ELY said it is well-positioned for continued gains in a sport which keeps tempting with green shoots of potential, but where the reality is a consolidating market which remains primarily a market share game, in a presentation at the Roth conference. NGF data shows 2.2 million new golfers took up the game in 2015 and rounds played inched up 0.6%, but the total number of U.S. golfers declined to 24.1 million from 24.7 million in 2014. But following the recent retail bankruptcies and resultant disruption, the industry is going through a distribution chain rationalization that surviving vendors and retailers will ... Log in to view full article.