True Temper Sports shafts are designed and engineered at the Grafalloy headquarters in San Diego, California. True Temper Sports True Temper Sports is a sports equipment manufacturing company based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The company specializes in OEM and consumer golf club shafts, and also manufactures bicycle forks (and tubing for bike frame builders), ice hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, baseball bats and other steel and carbon fiber products. True Temper manufactures shafts for many of the major golf club manufacturers including Adams, Bridgestone, Callaway, Cleveland, Cobra, Mizuno, Nike, Ping, TaylorMade, Titleist and Wilson. Production of steel shafts takes place in the United
Titleist "Dynamite Thread" to increase the yardage of their balls. 1949: Titleist became the most used ball at the U.S. Open Tournament. 1976: Titleist was purchased by American Brands (now known as Fortune Brands). 1985: Fortune Brands]sold off the Acushnet Company's Acushnet Rubber division, which was Acushnet's original business (circa early 1900s). 2002: Titleist reached the $1 billion mark in annual revenues. On December 8, 2010, Fortune Brands announced that it would soon sell or spin off Titleist and some other brands. It was then announced on May 20, 2011 that a Korean group associated with Fila Korea, Ltd. and Mirae