Titleist Titleist Titleist (pronounced "title-ist") is an American brand name of golf equipment and apparel products produced by the Acushnet subsidiary, which is headquartered in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1932 by Philip E. Young, and is a subsidiary of the South Korean company Fila. The name Titleist is derived from the word "titlist", which means "title holder". Several marketing mottos have been promoted for the Titleist brand, including "The #1 ball in golf", "Serious clubs for serious golfers", and "It's not how you mark your golf ball, it's how you mark your Titleist". Acushnet is best known
Clark Equipment Company Clark Equipment Company Clark Equipment Company was an American designer, manufacturer, and seller of industrial and construction machinery and equipment. Clark's predecessor was the George R. Rich Manufacturing Company, founded in 1903 in Chicago, Illinois by executives of the Illinois Steel Company. The company moved to Buchanan, Michigan in 1904 when that city's chamber of commerce advertised a financially sound deal with respect to industrial rent and power supply. Eugene B. Clark, an Illinois Steel employee at the time, determined that the metallurgy of Rich Manufacturing's principal product, a railroad rail drill named the Celfor Drill, was faulty, and also