Cleveland CEO Hopkins Resigns To Spend More Time...Flying Planes

I tried reading between the lines of E. Michael Johnson's story about Greg Hopkins stepping down as Cleveland/Srixon CEO but couldn't get a feel for what prompted the surprise announcement from the lowest handicap CEO in the equipment industry.

Hopkins was a believer in the USGA-is-to-blame approach, but he also understood that selling new $300 drivers twice a year wouldn't grow the game. So he wasn't exactly moving the state-of-the-game dialogue forward.