ZEIDER GOLF is a division of R.L. Zeider, Inc.  R.L. Zeider, Inc. is a manufacturing company started by Robert and Ardi Zeider in 1960.  We have manufactured numerous products for companies in the medical, automotive, jewelry, advertising specialty, and computer hardware industries.  We have been manufacturing component parts and/or doing R&D work for almost every large O.E.M. in the golf industry since 1968. 
Although not a large company, we have helped our customers in these industries develop products that are on the cutting edge in their respective industries.  We provide CAD/CAM services, product design, tool & die making, machining, electrical discharge machining (both wire and sinker), long and short run stamping and many of the other operations that go along with these functions, such as heat treating, tumbling, welding, polishing and assembly of certain products.  We offer a full line of services to help our customers develop their product, produce the tools needed to make their product and also make their product for them. 

How ZEIDER GOLF came about:
We originally developed our forging process to make clubs for other golf companies.  We were quite naive in thinking that, if you made a better golf club that O.E.M.’s would come to us in a heartbeat.  We had a long list of large and small golf companies that we were working with at the time.  Our process is quite a bit more expensive than the normal investment cast clubs that have been made the past 30 years.  In our testing comparisons that we had done at that time our club outperformed every other club we tested it against.  They were all cast clubs.  We were quite excited that we were onto something really good.  After letting a dozen O.E.M.’s “try out” our new Classic driver head, we didn’t get but 1 taker.  That company, who shall remain nameless, only wanted to get their hands on the club so they could send it overseas to have it copied.   The bottom line was our process was just too expensive to make clubs for O.E.M.’s.  This is how Zeider Golf came into existence.  We knew that we had a good product and we had invested many years and about $1,000,000 to perfect our forging process.  We had to get this club out in the public somehow.
One item that we can take to heart is the fact that the influx of “forged” metalwoods that are on the market today could be linked to the success that we have had for the past 10 years.  We were not the first company to have a forged metalwood, but I believe that we were the most successful forged metalwood to come along in recent years.

P.S.  I guess if you read this entire section you are probably more than ready to go out and play a round of golf.  Thanks for checking us out!!

Good Luck

ZEIDER GOLF

Some of the products that we have made include:

Vietnam War: Prisoner of War bracelets

          I feel that this item is one of the most outstanding items that we have produced.  We made 8,000,000 of these bracelets that were worn by various individuals around the world to help raise attention to our soldiers that were being held captive in North Vietnam during the war.  By this act of wearing a simple bracelet and many other similar acts performed by millions of nameless Americans, our soldiers (American prisoners-of-war and missing-in-action) were able to eventually return home safely.

Titanium Facial Implants

          In the mid-1980’s we helped a local medical implant company develop an implant that allowed doctors to piece together broken facial bones.  This product was one of the first of its type to be marketed.  In time it became a family of facial implants consisting about a dozen configurations.  It revolutionized the way patients are treated for broken facial bones.  Recovery time was reduced, the patient was with less pain and the end result was a fuller, more complete recovery.

Automotive Heat Shields

          In the early 90’s we helped another local automotive subcontractor with a special method for making stainless steel heat shields that fit over various engine components.  These parts help enable the engine to increase performance, decrease noise and when the time came for it to go to the scrap heap it could more easily be recycled.  The process that we developed to make this part enabled our customer to compete against more traditional heat shields and also allowed them to be at the forefront of their industry.

Advertising Specialty/ Premium products

We have been making a wide variety of specialty products for the past 25 years.  Our customers have included Lexus, Wells Fargo Bank, Amgen, L.A. Lakers, Universal Studios, Paramount Studios, Panavision to name a few of the more well-known companies.  With our ability to make unique tooling for specific events or occasions, we have been able to help companies, country clubs, schools and other organizations promote their products or events.  We have made key tags, bottle openers, sheriff badges, coins and tokens, various desk accessories and even belt buckles.  All of these items are stamped, formed or coined from metal.  The metals that we have used range from inexpensive brass to 24kt gold and most everything in-between.

First Stamped 17-4 Stainless Steel sole plates

          We have been in the golf industry since 1968.  It has been a good industry to be involved with.  We have watched it grow from basically a cottage industry to a worldwide industry with many of its companies being traded on the various trade exchanges.  During this time the way that golf companies do business has changed, especially with the advent of metalwoods.  At one point in time we performed 75% of the engraving done on all investment cast iron masters that were made in the U.S.  Golf O.E.M.’s sought us out to engrave their masters.  We also made brass and aluminum soleplates for dozens of different companies.  By the early 1980’s we saw the quantity of these plates start to diminish.  The “wooden” clubs that these plates were being attached to were being replaced by investment cast stainless steel “woods.”  Not wanting to be left behind, we started to develop a stamped version of the cast soleplate that investment cast companies were using.  We were the first company to perfect this type of stamping.  We were able to make a better, more consistent part that had cleaner and more crisp lettering than the investment cast soleplates.  In order to develop this process we were forced to start investing in more complex equipment such as E.D.M. (electrical discharge machining), CAD/CAM and CNC machining.  This equipment enabled us to make high quality tooling that produced consistently good parts (for golf and other types of products). 

First Stamped titanium sole plates in U.S.

          In the mid to late 1980’s we used the same technology to make the first titanium soleplates for clubs being sold in Japan.  I don’t know if we were the first company in the world to do this, but I do know that we were the first American company to do so.

The only forged metalwood made in the U.S

This product is probably the only reason that most of you have heard of us.  It is a part of our business that has taken many years to master.  We spent 10 years and approximately $1,000,000. to get to where we are today.  This product is the only of it’s kind to be made outside of Asia.  There are other forgings being sold today, but none are made like ours.  Because of this I cannot go into too much detail about “how” we make our clubs for fear of compromising our advantage.  I will say this however, we make one club at a time and we do not take any shortcuts to make our club.  We use the same process with the same steps to make a club for a PGA pro or a championship longdriver that we do for a 30-handicap weekend golfer.  After you’ve hit one of our clubs and compared it to other clubs, both cast and forged, you will understand what I am saying. 
We have kept the same idea in mind from the time of our         Classic model thru the Absolute to today’s Valiant.  To make a club that will allow a player to improve his driving game.  If they want to hit it longer, have more forgiveness or playability or softness of feel, we can make a club that will suit them.  Just like a tailor making a custom suit for a specific individual!
A truly novel idea in today’s golf industry where the individual player is many times lost in the hype and hyperbole golf club “marketing.”