User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Bertha


 * Keep Alan, you are a really useful editor and I am glad that you help maintain the quality of this encyclopedia. However, your comments here, while interesting, are off-topic and belong at another venue.  This is the place to discuss whether or not Big Bertha golf clubs are notable.  Here is a quote from a a 2002 book: "A classic case is Callaway's Big Bertha golf club. Ely Callaway intentionally jacked up the price of this club when he first introduced it years ago, setting it far above the industry standard and far above what he needed to make a good profit. As a marketing man. he understood that at a lower price, the Big Bertha would have been just another golf club, and the well-heeled target market wouldn't have been able to see the value. But the $400 driver (initially: even more now) caught the attention of golfers, who then searched for value — and found it, as any golfer who has tried the club will attest. The Big Bertha changed the industry"  Or this 2007 book: "Callaway Golf's Big Bertha golf club, for instance, wasn't the first oversized golf club when it came on the market, but it contained several improvements in materials and composition that could be patented. The club also had a unique design that eliminated most of the weight from the club shaft and, most important, was instantly identifiable." And then four more sentences on the golf club follow.  The golf club was introduced to the market in 1991, 10 years before Wikipedia was thought of, and was a big success back then.


 * As for articles being "almost impossible" to delete, that is simply not true on the face of it. We delete articles here in massive numbers every single day.  I recommend deleting about 50% of the articles I review and about 90% of those end up being deleted.  I've never played a round of golf and I have heard of the Big Bertha club.  So, Alan, do you really think that the Big Bertha golf club isn't notable?  If not, precisely why not?