Rick Rimmers
After some somewhat unsatisfactory experiences as a golf professional at a series of municipal golf courses and driving ranges in Northern California, Rick Rimmers decided he needed a break. So, he headed to the northern reaches of the Great Plains region where he grew up, to wind his head on the ski slopes of Montana, not far from his home state of South Dakota.
“I was 23, maybe 24,” he said, “and I needed to figure out what I was going to do next.” “I loved golf and enjoyed being in the industry, but I needed to find another way to make a living at the game.”
A road trip is often a good way to clear your head, and Reimers capitalized on this one.
“The car radio wasn’t working,” he said, “so I had a lot of quiet time to think.” “By the time I got to Montana, I had designed a new kind of golf bag in my head.”
Thus, the seeds for Sun Mountain Sports were sown. After the company was officially established…