Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland: Clubmakers

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Clubmakers

Martin McDaid
Leith (Edinburgh)
McDaid, an engineer, started out making clubs, parts and machinery for clubmaking before later specialising in golf ball manufacture. In 1896 he was awarded a patent for 'improvements in machinery for shaping golf club heads and such like' but in the first two decades of the twentieth century come a flurry of patents for machines to make golf balls. With the advent of the rubber core ball he invented a machine for winding around the core and began manufacturing balls himself.

He is listed as a golf ball maker with premises in Easter Road in the Post Office Directory for 1909-10 (with his home at 14 Restalrig Terrace). The next year the entry is for Martin McDaid and Son, 326b Leith Walk. By 1926-7, the firm is operating from 56 Seafield Road, Leith.

They made the Pimpernel and used Alec Marling's victory in the Scotiish Professional Championship playing with it in 1913 as advertising at the Fifth International Golf Traders' Exhibition at Hoylake the same year. They also produced the Scarlet Runner, the Doctor, Conqueror and the Iris [but see also the Scottish Golf Ball Manufacturing Company].

Martin McDaid died in August 1843 at the age of 82.

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