Nicoll’s golf club designs were innovative and thought provoking. This was demonstrated perfectly by the development of a swan neck putting cleek in 1895 which created the same effects as a modern center-shaft putter. The designs struck a chord with the golfing public and Nicoll attracted some very large orders – one being placed in 1898 by the Forth Rubber Company for 10,000 clubs. George Nicoll remained owned and distributed worldwide by the same family until 1982. Nicoll’s famous cleekmark–an outlined depiction of an upright, palm-facing hand–first appeared in 1905 and is still on the clubs produced in his honour today.