It’s good to see that manufacturing is coming back to the U.S. I saw a segment on World News last night called “Made In America”. They featured, get this, the new Motorola cell phone being manufactured right here in the good ol’ United States. Texas, to be exact. Who would have thought we would ever see the day an electronic device such as a cell phone would be made here and not in China?

This got me wondering about golf equipment. Now, I know there are companies that make clubs and stuff here but would it help sales if they used that in their marketing? I’ll tell you what, Nike, Taylormade, Callaway or whoever can tell me their clubs hit farther and straighter than the rest but we all know the deal with that. Sell me on something else.

If my decision came down to two sets of clubs and I knew one them was made here…I’m buying the U.S. made set. Now, not being hypocritical, I use Mizuno irons because they were pretty much given to me and no it wasn’t by Mizuno…we’re not that big yet. But if I had to purchase them, I would support our companies here.

The U.S. has a long tradition with iron and steel. Starting with Carnegie up to today. We named a music genre after it, actually a few if you count all the types of “metals” i.e heavy, speed etc. One of the NFL’s most celebrated teams is named after steel. Considering all the metal involved in a golf club, it only makes sense to be made here. Just my $0.02…

Hit’em long…yell FORE!!!