Company History
Formed in Sydney 1932, we are Australasia’s longest standing specialist golf manufacturing company. Originally known as
East Brothers, we became
Precision Golf Forging (“Golf is our middle name”) in 1959 when merging with the Chesterfield company.
Our name was abbreviated in 1966 with industry legend Clare Higson becoming our first managing director and the Kel Nagle TFX our first model to carry the PGF name. PGF has since had some interesting owners including Colgate Palmolive, Kerry Stokes (Network 7) and Singapore’s Haw Par (owners of Tiger Balm).
For 78 years we have led the way with world leading golf-club design and technology. In the 1960’s we developed the world’s first parallel tip iron shaft and our famous Little Slammer utility club, effectively today’s hybrid club well before its time. In 1972 our acclaimed Status MKII model provided players with the benefits of the world’s first heel-toe peripheral weighted iron design.
Our Sydney factory had its own iron head forging and lost wax casting plant making PGF one of the first companies in the world to boast these production facilities. We exported Australian made clubs to South-East Asia, the United Kingdom, through-out the Pacific and to New Zealand, where manufacturing also took place for some years at the New Zealand company’s Christchurch premise.
PGF brands including Status, Slammer and Optima have become industry icons. We have also represented many leading golf, sporting and apparel brands including Ben Hogan, RAM, Robertson and Wilson, Dexter shoes, IZOD, Bancroft tennis racquets and Aureus apparel.
With the great success of Australian and New Zealand golfers over the past 78 years, it’s not surprising for a company from these countries to be as successful as PGF. Our equipment has help to encourage young golfers to follow in the footsteps of the past champions. Indeed, a number of former and present golfing greats and professionals have had close connections with PGF.
As a young man, Greg Norman worked for PGF in Brisbane and won his first professional tournament playing with our clubs. Major winners Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle were closely associated with the company for many years, both having their names appear on PGF clubs. Ian Baker-Finch and Wayne Grady have been contracted to PGF and David Graham worked in the PGF Sydney factory and later, together with Eric Cremin, a former head professional at Singapore Island Golf Club, performed promotional work for PGF.
More recently leading contracted PGF players have included Bradley Hughes, Paul Gow, Rod Pampling, and Nathan Green.
We have always placed great emphasis on excellence and innovation. This is evident in our proud history of research, products and people equal to the world’s finest.
