Interesting article on Tad Moore!

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About Tad Moore

Since1963, Tad Moore has been designing custom golf clubs for the most

discriminating amateur and professional golfers. Tad is recognized around the world

as one of today's premier club designers. Tad was born in 1941 in Toledo, Ohio to a golfing family. Tad's parents, Thad and Hazel Moore were avid golfers along with his older brother, Bill. Tad's mother and brother saw to it that Tad learned the game as he would go to Sylvania CC along with them.. In his young days he was looked after by Joe Battle who took care of the bag room. No pool and other facilities. Only golf was available and Tad learned as soon as he could walk to play. In those years it was the putting green that youngsters were allowed to use. This was a good help to Tad as he became a great putter.

 

Tad won the Sylvania Club Championship in 1972, 1975 and 1977. He won the

TDGA Team championship and Fourball Championship and in 1970 he won the

TDGA Stroke Play Championship.

After moving to Georgia in 1978 Tad won several Senior Georgia State Golf

Association championships. Tad served on the Board as well as the Executive

Committee and in 1988 established what today is called the Yates Scholarship

program. This was modeled after the Evans Scholars program that Tad was active in before moving.

Tad has been active in hickory golf and started an organization called the society of Hickory Golfers. Today this group is the most influential group in hickory golf. Tad has won many hickory championships across the USA and is a respected authority in the equipment and game. Tad currently is on the executive committee of the SoHG. Tad's golf club designs are distinguished by their classic and timeless shape. Tad being a good player of the game all his life has won several amateur tournaments and uses his knowledge of the game as a player to help influence these designs. Tad has also used the Professional Tours around the world to test his club designs and his many friends playing the tours have given him valuable input into what you see in his clubs.

 

In 1989 Tad became a full time golf club designer when he signed an agreement with Dunlop/Maxfli/Slazenger Corporation. This association created some of the most sought after clubs of the 1990's. The Maxfli 100% milled putters were a first for the golf industry. Tad was the innovator in the manufacturing process that made these and subsequent milled putters possible. Many tournaments around the world have been won with these putters. At one time Tad had over 72 of the finest players using his milled and cast putters on Tour. In 1991 one of Tad's putters won the coveted Masters Tournament. The forged TM 92 blade irons set a new standard for Tour quality irons and were used by many players such as Hal Sutton, and Jay Haas and others around the world, both amateur and professional. The Forged Cavity back was used on the PGA Tour by Fuzzy Zoeller and Robert Gamez and was one of the first accepted by good players as being able to improve their game. In 1992 Tad introduced the first new USA Forged Wedges into the market here in the USA and Europe. Tad designed the persimmon Maxfli drivers that were still being used at that time and many events were won with his wood clubs including the PGA Championship. This association with the Dunlop group here in the USA, UK and also Dunlop Japan gave Tad's designs tremendous exposure and their overwhelming acceptance is proof of their quality.

In 1997 Tad started Tad Moore Golf Inc. and introduced his clubs at the 1997 PGA

Golf Show in Orlando Florida. Tad had also been picked by Dunlop Japan to be their initial distributor of the new Srixon golf ball and this show was also their introduction.

The designs of the clubs in Tad's new line were innovative and revolutionary. The

Skyrider woods were the first true low spin high launch metal wood designs and gave tremendous distance to average club head speed players. The other clubs were more traditional in design and were played on the PGA tour by several players. Tad's putters were popular and incorporated innovative face insert design and new materials to make them very popular with players of all skill.

In 2000 Tad turned the Srixon ball program over to Dunlop Japan and stopped the

production of his line of clubs.

 

Tad and some friends in 2000 started selling his latest designs in the USA, UK and Japan. In 2000 Tad was granted one of his latest Patents for a new milled putter hosel design. Tad also was granted a Patent for a new face milling that improved the performance of the putter as it relates to the ball rolling proper off the face at impact.

Tad Moore Golf Design is selling Tad's new designs of putters, wedges, Fairway

woods, Utility woods, irons and Titanium drivers.

In 2001 Tad accepted a design contract to develop a full Pro line of clubs for the

Dunlop company. His first year produced a driver that Sean Fister used to win the

Remax World long Drive Championship. Sean using one of Tad's designs won the

North American Championship in 2002 and captained the winning USA team against the world in Toronto with a winning drive of over 400 yards. Sean again in 2003 had great success with Tad's patent pending driver design. During the same time frame

John Maginess was using Tad's new blade iron design to play his way back onto the PGA Tour. Several other players use Tad's clubs on the Nationwide Tour.

In June of 2003 Tad and Dunlop ended the agreement they had and Tad is again

designing clubs as an independent designer. In 2004 Tad signed an exclusive

agreement with Cosmo Golf of Canada to design clubs for their manufacture and also to supply Tad Moore component heads to Cosmo for a high end exclusive Tad Moore component line. These clubs and club heads started shipping in the spring of 2005.

In the Fall of 2003 Tad entered into a design and license agreement with Dick's

Sporting Goods to design and help to reintroduce the Walter Hagen line of golf clubs.

The clubs were called “Walter Hagen by Tad Moore”. Dick's and Tad concluded their arrangement in 2008.

In 2005 Tad introduced a line of Hickory Shafted Golf clubs that are used for playing traditional golf. Tad's clubs are similar to those designs of 1925 MacGregor and William Gibson clubs, two of the most popular brands of this era. These are the first NEW hickory shafted clubs to be produced here since the early 1930's. This interesting new niche market of people enjoying the playing of traditional golf is a growing and exciting part of golf in America today and Tad is once again an innovator in the manufacturing of clubs for the market.

Tad is preparing to launch his new Tad Moore Designed by Putter Series at the 2013 PGA Show in Orlando.

In October of 2012 Tad was inducted into the Toledo, Ohio Hall of Fame for his

lifetime work in golf. This was a great honor for Tad.

 

Here are some comments of others about Tad.

Southern Living Magazine writer Diane Young says, “a design legend and a players

clubmaker”

Jim Achenbach-Senior Editor of Golfweek say's “ Tad Moore is a brilliant-brilliant

designer and has a great reputation.”

Adam Barr –Business analyst and reporter for The Golf Channel says “Moore's

design genius is undeniable.”

I ordered a PRO 1 putter and it came four days before our Club Championship. My

truck was stolen and I called Tad and he shipped me another over night. I won the

Club Championship by one putting four of the last five greens. Scott Baker

I bought a Tad Moore putter and shot my first 67 this week. Eddy Martinez,

Harlington, Texas.

Bill Ploeger-Former Georgia and USGA Senior Amateur Champion says “It just feels different and the ball comes off the club face much more solidly than any other putter I've ever used.”

Ian Woosnam has told Tad that he could not have won the Masters without Tad's help in creating the perfect putter.

Prior to Tad's becoming totally involved in golf club design Tad designed and

manufactured the shaft seals that were use on the axles of the Lunar Rover that landed on the Moon. Tad is a very versatile designer indeed.

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