Dunlop Sport Dunlop Sport Dunlop Sport is a British sporting goods company that specialises in tennis and golf equipment. Dunlop have manufactured sporting equipment since 1910. In most of the world, Dunlop Sports is owned by SRI Sports, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo. Spartan Sports have the rights to the brand in Australia and New Zealand. Dunlop was established as a company manufacturing goods from rubber in 1889. The company entered the sporting goods market in 1910, when it began to manufacture rubber golf balls at its base in Birmingham. The company introduced the Maxfli golf ball in 1922. Dunlop extended
Titleist "Dynamite Thread" to increase the yardage of their balls. 1949: Titleist became the most used ball at the U.S. Open Tournament. 1976: Titleist was purchased by American Brands (now known as Fortune Brands). 1985: Fortune Brands]sold off the Acushnet Company's Acushnet Rubber division, which was Acushnet's original business (circa early 1900s). 2002: Titleist reached the $1 billion mark in annual revenues. On December 8, 2010, Fortune Brands announced that it would soon sell or spin off Titleist and some other brands. It was then announced on May 20, 2011 that a Korean group associated with Fila Korea, Ltd. and Mirae