The International Clubmakers Guild had it's genesis in the early Summer of 2008. It was born as an idea from several former members of the Professional Clubmakers' Society (the PCS), when that organization was forced into bankruptcy after several years of mismanagement and employee theft/fraud.

These former PCS members wanted to pick up where the PCS left off, saving the best parts of the organization, and building a new, leaner, more flexible organization to serve the needs of the golf equipment industry worldwide.

They put up a public discussion forum and invited thousands of clubmakers to come talk about the idea - several hundred signed up and participated in the early discussions, with the results being an early decision to create an Exploratory/Organizational Committee to digest all of the public input and decide if there was a need for an organization to replace the PCS.

The committee weighed all of the input from several weeks of active and lively debate on the public forum and decided that yes indeed, there was a need for a new clubmaking organization. They then went on to publish a set of abstract documents in support of the goals expressed by the initial forum participants.

After publishing their findings, the next step was to select a Steering Committee to define and execute the implementation details, which took the reins in October of 2008.