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In the spring of 1996, I was playing golf on the West Coast of Florida with my wife and a stranger asked if he could join us rather than play alone. On the third hole I was in a greenside bunker and commented that I had lost my sand wedge and that I would use my pitching wedge. The stranger, Bruce Campbell, said he had a sand wedge that everyone loved and I should try it. After my first try with my pitching wedge failed, I tried Bruces club. The ball popped right out and on the green. Bruce said he could sell this club for $150 if he could find someone to make it, again commenting that everyone who used this sand wedge wanted to own one. I gave Bruce my card and told him to call me if he found someone to manufacture the club. Six weeks later I called him to see if he had had success. He told me he could not find anyone to make the club. I asked him if I could take a shot at it and he agreed. The Club had no marking on it of any kind . Among other research, I took the club to the U.S.G.A. in Far Hills, NJ where I learned the club as it existed was illegal and learned the changes necessary to make it legal. I also got the name of a company who specialized in selling classic golf clubs. A telephone call yielded nothing. In Fall 1996 at the PGA Show in Las Vegas, I saw a booth for the company selling classic golf clubs. It didnt take long to find the exact club that I had hit successfully out of the sand in Florida. I purchased it and started a long journey to develop, redesign, manufacture and market the OG Sand Wedge. The club I bought was labeled Sandy Andy and was manufactured by the Walter Hagen Golf Co. in the 1920s. It was made of a binary alloy of aluminum and zinc with a lead insert for weight. Most important it worked. For the next 4 years, I had many prototypes cast of many different alloys. They were cast and machined in Wisconsin and Taiwan. After countless tests and modifications, I decided to use stainless steel because that was the prototype that most nearly duplicated the feel and performance of the Florida West Coast Wedge. The Name OG came from my advertising agency for On The Green. The rest is where OG is today- a sand wedge that gets the ball out of the sand everytime. A golf wedge thats the easiest to use and is an ideal lob wedge for mid handicap golfers.

 

Address: 4880 Placida Road, Englewood, FL 34224
Telephone: (941) 697-7277
Website: http://og-golf.com/