Little did they know, these old TaylorMade drivers would change the golf industry forever! The Original “M1” and the Pittsburgh Persimmon He took out a $26,000 loan on his house, and with the help of 3 employees, created a single product: But he had an idea to create a ‘wood’ made from metal. Gary Adams, the founder of TaylorMade, was a simple golf equipment salesman in the 1970s. After all, it didn’t make much sense to call it a ‘Wood’ anymore right? Birth of the Metalwood It was only later, after the metal club heads began to catch on, that the term ‘Driver’ started to rise in popularity.
That’s right, up until that historic day in 1979, all drivers had been constructed from laminated persimmon wood… hence the name ‘1 Wood’ (or the more common ‘fairway wood’ you still hear today).
Did you know that TaylorMade was the very first company to make a metal driver?
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