Women-Founded Golf Brands
Nineteen brands in the Index were founded or co-founded by women, and they are spread across every category rather than concentrated in apparel. Daphne's Headcovers and Jan Craig are among the oldest names in the whole Index. Foray Golf and Bunker Mentality work in clothing. Duca del Cosma makes shoes; ORKAI and Inside Story Socks work the accessory end.
We tag this because it is a fact about who built the company, checkable against the company's own record, and because it is a question readers ask us directly. It is not a claim about the product, which is why brands here also carry whatever taste tags actually describe what they make.
VIEW BRAND →Horween and Italian leather covers, belts and wallets, co-founded by Gail Hanson.
VIEW BRAND →Twenty-plus years independent, co-founded by Tamasine Green; now cut made-to-order with no warehouse.
VIEW BRAND →Founded 1979 by Jane Spicer and her mother. Made Frank, the tiger headcover Tiger Woods carried.
VIEW BRAND →Founded 1976 by Mary Ann Sheppard. Licensed towels for the USGA, PGA of America, PGA Tour and LPGA.
VIEW BRAND →Italian golf shoes co-founded in 2004 by Antje Elle and Baldovino Mattiazzo; since sold twice.
VIEW BRAND →Women's golf apparel out of New York, alongside a curated capsule of genuinely vintage homeware sold one piece at a time.
VIEW BRAND →Meagan Ouderkirk and Antonia DiPaolo's golf and tennis label — and the only people in golf making a caddie brooch.
VIEW BRAND →Golf socks knit from coffee grounds and recycled bottles, co-founded by Isabelle Shee.
VIEW BRAND →Hand-knit wool headcovers since 1962. Nicklaus, Watson and Ryder Cup teams carried them.
VIEW BRAND →Started at a kitchen counter in East Dallas by a former PepsiCo art director; first athlete signed via a Worst Golfer in Dallas contest.
VIEW BRAND →Paige Harding and Adam Brown cut and sew wool, tartan and corduroy headcovers in their own studio in the Perth hills, plus waxed canvas pouches and custom work from football shirts.
VIEW BRAND →Co-founded 2017 by Erica and Stephen Malbon. Started as an Instagram mood board.
VIEW BRAND →Formerly ORCA Golf. Founded by Deborah and Erica Bennett; bag supplier to the 2023 LPGA International Crown.
VIEW BRAND →Performance polos out of UVA's Darden incubator, co-founded by Kristina Loftus.
VIEW BRAND →Luxury golf footwear made in Italy and Portugal, founded by designer Alex Bartholomew.
VIEW BRAND →Hand-cut wool headcovers and blacksmith-hammered markers from a Beaverton workshop that covered the 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup team.
VIEW BRAND →Women's golf clothes by two women who play — built-in bras, real pockets, a glove loop on the skort.
VIEW BRAND →Bold-print Cabretta gloves, towels and covers. Co-founder Christina Rogers verified via Companies House.
VIEW BRAND →Zoe Walker-Faure's hand-sewn headcovers, started in a college dorm with her mother and grandmother.