On August 3, 2016, Nike announced that they would no longer be making clubs, balls, and bags due to, basically, not enough sales. Nike will still continue producing apparel. This came as a huge surprise to the golf world, especially because two of golf's biggest names, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, are Nike players. As a result, it will be fascinating to see where all the Nike staff players land.
Despite the disappointing news, several "swoosh" players have been playing really well. American Paul Peterson was an Asian Tour player who had conditional status on the European Tour when he won the D+D REAL Czech Masters last week. Englishman Tom Lewis just shot 62 (-9) yesterday in the first round of the Made in Denmark tournament and it could have been a lot lower had he parred his way in after he was -12 thru 13 holes. Scotsman Scott Jamieson has had a pretty poor season by his standards but shot a 67 (-6) yesterday.
As far as where certain Nike players will land, it is difficult to predict. Some might stay with Nike clubs and balls for another year or two then sign with a new company. Of course, some players might stick with Nike apparel but play a full set of another company's irons or a mixture of irons from different companies. It will surely be interesting.
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