Primary stage: look at Spalding, McGregor and Burke.
Back to the well-known old story: 1888 At Washington's birthday party, john reid, known as the "father of American golf", brought six clubs and a dozen Gupta rubber balls, which were bought from the golf club shop of old Tom Morris in St Andrews, Scotland.
At this time, more than one hundred years have passed since the Western Industrial Revolution, and golf has appeared in some parts of the United States, but there is no real golf industry in the United States, and all golf equipment must be imported. Due to the gradual rise and acceptance of golf in the United States, independent and enterprising Americans gradually brought golf clubs into the factory manufacturing period, and before that, golf clubs had been in the workshop-style manual manufacturing period.
65438+In the early 1990s, Scottish professional golfers who were good at business spread golf information to the United States and set up shops, golf courses and golf courses. During this period, a series of American companies quickly entered this field with advanced technology.
The first one is A.G. Spalding of new york. 1876, he and his younger brother James started a sports equipment company. From 65438 to 0892, Spalding began to import golf equipment from Scotland, which was assembled and sold in the United States. Spalding is therefore called the first company in the United States to assemble and sell golf clubs.
Can't help but mention the well-known MacGregor Company. In 1990s, because Edward Camby's wise decision was supported by John McGregor, Macquarie's predecessor CMC tried to enter the golf industry. With the help of carpentry major in last shoe factory, they began to produce persimmon and walnut shafts. 1897, the Crawford brothers, McGregor and Edward Camby produced their first golf club.
In the United States during this period, baseball, portable weapons, shoe last and golf equipment all evolved from whips used to drive wagons. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, William Burke, Ohio sold hickory? Do you want to fight otters? Urke is a businessman with great market vision. He realized that carriages and whips would be out of date and replaced by advanced things. 1903, he began to manufacture hickory wood golf clubs. 19 10, Burke Golf Company began to manufacture all golf clubs.
The success and failure of the British.
The 1990s of 19 is a memorable period in the history of golf equipment development. 1894, Thomas A.Horsburgh, an Englishman, applied for a patent for his golf club made of steel bars. But Hosberg found it difficult to persuade professional players to use his club, and his idea disappeared for 20 years. Twenty years later 19 13 years later, Allan Lard, a wealthy golf enthusiast, independently experimented with a steel club with a hole. But it was not until the mid-1920s that this kind of steel club was accepted by people because of its advanced manufacturing method.
192 1 year, Scottish Jock Hutchison won his British Open. He was a top British golfer before the First World War. He used an iron that appeared and became popular because rubber wound the ball. This iron has a deep groove. In fact, surface marking was an innovation at that time. The surface of early irons was smooth, but the surface became rough because caddies often needed to wipe the rust on the clubs with emery cloth. The player noticed that the rough iron improved the rotation of the ball and helped to control the hitting. The first club marked on the surface was deliberately hit, which happened in 65438+90' s. By AD 19 10, iron bars with smooth surfaces were hard to find. The most popular nick patterns are dots, grooves, grooves and dashes, which can still be found today. The trough iron used by Hutchison Whampoa 19 13 was introduced on 19 14 and banned on 1925, which dealt a great blow to his success.
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