Subsequently, PGA-PGA TOUR Properties wanted out of the equipment deal with PGA Golf and spent the better part of the next three years trying to get its name back from Morton Grove.
The PGA TOUR officially adopted that name in March and both sides agreed to create a PGA-PGA TOUR Properties group to sell soft goods under the PGA label. The decades-long struggle between the tournament players’ group – now the PGA TOUR – and the club pros’ group – the PGA of America – was reaching another turning point. Troubled waters started churning for PGA Golf in 1982. Both companies dabbled in golf (balls and electric carts), and together they created the Victor Golf Company, a division of Victor Comptometer.īy 1977, Victor Comptometer was purchased by Kidde, Inc., a New Jersey-based maker of everything from Jacuzzi bathtubs and Farberware housewares to lighting fixtures, fire protection equipment, and hydraulic cranes. In 1961, Comptometer merged with the Victor Corporation, another Chicago adding machine company. By that time, Burke was marketing clubs under the name PGA Golf under a licensing agreement with the PGA of America.
From there, the journey takes some pretty crazy twists and turns.īy 1959, Burke sold out to the Comptometer Corporation, a Chicago-based adding machine company. The company we came to know as Tommy Armour actually started in Ohio in 1910 as the Burke Golf Equipment Company.ĭuring the next several decades, Burke made and marketed golf clubs under a variety of names, eventually moving operations to Morton Grove, IL. MacGregor introduced the Tommy Armour Silver Scot Tourney in the 1940s, predating the Tommy Armour company by nearly40 years. The very first Tommy Armour irons weren’t made by Tommy Armour at all, but by MacGregor, and for a very good reason: there was no Tommy Armour company at the time.
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