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American Golf shop Galway

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  • 24-09-2018 1:49pm
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    fearruanua
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭


    has anyone been for a visit yet? just opened recently i think.


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    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    I was in there last week. It’s a nice shop with decent stock. It’s hard to see how they’ll compete with Golfstyle though. I bought an electric trolley from Declan last week and AG didn’t come close with the price.


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    crusier
    Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭crusier


    Competition and choice is good for the customer.


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    golfguy1
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭golfguy1


    American Golf has reportedly begun reaching out to potential buyers as it searches for new investment to sure up its finances.

    According to Sky News the UK’s largest specialist golfing retailer, which trades from over 130 UK stores across the UK and Ireland, has flown in Deloitte to handle a sales process.

    The extreme weather seen this year, including both extended hot and cold seasons, is understood to have hit the sportswear retailer’s finances.

    A number of turnaround investors have been approached by Deloitte on behalf of American Golf, and it’s thought to have requested offers within a short time frame.

    Though both JD Sports and Sports Direct have been flagged as potential bidders, the limited time given to make an offers suggests it may be in a dire financial position.

    Its owner Sun European Partners, which bought the company in 2012, took the business through a restructure in 2015 in order to restore the confidence of its suppliers and insurers.

    Not sure they will be around for too long if the above is to believed


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    Charlie Charolais
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭Charlie Charolais


    the name puts me off, american sounds cheap, mass produced


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    Tilikum17
    Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Tilikum17


    In there today to look at a taylormade 3 wood. They had none. They had no taylormade woods/drivers whatsoever bar two 2nd hand drivers.

    Can’t see that place being open in 6 months.


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    spacecoyote
    Registered Users Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Tilikum17 wrote: »
    In there today to look at a taylormade 3 wood. They had none. They had no taylormade woods/drivers whatsoever bar two 2nd hand drivers.

    Can’t see that place being open in 6 months.

    Spoke to the guys in the Tallaght store. When they were going through the transition of ownership, certain manufacturers, one of whom was TM, asked that they pull their stock from the stores. And as soon as the dust settled they were due to return everything.

    I was in the Tallaght store again last weekend & they had all the TM stuff was back in. So it could just be a timing issue for the Galway store


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    Goldenjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Goldenjohn


    Shop closed....sign up on the shop door today


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    Tilikum17
    Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Tilikum17


    Goldenjohn wrote: »
    Shop closed....sign up on the shop door today

    Christ. Didn’t last long.


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