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Apollo
Golf Shafts - by Hireko Golf! Quality and Performance at Half the Price of OEM
Shafts!
Apollo shafts have
had a long and distinguished history in the golf industry. The company was started
in the Midlands of England, the main site of the industrial revolution. In the
mid 1890's as one of the founding five members of the TI Group (Tube Investments),
the company was then known as Accles & Pollock. The company was referred to
as a "tube manipulator", which produced all types of steel tubing.
In 1913, Accles & Pollock received a patent for the first tubular steel golf
shaft. After the steel golf shaft was finally legalized by the R & A, golf's
governing body in 1927 it rapidly replaced the wood shafts that had been used
since golf began in Scotland.
Accles & Pollock became a licensee for nearly 40 years with an American company,
named American Fork and Hoe, which eventually became the present day True Temper,
producing steel shafts under the True Temper name for the European and Japanese
golf markets.
The agreement was dissolved in 1977, and Accles & Pollock began selling directly
into the North American markets of USA and Canada, under their own brand name
and shaft models.
In 1986 the company was split to focus more on the golf side of the business,
and took on the name Apollo Golf, which was the name of the shaft models. In
1988, Apollo golf was the first steel shaft manufacturer in the world to also
offer its own branded graphite shaft models.
Today Apollo Golf Company is still as dedicated to shaft quality, performance,
and customer service as the original company, continuing to offer a variety
of shaft models in both steel and graphite, backed by engineering and quality
assurance.
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