Home Page
Registration
Edit profile

catalogue
auction
shopping cart
shipping

history
makers

search
faq
news
links
about
contact
Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland
Clubmakers
James H Hutchison
North Berwick
(Sometimes given incorrectly as Hutchinson).

The son of a master printer of the same name, and his wife Ann Liddell, James Hay Hutchison was born at 50 Buchanan Street, Edinburgh on 15 October 1833. Hs father had been fifteen years or so as manager and book-keeper at McEwan and Son and young James learned his trade there. His sister Ann married Peter McEwan. In 1881 The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers appointed him as their clubmaker. He took over Tom Dunn’s clubmaking business in North Berwick in 1889 and also had a clubmaking workshop at Muirfield. His clubs were highly sought after in his own lifetime (he died in 1912) and he was granted several patents. In addition to his own innovations he produced some of Dalrymple's hammerhead clubs. According to a report in the North British Daily Mail he also 'sold a ton of golf balls in a season'.

For all the innovation he was very much a traditionalist in his own play, eschewing the use of iron clubs and playing over North Berwick links with just a driver, baffy, lofting cleek and putter.

On his retirement, his brother-in-law Alan Bisset took over the business.

Catalogue Search the catalogue for clubs by this maker