BIOGRAPHY
- Born in JAPAN, married, 3 kids
- Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Director, Golf Ball Product Development at NIKE Golf
- As Nike Golf’s Product Development Director, Ishii is responsible for leading the Nike Ball team in conceptualization, development and commercialization of all Golf Ball products. Rock has been developing NIKE Golf balls since its first debut in 1999.
- Ishii currently lives in Beaverton with his lovely wife Harumi, two sons, Yota (16) , Taiki (12), daughter Yu (9) & their lovely Bernese Mountain dog, Tak (2)
January 11, 2010
Nonstops Relax Nike Golf Developer
As Nike Golf’s ball research and development director, I fly 100,000-plus miles per year. Over the last 10 years I have maintained an average of six international trips a year, visiting manufacturing partners in Asia and golfers on the various golf courses in the world. One would assume that the opportunity to visit the greatest golf courses would coincide with actually playing an occasional round. However, this is not the case. I’m quite confident that I have the record for visiting the most world’s top 100 greatest golf courses without even playing.