Ralph Maltby
Encyclopedia
Ralph Maltby is a leading golf club designer. He has designed clubs for Tommy Armour
, but now designs clubs under his own labels such as Maltby
, Toski, CER
and Distance Master. He was also the creator of the Maltby Playability Factor.
Background
Ralph began his career designing and engineering for a number of major golf equipment manufacturers. In 1976, Mr. Maltby founded the GolfWorks and has been manufacturing and distribution golf clubs, machines, gauges, tools, and supplies worldwide to golf club repair shops, golf professionals, manufacturers, custom clubmakers, and do-it-yourselfers. In 2006 Mr. Maltby sold the GolfWorks to Golf Galaxy. He is still actively involved with golf equipment testing, further advancing golf club design technology, and improving methods for fitting golf clubs to the individuals. He spends most of his time in a state of the art golf club research and development studio doing this work and where he also produces educational videos on many golf club equipment related subjects.
Ralph created the Maltby Playability Factor club rating system, through which he has tested and rated the performance of more than 1000 golf clubs. He has published seven books, secured multiple patents and lectured at more than 250 PGA Business Schools. Ralph has released a wide range of instructional videos and is a frequent guest on The Golf Channel.
Today, he continues to research golf club technologies. In 1991 he was listed by Golf Digest magazine as one of the 36 most powerful men in golf. He is highly noted by The Professional Clubmakers Society as being one of the most influential designers and people in the custom fitting and golf industry.
Tommy Armour
Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot.Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh....
, but now designs clubs under his own labels such as Maltby
Maltby
Maltby, from Old Norse "Malti's farm", can be the name of a person, an organization, or a place:Places:*Maltby, Lincolnshire, England*Maltby, South Yorkshire, England, near Rotherham...
, Toski, CER
Cer
Cer or CER may refer to:* Cer , a mountain in Serbia* Cer , Greek goddess of violent death, one of the Protogenoi* Canonical Encoding Rules, a set of ASN.1 encoding rules for formatting data in binary* Centre for European Reform...
and Distance Master. He was also the creator of the Maltby Playability Factor.
Background
Ralph began his career designing and engineering for a number of major golf equipment manufacturers. In 1976, Mr. Maltby founded the GolfWorks and has been manufacturing and distribution golf clubs, machines, gauges, tools, and supplies worldwide to golf club repair shops, golf professionals, manufacturers, custom clubmakers, and do-it-yourselfers. In 2006 Mr. Maltby sold the GolfWorks to Golf Galaxy. He is still actively involved with golf equipment testing, further advancing golf club design technology, and improving methods for fitting golf clubs to the individuals. He spends most of his time in a state of the art golf club research and development studio doing this work and where he also produces educational videos on many golf club equipment related subjects.
Ralph created the Maltby Playability Factor club rating system, through which he has tested and rated the performance of more than 1000 golf clubs. He has published seven books, secured multiple patents and lectured at more than 250 PGA Business Schools. Ralph has released a wide range of instructional videos and is a frequent guest on The Golf Channel.
Today, he continues to research golf club technologies. In 1991 he was listed by Golf Digest magazine as one of the 36 most powerful men in golf. He is highly noted by The Professional Clubmakers Society as being one of the most influential designers and people in the custom fitting and golf industry.