Cleveland Golf is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 golf equipment

Golf equipment

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 company based in Huntington Beach

Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 189,992; making it the largest beach city in Orange County in terms of population...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. The company was founded in 1979 by Roger Cleveland, originally producing replicas of classic golf clubs

Golf club (equipment)

A golf club is used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf. Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a clubhead. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most versatile class, are used for a variety of shots; Hybrids that combine design elements of woods and...

 from the 1940s and 1950s. Cleveland currently produces a full range of golf clubs and accessories.

In 1990, Roger Cleveland sold his company to ski

Ski

A ski is a long, flat device worn on the foot, usually attached through a boot, designed to help the wearer slide smoothly over snow. Originally intended as an aid to travel in snowy regions, they are now mainly used for recreational and sporting purposes...

 manufacturer Rossignol

Skis Rossignol

Skis Rossignol S.A., or simply Rossignol, is a French manufacturer of alpine, snowboard, and Nordic equipment, as well as related outerwear and accessories, located in Isère, France. Rossignol was one of the first companies to produce plastic skis. The company also owns the brand Dynastar as well...

, who themselves were bought out by Huntington Beach based Quiksilver

Quiksilver

Quiksilver, Inc. , is an American company based in Huntington Beach, California, one of the world's largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment...

 in the summer of 2005. However, in 2007 Quicksilver sold Cleveland Golf, and its Never Compromise subsidiary, to Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

-based SRI Sports Limited, owner of the Dunlop Sport

Dunlop Sport

Dunlop Sport is a tennis, squash, golf, badminton, clothing, travel and bicycle equipment brand, that specializes in sporting goods.After Dunlop Holdings was acquired by BTR plc in 1985, Dunlop Sport was combined with the Slazenger brand which Dunlop had acquired in 1959 to form Dunlop Slazenger...

 brand in Japan. It was later announced that Cleveland Golf operations would be consolidated with those of Srixon

Srixon

Srixon is a brand owned by SRI Sports Limited, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., specializing in golf and tennis. Srixon is most well known globally for its golf balls, holding the largest number of golf ball patents worldwide, and having previously supplied other leading...

, SRI Sports other golf brand. Although both brands would continue, Cleveland would be taking over marketing in North America, with Srixon doing likewise in Europe.

Sponsorship Deals

Cleveland has endorsement deals with many professional golfer

Professional golfer

In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...

s playing on all the major tours.

PGA Tour

Woody Austin

Woody Austin

Albert Woody Austin II is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Austin was born in Tampa, Florida. He attended the University of Miami, where he was a member of the golf team coached by Norman C. Parsons Jr...

 Keegan Bradley

Keegan Bradley

Keegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...

 Steven Bowditch

Steven Bowditch

Steven Bowditch is an Australian professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia....

 Glen Day

Glen Day

Glen Edward Day is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Day was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in Poplarville, Mississippi, by his mother Jeanne Bass Day. Jeanne was widowed at the age of 28 when Glen was approximately 2 years of age. His grandfather Glyndol Bass, was...

 Joe Durant

Joe Durant

Joseph Scott Durant is an American professional golfer.Durant was born in Pensacola, Florida. He attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, where he majored in Marketing and graduated in 1987. At Huntingdon, he was a three-time NAIA All-American and won the 1987 NAIA Championship.Durant...

 Ken Duke

Ken Duke

Kenneth Wootson Duke is an American professional golfer.Duke was born in Hope, Arkansas. After turning professional in 1994, Duke first qualified for the PGA Tour in 2004, but failed to keep his card and returned to the Nationwide Tour...

 Steve Flesch

Steve Flesch

Stephen J. Flesch is an American professional golfer, competing on the PGA Tour.Flesch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky. After graduation he played golf at the University of Kentucky and turned professional in 1990.Flesch finished in...

 Kent Jones

Kent Jones (golfer)

Kent Jones is an American professional golfer.Jones was born in Portales, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with Bachelor's and Masters degrees in business administration...

 Jerry Kelly

Jerry Kelly

Jerome Patrick Kelly is an American professional golfer.Kelly was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Hartford in 1989 and turned professional later that year, but didn't make it onto the PGA Tour until 1996. This followed a successful 1995 season on the second tier...

Steve Lowery

Steve Lowery

Stephen Brent Lowery is an American professional golfer.Lowery was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has PGA Tour victories in 1994, 2000 and 2008. All three of his victories on the PGA Tour have come in playoffs....

 Steve Marino

Steve Marino

Stephen Paul Marino, Jr. is an American professional golfer, a member of the PGA Tour since 2007.-Early life, education, early golf:...

 Jeff Overton

Jeff Overton

Jeffrey Laurence Overton is an American professional golfer.Overton was born in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in Sports Marketing and Management....

