10 days later

KSig may be gone but at my local Costco, north of Pittsburgh, they have a 24 pack of Callaway Chrome Hot 55 for $29.95. Something made for Costco??? Didn't find any of that name on the Callaway website - closest was a Chrome Soft 58 as a special edition ball...

    OEM have to modify their product when branded to Kirkland Signature .

    The Kirkland Signature should be at the minimum , comparable to the name branded product and in most cases are a little better than the name branded products. I suspect the Chrome Hot 55 is very similar to the Chrome soft 58.

    The Kirkland Signature stirred up so much wave, not because it's a superior golf ball than the rest but because they could be compatible in the premium golf ball class and selling below the second teared pricing. once the edge of the low price line is gone so would the magic.

    Can't figure out buyers mentality. In the 15 years I worked my custom build shop the one obstacle I couldn't overcome was brand nameitus. No matter how top shelf the head and shaft I used, most of my customers, even friends and family, still wanted the big name OEM. Now these same people will play a ball named Kirkland? I don't get it and I'm glad I'm retired.

      Tinker

      It's crazy! My first set of components were some PING Eye 2 clones. My playing partners were all OEM worshippers and called my clubs "no-name bullshit clubs". They really hated them when they had to pay me for losing our bets. I have experienced this for decades now as the ignorant just can't believe a little-known brand can be any good.

        raggmann54 If you check the Titleist & Callaway balls at Wal-Mart, you'll often find models that you cannot find anywhere else.

        Are you sure you read the box correctly?

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          Tinker

          You did not sell them cheap enough for the cheap skates.

            5 days later

            livegolf I think I got some defective k sigs, mine landed on someone's roof today

            NO one had told you the secret ?

            You'll need to press down between the Kirkland and the Signature before you you teed off, this will allow the golf ball to avoid all hazards including roof top If it's on the turf then too bad, because golfer could not touch the golf ball in play. 😉

              a month later

              I think this is just what big companies do when they feel their patent is being infringed. And honestly I don't blame them. If I spent millions of dollars each year for R&D, only to have a wholesaler exploit my product for their own gain, then you better believe I'd be putting my lawyers on notice.

              Proving patent infringement, however, especially since Titleist vs Callaway really didn't settle matters in the first patent-infringement war, is a little more tedious.

              Costco has more than enough money to finance smarter/more aggressive lawyers.

              This will ultimately end up no different than Titleist vs Callaway.

              Costco sold these on very thin margin so I don't know why they'd want to spend a truckload of money defending their ball in court, just from a business standpoint. Can other ball companies jump in and back Costco, even if it is 'friends of the court' filings? Can Costco escalate the case into a 'defamation of character' suit and try to get in Acushnet's pockets for dragging their good name in this soon-to-be-very public cause?

              pellmell posted a link that pretty much proves that Titleist is a big bad bully and will protect their turf with deep pockets. You have to feel for the entrepreneurs that had their dreams shattered when they tried to come to market with alternatives.

                  I don't think the patent infringement is the issue for ksig, that ball was some sort of Frankensteined tmag ball....so if it were truly a patent infringement, would we not have seen it before, that is Acushnet raising the same issue with tmag?

                  The other balls appear to all be made at the same foundry and all may be the same exact ball (ie open model), but sold by different companies.

                  I wander if accushnet is trying to get people to realize that ksig and these other balls are just that, open models, or a re badge of another companies leftovers and/or past models vs. The great titleist, who actually spend r and d money to create something

                  I find golfers a weird lot....you have guys who will only play big boy oem's for their sticks, and look down on anything else as inferior, yet will play a ksig.