TaylorMade-Adidas Golf Company (TMaG) of Carlsbad, California

Carlsbad, California

-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Carlsbad had a population of 105,328. The population density was 2,693.1 people per square mile . The racial makeup of Carlsbad was 87,205 White, 1,379 African American, 514 Native American, 7,460 Asian, 198 Pacific Islander, 4,189 from other...

 is a U.S.

United States

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 headquartered

Headquarters

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 subsidiary of the German

Germany

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 based Adidas

Adidas

Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...

 Group. TaylorMade was started in 1979 by Gary Adams, the inventor of the metalwood, and the company has continued to maintain a consistent presence at the top of golf product innovation since that time.

TaylorMade was independently owned until 1984 when Salomon S.A. aqcuired the company. At the time, the union was strategically compatible for both companies which were innovators in their industries. Salomon wanted to diversify and made the decision to enter a "three-season" market, and TaylorMade benefited from the world-wide resources of Salomon. TaylorMade remained a part of Salomon until Adidas

Adidas

Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...

 bought Salomon in 1997.

The image and focus of the company was redirected shortly after the Adidas acquisition

Mergers and acquisitions

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 to take over the driver market; the company succeeded in achieving this goal in late 2005 when it officially became the No. 1 driver in golf. TaylorMade-Adidas Golf had its first $1 billion revenue year in 2006, marking only the second time a golf brand

Brand

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 has achieved this in industry history.

The company markets TaylorMade drivers

Wood (golf)

A wood is a type of club used in the sport of golf. Woods are used to hit the ball farther than any other type of golf club....

, fairway woods and hybrids, irons

Iron (golf)

An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole. They are so-called because historically the clubhead was generally made from iron. Whilst the vast majority of modern irons are still made from iron, it is almost always its stronger and more durable alloy,...

, wedges, and golf ball

Golf ball

A golf ball is a ball designed to be used in the game of golf.Under the Rules of Golf, a golf ball weighs no more than 1.620 oz , has a diameter not less than 1.680 in , and performs within specified velocity, distance, and symmetry limits...

s. TaylorMade's putter

Putter (golf)

A putter is a club used in the sport of golf whose design differs from that of irons and woods. They are generally used from very close distances to the cup, generally on the putting green, though certain courses have fringes and roughs which are suitable for putting. While no club in a player's...

 offerings were sold under the Rossa brand until 2010, when they fell back under the TaylorMade brand. Early in 2008, TaylorMade-Adidas sold its Maxfli

Maxfli

Maxfli is a brand of sports equipment, most recognized for its golf balls, currently owned by Dick's Sporting Goods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dick's purchased the brand from TaylorMade-adidas Golf on February 11, 2008, however, the Noodle trademark and all golf ball patents remained with...

 brand to Dick's Sporting Goods, an exclusive vendor of some TaylorMade economy lines. TaylorMade however retained the rights to the 'Noodle' golf balls that Maxfli had developed.

Adidas Golf has also rapidly grown to become one of the leading golf apparel

Golf equipment

Golf equipment encompasses the various items that are used to play the sport of golf. Types of equipment include the golf ball itself, implements designed for striking the golf ball, devices that aid in the process of playing a stroke, and items that in some way enrich the playing...

 companies in the industry, thanks to technologies such as the performance fabric 'ClimaCool' and '3D Fit Foam' in their shoes.

It is claimed that more PGA Tour Professionals play TaylorMade drivers than Callaway

Callaway Golf

Callaway Golf Company is a global sporting goods company that designs, manufactures, markets and sells golf equipment, golf accessories and golf lifestyle-related products in more than 70 countries worldwide...

, Cleveland

Cleveland Golf

Cleveland Golf is an American golf equipment company based in Huntington Beach, California. The company was founded in 1979 by Roger Cleveland, originally producing replicas of classic golf clubs from the 1940s and 1950s...

, Cobra

Cobra Golf

Cobra Golf is a subsidiary of German company Puma based in Carlsbad, California, which manufactures golf equipment.Founded in 1973 by Thomas L. Crow, Cobra produced one of the first utility clubs, the Baffler, long before the use of such clubs became popular. The company was acquired in 1996 by...

, Nike

Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

 and Ping

Ping (golf)

PING is an American brand of high-quality golf equipment, as well as one of the largest of the remaining American manufacturers of golf clubs, based in Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Karsten Solheim, who was an engineer at the General Electric company. In 1959, he started making his own putters in...

 combined.

TaylorMade Tour Staff Professionals

PGA Tour

• Michael Allen
  Michael Allen (golfer)
  Michael Louis Allen is an American professional golfer.Allen was born in San Mateo, California. He attended the University of Nevada and turned professional in 1984. He played on the European Tour 1986-89 and 1992, winning the 1989 Scottish Open. He played on the PGA Tour 1990-95, 2002, and 2004-09...
  
