Range-Rat Golf Brands
Nobody photographs a grip. That is roughly the point of this group: eight brands operating in the parts of the bag that only matter to people who are there every week. Rosemark and Stick Grips make the one component you touch on every single shot. Garsen reshapes the putter grip around what the hands actually do. Takomo sells irons direct so the money goes into the head rather than the distribution. Bag Boy has been making the thing that carries all of it since 1946.
It is the least fashionable shelf in the Index and probably the one with the highest ratio of spend to strokes gained.
VIEW BRAND →Golf bags, push carts, travel covers and accessories, out of Richmond, Virginia since 1946.
VIEW BRAND →Putter grips only, built around the QUAD — a trapezoid that tucks the elbows in and takes the hands out of the stroke.
VIEW BRAND →Vancouver, 2018. Forged irons and wedges custom-built in-house, sold direct at near off-the-rack prices.
VIEW BRAND →Golf towels with a club brush sewn into the corner, from the $14.99 Range Rat to the tour-size Ultimate Caddy Towel.
VIEW BRAND →Moulded micro-texture putter grips with a tour record to match — more than ten million dollars won, and a Travelers title.
VIEW BRAND →Industrial rubber people who came to golf and changed the taper — the Ascension profile sits both hands at nearly the same diameter.
VIEW BRAND →Chicago, 2020. Complete matte-black club sets sold online, from a ten-club starter to a full fourteen.
VIEW BRAND →Finnish direct-to-consumer irons, est. 2021 — tour-quality forgings at half the shop price.
VIEW BRAND →Munich, 2012. Started as a direct-to-consumer golf ball; now builds irons and putters to order.