Edwin Watts Golf was co-founded in 1968 in Fort Walton Beach, Fl by Edwin Watts and Ronnie Watts as a small pro shop at the Fort Walton Beach Golf Club. The company has now grown to become the largest privately-held golf retail operation in the world with 60 stores in 10 states, a world-famous catalog business and a state-of-the-art web site for on-line shopping. Edwin Watts Golf continues to dominate the " off-course" category of Golf World Business&＃039; prestigious list of "America&＃039;s 100 Best Golf Shops" with seven stores selected in 2005 and a total of 66 selections since 1990. Overall, the company is consistently ranked in the Top-50 in sales nationally among all sporting goods retailers (#41 in Sporting Goods Business &＃039;Retail Top 100&＃039;, June 2003), and has been named Sports Trend&＃039;s "Trendsetter of the Year" twice in the pat five years