Our History

In 1991 Gary Adams started Founders Club after leaving as the head of Taylor Made, a company he founded in 1978. Gary Adams was considered the "founder" of the metal wood thus the name of the Company Founders Club. Under Adams leadership Founders Club quickly became the number 2 Driver and Fairway wood (in use) on the PGA Tour behind Taylor Made.

The company had a reputation for producing quality equipment and several Tour Players including Lee Janzen, Fred Funk, Curtis Strange, Dave Stockton, Lanny Wadkins, Tom Watson, and Hale Irwin among others played Founders Club equipment at various times in the 1990's. During that stretch a Founders Club driver led the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy for five consecutive years. The hallmark of Gary Adams designs were precision "Face Progression" and perfect "Bulge and Roll" coupled with the "Blind Bore" hosel which produces low spin rates, optimum launch angle and a penetrating ball flight for maximum distance. In addition to Gary Adams, Founders Club designers that went on to create an impact in the golf industry included Bob Vokey who later gained fame with Titliest and Jeff Sheets who left Founders Club to be head of Research and Design with Top Flite and later with Golfsmith.

Gary Adams sold his interest in the company to a Japanese Sporting Goods company in 1996 and subsequently left the company. A change in distribution strategy coupled with the emergence of Callaway as a market leader led to the closing of Founders Club in the late 1990's.

In 2002 Paradise Golf Equipment and its management team bought Founders Club from Asics Corporation and successfully relaunched Founders Club in 2003. The new Founders Club is holding true to the original pear shaped heads designed by Gary Adams along with adhering to his concepts of producing clubs with low spin rates and optimum launch angles. We at Founders Club are proud of our tradition and look forward to the challenge of producing cutting edge products that golfers have come to expect out of Founders Club.