• You want to see what you are buying so every item here is amply illustrated but, if you are not happy with your purchase, we offer a prompt refund, minus shipping, if the club is returned to us in the same condition it left us within 28 days.
• You just want something neat to hang on the wall. Of course we are happy to cater for collectors looking for early 19th century clubs but we are just as pleased to find something to adorn your office, den, bar or, well, wherever, who are we to say how you should decorate? We offer low-cost items in almost every category and, if you want a really classic club: a Philp putter, a Forgan spoon or an early blacksmith iron, consider our range of exact replica clubs made in the same way craftsmen produced them 150-200 years ago but a lot cheaper.
• You don't know how anyone could be interested in these things but you need to buy a present. OK, until we get a chance to convert you, try the buyer's guide.
• If you wanted to read a catalogue you wouldn't be on-line so unlike the other antique golf sites, which don't, in any case, have the number of items we have, we provide powerful internet database technology allowing you to browse or search for the items which interest you. We also go one step further in providing a profile for you to complete. As soon as clubs or memorabilia come in matching your search criteria we will automatically send you an email so you can look at what we have.
• You don't come to the Internet to shop. Quite right - there are more than enough times in life when you have to shop. We have designed the catalogue as a useful reference work but we have gone further: we are building the history section into the Web's largest source of historical information on Scottish golf and the clubmaker section provides data on over 300 clubmakers from 1820 - 1930.
• You want to empty your house of golf clubs, not fill it. We have introduced an on-line auction facility which allows you to sell items of golf memorabilia at low cost to an appreciative audience. This also has extensive security facilities to protect you as a buyer (or prevent your wife selling "those old sticks" when you are away from home).

antiquegolfscotland.com
Helensburgh, Scotland, June 2000