MacKenzie is a golf brand whose name is a tribute rather than a founder, and the story is better than most origin myths: in 1985 the Oregon PGA Tour pro Peter Jacobsen and his brother David started building bags and named the company after Rick MacKenzie, the St Andrews caddie who used to carry double for them and who solved the problem by tipping both their staff bags into a single leather pencil bag. The first logo was a drawing lifted off his business card. Forty years later the workshop still makes one thing, still makes it by hand in Oregon, and has quietly become the maker other brands go to when they want an object rather than a product.
That is what this page is about. MacKenzie itself publishes almost nothing — no collaborations page, no archive, a blog that went dark between July 2020 and November 2025 — so the record of who it has built for lives scattered across two dozen partner storefronts, most of them sold out. We went and collected it. What comes back is a picture of a very small company with a very long order book: ten employees, seven of whom actually make bags, supplying Scotland, Japan, Bandon Dunes and the Walker Cup at the same time.
The house style is unusually consistent for something made in this many colourways. An eight-inch top, a single strap, one pocket if you are lucky, full grain leather in an upholstery weight around a millimetre thick, and waxed canvas from a finisher that has been treating cloth since the 1800s. Todd Rohrer, who revived the company in 2006 with what he described as one stitcher and a cell phone, put the brief plainly: “the MacKenzie mantra has always been simple, beautiful, useful.” On the question of everything else the industry bolts onto a bag, he was blunter: “In essence, most of what isn’t a sack on a sling in unnecessary.”
Current chief executive Nic Mulflur is clear that the simplicity is the hard part. “There are north of 40 pieces involved in our bags,” he told LINKS. “It looks simple, but there are a lot of steps to make a bag to the exacting specifications of our customers.” He is also fairly relaxed about who this is and is not for: “It’s not for everybody. But for some of us, there’s an emotional attachment to our bags. It’s like a romantic relationship.”
A word on what is missing, because the gaps are part of the story. Fyfe Golf has made 22 numbered
editions and only four are still listed; editions 4, 14, 15 and 16 have no surviving product record
anywhere, though a lookbook for 14 to 16 survives to prove they shipped. Almost nobody publishes edition sizes —
the one hard number in the entire archive is ten, the Broken Tee Society bags The Golfer’s
Journal dispatched on 7 March 2024. Two further Broken Tee drops followed and neither was ever numbered, so anyone
selling you a “Vol. 2” is inventing it. And a PowerBilt listing that looks like a
MacKenzie collaboration describes a stand bag with legs and dual straps, which MacKenzie does not make; its lead
SKU is literally Hireko Ignore. We left it out.
Two more are real but could not be photographed. BEAMS Golf in Japan released a digital camouflage caddie bag on 17 January 2026 at ¥143,000, a genuine Japanese exclusive that ships with its own wooden stand and sold alongside a matching ¥16,500 pouch. And the Broken Tee Society bags are gone entirely — the page is dead, and the drops after the first were never numbered.
FYFE GOLF · 22 EDITIONS AND COUNTINGFyfe Golf has run the longest MacKenzie collaboration of anyone, and it is the one that closes the circle: an Oregon workshop named after a St Andrews caddie, making bags again in Scottish cloth. The canvas is organic cotton from the Halley Stevenson mill in Dundee, finishing fabric since the 1800s. Twenty-two numbered editions have shipped. Four are still listed. Editions 4, 14, 15 and 16 have no surviving product record at all - a lookbook for 14 to 16 is the only proof they existed.
SUGARLOAF SOCIAL CLUB · SEVEN BAGSNo brand has used MacKenzie harder than Sugarloaf Social Club. Seventeen MacKenzie-made items sit in their catalogue, and the bags run from $850 canvas up to a $1,400 white leather piece that reads more like furniture than luggage. What makes the account interesting is that Ian Gilley keeps changing the brief - sailcloth one season, all-white leather the next - and MacKenzie keeps saying yes.
MIURA · FORGED-IRON MONEYMiura has sold MacKenzie-built Walkers since August 2020, which makes it the longest equipment relationship on the list - though Miura's own collaborations page does not list MacKenzie at all, treating them as the maker rather than the partner. The three original Walkers still sit on the site in leather, waxed canvas and ballistic nylon, and two newer editions have joined them.
