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525 Premium: 2016 PGA Merchandise Show Recap with Cheryl Fink

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

525: Cheryl Fink of Bionic Gloves has been attending the PGA Merchandise show for many years and now that she's returned from Orlando, it seemed like a good time to get her back on the podcast to get her observations on the State of the Industry.  Cheryl also shares her observations on which new products caught her attention, what a week is like at the show, and who to watch on this year's PGA Tour.This episode was conducted at Blab.im and the full video and a short video excerpt are both available at GolfSmarterTV and GolfSmarter.com.  Each new episode of GOLF SMARTER is live on BLAB, which allows you to participate with your own questions. To receive an automatic notification of our next recording time and date, use Blab or Twitter to follow us @GolfSmarter.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Golf Smarter Premium number 525, published on February 2, 2016.

0:08.5

The PGA merchandise show is done, and we're going to get a recap from Cheryl Fink of Bionic Gloves.

0:15.3

This is Golf Smarter Premium.

0:18.7

Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:21.8

Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Cheryl. It's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast.

0:23.6

Cheryl, it's great to have you back.

0:25.5

It's great to be back.

0:27.7

You have had a, well, last week was a tough week for everybody involved in the golf industry

0:33.5

because the PGA merchandise show happened as it does every year in Orlando, and there's probably a lot of shoes that needed to be changed multiple times a day.

0:43.9

Well, and I can tell you, just getting there was a task for some people, well, especially the Northeast because of all the snow.

0:53.4

So I was fortunate to have not a problem with getting down there.

0:58.8

Oh, that's right.

0:59.4

The weather was awful that week.

1:01.0

That was terrible.

1:02.6

Yes, it was.

1:04.0

The PGA merchandise show goes on every year.

1:06.4

How many years have you been going to this?

1:08.6

Oh, gosh, you're going to age me.

1:14.8

Over 15. How about that?

1:24.6

So you've seen a lot of changes in that show as far as what's available. I have. Yeah.

1:33.1

And it's, you know, it's going from a huge show where you've got vendors that are spilling out into the concourse hallways, like they couldn't get on the show floor because there

1:39.1

was no room.

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