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Golf Industry News - phil knight

Tiger Woods and sportswear giant Nike have ended their commercial partnership after more than 27 years.

Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of Nike, has died at his home in Fossil, Oregon, aged 88. Bowerman was the track coach at the University of Oregon when Nike CEO Phil Knight trained under him in the late 1950s. They founded Nike in the early 1960s.

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