In 1985, two brothers from Oregon visited St. Andrews and fell for the simple leather carry bags the Scottish caddies used. They came home and built MacKenzie Golf Bags — handcrafted walkers made one at a time in Portland. Forty years later, Fyfe Golf emerged from Fife, Scotland, making headcovers and accessories from Harris Tweed, tartan, and waxed canvas produced by the Halley Stevenson mill in Dundee — a mill that’s been finishing waterproof canvas for North Sea fishermen since 1864. The collaboration was inevitable: Scottish fabric, American leather craft, and a shared obsession with doing one thing well.
Twenty-two numbered editions have come and gone since 2021. Each one is a MacKenzie Walker — 8-inch opening, single divider, single tartan-lined pocket, full-grain leather, and waxed canvas from Dundee — but every edition gets its own colorway, its own leather combination, and its own name. The Shooters Club editions came in estate houndstooth. The Between Tides pair drew from the Scottish coast. The Westfalia Yellow was named after a VW camper. Coastal Tones, the newest pair, went quiet in sage and charcoal. Here is every edition, from the first to the twenty-second.
The division of labor has never changed. Fyfe supplies the cloth and decides what each release is about; MacKenzie builds the bag in Portland by hand, the same way it has since the brothers came back from St Andrews. Neither company has ever published a production number, but the pattern of the drops tells you enough — they arrive in pairs, they arrive without much warning, and the product pages come down once they are gone. Editions one through four and twelve through fifteen have been unpublished entirely, which is why the early entries below are grouped rather than itemized.
Every bag costs £650. That buys the same bones each time: the 8-inch opening, the single divider that keeps a walking set from turning into a jumble, the one tartan-lined pocket, and a leather patch cut specifically for that release. What changes is the canvas, the leather, and the story Fyfe decides to tell. For the workshop in Fife that makes the covers, the tweeds and the reclaimed-cloth projects, read our profile of Fyfe Golf.
