GOLF · BUSINESS · GLOBAL PERSPECTIVEIndependent golf-business research
Paper research / v0.1

Following golf,
$1,000 on paper.

Six publicly traded businesses. Three listing markets. A dated experiment in following golf’s economy.

This paper portfolio tests a rules-based approach to listed golf-related companies. No money was deposited and no trades were placed. The Global Golf Equity Index remains in development; this pilot is a separate hypothetical research model.

6qualified companies
25%issuer target-weight cap
Nov. 122026 reference marks
1baseline observation
The starting allocation

A global view of golf’s businesses.

Modified market-cap weights, adjusted for documented golf activity and capped at 25% per issuer.

November 12, 2026 baseline · hypothetical allocations in U.S. dollars
CompanyListing market / codeNotional amountStarting weight
AcushnetAcushnet Holdings Corp.United StatesGOLF · USD$250.0025.000%
CallawayCallaway Golf CompanyUnited StatesCALY · USD$250.0025.000%
HeiwaHeiwa Holdings Inc.Japan6412 · JPY$250.0025.000%
MizunoMizuno CorporationJapan8022 · JPY$167.2316.723%
GolfzonGolfzon Co., Ltd.South Korea215000 · KRW$57.345.734%
ResolResol Holdings Co., Ltd.Japan5261 · JPY$25.432.543%
Total paper allocation$1,000.00100.000%

Starting cash: $0.00. Fractional model units are permitted. Weights use three decimal places to reconcile the cent allocations. These are research allocations, not orders or a recommended personal portfolio.

Where the shares are listed

United States 50.000%Japan 44.266%South Korea 5.734%

Listing markets do not describe where every company earns its revenue. Country quotas were not used. The three largest starting positions together account for 75% of the model.

A fair reference point

Two ways to put the model in context.

The ledger currently contains only its starting observation. There is no subsequent return history or performance chart yet.

Broad global equities

VT reference portfolio

$1,000starting comparison value

A separate hypothetical holding of Vanguard Total World Stock ETF, using a November 12 reference close of $155.71. This supplies broad global-equity context.

Same companies, different weights

Equal-weight control

$1,000starting comparison value

The same six companies at approximately one-sixth each. This helps examine how the weighting method affects later results.

Each comparison has its own $1,000 model scale. Neither adds capital to the golf portfolio. The VT comparison includes the fund’s expenses through its market price; the paper models assume zero transaction costs and taxes.

Rules before results

How the pilot was built.

Six companies qualified from 19 original candidates plus one additional intake. The other names remain outside this pilot on evidence, overlap, liquidity or listing-seasoning holds; that is not a finding that each business lacks golf relevance.

01

Establish golf relevance.

Use supported annual golf categories from company disclosures. Ambiguous mixed categories are omitted; the resulting factor is conservative by category scope, subject to reporting precision, rather than an exact measure of golf purity.

02

Estimate investable scale.

Multiply net common shares by our disclosed-block model float estimate, convert the market value into U.S. dollars, then multiply by the documented annual golf-sales factor.

03

Limit concentration.

Normalize the scores and redistribute weight proportionally under a 25% issuer cap. The cap applies to launch and rebalance targets; weights may drift between reviews.

Eligibility screens and their limits

The adopted pilot screens require documented annual golf activity of at least 10% of revenue, or supported annual golf revenue of at least $100 million; at least $50 million of model float capitalization; and at least $100,000 of median daily trading activity over 90 completed local-market sessions through November 11, 2026.

Daily activity is regular closing price × canonical reported daily share volume × the matching date’s USD conversion. Source venue and session conventions differ across markets. Historical Korean regular-session-only volume remains unverified. Qualification uses the daily-activity proxy; it does not establish that the earlier proposed strict regular-session-only test was passed.

Model float is our conservative disclosed-block estimate, with reporting lags and classification judgments. It is not externally certified unrestricted float. Disclosed controllers, strategic/family blocks and other identified blocks are excluded under documented project rules; ordinary portfolio funds and nominees generally remain in float absent contrary evidence.

One primary ordinary share class per issuer is used, and direct operating securities are preferred where listed parents would duplicate golf economics. The experimental 3× relative-weight uplift limit was not adopted. A 25% cap still leaves this small pilot concentrated.

Reference prices, currencies and initialization

The model was initialized after the rules were frozen, at 4:24 p.m. Eastern on November 12, 2026. It uses that day’s latest completed verified regular local closes and the latest published ECB reference FX then available. The 90-session eligibility history ends November 11; it is separate from the November 12 baseline.

The U.S., Japanese and Korean markets close at different times. These asynchronous marks create reference-price units, without claiming that trades could have been executed at those prices at initialization.

November 12 reference marks · FX shown as local currency units per U.S. dollar
Company / codeLocal regular closeLocal units / USD
Acushnet GOLFUSD 81.381.0000
Callaway CALYUSD 16.571.0000
Heiwa 6412JPY 2,112.00159.7000
Mizuno 8022JPY 4,115.00159.7000
Golfzon 215000KRW 35,050.001,334.1000
Resol 5261JPY 7,640.00159.7000

U.S. closes: Longbridge daily records. Japan: dated Yahoo Japan tables and quote metadata. Korea: dated regular-session minute/quote checks; aftermarket closes excluded. FX: ECB reference series. These references document this snapshot and are not live price feeds.

Valuation, dividends and future reviews

The adopted valuation convention is 4:30 p.m. Eastern on U.S. trading days, using completed local-market marks and dated FX. This website displays the dated snapshot above; it does not currently update prices automatically. Only a subsequent validated observation can establish a model return.

Verified exchange holidays carry the last valid local close. Missing open-session data is flagged; if a source is more than two expected local sessions stale, the affected return observation is suspended. Unresolved material corporate actions also suspend affected valuation.

Gross dividends for held units accrue as local-currency receivables on verified ex-dates, then move to non-interest-bearing cash on payment. Cash remains until rebalance. Pre-inception dividend entitlements are excluded. Splits and other corporate actions are checked to avoid double counting adjusted prices and distributions.

Reviews are scheduled for the last U.S. trading day of May and November, with the first scheduled rebalance in May 2027. The launch-month November 2026 rebalance is skipped. Target evidence is cut off ten U.S. trading sessions before a rebalance, with known corporate-action share changes through its effective date.

Commissions, spreads, taxes, withholding and financing costs are assumed to be zero. Real accounts face access constraints, board lots, currency-conversion costs and other frictions that this fractional-unit model does not simulate.

Follow the evidence

The company reports behind the starting model.

These original disclosures support the annual golf-category inputs. They are part of a wider dated research record, not a certification of every model assumption.

Model rules v0.1 adopted November 12, 2026. The broad public benchmark requires a separate publication, calculation and data-use review. This reader summary publishes no raw vendor history or private evidence archive.