Golf Club
Brands and Manufacturers
See manufacturers list below -
 Early
golf clubs were made entirely of wood.
Not only was this material easy to
shape, but it was also soft enough not
to damage the stuffed leather golf balls
that were used until the mid-1800s. With
the introduction of the hard rubber
gutta-percha golf ball in 1848, golfers
no longer had to worry about damaging
the ball and began using clubs with iron
heads.
Until the early 1900s, all golf clubs
had wooden shafts whether they had iron
heads or wooden heads. The first
steel-shafted golf clubs were made in
the United States in the 1920s. It was
about this time that some club makers
started using the current numbering
system to identify different clubs,
rather than the old colorful names.
In times gone by, golf clubs used to
have cool sounding names, not numbers.
Woods were made of wood and irons were
made of iron. Golf clubs also had names
instead of numbers and some of them are
still in use today. Technology has moved
on considerably since then, but the
names and numbers below are a guide to
the modern equivalent of these ancient
golfing weapons!
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Woods.
No.1 Wood; > Play Club,
Driver
No.2 Wood; > Brassie
No.3 Wood; > Spoon
No.4 Wood; > Baffy
Putter;
> Blank |
Irons.
No.1; > Driving Iron,
Cleek
No.2; > Cleek, Mid
Iron
No.3; > Mid-Mashie
No.4; > Jigger, Mashie
Iron
No.5; > Mashie
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Irons
No.6; > Spade
Mashie
No.7; > Mashie
Niblick
No.8; > Pitching
Niblick
No.9; > Niblick,
Baffing Spoon
No.10; > Wedge, Jigger
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Today, the design and manufacturing of
golf clubs is both an art and a science.
Some club makers use the very latest computer-aided design and automated
manufacturing techniques to build
hundreds of thousands of clubs a year,
while others rely on experience and
hand-crafting skills to build only a few
dozen custom-made clubs a year.
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