the Pinseeker Golf Company designed the first stainless steel metal wood called the Bombshell, although it looked more like a modern day hybrid than a metal wood. Short-lived because of its torpedo-like shape, it did pave the wave for other manufacturers to produce “wood” heads made out of metal.

The late Gary Adams is considered by many to be the “father of the metal wood”. But it was a fellow co-worker at Taylor Made, John Zebelean, a Yugoslavian nuclear physicist, who is credited with creating the modern shape of the metal wood. In 1979, their design that Adams would aptly name the Pittsburgh Persimmon would reshape the industry forever and within only a decade.

The early metal woods of the 1980s began to catch on because they were easier to hit because of their superior perimeter weighting, less labor-intensive to produce and were more durable