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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000014930-03-000034
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20031022
FILED AS OF DATE:		20031027

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			WOLPERT STEPHEN M
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001268149

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-01043
		FILM NUMBER:		03958073

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O BRUNSWICK CORP
		STREET 2:		1 N FIELD COURT
		CITY:			LAKE FOREST
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60045

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BRUNSWICK CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000014930
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ENGINES & TURBINES [3510]
		IRS NUMBER:				360848180
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE N FIELD CT
		STREET 2:		C/O LLOYD CHATFIELD
		CITY:			LAKE FOREST
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60045-4811
		BUSINESS PHONE:		8477354700

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE N FIELD CT
		CITY:			LAKE FOREST
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60045-4811

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	BRUNSWICK BALKE COLLENDER CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19660919
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        <footnote id="F1">1,373 shares restricted stock granted under the 1991 Stock Plan with right to have shares withheld to pay income taxes on lapse of restrictions.  One-third of the grant will be distributed free of restrictions on each November 21, 2003, 2004, 2005.
7,000 shares are restricted stock units granted under the 1991 Stock Plan.  These stock units vest three years from the date of grant.  Upon lapse of restrictions the officer can elect to defer receipt and take delivery of the units in predetermined installments or elect to receive certificated shares.
5,174 shares are stock units held in the officer's elective deferred account and will be distributed in predetermined installments which can commence not sooner than three years after the date of deferral.  Reported amount includes a 20 percent premium over grant amount based on officer's election to defer the award. </footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Employee Stock Option granted under the 1991 Stock Plan with right to have shares withheld or to deliver previously acquired shares to pay income taxes on exercise of option.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">One-fourth of the total shares granted may be exercised on each of the first, second, third, and fourth anniversaries following grant date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Employee Stock Option granted under the 2003 Stock Incentive Plan with right to have shares withheld or to deliver previously acquired shares to pay income taxes on exercise of option.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>By: Power of Attorney  For: /s/ Stephen Wolpert</signatureName>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2><P ALIGN="CENTER">POWER OF ATTORNEY</P>
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<P>The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Marschall I. Smith, Lloyd C. Chatfield II, Kristin M. Coleman, Michael R. Horner and Marsha Vaughn signing singly, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:</P>

<OL>

<LI>execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5, Forms ID and Forms 144 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &quot;Exchange Act&quot;), and the rulse thereunder;</LI>

<LI>do and preform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete the execution of any such Form 3, 4 or 5, Forms ID and Forms 144 and the timely filing of such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the &quot;SEC&quot;) and any other authority or entity; and</LI>

<LI>take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required of, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or her discretion.</LI></OL>


<P>The powers granted above may be exercised by any one of such attorneys-in-fact acting alone.</P>

<P>The undersigned hereby grants to each attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as such attorney-in-fact might or could do if personally persent, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.</P>

<P>The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.</P>

<P>This Power of Attorney shall be effective on the date set forth below and shall continue in full force and effect until the date on which the undersigned shall cease to be subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder or until such earlier date on which written notification executed by the undersigned is filed with the SEC expressly revoking this Power of Attorney.</P>

<P>IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 24<SUP>th</SUP>&#9; day of October, 2003.</P>

<P>&#9;&#9;BY: Stephen Wolpert</P>

<P>&#9;&#9;Name: Stephen Wolpert</P></FONT></BODY>
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