Big Bertha
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Oct 30, 2026
Ben WrightHOST
No. There's something there in the middle.
Rick ShielsHOST
Was there any Big Bertha? What year was that?
Ben WrightHOST
What year were we
Rick ShielsHOST
missing? 2020.
Rick ShielsHOST
Did they bring Big Bertha back at all?
Ben WrightHOST
No.
Ben WrightHOST
I think I'm right.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
speaker_1HOST
The club face became a giant trampoline that heavily resisted the urge to twist on off-center hits, like the 1991 Callaway Big Bertha, for example.
Henrik JentschHOST
OK, I want to challenge the common narrative here, though.
Henrik JentschHOST
The assumption is always that technology makes the sport easier, right?
Henrik JentschHOST
Yeah.
Henrik JentschHOST
By 1991, Callaway releases the Big Bertha, and we officially enter the titanium boom.
speaker_1HOST
Now, what's fascinating here is the relationship between the atomic properties of the material and the physical dimensions of the club.
Henrik JentschHOST
Okay, tell me more.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
Have you heard of Callaway Golf? What is the most famous product? What is the product that put them on the map? You've said...
Aswath DamodaranHOST
No, before the golf ball, they had a golf club called the Big Bertha.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
That was their claim to fame.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
The Big Bertha was what launched them.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
Now, of course, they have the golf ball business.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
So this was a company that came out of nowhere and created a golf club.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
When you say Callaway, people say golf.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
But the original product was the Big Bertha, which was a golf club.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
And the thing about golf is everybody is terrible at golf, but they're always convinced that it's because they have the wrong club or the wrong ball or the wrong pro or the wrong fit.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
I mean, you blame something else, which is great for merchandising.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
Because look, if you buy the Big Bertha, you're going to play like Tiger Woods.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
And Big Brother took off.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
And to show you how much it took off, this was the five-year historical data I was looking at in 1997 when I look at Calvary Ball.
Guy CharnockHOST
And in 1991, that was when we really saw change.
Guy CharnockHOST
Callaway launched the original, the iconic Big Bertha driver, which was named after the famous German artillery gun from the First World War.
Guy CharnockHOST
So what cool name to name a driver after a big gun.
Guy CharnockHOST
This is a Big Bertha.
Guy CharnockHOST
It was around, here, drum roll please, 190 cc's, which at the time... was ginormous
Ben WrightHOST
nearly smaller than a volvic these days
Guy CharnockHOST
it's family run now.
Guy CharnockHOST
Maybe there is, but I don't think it's obviously not a family run business, obviously being on the stock exchange, but...
Tim HuckabyGUEST
... over the last 100 years, um, th- I, I read this impassioned speech, um, by one of the founders of this company about all the things that happened to golf over the last 100 years.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
One of them is, you know, Callaway came out with the Big Bertha driver, and it was this huge thing, and everyone said that would be a fad.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
And everyone hated it 'cause they said it was cheating.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
Well, guess what? We use that.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
I, I read this impassioned speech, um, by one of the founders of this company about all the things that happened to golf over the last 100 years.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
One of them is, you know, Callaway came out with the Big Bertha driver, and it was this huge thing, and everyone said that would be a fad.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
And everyone hated it 'cause they said it was cheating.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
Well, guess what? We use that.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
I, I read this impassioned speech, um, by one of the founders of this company about all the things that happened to golf over the last 100 years.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
One of them is, you know, Callaway came out with the Big Bertha driver and it was this huge thing, and everyone said that would be a fad, and everyone hated it 'cause they said it was cheating.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
Well, guess what? We use that.
Tim HuckabyGUEST
[laughs]
John RodenburgHOST
Yeah, the Ti- Titleist or a TaylorMade or, uh-
Matt HamerHOST
Well, is the Big Bertha-
John RodenburgHOST
... a Ping
Matt HamerHOST
... still around? Is that still a thing?
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