Mackenzie: The Golf Bag

For those who like to walk the course, a good bag is a great investment.  The MacKenzie company specializes in high quality golf bags. 

Their premium ‘Walker’ model (shown left) was originally designed by PGA tour player Peter Jacobsen, who also founded the company in the eighties.

This all leather bag costs a little over $700 and, while the build quality certainly justifies the hefty price tag, I opted to go for the less expensive Llama model. The Llama retails for $250 and is hand-made in Portland, Oregon from water resistant ballistic nylon.

Premium leather details on various places give the bag a very classy look and the leather strap is very comfortable on the shoulders.

The bag weighs only 1.5 kilograms (3lbs) and has enough pockets to fit everything you need during a round.

 

I was most impressed with their customer service and willingness to accommodate specific requests.

If you are interested in buying a MacKenzie, please don’t hesitate to contact Thom! 

DIY underlistings for leather wrap grips.

The following video outlines the process of creating your own underlistings for vintage leather wrap grips. Sometimes when you need to reshaft vintage irons the original grips are still usable while the underlistings are not. They either are glued to the old shafts or are disintegrating due to age. Since I could not find any underlistings on eBay I decided to create my own. 

This method allows for more than just the standard tapered shape of the grip. If you want you can even do a reverse tapering. Or maybe you just want to have the part under the right hand built up a bit.

For these old Hogan grips from the 1950’s I managed to reuse the end caps, the grip collars and the wraps themselves. I had to cut the collars with a knife but they will go back on the new shafts together with some black electricity tape of the same width.

Have fun!