 in world rankings as well compared to Titleist. Titleist has a lot of young talent on their staff and some old stale mates. Both have four staffers ranked in the Top 25 in the world golf rankings.

 

I am a big Titleist fan but their staff is a little to be desired over the last couple years. Just think of the top players over the last ten years that they have lost.

 

Tiger Woods

Phil Mickelson

Ernie Els

David Duval

Paul Casy

Lucas Glover

 

Nike has done a very good job at compiling a very solid stable of staffers that are consistent week in and week out, not to mention the best golfer we have ever seen play the game. Titleist owns the ball market, but they seriously need to get some big guns on their staff and start producing some wins or they are going to be left behind by Nike, Callaway, and Taylormade, and up and coming Srixon and Bridgestone in equipment. I think that Titleist had four wins on Tour last year. Two by Stricker, one by Hoffman, and one by Scott. I would love to see DLIII get a win, but I am afraid it may be too late. He can't put four consistent rounds together for the last 2-3 years.

 

Nike has 3 wins this year so far and should have 4 if not for Justin Leaonard chocking earlier this year with a 3 stroke lead with 9 to play. If leonard would have won then Nike would have won 3 straight weeks on Tour.

 

 

I agree, very talented players and you have to question whether the technology is helping their players. Stewart Cink was excited about his new Nike ball in his press conference during last weekend's Match Play, saying he's getting more distance.

 

Nike ran a cool new ball commercial during Sunday's round;

 

Should be interesting to watch the rest of the season.

 

Nike has a plan to win events not counts like TM. Nike Golf made a decision they could not compete with TM and Callaway when it comes to product pools on tour and the counts. Nike is more concerned with the number of wins and not the number of people using their peoducts on Tour. They have been extremely successful with this plan.

Nike has been the winningest Driver;IRon;Fairway and Wedge on Tour the last 3 years. If you took Tiger out of the Equation they are #1 or # 2 in every catagory for wins by product. They know what they are doing...

 

Interesting stat. Does the Tour wins, excluding Tiger, use retail equipment-or- is the equipment manufactuered in Japan i.e. Endo,Miura and stamped accordingly? I figure that this topic is floating somewhere but since you bring up counts, I would like to get your read on it.

 

 

What??? here we go with retail or Muira/Endo. I guess Nike guys are the only guys that are using "special product". That logic is always used when the official Tour Stats for wins by Catagory become known. My question for you is are Phil's wins with retail equipment or otherwise? What about adam scott? That is a pointless discussion but will probably keep coming up since Nike will keep on winning.

 

Exactly...other OEM's also have staffers that have Muira/Endo forged stuff. That's a fact folks tend to only mention wrt to Nike.

[SC Golfer]

Its funny this topic came up. I was talking to a couple of friends during the final two days of the match play tourney that Nike was everywhere. All you saw was nike equipment and logo's. I don't know what the viewing #'s were but you have to think with Tiger in the hunt they got their money's worth for the weekend.

[QueenCityGolfer]

The only way to properly evalutate the overall quality of a tour staff is to look at the WGR's, not a few top 10's here and there.

[texashigh10]

Interesting stat. Does the Tour wins, excluding Tiger, use retail equipment-or- is the equipment manufactuered in Japan i.e. Endo,Miura and stamped accordingly? I figure that this topic is floating somewhere but since you bring up counts, I would like to get your read on it.

 

 

This is off topic, but a very reliable source (one of my best friends) used to work at Nike (fitting pros for clubs) that every single forging from Nike is Endo as are alot of other OEM's forging's.

[JustinFL83]

The only way to properly evalutate the overall quality of a tour staff is to look at the WGR's, not a few top 10's here and there.

 

In the top 30, Nike leads with 6, next is Titleist with 4.

[dispatch096]

by far and away the best

[sigmamason]

At this point in the season, they have one of the better grouping of staffers, if Chad Campbell and Lucas Glover could find their way into a few more top tens/winner circles, then you are definitely looking at one of the better grouping of players in the current market.

Hopefully, they can keep the pace all year long...

[Paul Stewart Jones]

Shouldnt it be down to how many major's each staff has ?? Other than Woods, Nike doesnt have many major winners ? Justin Lennard in 97 when he was a Hogan staff player.

 

Doesnt matter Woods is a Nike player, he could win with a set of Wal-Mart specials.

[jlww3golf]

How cool would a event be that placed different manufactures staffs up against each other. Almost like each equipment company had a roster and they played there best 6 players against each other in a college golf tournament style event. I'd love to watch that and the advertising bragging rights would be high.

 

jlww3

[sigmamason]

Shouldnt it be down to how many major's each staff has ?? Other than Woods, Nike doesnt have many major winners ? Justin Lennard in 97 when he was a Hogan staff player.

 

Doesnt matter Woods is a Nike player, he could win with a set of Wal-Mart specials.

 

If that is the case, then you start reviving old brands: Ernie won't be wearing Callaway, it will be a hat with a Lynx/tm logo, Phil will have a Titleist/Callaway hat, etc...

 

If we start splitting hairs of the dog's butt, then we start getting way too technical...