 Cameron Percy

Cameron Percy

Cameron Percy is an Australian professional golfer.Percy was born in Chelsea, Victoria and turned professional in 1998. He joined the second tier Nationwide Tour in 2005 but enjoyed little success and returned to Australia where he won twice on the developmental Von Nida Tour in 2006.Percy was...

 Vijay Singh

Vijay Singh

Vijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008...

 Kevin Streelman

Kevin Streelman

Kevin Streelman is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.Streelman was born in Winfield, Illinois. A graduate of Wheaton Warrenville South High School in 1997 and Duke University in 2001, Streelman turned professional in 2003...

 Roland Thatcher

Roland Thatcher

Roland Churchill Thatcher IV is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour.-Early years through college:...

 David Toms

David Toms

David Wayne Toms is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won a total of thirteen events on the PGA Tour including the 2001 PGA Championship...

 Boo Weekley

Boo Weekley

Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Weekley was born in Milton, Florida. He turned professional in 1997 and played on mini-tours until 2002, when he qualified for the PGA Tour. He made the cut in only five of 24 events that year, and lost his...

 Cameron Percy

Cameron Percy

Cameron Percy is an Australian professional golfer.Percy was born in Chelsea, Victoria and turned professional in 1998. He joined the second tier Nationwide Tour in 2005 but enjoyed little success and returned to Australia where he won twice on the developmental Von Nida Tour in 2006.Percy was...

Nationwide Tour Brett Bingham David McKenzie Gary Christian

Gary Christian

Gary Christian is an English professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour.Christian was born in Carshalton, England. He played college golf at Auburn University and turned professional in 1997. Christian was a member of the Nationwide Tour in 1999 and has been a member since 2006...

 Kelly Sellers Michael Putnam

Michael Putnam

Michael John Putnam is an American professional golfer. He is currently a member of the Nationwide Tour.Putnam was born in Tacoma, Washington. He played on the Nationwide Tour in 2006. He had two 2nd place finishes on the Nationwide Tour in 2006 including losing in a playoff at the Rheem Classic....

 Robin Freeman

Robin Freeman (golfer)

Robin Freeman is an American professional golfer. He has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour, and Champions Tour.Freeman was born in St. Charles, Missouri. He attended the University of Central Oklahoma and turned professional in 1983....

 Ryan Hietala

Ryan Hietala

Ryan Hietala is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour.Hietala was born in Bellingham, Washington. He played college golf at the University of Texas-El Paso, graduating in 1998 with a degree in criminal justice...

European Tour David Howell

David Howell (golfer)

David Alexander Howell is an English professional golfer from Swindon. His career to date peaked in 2006, when he was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for a short time....

 Søren Kjeldsen

Søren Kjeldsen

Søren Kjeldsen is a Danish golfer. He turned professional in 1995.Kjeldsen's success on the second tier Challenge Tour in 1997, which included victory in the Volvo Finnish Open, earned him membership of the main European Tour for 1998. He has performed steadily at this level and won his first...

 Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño

Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño

Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño is a Spanish professional golfer.Fernández-Castaño was born in Madrid. He turned professional in 2004 and came eighth at that year's European Tour Qualifying School....

Champions Tour Bobby Wadkins

Bobby Wadkins

Robert Edwin Wadkins is an American golfer.Wadkins was born in Richmond, Virginia. He turned pro in 1973. He never won on the PGA Tour despite six runner-up finishes, but he did win on the European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour...

 Gary Koch

Gary Koch

Gary D. Koch is an American professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer, who formerly played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour.- Early years :...

LPGA Tour Cindy LaCrosse

Cindy LaCrosse

Cindy LaCrosse is an American female professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour and formerly on the Futures Tour.-Personal:...

 Paige Mackenzie

Paige Mackenzie

Paige Mackenzie is a professional golfer currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.-Early years:Born and raised in Yakima, Washington, Mackenzie is a 2001 graduate of Eisenhower High School, where she was selected as a first-team All-Big-9 selection all four seasons...

Current Equipment

Drivers

• Launcher DST, DST Tour, DST Draw
• Launcher, Launcher Ultralite
• HiBORE MONSTER XLS Standard, Draw & Tour

Fairway Woods and Hybrids

• Launcher DST Fairway woods, Hybrids
• Launcher Fairway Woods
• HiBORE XLS Fairway & Hybrid
• Mashie Hybrid

Irons

• CG Tour
• CG1 Tour
• Hibore XLi
• Launcher Combo Irons
• Hibore HB3
• Tour Action TA7
• CG7, CG7 Tour, CG7 Black Pearl, CG7 Black Pearl Tour
• CG16, CG16 Tour, CG16 Black Pearl, CG16 Black Pearl Tour

Wedges

• CG16
• CG15
• CG14
• CG12
• CG12 RTG
• 588 RS
• Niblick

Putters

• Classic Series
• VP Series

External links

• Cleveland Golf - official site
• Srixon Golf - official site
• Never Compromise - official site
• Cleveland Classics Apparel - official site