Taylor Made Golf Review
TaylorMade Golf was founded in 1979 by
Gary Adams, a golf entrepreneur who also started Founders Club and
McHenry Metals. While working as a salesman for Witteck Golf, Adams
noticed that the new two piece balls performed better on irons than on
true woods. This led him to develop the Taylor-Made metal wood. The
Taylor-Made driver quickly caught on and Taylor-Made has been a leader
in hollow metal woods ever since.
Adams received the PGA of America's highest honor, the Ernie
Sabayrac Award, in 1995for lifetime contributions to the industry. He
died of cancer in 2000.
The company he founded, however, lives on as TaylorMade-Adidas
golf. Today, with its movable weight technology, TaylorMade's drivers,
hybrids and fairway woods are used by more professionals than any other
brand.
Company History:
The second largest manufacturer of golf clubs in the United States,
Taylor Made Golf Co. designs and markets a complete line of clubs for
men, women, and children, as well as golf accessories and golf bags.
Taylor Made scored its initial success with its first product, metal
drivers, which debuted in 1979 and subsequently dominated the golf
market. With its focus on research and development and aggressive
marketing, the company grew to be the second largest U.S. golf
manufacturer by the mid-1990s, a ranking attained because of the
popularity of its Burner Bubble drivers, introduced in 1995. In 1997
Adidas AG acquired Salomon, Taylor Made's parent company, thereby
creating Adidas-Salomon Group. Taylor Made was organized as a wholly
owned subsidiary of Adidas-Salomon Group. Headquartered in Carlsbad,
California, Taylor Made had operations in Japan, Great Britain, New
Zealand, and Canada.