Chenango Stories: Alice Scott

With a little extra time, energy and creativity, Alice Scott said what was born of a joke became her livelihood.

“How can you go wrong with a name like Butthead Covers?” she asks. Yes, that’s right, “Butthead Covers.” Scott, a Sherburne high school graduate and part-time resident of Earlville, said her company specializes in making golf club covers designed as creatures and characters of all kinds.

Scott and her husband Danny were living in Arizona after her early retirement when one day out on the golf course, the idea for her business was born. She said a man they had been golfing with spotted a cover she had in her golf bag. “What is that, a turkey butt?” he said. Alice said they joked all afternoon about her “turkey butt” that was simply a cloth cover, but from there she decided she would research the idea and come up with her own version of a “turkey butt.”

“I made the first one myself by hand,” she said. Alice quickly got busy forming a business plan. After looking around, she registered her domain name, her son Mike started working his magic on the website and after not finding any local manufacturer, she decided to outsource the production.

“With my working for AT&T for over 20 years, I used a lot of the same concepts for this business,” said Alice.

Making the business mobile was one of Alice’s main goals. “We knew we would continue to spend summers in Earlville and still live in Arizona throughout the winter months,” she said. The business opened in 2004 and is run strictly online; the products are ready to ship to meet the demand anytime.