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Forgan of St Andrews
Forgan of St Andrews is a British manufacturing company of golf equipment, founded in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Having been established in 1860, Forgan is the oldest golf club manufacturing company in the world. Apart from golf clubs, Forgan commercialises bags and clothing, such as t-shirts, hats and jackets.
In past years, Forgan was a subsidiary of American corporation Spalding in the 1940s, and then of Sports PLC, a European online retailer.
The company owes its foundation to the Society of St Andrews Golfers, later The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, who hired local carpenter Hugh Philp to make golf clubs.
Philp used thorn, apple and pear woods as materials for its clubs, which were highly appreciated as craft items and gained him widespread recognition.
It was Hugh Philp who first departed from the primitive models of the stone age and began to make golf clubs that looked as though they were intended for some gentler work (...) Philp had an eye for graceful lines and curves, and his slim, elegant models remain today things of beauty (...) Philp was the only man who ever knew how to make a perfectly balanced wooden putter.
— Harper's Weekly, 2 Oct. 1897
This genius made such beautiful and perfect wooden putters that he has come to be regarded as the Amati or Stradivarius of Golf, and a genuine "Philp" today is worth untold gold. The long narrow faces of these clubs and their perfect balance are well known to connoisseurs
— Golf Illustrated magazine, 5 Oct. 1900
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Forgan of St Andrews
Forgan of St Andrews is a British manufacturing company of golf equipment, founded in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Having been established in 1860, Forgan is the oldest golf club manufacturing company in the world. Apart from golf clubs, Forgan commercialises bags and clothing, such as t-shirts, hats and jackets.
In past years, Forgan was a subsidiary of American corporation Spalding in the 1940s, and then of Sports PLC, a European online retailer.
The company owes its foundation to the Society of St Andrews Golfers, later The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, who hired local carpenter Hugh Philp to make golf clubs.
Philp used thorn, apple and pear woods as materials for its clubs, which were highly appreciated as craft items and gained him widespread recognition.
It was Hugh Philp who first departed from the primitive models of the stone age and began to make golf clubs that looked as though they were intended for some gentler work (...) Philp had an eye for graceful lines and curves, and his slim, elegant models remain today things of beauty (...) Philp was the only man who ever knew how to make a perfectly balanced wooden putter.
— Harper's Weekly, 2 Oct. 1897
This genius made such beautiful and perfect wooden putters that he has come to be regarded as the Amati or Stradivarius of Golf, and a genuine "Philp" today is worth untold gold. The long narrow faces of these clubs and their perfect balance are well known to connoisseurs
— Golf Illustrated magazine, 5 Oct. 1900