  
• Blake Adams
  Blake Adams
  Blake Adams is an American professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour.- Background and family :Adams was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, but only lived there for six months. His family moved to Dalton, Georgia, were he lived until he was sixteen years old...
  
  
• Billy Andrade
  Billy Andrade
  William Thomas Andrade is an American professional golfer.Andrade was born in Bristol, Rhode Island. He attended Wake Forest University where he helped lead the Demon Deacons to the 1986 NCAA Championship. He played on the U.S. team in the 1987 Walker Cup, and turned professional in the same year...
  
  
• Arjun Atwal
  Arjun Atwal
  Arjun Singh Atwal is an Indian professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and is the first player born in India to become a member of, and later win on the U.S.-based PGA Tour.-Early life:...
  
  
• Chris Baryla
  Chris Baryla
  Christopher Baryla is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour.Baryla was born in Calgary. He graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, and turned pro in 2004....
  
  
• Brian Bateman
  Brian Bateman
  Brian Bateman is an American professional golfer, who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Bateman was born in Monroe, Louisiana. He played collegiately at Louisiana State University where he graduated in 1996 with a degree in marketing...
  
  
• Jon Bencivengo
• David Berganio, Jr.
  David Berganio, Jr.
  David Berganio, Jr. is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Berganio was born in Los Angeles, California. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links twice while playing college golf at the University of Arizona with Jim Furyk...
  
  
• Shane Bertsch
  Shane Bertsch
  Shane Thomas Bertsch is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Bertsch was born in Denver, Colorado. He turned professional in 1994....
  
  
• Matt Bettencourt
  Matt Bettencourt
  Matt Bettencourt is an American professional golfer.Born in Alammeda, California, he turned professional in 2001 after attending Modesto Junior College....
  
  
• Michael Bradley
  Michael Bradley (golfer)
  Michael John Bradley is an American professional golfer.Bradley was born in Largo, Florida. He attended Oklahoma State University and turned professional in 1988....
  
  
• Bart Bryant
  Bart Bryant
  Barton Holan Bryant is an American professional golfer.Bryant was born in Gatesville, Texas, the son of a Baptist pastor. He attended New Mexico State University, where he was a two-time All-American as a member of the golf team...
  
  
• Darren Clarke
  Darren Clarke
  Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the...
  
  
• Chris Couch
  Chris Couch (golfer)
  Christian Stratton Couch is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Couch was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
  
  
• Jason Day
• Bob Estes
  Bob Estes
  Bob Alan Estes is an American professional golfer.Estes was born in Graham, Texas and reared in Abilene, Texas. He first played golf at age 4 and decided to become a professional golfer at age 12. Estes attended the University of Texas from 1984–1988, and was a member of the golf team...
  
  
• Nick Faldo
  Nick Faldo
  Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...
  
  
• Sergio García
  Sergio García
  Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings...
  
  
• Robert Garrigus
  Robert Garrigus
  Robert Garrigus is an American professional golfer who is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He won the 2010 Children's Miracle Network Classic, to guarantee exempt status on the PGA Tour through the end of the 2012 season....
  
  
• Brian Gay
  Brian Gay
  Joseph Brian Gay is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.- Early years :A military brat, Gay was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but was raised primarily at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where his father was a U.S. Army noncomissioned officer involved in flight operations...
  
  
• Retief Goosen
  Retief Goosen
  Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007. His main achievements have been two U.S...
  
  
• Paul Goydos
  Paul Goydos
  Paul David Goydos is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nathan Green
  Nathan Green
  Nathan Andrew Green is an Australian professional golfer.Green was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He turned professional in 1998. During his early career, he played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and the Canadian Tour during the Australian winter...
  
  
• Scott Gutschewski
  Scott Gutschewski
  Scott Gutschewski is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Gutschewski was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He played college golf at the University of Nebraska and helped lead the Huskers to a 14th-place finish at the NCAA Championships in his senior year...
  
  
• Todd Hamilton
  Todd Hamilton
  William Todd Hamilton is an American professional golfer.Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg. He grew up in an even smaller Henderson County town on the Mississippi called Oquawka. He attended Union High School in Biggsville, Illinois and played golf regularly on...
  
  

• Tim Herron
  Tim Herron
  Timothy Daniel Herron is an American professional golfer.Herron was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father and grandfather, both named Carson Herron, were professional golfers who played the U.S. Open. Tim Herron attended the University of New Mexico and played on the 1993 United States Walker...
  
