STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE
                     OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
                   REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING
                             TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, George W. Buckley, Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick Corporation, state
and attest that:

          (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
          reports of Brunswick Corporation, and, except as corrected or
          supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

- -    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of
     the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on
     Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was
     filed); and

- -    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the
     statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which
     they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such
     report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
     materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

          (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Audit
          Committee of Brunswick Corporation's Board of Directors.

          (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on
          or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

- -    Brunswick Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the
     Commission for the period ending December 31, 2001;

- -    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy
     materials of Brunswick Corporation filed with the Commission subsequent to
     the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

- -    any amendments to any of the foregoing.

                                                     /s/ George W. Buckley
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                                                     George W. Buckley

                                                     Date: August 14, 2002

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th
day of August, 2002

/S/ Nancy Ann Hartman                                [Official Notary Seal]
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Notary Public
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