Worldwide Golf, a privately held company and the largest golf specialty
retailer on the West Coast, has completed the acquisition of Edwin Watts
Golf Shops, the largest golf specialty retailer in the Southeast U.S.
Based
in Fort Walton Beach Fla., Edwin Watts Golf Shops opened its first
store in 1968 and went on to become the dominant golf retailer in the
region, and who offered the most comprehensive golf specialty catalog in
the country.
In joining the Worldwide Golf portfolio of brands,
Edwin Watts Golf Shops now operates alongside a stable of leading golf
specialty retailers, including Roger Dunn Golf Shops, Van’s Golf Shops,
The Golf Mart and Golfers’ Warehouse in forming a powerful national golf
retail conglomerate.
“We believe that the acquisition of Edwin
Watts Golf Shops is a perfect fit into our portfolio of brands, for
among many business attributes, its main focus is the same as ours,
which is outstanding customer service,” said Al Morris, President,
Worldwide Golf. “It has long been our mission to deliver the best
customer experience in the industry, across all of our brands, and we
accomplish this by offering state-of-the-art club fitting bays,
employing the finest club specialists and implementing our famous 90-day
guarantee.”
Morris adds, “This acquisition will also give
Worldwide Golf a national presence in the very competitive golf retail
landscape, as Edwin Watts Golf provides us with the leading Southeast
golf specialty retailer and rounds-out our formidable stable of brands
that now operate from coast to coast.”
Highlighting the
acquisition, Worldwide Golf will immediately enhance the overall
customer experience at Edwin Watts Golf Shops by offering their
exclusive 90-day, 100% satisfaction guarantee both in-store and online
at www.edwinwattsgolf.com. This return policy is simply the best in the
industry and allows the customer to actually use their purchase for up
to 90 days and then return it for full store credit if not completely
satisfied.
As part of the acquisition agreement, Worldwide Golf
will operate 45 stores in 13 states and will retain the highly valued
Edwin Watts Golf Shops name. Additionally, Worldwide Golf will operate
the five Uinta Golf Shops in Utah and rebrand those stores back to the
original Uinta Golf name, which has tremendous brand equity for golfers
throughout the state.
Worldwide Golf, which has been operating as
a golf specialty retailer since 1965 and is one of the nation’s largest
specialty golf retailers, currently owns and operates 35 stores in six
states doing business as Roger Dunn Golf Shops in California and Hawaii,
The Golf Mart in California, Vans Golf Shops in Arizona and Golfers'
Warehouse in New England.