  
• John Huston
  John Huston
  John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
  
  
• Dustin Johnson
  Dustin Johnson
  Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011....
  
  
• Richard S. Johnson
• Jonathan Kaye
  Jonathan Kaye
  Jonathan Andrew Kaye is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Biography:Kaye was born in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1993 and turned pro that same year...
  
  
• Martin Kaymer
  Martin Kaymer
  Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship....
  
  
• Cliff Kresge
  Cliff Kresge
  Clifford Terry Kresge is an American professional golfer. He has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour since 1997....
  
  
• Martin Laird
  Martin Laird
  Martin Laird is a Scottish professional golfer, playing on the PGA Tour. He has won two PGA Tour events in his career, most notably the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2011...
  
  
• Tom Lehman
  Tom Lehman
  Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota, but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Business/Accounting and turned professional in 1982. It took...
  
  
• Spencer Levin
  Spencer Levin
  Spencer Joseph Levin is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Levin was born in Sacramento, California. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles before transferring to the University of New Mexico, where he was a two-time All-American...
  
  
• J. L. Lewis
  J. L. Lewis
  John Lee "J.L." Lewis is an American professional golfer. He has won twice on the PGA Tour: the John Deere Classic in 1999, and the 84 Lumber Classic in 2003. In 1999 he won the Honda Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2010, Lewis earned a spot on the Champions Tour after placing well on the...
  
  
• Frank Lickliter
  Frank Lickliter
  Franklin Ray Lickliter II is an American professional golfer. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings....
  
  
• Steve Lowery
  Steve Lowery
  Stephen Brent Lowery is an American professional golfer.Lowery was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has PGA Tour victories in 1994, 2000 and 2008. All three of his victories on the PGA Tour have come in playoffs....
  
  
• John Mallinger
  John Mallinger
  John Charles Mallinger is an American professional golfer.Mallinger was born in Escondido, California and is the youngest of four children. He graduated from Escondido High School and earned his Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from California State University, Long Beach...
  
  
• David Mathis
  David Mathis
  David Mathis is an American professional golfer.Mathis was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He played college golf at Campbell University. He turned professional in 1997....
  
  
• Greg Norman
  Greg Norman
  Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• Joe Ogilvie
  Joe Ogilvie
  Norman Joseph Ogilvie is an American professional golfer.Ogilvie was born in Lancaster, Ohio and graduated from Duke University. He currently plays on the PGA Tour and picked up his first win on tour at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee in 2007...
  
  
• Sean O'Hair
  Sean O'Hair
  Sean M. O'Hair is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Early life:O'Hair was born in Lubbock, Texas...
  
  
• Leif Olson
  Leif Olson
  Leif Olson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Olson was born in Denver, Colorado. He played college golf from 1999 to 2003 at Duke University.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Greg Owen
  Greg Owen
  Gregory Clive Owen is an English professional golfer.Owen was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He turned professional in 1992 and gained his European Tour card at the 1997 qualifying school...
  
  
• Ryan Palmer
  Ryan Palmer
  Ryan Palmer is a chess player of Jamaican origin; he was the Jamaican National Champion in 1992. During the academic years of 2004-2007, he taught mathematics at Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire, and now has moved to the United States, to pursue further studies...
  
  
• Brenden Pappas
  Brenden Pappas
  Brenden Pappas is a professional golfer from South Africa who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour.-Early life:Pappas was born in Phalaborwa, South Africa. He is the youngest of three brothers, Sean and Deane . He and brother Deane attended the University of Arkansas where he graduated in 1993...
  
  
• Corey Pavin
  Corey Pavin
  Corey Allen Pavin is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He spent over 150 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1986 and 1997.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pat Perez
  Pat Perez
  Patrick P. Perez is an American professional golfer.Perez was born in Phoenix, Arizona and is of Mexican American descent. He experienced his first PGA Tour victory in 2009 at the Bob Hope Classic...
  
  
• Kenny Perry
  Kenny Perry
  James Kenneth Perry is an American professional golfer who currently plays on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour, for which he became eligible following his 50th birthday.-Early years:...
  
  

• Tim Petrovic
  Tim Petrovic
  Tim Petrovic is an American professional golfer.Petrovic was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has won one PGA Tour tournament, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in 2005....
  
  
• D. A. Points
  D. A. Points
  Darren Andrew "D.A." Points is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Points was born in Pekin, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois and was a third team All-American member of the golf team. Points won the Illinois State Amateur three times; he lost to...
  
  
• Rick Price
  Rick Price (golfer)
  Rick Price is an American professional golfer who plays on the Nationwide Tour.Price joined the Nationwide Tour in 1999 where he played until 2001, took a hiatus in 2002 and rejoined in 2003...
  
