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112 Years Tradition at a glance MacGregor Golf Company stands for over 110 years of experience in tradition, development and knowhow in clubfitting. We have won no less than 59 major victories with equipment and clubs fitted by MacGregor. 15 Masters and 17 British Open Wins 8 out of 14 Hall of Fame-Clubmaker Golf legends such as Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and Jose Maria Olazabal to name a few have trusted our brand and were involved in improving our products. All independent magazine product testing at the start of the 2008 season has shown the MacGregor clubs to be of the very highest quality and winning many awards such as the longest Driver, fairway wood and game improvement iron in Todays Golfer. |
MacGregor - it's all about passion MacGregor Golf Company makes golf clubs, balls, bags, clothing, and accessories, with a focus on premium quality equipment. 19th Century Beginnings MacGregor Golf Company's origins date to the end of the 19th century and a company called Crawford, MacGregor and Canby, which manufactured wooden shoe lasts in Dayton, Ohio. At a time when most club heads were carved by hand, the company took advantage of the lathe copying process with which it made shoe lasts, where a replica of a metal original was mechanically carved in wood, and within a few years the firm was producing 100,000 clubs per year. Over time, Canby became sole owner of the company. In the 1920s MacGregor was one of the first to offer steel-shafted clubs, and 1927 saw the first "Harmonized" club set, which included both wood and steel shafts. Successes of the era included the "Neutralizer," a wooden dowel of spring hickory that was inserted in the shaft where it joined the head of the club, and a grip made of rubber and cord--previous ones had been made of leather. This "All-Weather" grip was soon adopted by most of the game's top players. MacGregor later created a soft rubber grip called the "Tri-Tac," which went on to be even more popular. Another innovation of the period, the "Four-Way Roll," improved the performance of wooden clubs by softening the edges of the club face, yielding a better result from off-center shots. In 1949 the company introduced its first matching set of four "woods" (for long shots) and nine "irons" (for shorter shots). The so-called MT line was sold in a special display box which housed the 13 clubs as a single unit. Included with the irons was a sand wedge, the first time this type of club had been sold as part of a set. By 1952 MacGregor's sales had increased eightfold from a decade earlier. In the 1950s MacGregor became one of the first golf firms to offer sponsorship to African-American professionals, at a time when the PGA had a "Caucasians only" clause in its constitution (which was not removed until 1961). That year, when Nicklaus used a new MacGregor putter to win golf's prestigious Masters tournament, the company took orders for 5,000 of the clubs before noon the next business day. Their clubs have been used to win 59 Major Golf Championships and since the recent take over by Greg Norman have made significant steps to return to their roots of making the best clubs available....
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