![]() ![]() For more than three decades, Taylor worked quietly behind the scenes for the Ben Hogan Golf Equipment Company, Impact Golf Technologies and Nike Golf, molding and shaping irons and wedges for some of the best in the sport. There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Mike Taylor, but that doesn’t make him any less significant than Roger Cleveland, Katsuhiro Miura, Bob Vokey or Don White-four well-known titans of the clubmaking world. Many of the notes, dutifully taken down in pencil, belong to him. ![]() “There’s more in the drawers,” says Mike Taylor, pointing to a few more binders, these with different names. The mystery was always part of the secret sauce. They’re significant because Woods has never been one to freely offer up his club specs. The notes are significant because they belong to (arguably) the greatest golfer to ever touch a club. An era of six major championships, each won with Swoosh irons and wedges in hand. Open the top cover-gently now-and you’re greeted by a multitude of club build sheets with handwritten notes dating back to Woods’ Nike Golf days. ![]() But, the burly Texan in charge tells you, these binders are different.Īnd then you catch a glimpse of a discolored label on one binder’s spine: “Tiger Woods Wedges and Putters.” Countless more can be found inside the drawers, one nondescript black binder tucked against another. You wouldn’t know it from glancing at the pile of black binders balanced haphazardly atop a dusty filing cabinet. The holy grail of equipment documents is housed inside an unmarked building on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas. ![]()
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