  
• Frank Quinn
  Frank Quinn
  Frank Stringfellow Quinn, III is an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, specializing in geometric topology. He contributed to the mathematical field of 4-manifolds, including a proof of the 4-dimensional annulus theorem...
  
  
• Todd Reed
• Andrés Romero
  Andres Romero
  For the Chilean footballer with the same name see Andrés Romero Andrés Fabián Romero is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the PGA Tour and European Tour....
  
  
• Justin Rose
  Justin Rose
  Justin Peter Rose is a South African-born English professional golfer who plays most of his golf on the PGA Tour while keeping his membership on the European Tour...
  
  
• Rory Sabbatini
  Rory Sabbatini
  Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini is a South African professional golfer.Rory Sabbatini was born in Durban, South Africa. He started playing golf at age 4, but concentrated on it from age 12. He was recruited by the University of Arizona, turned professional in 1998 and joined the PGA Tour in 1999...
  
  
• John Senden
  John Senden
  John Gerard Senden is an Australian professional golfer.Senden was born in Brisbane, Queensland and turned pro in 1992....
  
  
• Vaughn Taylor
  Vaughn Taylor
  Vaughn Joseph Taylor is an American golfer who turned professional in 1999.Taylor was born in Roanoke, Virginia but was raised in Augusta, Georgia from infancy. After attending Hephzibah High School, he played golf for Augusta State University where he was an honorable mention All-American his...
  
  
• Jerod Turner
  Jerod Turner
  Jerod A. Turner is an American professional golfer.Turner was born in Oak Harbor, Washington. He turned professional in 2000 and played on mini-tours until qualifying for the 2009 Nationwide Tour....
  
  
• Scott Verplank
  Scott Verplank
  Scott Rachal Verplank is an American professional golfer.Verplank was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He was a leading member of the W.T. White High School Golf Team and a regular at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas...
  
  
• Camilo Villegas
  Camilo Villegas
  Camilo Villegas is a Colombian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour.-Early years:Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up golf as a child...
  
  
• Brian Vranesh
  Brian Vranesh
  Brian Vranesh is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Vranesh was born in Northridge, California. He attended the College of the Canyons. He turned professional in 1999 and has no professional wins...
  
  
• Duffy Waldorf
  Duffy Waldorf
  James Joseph "Duffy" Waldorf, Jr. is an American professional golfer.Waldorf was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended UCLA where he was on the golf team from 1982-1985...
  
  
• Charles Warren
  Charles Warren
  General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of Temple Mount...
  
  
• Aaron Watkins
• Mike Weir
  Mike Weir
  Michael Richard Weir, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 2001 and 2005. He is best known for winning the Masters in 2003....
  
  
• Charlie Wi
  Charlie Wi
  Charlie Wi is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has also previously played on both the European and Asian Tours.Wi was born in Seoul, and moved to Los Angeles, California, United States at the age of 10...
  
  
• Tim Wilkinson
• Dan Williams
  Dan Williams
  Daniel Lawrence "Dan" Williams is a former professional baseball player and the current bullpen catcher for the Cleveland Indians. He has been a player or coach in the Indians system since 1988...
  
  
• Jay Williamson
  Jay Williamson
  Justin Arch "Jay" Williamson IV is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Williamson was born in St. Louis, Missouri...
  
  
• Garrett Willis
  Garrett Willis
  Garrett Michael Willis is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Willis was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended East Tennessee State University where he was member of the golf team, a first-team All-American his senior year. He won the Canadian...
  
  
• Dean Wilson
  Dean Wilson
  Dean Hiroshi Wilson is an American professional golfer.Wilson was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii. He turned professional in 1992 after graduating from Brigham Young University and has won six times on the Japan Golf Tour and once on the PGA Tour. After a poor 2009 season Wilson lost his PGA Tour playing...
  
  
• Y. E. Yang

PGA European Tour

• Paul McGinley
  Paul McGinley
  Paul McGinley is an Irish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the European team in the 2002 Ryder Cup. He currently resides in Sunningdale, England....
  
  
• Stephen Dodd
  Stephen Dodd
  Stephen Dodd is a Welsh professional golfer who after a relatively moderate career, unexpectedly won two events on the European Tour in the 2005 season at the age of 38.Dodd was born in Cardiff...
  
  
• Anders Hansen
  Anders Hansen
  Anders Rosenberg Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He turned professional in 1995...
  
  
• Martin Kaymer
  Martin Kaymer
  Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship....
  
  
• Christian Cevaer
  Christian Cévaër
  Christian Georges Cévaër is a French professional golfer.Cévaër was born in Nouméa, New Caledonia, attended Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California, and then took a golf scholarship at Stanford University in California, U.S., where he twice won the Pac-10 Championship. He also won the 1989...
  
