Golf mecca faces wildfires in Calif.

May 15,2014. Several global golf brands based out of Carlsbad in California have shut offices due to a widespread wildfire in the region. Carlsbad  is well known as an American golf mecca – the home of big-time golf equipment companies like Callaway and TaylorMade, and top-notch resorts like La Costa and Aviara.

PGA.com reported approximately 15,000 homes and business have been evacuated – among them the TaylorMade complex, which also includes Ashworth and adidas Golf, along with the headquarters for such companies as Callaway, Odyssey, Cobra Puma Golf and the West Coast offices of Titleist, along with several smaller golf companies that together total several thousand employees.

Employees from several of those companies took to social media to pass along some unsettling photos of the fires but, thankfully, there had been no news reports of damage to any of the companies’ buildings as of late Wednesday.

The Park Hyatt Aviara Resort – which hosted the LPGA Tour’s Kia Classic in March and is one of the more scenic golf resorts in America – was closed and its staff and guests evacuated. There were reports of considerable destruction in the Aviara neighborhood, but no reports of damage to the resort itself as of late Wednesday.