| Golf clubs have come a long way from the earliest | | | | to the clubface of the golfing clubs. |
| days when roughly hewn branches many have used | | | | After World War I, hickory was in short supply, and it |
| to knock around stones or wooden balls. You may | | | | became necessary to seek an alternative material for |
| have found, to your dismay that your young son | | | | golf club shafts. Manufacturers turned to steel, and so |
| practicing the same trick with rocks and stones, only | | | | the steel shafted golf club was born. By the 1920's golf |
| with your new high tech, very expensive set of golf | | | | club manufacturers had moved out of the hand of |
| clubs. | | | | individual craftsman and the mass production of golf |
| Early golf clubs were almost certainly made entirely of | | | | clubs was in full swing. |
| wood with the club head and shaft being made of | | | | Golfing club sets now consisted of 14 golf clubs and |
| different types, glued together a bound in twine. Hazel | | | | for the first time, golf players and sportsmen could buy |
| and ash were used for the shaft wile apple, beech; | | | | a complete set of clubs that matched each other in |
| blackthorn and pear were popular for the head of the | | | | style and design. |
| golf club, whether it was used for driving fairway or | | | | The steel shafted golf clubs gave extra length and |
| approach play. | | | | more control to the golf shot, yet manufactures were |
| These clubs were satisfactory for use with the | | | | still taking advantage of constantly improving |
| "feathery" golf balls but when the "gutty" golf balls | | | | technology to develop golf club design. Laminated |
| arrived in the mid nineteenth century it put a strain on | | | | plastic and then light aluminum replaced persimmon for |
| those golf clubs. Towards the end of the nineteenth | | | | use in club heads and graphite and titanium golf club |
| century the golf club started to look very different, as | | | | shafts were developed to enable more movement to |
| an alterative wood hickory was used for the golf club | | | | the club head through the ball. "Cavity-back" clubs ( |
| shafts, and iron heads were developed to withstand | | | | irons with the cavity hollowed out of the back of the |
| the battering of the "gutty", as well as to gain extra | | | | club head) were also designed and introduced for |
| difference. It was also realized that golfing clubs with | | | | golfers to give a more exact center of gravity , to |
| different lefts could be used for different shots, and | | | | provide the golfer with a greater relationship with his |
| top players began carrying nine or ten clubs, as | | | | clubs. |
| opposed to three or four. | | | | Computerized technology is now helping to advance |
| While the wooden clubs could meet the demands of | | | | the design of the golf club more and more today. |
| the "gutty" golf balls of the times, they could not stand | | | | Golfers - both professional and amateur benefit on the |
| up the "Haskell" golf ball, and it was necessary to find | | | | links with golf equipment that makes their golf game |
| new material for the golf club heads. The North | | | | ever easier and more enjoyable. Golf is a hard enough |
| American wood persimmon was discovered to be | | | | game. Why handicap yourself with poor or inadequate |
| more than ideal for the choice of golf club shafts, but | | | | golf clubs. |
| to prevent damage ivory or bone inserts were added | | | | |