  
• Jeff Lucquin
• Michael Jonzon
  Michael Jonzon
  Michael Jonzon is a Swedish professional golfer.Jonzon was born in Skara, Sweden. He turned professional in 1991 and has spent most of his career on the European Tour and the Challenge Tour...
  
  
• Richard Sterne
  Richard Sterne (golfer)
  -Life and career:Sterne was born in Pretoria. He was runner-up in the Boys' 15-17 Division at the 1999 World Junior Golf Championships and turned pro in 2001. He played on the European Challenge Tour in 2002 and graduated to membership of the main European Tour in 2003. He won his first European...
  
  
• Peter Hanson
  Peter Hanson
  Peter Hanson is a Swedish professional golfer.Hanson was born in Svedala, Sweden. He turned professional in 1998 and has played on the Challenge Tour and the European Tour. His professional wins include the 1998 Gunther Hamburg Classics on the Challenge Tour and the 2005 Open de España on the...
  
  
• Peter Hedblom
  Peter Hedblom
  Peter Mikael Hedblom is a Swedish professional golfer.-Amateur career:Hedblom was born in Gävle, Sweden. He won the 1986 Swedish Boys Championship when he was 16. The following year he won the Doral Junior Classic in the United States and the Scandinavian Amateur Open...
  
  
• Felipe Aguilar
  Felipe Aguilar
  Felipe Aguilar Schuller is a Chilean professional golfer who has won over 30 events in Chile.Aguilar is currently a member of the European Tour. In 2006 he became the second Chilean, after Roy Mackenzie to earn full membership to the European Tour but failed to retain full playing rights at the...
  
  
• Richie Ramsay
  Richie Ramsay
  Richie Ramsay is a Scottish professional golfer.In 2006, Ramsay became the first British golfer in almost a century to win the United States Amateur Championship. He also won several other amateur titles and played in the 2005 Walker Cup....
  
  
• Robert-Jan Derksen
  Robert-Jan Derksen
  Robert-Jan Derksen is a Dutch professional golfer.Derksen was born in Nijmegen. He won the Dutch Amateur Championship four years in a row from 1993 to 1996 and turned professional in 1996....
  
  
• Rafa Echenique
• Raphael Jacquelin
  Raphaël Jacquelin
  Raphaël Jacquelin is a French professional golfer.Jacquelin was born in Lyon. He turned professional in 1995, after winning the French Amateur Championship.Jacquelin began his professional career on the Challenge Tour...
  
  
• Simon Wakefield
  Simon Wakefield
  Simon Wakefield is an English professional golfer.Wakefield was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and is the nephew of former England cricketer Bob Taylor...
  
  
• Garry Houston
  Garry Houston
  -Career:Houston began his golfing career as a caddie, and won the Welsh Amateur in 1994 before turning professional in 1995. He began playing on the second-tier Challenge Tour in 2000, and at the end of that season won promotion to the European Tour via qualifying school. He returned to the...
  
  

• Paul Broadhurst
  Paul Broadhurst
  Paul Andrew Broadhurst is an English golfer, originally from Atherstone in Warwickshire.Broadhurst was the leading amateur at the 1988 Open Championship. He joined the European Tour in 1989, picked up his first win at the Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open that year, and was the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie...
  
  
• Jyoti Randhawa
  Jyoti Randhawa
  Jyoti Singh Randhawa is an Indian professional golfer who was ranked in the top 100 of the world and is the third-highest Indian in the world rankings.-Career:...
  
  
• Marcus Fraser
  Marcus Fraser
  Marcus Fraser is an Australian professional golfer.Born in Corowa, New South Wales, Fraser spent his early years working at a supermarket He completed a distinguished amateur career in 2002, finishing as the top individual in the Eisenhower Trophy world teams event.He turned professional in 2002...
  
  
• Fabrizio Zanotti
  Fabrizio Zanotti
  Fabrizio Zanotti is a Paraguayan professional golfer.Zanotti was born in Asunción. He was Paraguay's top ranked amateur golfer for six straight years before turning professional in 2003....
  
  
• Sam Little
  Sam Little
  Samuel Perry Little is a retired farmer from Bastrop, the seat of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 14 in northeastern portion of his state.-Background:...
  
  
• Graeme Storm
  Graeme Storm
  Graeme Raymond Storm is an English professional golfer.Storm was born in Hartlepool. He learnt his trade at Hartlepool Golf Club, where he still holds the course record of 62...
  
