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Neil Tappin

‘The Shoe That’s Different…’ The Incredible Story Of FootJoy’s 100 Years In Golf

FootJoy 100 Years story

It was back in 1923 that the owners of the Field and Flint company set its workforce the task of naming an exciting new shoe that had a series of different product features. Whoever came up the best name would receive a generous $50 reward. That prize went to a factory seamstress who proposed the name, ‘Foot-Joy' - and it stuck.

In the video and article below, we tell the story of how FootJoy evolved from those early days into one of the game’s most ubiquitous golf footwear and clothing brands.

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