Callaway Golf
No matter which game you play?tournament golf or recreational golf?Callaway Golf Company makes products that help you become a better golfer. More than a decade ago, we revolutionized driver technology with the original Big Bertha Driver. Today, we continue a tradition of innovation with scientifically advanced products like the new Big Bertha Fusion FT-3 Driver, Big Bertha Fusion Irons, and the HX Tour and HX Tour 56 Golf Balls. Callaway Golf uses cutting-edge technology and respect for the game to help every golfer become a better golfer, regardless of age, gender or ability.
Ely Reeves Callaway Jr. was born in 1919 and raised in Georgia, and his Southern upbringing stayed with him all the days of his life. He and his three older sisters did spend a few years in New York City when their father opened a Callaway Mills sales office, but his formative years in LaGrange provided him with much experience in the pillars of his adult life: golf and business. He took up the game of golf at LaGrange's Highland Country Club and won four consecutive club championships in his late teens. He was introduced to commerce by his father's work in the family textile business, and added his own experience as business manager of his high school newspaper and yearbook. Upon graduation from Emory University, Ely Callaway, like the rest of his generation, found the course of his life changed by World War II.
In the Army, Ely Callaway rose through the ranks to major, fell in love and got married, and he gained experience that would prove invaluable as he started his career in the textile industry. By age 24, he had become the Army's sole procurement officer for cotton clothing. His three children were born in the late 1940s and early '50s, and his c ...