  
• David Lynn
• Edoardo Molinari
  Edoardo Molinari
  Edoardo Molinari is an Italian professional golfer. He is a two-time winner on the European Tour, 2005 U.S. Amateur champion, 2009 Challenge Tour Rankings leader, winner, with his brother Francesco, of the 2009 World Cup and a member of the 2010 European Ryder Cup team...
  
  
• Andrew Butterfield
  Andrew Butterfield
  Andrew Butterfield is an English professional golfer who plays on the Challenge Tour.-Career:Butterfield was born in London, England. He turned professional in 1993 and joined the Challenge Tour in 1996. He played on the Challenge Tour until qualifying for the European Tour through Q-School in 1999...
  
  
• Peter Baker
  Peter Baker (golfer)
  Peter A. Baker is an English professional golfer.Baker was born in Shifnal, Shropshire, and currently lives near Wolverhampton. He learned golf at his father's nine hole Himley Hall course and was taught by Sandy Lyle's father Alex....
  
  
• Simon Khan
  Simon Khan
  Simon Khan is an English professional golfer.Khan turned professional in 1991, but spent many years struggling to establish his tournament career. His first full season on the European Tour was 2002 and his first European Tour win came at the 2004 Celtic Manor Wales Open...
  
  
• Sam Hutsby
• Jarmo Sandelin
  Jarmo Sandelin
  Jarmo Sakari Sandelin is a Swedish professional golfer.Sandelin was born in Imatra, Finland but grew up in Sweden, and is now a Swedish citizen...
  
  
• Gary Murphy
  Gary Murphy
  Gary Murphy is an Irish professional golfer.-Career:Murphy was born in Kilkenny and began playing golf aged 11, after caddying for his father Jim who has played an instrumental role in the development of young golfers. He won the Irish Amateur Closed Championship in 1992. He turned professional in...
  
  
• Andrew Coltart
  Andrew Coltart
  Andrew John Coltart is a Scottish professional golfer.-Junior and amateur:Coltart was born in Dumfries. As an amateur, he won the 1987 Scottish Boys Championship and the 1991 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship, and participated in the 1991 Walker Cup.-Professional:Coltart turned...
  
  
• Sion Bebb
  Sion Bebb
  Sion Emrys Bebb is a Welsh professional golfer.Bebb was born in Church Village, Mid Glamorgan, and is the son of former Welsh international rugby player Dewi Bebb. He turned professional in 1986 and worked for many years as a club professional before forging a tournament career...
  
  
• Niall Kearney

LPGA Tour

• Nicole Castrale
  Nicole Castrale
  Nicole Castrale is an American professional golfer who plays on the United States-based LPGA Tour.Dalkas was born in Glendale, California. She started playing golf at the age of 10, and credits her husband Craig, her parents Anthony and Patricia Dalkas, golf instructors Bill Harmon and Dick...
  
  
• Paula Creamer
  Paula Creamer
  Paula Creamer is an American professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. As a professional, she has won 11 tournaments, including 9 LPGA Tour events. Creamer has been as high as number 2 in the Women's World Golf Rankings. She was the 2010 U.S...
  
  
• Natalie Gulbis
  Natalie Gulbis
  Natalie Anne Gulbis is an American professional golfer of Latvian descent who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.-Golf career:...
  
  
• Amy Hung
  Amy Hung
  Amy Hung is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur wins:*1992 Junior World Golf Championships *1993 Greg Norman Junior Masters...
  
  
• Seon Hwa Lee
  Seon Hwa Lee
  Seon-Hwa Lee is a South Korean professional golfer now playing on the United States LPGA Tour.Born in Cheonan, South Korea, Lee began playing golf at age 4 and turned professional at age 14, the youngest female to ever turn professional in Korea. She recorded three wins on the LPGA of Korea Tour...
  
  

Champions Tour

• Fred Funk
  Fred Funk
  Frederick Funk is an American professional golfer.Funk was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980 with a degree in law enforcement. He turned professional in 1981, but worked as a golf coach at his alma mater from 1982 to 1988; he did not...
  
  
• Victor Garcia
  Victor Garcia
  Victor Garcia and similar may refer to:* Víctor Manuel García Valdés, Cuban painter* Victor Garcia , Argentine stage director* Victor G...
  
  
• Hale Irwin
  Hale Irwin
  Hale S. Irwin is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was...
  
  
• Gary McCord
  Gary McCord
  Gary Dennis McCord is an American professional golfer, commentator, author, and actor.-Early life and career:McCord was born in San Gabriel, California and raised in southern California. He was a two-time Division II All-American at UC Riverside...
  
  
• Lonnie Nielsen
  Lonnie Nielsen
  Lonnie Dean Nielsen is an American professional golfer.Nielsen was born and raised in Belle Plaine, Iowa. His father started him in golf as a youngster on the sand green courses in and around his hometown...
  
