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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Club Car page on 14 September 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Club Car is an American company that manufactures electric and gas-powered golf cars and UTVs for personal and commercial use. It is a business unit of the Ingersoll Rand corporation in its Industrial Technologies division.
It is one of the largest employers in Columbia County, Georgia.
Originally established in 1958 in Houston, Texas, Club Car was purchased by Bill Stevens, Jr. and moved to Augusta, Georgia in 1962 where its primary headquarters reside.
A group of eight executives from EZGO purchased the company in 1978 to begin running their own business, establishing Club Car as an in-town rival in the golf cart industry. One of the first Club Car executives was EZGO cofounder William Dolan.
It was acquired by Ingersoll Rand in 1995 as part of the company's Infrastructure division, but was merged with Bobcat to create a new, Compact Vehicles Technology division aimed at producing utility vehicles in addition to golf cars.