Ely Callaway Jr.

Ely Reeves Callaway Jr. (1919-2001) was an American businessman. He founded the Callaway Golf Company in 1982. Early life Ely Callaway was born in 1919 and raised in LaGrange, Georgia. Aged 10 years old, he earned $150 selling copies of Literary Digest and used his profits to buy a J.H. Hale peach tree that yielded a crop of $750 in its first year. Callaway played golf as a youth and was a distant cousin of golf legend Bobby Jones. He won four successive championships at LaGrange's Highland Country Club. He was business manager of his high school newspaper and yearbook.