Eagle One Golf Acquires Fore-Par

Eagle One Golf Products (Anaheim, Calif.) announced today that they have acquired Fore-Par (Buena Park, Calif.) Readers might remember back in June, Eagle One Golf was acquired by Canadian company Golf Supply Warehouse.

With the acquisition, Eagle One Golf now says that they are the “largest distributors of golf course and golf range equipment, supplies and accessories in the world.”

“We are extremely happy with the news. There has been a friendly competition (between Eagle One and Fore-Par) in California for 20-plus years,” said Rod Halsall, general manager of Eagle One Golf. “There is an overlap of some products, to the same customers. So there’s a good synergy there.”

No determination has yet been made if the name Fore-Par will be kept.

“It’s business as usual for a short time. Both companies have long, storied brands. I can tell you that we are ready to immediately service both sets of customers,” Halsall told Golfdom. “It would be foolhardy not to carefully consider the best way to integrate these two brands.”

Employees of both companies were notified of the acquisition via a press release statement sent last night.

Here is the statement from the company:

Eagle One Golf of Anaheim, Calif., is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Fore-Par of Buena Park, Calif.

Fore-Par has served the U.S. golf industry for more than 48 years. It has a tremendously well developed business in the golf course and golf range equipment, accessories and supplies product segments. Fore-Par also has an established manufacturing capability in golf flags, tee markers, as well as golf course signage, in addition to distributing a broad line of other golf course equipment and supplies from leading manufacturers such as Par-Aide and Standard Golf. Paul Cherrie, President of Eagle One Golf added, “We’re very pleased to have the opportunity to combine the Eagle One Golf and Fore-Par businesses. This will allow us to increase the depth and breadth of our product offerings to better serve our customers.”

The combined Eagle One Golf & Fore-Par businesses will operate out of the Eagle One Golf Head Office in Anaheim. Longer term, the plan is to exit the current Fore-Par distribution facilities in Buena Park, Jacksonville, Fla., and Phoenix, and merge them into existing Eagle One Golf distribution facilities in Anaheim and North Charleston, S.C.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

About Eagle One Golf

Founded in 1992, Eagle One Golf, and its parent company, Golf Supply House (founded in 1960) are now the largest distributors of golf course and golf range equipment, supplies and accessories in the world.