A club pro quit his job in 1981, drove to Montana with a broken car radio, and designed a golf bag in his head on the way. Five years later he put legs on it. Eighteen picks across bags, carts, travel and accessories.
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You played 36 holes this weekend. Dinner is the peace treaty. Fifteen Austin spots at three volumes — from a Michelin star and the Launderette neon sign down to brisket, tacos and fifty-year-old queso. All verified open, August 2026.
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Started in a Beaverton garage in 2011 when a Pendleton designer remade her husband’s worn-out headcover. Fifteen years later: the 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup team’s covers, every U.S. Open since Chambers Bay, and a blacksmith who hammers the ball markers. 23 best-sellers, reviewed.
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Founded in Austin in 2010 around a grandfather’s four-button golf shirt, Criquet now sells a Save Muny belt, a licensed Austin FC line and the most Texas collab list in golf-adjacent clothing. The collabs, the core and the new fall drop — 18 picks.
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A $20,000 Honma club set that Forbes says is actually selling. We swept all 1,068 products on Malbon’s store and dug up the delisted grails — the 24 priciest things they have ever sold, at original retail. Nine are still buyable.
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Ten independent Australian labels, from a Perth screen-printer who refuses wholesale to a Kalamunda workshop sewing headcovers out of family tartan. Plus every organized trip you can book — and the finding that Random Golf Club is the only golf brand on earth running one.
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No founder name, no byline, nine products in eight months and most of it shot at night on a floodlit par-three. Every page signs off “Golf Apparel Research approved” — which turns out to be Midiron approving itself.
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One test: founded in Texas and still based in Texas. Sixteen brands cleared it — two club shops in the old Nike building in Fort Worth, a silversmith in Kerrville who will not make more than ten of anything, and a woman in Austin knitting headcovers one at a time.
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“If he had needed a 64 on his last round, you were quite certain he could have played a 64.”
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— Bernard Darwin
On Hogan at Carnoustie, 1953
Started in a spare bedroom in Sydney in 2022, built on surf and skate silhouettes rather than golf ones. Every collection is named for a stretch of Australian coast. Thirty-nine pieces, plus a club that does not exist.
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Walker are Australian, so this is a spring collection landing while Austin sits at a hundred degrees. Six pieces built around a hand-drawn course scene — knitted into the polo rather than printed on it.
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Malbon named a sub-line and built it out of heavyweight stone-washed hickory-stripe denim — jacket, carpenter short, overalls, snapback, driver cover. Plus a Red Wing collab and a divot tool made in Japan. 27 picks cut from 88.
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You come into money. Where do you go play? Coore and Crenshaw in Spicewood, Pete and Alice Dye on Lake Austin, the only course Jimmy Demaret ever designed, and David McLay Kidd's first in Texas. Then we went looking for what any of it costs.
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It is August in Austin, which means the only equipment decision that changes your afternoon is what is on your head. Rope crowns, mesh backs, perforated panels and full brims from twenty-two brands. No visors, no beanies, no wool.
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George Jones was a forty-year-old taxi driver who sewed the first bags in his basement and sold them out of the trunk of his cab. Sold in 1990, nearly lost, bought back in 2011 for the name alone. Thirty-two pieces from the current line.
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Grindworks tumble their SUS218 heads to that marbled raw finish and build them to order after you pay. Patrick Reed is credited with the spec. Priced in yen, sold at home — everyone else goes through a distributor. ¥27,500.
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Jon Millman hand stamps, torches and paints copper discs in a unit on Long Island. His own storefront sells replicas of the markers that won the 2025 and 2026 Masters. Six inches down the same page is one that says Fuck Bogeys. $115.
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The best-selling thing Casualist makes has the wrong name on it. The Casual Pro Snapback is the oldest item in the catalog, it restocked this month, and stitched across the front is CASUAL PRO, SINCE 2023, MELB – LDN – LA. That was the brand before this one. £38.
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“A’ St Andrews bairns are born wi’ web feet an’ wi’ a gowf club in their hands.”
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— Old Tom Morris
St Andrews, 1821–1908
Students by PAYNTR WT. White and green with a pebbled saddle, COURSE STUDIES DIVISION stamped along the midsole and STUDENTS printed across a translucent outsole. Seventeen days on sale and gone. $240.
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Sail Bag “8185.” Built from retired sailcloth, so each one carries the number of the sail it came from. Three were made. This is the piece people bring up when they talk about SSC. $975, gone.
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Unusual Lies Towel, Earth. Printed to look like a crumpled paper bag, down to the fake fold shadows and the small print about club membership. 100% woven terry cotton. Their own copy ends with “Won’t improve your lies.”
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Gang Gang Mallet Cover — sage corduroy with the Gang Gang characters stitched across it. Corduroy is an odd choice for a headcover and it works, because it takes embroidery differently than leather does. $65.
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Range Girl Driver Cover — a pin-up in a red bikini leaning on a Devereux pennant, in raised embroidery on white leather. The single most Devereux object they sell. $54.
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