TopGolf

PE Firm Acquires Majority Stake in Dallas-Based Topgolf, Valuing Company at $1.1B

by | Nov 19, 2025
When the deal between Topgolf Callaway Brands and L.A.-based Leonard Green & Partners closes, Topgolf Callaway plans to change its name to Callaway Golf Company. It called LGP "an ideal partner for Topgolf in its next chapter."
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Topgolf Kicks Off Football Season With Field Goal Challenge Game
by | Sep 3, 2025
At 51 Topgolf locations nationwide, a goal post has been installed in the "outfield" so guests can swing at balls while getting into the fall football spirit. There's also a digital Field Goal Challenge game, plus "tailgate bundles" and football-themed menu items.
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Topgolf Launches Experience Inspired by Marvel Studios’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World’
by | Jan 30, 2025
Topgolf said the limited-time experience is available at all Topgolf U.S. venues Feb. 1 through April 13. It's accompanied by a national in-venue sweepstakes and limited-time menu items.
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Nothing Bundt Cakes Welcomes Former Yum Brands Exec as New COO
by | Sep 13, 2024
As the fast-growing specialty cake brand aims for 1,000 locations by 2027, the company looks to turbocharge its operations and franchise growth.
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TopGolf Unveils Unbuyable ‘Sure Thing’ Driver With Wild Marketing Claim

by | Aug 1, 2024
OK, there's not really a chicken wing hidden inside The Sure Thing, an easy-to-swing driver at Topgolf locations nationwide. That's just the secret marketing sauce behind the innovative golf stick, designed in collaboration with Calloway engineers so novice players won't "whiff" the ball.
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Topgolf Announces New Chief Operating Officer
by | Jul 19, 2024
Erin Chamberlin comes to Topgolf from PENN Entertainment, the largest provider of gaming entertainment in North America, where she was an SVP of regional operations since 2019.
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Topgolf Names New Chief People Officer
The appointment of Maryam Morse comes as Topgolf continues to innovate in the golf entertainment sector and expand its global footprint. Morse, who joins the company from Andrews Distributing, will oversee the Playmaker experience and support the company’s mental well-being platform.
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Dallas-Based Invited Sells Its BigShots Golf Business to Topgolf Callaway for $29M
by | Nov 2, 2023
Five years after acquiring BigShots Golf, Invited is stepping away from golf entertainment venues to "laser focus" on its nation-leading portfolio of private golf and country clubs, stadium clubs, and business clubs. Invited says its deal with Topgolf Callaway Brands has "just scratched the surface" of synergies the two aim to jointly pursue.
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‘Innovation Meets Investment’: Venture Dallas Sets Sights on National Stage with New Branding, Expanded 2023 Summit

by | Sep 27, 2023
The rebrand "marks the start of our next chapter of growth," says Venture Dallas Chair Aaron Pierce. The nonprofit's 2023 summit, backed by JPMorgan Chase and Perot Jain, is set for October 25.
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Topgolf Takes a ‘Swing Fore Childhood Cancer’ at Locations Nationwide
by | Sep 24, 2023
Hosted during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the fundraiser will be held this Thursday at Topgolf and Suite Shots locations across the nation, including Texas, California, Louisiana, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, and Tennessee.
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Addison-Based Nothing Bundt Cakes Names Former TopGolf Top Leader as CEO
by | Jul 24, 2023
At both Topgolf and Dave & Busters, the exec led efforts "that nearly doubled unit count and increased average unit volume by double digits, and that growth mindset is key to what we want to achieve at Nothing Bundt Cakes," Roark Capital Managing Director Sarah Spiegel said.
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Retail Re-volution: The Experience Economy and ‘Eatertainment’ Are Unexpected Bright Spots
by | May 15, 2023
Dive into the trends reshaping the retail industry so this year, as spotlighted in recent reports from commercial real estate firm JLL. With insights from JLL Dallas' Rob Franks, discover how next-gen retail concepts are steering the sector towards an exciting future, and how small businesses are proving to be critical drivers of this transformation.
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PGA of America Taps Former Topgolf Exec as its New Chief Operations Officer

by | Feb 9, 2023
Kessler brings experience in "off-course golf" to the PGA from his years as COO of Dallas-based Topgolf. That's important, PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh says: "For the first time in history there are now more off-course golfers than on-course, so his track record of innovation and growth has never been more relevant or welcome." Kessler most recently served as CEO of Dallas' Buff City Soap.
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The Future of Sports Is In North Texas
by | Feb 9, 2023
If the future of sports has one home, it’s right here in North Texas. A big brag, we know. But consider this: From high-tech advances to the hottest sports trends to startups on the edge of fitness science, it’s all kicking off in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Topgolf Makes Leadership Moves to Help Drive Business Forward
by | Dec 16, 2022

Dallas-based sports entertainment and technology company Topgolf has announced several leadership moves it said will help propel the company business forward. Topgolf, which currently has 85 global venues, plans to open another 50-plus venues over the next five years — roughly 11 new venues each year....

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Dallas-Based Topgolf Tees Off in Gaming World with Mobile Game ‘Shankstars’
by | Oct 26, 2022
Topgolf has 70 driving range game venues as far-flung as Germany, Australia, and Dubai. But now it's launched a mobile game you can play anywhere. "Shankstars" features a club-wielding UFO alien, a Tee-Wrex skeleton, a punk goddess, mermaid, and more playing on courses strewn with volcanos, pyramids, and giant waterfall-spewing skulls. "Shankstars is a perfect example of how we're focused on enabling more people to have fun and enjoy the game of golf in their own way," says Topgolf CEO Artie Starrs.
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