Sporting Goods

Golfsmith

Golf equipment retailer founded in 1967, merged with OMERS-owned Golf Town in 2012, filed Chapter 11 in September 2016 and sold its US stores to Dick's Sporting Goods, which converted them or closed them by the end of that year.

FOUNDED
1967
PARENT
OMERS Private Equity

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