  
• Dave Stockton
  Dave Stockton
  David Knapp Stockton is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour....
  
  

Nationwide Tour

• Jason Allred
• Alex Aragon
• Craig Barlow
  Craig Barlow
  Craig Alan Barlow is an American professional golfer.Barlow was born in Henderson, Nevada. He turned professional in 1995. He has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour since 1998....
  
  
• Chris Bencivengo
• Henrik Bjornstad
• Justin Bolli
  Justin Bolli
  Justin Bolli is an American professional golfer.Bolli was born in Portland, Oregon. He is currently a member of the Nationwide Tour. He started playing on the Nationwide Tour full-time in 2004 and moved up to the PGA Tour in 2005...
  
  
• Guy Boros
  Guy Boros
  Guy Donald Boros is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He is the son of Hall of Fame golfer Julius Boros....
  
  
• Bob Burns
  Bob Burns (golfer)
  Robert Donald Burns is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Burns was born in Mission Hills, California. Burns went to John F. Kennedy High school located in the San Fernando Valley. He attended college at Cal State Northridge and was a member of...
  
  
• Michael Carballo
• Paul Claxton
  Paul Claxton
  Paul Claxton is an American professional golfer.Claxton was born and raised in Vidalia, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia and was a member of the golf team. He majored in Business and graduated in 1992....
  
  
• Casey Clendonon
• Samuel Cyr
• Joe Daley
  Joe Daley
  For the professional golfer, see Joe Daley Thomas Joseph Daley is a former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association goalkeeper for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and Winnipeg Jets....
  
  
• Robert Damron
  Robert Damron
  Robert Douglas Damron is an American professional golfer and current player on the PGA Tour.Damron was born in Pikeville, Kentucky. He was raised there and later in Orlando, Florida after his father, a wealthy Kentucky coal magnate, moved the family to central Florida's exclusive Bay Hill...
  
  
• Brian Duncan
• Jason Enloe
  Jason Enloe
  Jason Enloe is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour.Enloe was born in Decatur, Illinois...
  
  

• Matt Every
  Matt Every
  Matthew King Every is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour.- Early years :...
  
  
• Todd Fischer
  Todd Fischer
  Todd Richard Fischer is a retired professional baseball player who played 1 season for the California Angels of Major League Baseball...
  
  
• Jeff Gallagher
  Jeff Gallagher
  Jeffrey Gallagher is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour. He is the younger brother of five-time PGA Tour winner Jim Gallagher, Jr. and LPGA player Jackie Gallagher-Smith....
  
  
• Tom Gillis
  Tom Gillis
  Thomas Charles Gillis is an American professional golfer.Gillis was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and graduated from Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion, Michigan...
  
  
• Chad Ginn
• Brian Harman
  Brian Harman
  Brian Harman is an American professional golfer.In college, Harman was a three-time 2nd Team All-American on the University of Georgia golf team. He won the 2005 NCAA Preview and the 2006 Isleworth Invitational. He also won the yearly award for highest Grade Point Average three times.In 2003,...
  
  
• David Hearn
• Tripp Isenhour
  Tripp Isenhour
  John Henry "Tripp" Isenhour III is an American professional golfer.Isenhour was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. He played golf collegiately at Georgia Tech and turned professional in 1990....
  
  
• Richard Johnson
  Richard Johnson (golfer)
  Richard Johnson is a Welsh professional golfer.Johnson led the Nationwide Tour money list in 2007 to get his PGA Tour card for the 2008 season, but was unable to retain his card...
  
  
• Eric Justesen
• Jason Knutzon
  Jason Knutzon
  Jason Knutzon is an American professional golfer.Knutzon is currently a member of the Asian Tour and the European Tour. He is one of few Americans who mainly play on the Asian Tour. Knutzon has been to PGA Tour Qualifying School once. He entered in 2000 but failed to earn a tour card...
  
  
• William Mcgurt
• Garth Mulroy
  Garth Mulroy
  Garth David Mulroy is a South African professional golfer.Mulroy was born in Durban. He attended college in the United States at North Carolina State University, where he was an NCAA Division I All-American...
  
  
• Kevin Nolan
  Kevin Nolan
  Kevin Anthony Jance Nolan is an English professional footballer who plays for and is the current club captain of West Ham United in the Football League Championship. An attacking midfielder, he has represented England at under-21 level....
  
  
• Matthew Richardson
  Matthew Richardson (golfer)
  Matthew Richardson is an English professional golfer who has played in both Europe and North America.Richardson was a successful amateur golfer, with the pinnacle of his amateur career being an appearance in the 2005 Walker Cup. He turned professional later that year, and qualified for the European...
  
