Company History

PGF is Australasia’s longest standing specialist golf manufacturing company, having been founded in 1932. Originally known as East Brothers and then Precision Golf Forging (‘our middle name is Golf’), PGF has continued to dominate the Australasian golf market.

As an area Australia and New Zealand are a golfing phenomena and it is not surprising for a company from these countries to be as successful as PGF when you consider the amazing success of Australian and New Zealand golfers on the world’s fairways over the past 60 years. We boast legends such as Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle who both won the British Open (Thomson no less than 5 times!) and who teamed together to win the Canada Cup against the immortal Sam Snead and Dr. Cary Middlecoff of the USA. Great New Zealand left-hander Bob Charles won the British Open and continues to challenge on the US Seniors tour today. Later came Bruce Crampton, Bruce Devlin and David Graham (winner of the US Open and USPGA Championship), who were all among the very top players in the world.

More recently, the list of Australian and New Zealand golfers enjoying success in top tournaments has grown even stronger. The names Rodger Davis, Greg Norman, Ian Baker-Finch, Frank Nobilo, Peter Senior, Wayne Grady, Steve Elkington, Peter O’Malley, Craig Parry and Greg Turner come to mind. And more recently Karrie Webb, Grant Waite, Michael Campbell, Stuart Appelby, Robert Allenby, Rod Pampling, Adam Scott, Aaron Baddeley and Geoff Ogilvy who has just won a US Open Championship.

Australasia’s rich culture in golf continues and PGF is active in encouraging young golfers of today to follow in the footsteps of the past champions.

Indeed, a number of former and present world champion golfers had close connections with PGF. Greg Norman, as a youth, worked for PGF in Brisbane, Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle were closely associated with the company for many years. Both their names appearing 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.

Not only has PGF been a leader in the Australian Golf Industry, but for over 40 years, has been exporting their Australian made clubs to leading markets in South-East Asia, The United Kingdom, the Pacific and of course through New Zealand where manufacturing has taken place for some years from PGF’s Christchurch premise.

PGF has always placed great emphasis on technical excellence in their products and has a history of equipment, staff and research and development equal to the world’s finest. In the early years, PGF had its own iron head forging plant, as well as its own ‘lost wax’ casting plant and, at a time, was one of the very few companies in the world with such production facilities.

Being Entirely a golf manufacturing and distributing company, PGF is totally golf orientated and the philosophy of supporting and encouraging golf and golfers at all levels – begun by the original Managing Director, Mr H.C.(Clare) Higson, continues with today’s owner and Managing Director, Mr Brett T Tucker and his colleagues.