Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland: Clubmakers

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MacGregor
Dayton, OH

Before starting to make golf clubs they had spent over 60 years producing shoe lasts as the Crawford, McGregor & Canby Co. (The partner spelled his name Mc but the brand was MacGregor - no, I don't know either but it was suggested that they felt this was more Scottish. Mc having an Irish connotation. The distinction is nonsense but it is a quite widespread misapprehension even among Scots).

There were hundreds of models produced by the firm. Reputedly the first makers to use persimmon for driver heads, the wood they used for the shoe lasts (see Robert White.)

It is said that at the end of the hickory shaft era, MacGregor still had 300,000 hickory squares in drying barns which were then of so little value they were used as fuel for the factory boilers.

They were taken over by the Goldsmith company in the 1930s but the MacGregor brand was stronger so, after a short while, MacGregor-Goldsmith became MacGregor.

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