THE RISE AND FALL OF LYNX: THE GOLF BRAND FRED COUPLES AND HOLLYWOOD COULDN'T SAVE

On a Sunday afternoon in April of 1992, a golf ball rolled down a bank in Georgia and stopped. It should have kept rolling. Every ball that landed on that slope at Augusta National found the water of Rae's Creek. This one held on the grass, inches above the surface, and refused to fall. Fred Couples walked down, chipped it close, and won the Masters. The irons in his bag that week carried the head of a leaping cat. The name stamped on them was Lynx. Six years later, Lynx was in bankruptcy court — and the people holding the wreckage were not strangers. Fred Couples owned a piece of the company. So did some of the most famous men in America. Everyone blames the titanium arms race, the celebrity owners, or the designer who vanished. The real killer was a number so small you won't believe it — and it's revealed at the end of this video. If you played a Parallax, a Boom Boom driver, or any club with the leaping cat on the toe, tell me in the comments: which Lynx club lived in your bag, and what finally replaced it? The model and the year. These comment sections are becoming an archive of their own. Subscribe to Persimmon Archive for the stories of the golf brands America loved and lost:    / @persimmonarchive   In this video: the rise and fall of Lynx Golf — John Riley and Carl Ross founding Lynx in 1971, Riley's years at Ping with Karsten Solheim, David Boone designing the Parallax irons, Fred Couples winning the 1992 Masters with Lynx, Ernie Els winning the 1994 U.S. Open at Oakmont, the Boom Boom driver, the Black Cat line, the Fred Couples and Hollywood investor purchase, the 1998 bankruptcy, the Golfsmith years, and the brand's British revival. Lynx Golf | Fred Couples | Ernie Els | Lynx Parallax irons | Boom Boom driver | 1992 Masters | 1994 US Open | John Riley | Karsten Solheim | Ping | Golfsmith | vintage golf clubs | classic golf equipment | golf history | rise and fall | golf documentary Sources: MyGolfSpy — "History's Mysteries: The Nine Lives of Lynx Golf" MyGolfSpy — "The Cat On The Hat Comes Back: The Return of Lynx Golf" Los Angeles Times — Lynx investor group coverage Colorado AvidGolfer — "Hitting the Lynx — Again" Wikipedia — Golfsmith International Golflink — "Who Manufactures Lynx Golf Clubs"