Getting your player ready...
To gauge economic strength, you could measure chained-dollar gross domestic product or some other complicated thing. Or you could check the golf course.
The golf industry plummeted through the recession, with people holding off on $450 drivers in favor of putting food on the table. Now, the tide is turning, Callaway Golf chief executive George Fellows said last week. His company, which makes Big Bertha drivers, enjoyed its first quarter of annual growth in nearly two years.
And Asia is leading the way, showing the strongest sales growth in the fourth quarter. That tracks with economists’ forecasts, which have Asia leading the global recovery. The Associated Press
