TaylorMade Golf was founded in 1979 by Gary Adams, a golf entrepreneur who also started Founders Club and McHenry Metals. While working as a salesman for Witteck Golf, Adams noticed that the new two piece balls performed better on irons than on true woods. This led him to develop the Taylor-Made metal wood. The Taylor-Made driver quickly caught on and Taylor-Made has been a leader in hollow metal woods ever since.