SENTINEL GOLF · MINNEAPOLISSentinel is the most interesting thing happening to the MacKenzie pattern, because it treats a 1985 leather bag as a chassis and swaps the material for laminates borrowed from sailing and alpine packs. The Minneapolis design lab calls these Sentinel-sourced iterations of the timeless MacKenzie Walker, and sells them nowhere else. Four models, all made to order in the USA, all built in Oregon, none with a published edition size. Founder John Mooty has described the sourcing brief as finding the people who care most about what they make and who do things the right way at all phases of the process.
DONALD ROSS, ACL AND JAIN · RUNNING SERIESBelow the headline collaborations sits a quieter tier: brands that have made MacKenzie a permanent line rather than a one-off. Donald Ross Sportswear runs a numbered series that has reached five. ACL Golf's vendor field on its own storefront reads, literally, MacKenzie x ACL GOLF. These are the accounts that tell you the workshop has repeat customers, not just admirers.
BANDON DUNES · A STANDING PROGRAMMEBandon Dunes is not a collaboration so much as a permanent arrangement, and it is the largest single MacKenzie programme anywhere - twelve bags, one per course, made to order on a nine to ten week lead time. MacKenzie links to the Bandon shop twice from its own homepage. The 2021 generation embroiders the architect and opening date inside the pocket; the 2023 generation moved the course logo to the base.
THE ONES THAT NEEDED A PASSWORDThe last tier is the hardest to see: bags sold behind a membership, a passcode or an anniversary, and in some cases never listed publicly at all. This is where MacKenzie does a lot of its actual business - the wholesale page mentions private label and tournament gifting without publishing a single example.
PGA Tour professional Peter Jacobsen and his brother David Jacobsen, both Oregonians, founded the company in 1985. It is named for Rick MacKenzie, the St Andrews caddie who carried double for the brothers and combined their two staff bags into a single leather pencil bag. The original company logo was taken from a drawing on his business card. Todd Rohrer revived the company in 2006.
By hand in Oregon the company has been based in Portland and Beaverton, and partner listings name both. In a November 2025 update, chief executive Nic Mulflur wrote: I m not sure folks realize how small our team is sometimes. We have 10 employees, 7 of which are the insanely talented crew that actually make golf bags.
Fyfe Golf in Scotland, by a distance. Fyfe has released 22 numbered limited editions using organic cotton canvas from the Halley Stevenson mill in Dundee. Sugarloaf Social Club has the deepest US account, with seventeen MacKenzie-made items in its catalogue including seven bags.
Almost never published. Across every collaboration we documented, only one hard edition size exists: the Broken Tee Society x MacKenzie Vol. 1, of which The Golfer s Journal made ten physical bags, dispatched 7 March 2024. Every other limited edition here is unnumbered.
Of the bags documented here, the Sugarloaf Social Club x MacKenzie White Leather Double Seve at $1,400. Sentinel Golf s S rensen Walker, in Danish leather from a tannery established in 1973, is listed higher at $1,750, and the Miura x Sentinel Walker sits at $1,360.
Some. The Bandon Dunes course editions ($685 $735), the Miura Walkers ($550 $1,360), the ACL Golf range ($450 $850) and most of the Donald Ross series ($795) are made to order. The Fyfe editions, every Sugarloaf bag and both Top 100 editions have sold out.
Yes, though it publishes none of it. In November 2025 Nic Mulflur listed the order book: a 60 golf bag order for Golf Pride, a couple of Sugarloaf projects, a large stock order for the new Doak course in Baja called Punta Brava... 30 drop ship Walker Cup bags that were ordered at Cypress in September, a batch of Sentinel x Miura bags, a batch of bags for the R A.
They are unrelated. MacKenzie Golf Bags is named after Rick MacKenzie, a St Andrews caddie. Alister MacKenzie was the golf course architect behind Augusta National, Cypress Point and Royal Melbourne. Products referencing MacKenzie bunkers are referring to the architect, not the bag maker.
