TaylorMade began in 1979 when Gary Adams borrowed $24,000 against his house to build a steel driver golfers nicknamed the Pittsburgh Persimmon. Here's how that bet turned into one of golf's biggest...

Ely Callaway was past 60, with careers in textiles and wine behind him, when he bought into a small California club company in 1982. Nine years later the Big Bertha changed what a driver looks like.

How a club maker from the tour vans built Titleist's wedge program, what Spin Milled means, how the SM generations changed from SM4 to SM10, and which used Vokeys are the best value today.

Scotty Cameron learned to make putters in his father's garage, built for three other companies before Titleist signed him in 1994, and ended up with his name on the most recognizable putters in gol...

Nike had Tiger Woods and later Rory McIlroy playing its clubs, yet it quit the golf equipment business in August 2016. Here is how Nike Golf clubs came and went, and whether used Nike clubs are wor...

In 2000 Callaway sold the ERC II, a $625 driver over the USGA's 0.830 COR limit, with Arnold Palmer's backing. How the fight ended and what it changed.

In 1989 Ping sued the USGA and the PGA Tour for $100 million over the grooves on its Eye2 irons. Here's what happened, why old Eye2 wedges showed up on tour in 2010, and what it means for your clubs.

Fairway woods started as hand-shaped wooden clubs with names like brassie, spoon and baffy, switched to metal after TaylorMade launched its first metalwood in 1979, and then got a new sibling: the ...

How the wedge went from a soldered niblick in 1932 to today's grinds, gap wedges and spin-milled faces, with the myths cleared up.