  

• Dustin Risdon
  Dustin Risdon
  Dustin Risdon is a Canadian professional golfer. He joined the Canadian Professional Golf Tour in 2002 which has resulted in three Canadian wins....
  
  
• Patrick Sheehan
• Michael Sim
  Michael Sim
  -Amateur career:Sim was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and moved to Australia when he was 5 years old. He was the top ranked amateur in the world in 2005 having won four titles during the year including the Sunnehanna Amateur, which boasts major winners Ben Crenshaw and Tommy Aaron amongst its list of...
  
  
• Geoffrey Sisk
• Sonny Skinner
  Sonny Skinner
  Sonny Skinner is an American professional golfer who plays on the Champions Tour.Skinner was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. He turned professional in 1982....
  
  
• Nate Smith
  Nate Smith (golfer)
  Nathan J. Smith is an American professional golfer.Smith was born in Santa Monica, California. He played at Soquel High and transferred to Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, where he also played golf two seasons. He played college golf at Duke University where he was a two-time All-American...
  
  
• Brian Smock
• Sal Spalone
• Josh Teater
  Josh Teater
  Josh Teater is a professional golfer from the United States currently playing on the PGA Tour.Teater was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the Morehead State University, where he had one collegiate title...
  
  
• Michael Van Sickle
• Justin Walters
  Justin Walters
  Justin Jeremy Walters is a South African professional golfer.Walters played college golf at Huntingdon College, winning the 2001 NAIA Championship. He then transferred to North Carolina State University where he won three times and was an All-American in 2002 and 2003...
  
  
• Brennan Webb
• Dan Williams
  Dan Williams
  Daniel Lawrence "Dan" Williams is a former professional baseball player and the current bullpen catcher for the Cleveland Indians. He has been a player or coach in the Indians system since 1988...
  
  
• Dustin White
• Willie Wood
  Willie Wood (golfer)
  Willie West Wood is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour, and Champions Tour....
  
  
• Bobby Jackson
  Bobby Jackson
  Bobby Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, and current assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings.-Basketball career:Bobby Jackson graduated from Salisbury High School in 1992...
  
  

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Drivers

• *R11
• R9 SuperTri, R9,R11, R11TP SuperTri TP, R9 Superdeep, R9, R9 TP, R9 460, R9 460 TP
• Burner Superfast 2.0, Burner Superfast, Burner Superfast TP, Burner '09, Burner '09 TP, Burner 08,Burner 07
• R7 Limited r7 Draw r7 Quad
  R7 Quad
  The R7 Quad is a line of golf clubs manufactured by TaylorMade. Since its introduction in 2004, it has been the most-used driver on the PGA Tour and the best-selling driver in the amateur market....
  
  
• R5,R540,R580

Fairways

• *R11
• R11 TI
• *Burner Superfast 2.0
• Burner Superfast TP
• R9, R9 TP
• Burner Superfast
• Burner High Launch, Burner Tour Launch

Rescues

• Rescue 11
• Rescue 11 TP
• Burner Superfast 2.0 Rescue
• Burner High Launch, Burner Tour Launch
• Rescue '09 , Rescue '09 TP
• Raylor

Irons

• Burner Superlaunch
• R9/R9 TP
• Forged TP MB Smoke
• Forged TP MC Smoke
• Forged TP CB Smoke
• Tour Preferred
• Burner Plus, Burner Tour, Burner '09 Irons
• Burner Plus Combo
• Burner 2.0
• R11 irons

Wedges

• xFT(Exchangeable Face Technology)
• Z TP
• rac Satin TP

Putters

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• Core Classics: Daytona 1, Lambeau 3, Fontana 7, Suzuka 1, Sebring
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• Ghost: Rossa Corza, TM-770, TM-880, TM-110, Spider Ghost
• EST 79: TM-210, TM-340, TM-180, TM-880, TM-770

Golf Balls

• Penta TP(First five layer golf ball)
• TP Red LDP, TP Black LDP
• Burner
• Burner TP

Women's

• r7 CGB MAX Driver, Fairway, Rescue, Irons
• Burner Superfast Driver, Fairway, Superlaunch Irons
• Burner '09 Driver
• Burner Fairway, Rescue
• Burner Plus Irons

Junior Sets

• Junior Burner Series

Collectable clubs

The antique market has recently turned its attention to golf clubs and assesories. The first set of irons made by Taylormade were the EL-1 series in 1983-1985. These clubs remain popular today's among collectors for their extreme durability, true chrome finish and workable muscleback configuration. Prices on popular auction sites can reach upwards of $1800 for a complete set.

External links

• TaylorMade Golf
• Adidas golf