The Balata Ledger

Every golf brand has a founder who bet everything. Every club in your garage has a receipt most people never saw. The Balata Ledger follows the money behind the game — the loans, the buyouts, the boardroom deals that turned garage workshops into lines on someone else's balance sheet. From the factory floors to the auction blocks, from the inventions that changed the sport to the debt that buried the companies that made them. Cobra. Top-Flite. Spalding. TaylorMade. The names you know. The numbers you don't.