First Clubs

[birdieman]

I started with a half set of Range Master woods and irons and a cheapo putter like you'd find in a crazy golf hut. I had a 2 and 4 wood, no driver, try finding a 2 wood nowadays! Anyway they were solid and heavy, made in Scotland, had avon grips and true temper shafts, they lasted about a year until I upgraded to a second-hand full iron set (3-SW) of MacGregor MCX's and Ryder Mk.III woods (1,3,5) and an Acushnet bullseye flanged putter - it was ace, wish I'd kept that but it was traded-in on a Ping Anser in 1987 I think.

 

[andiritchie]

How much did ping putters cost in the 80s i not old enough to know i always thought they would of been expensive

 

[EchtLoon]

In 1992, my mum got me a set of wilson sam snead blades 3 to sw. Was missing an 8 iron though. I'm suprised I continued to play. Beginner + blades = disaster :-(

Likewise, full set for me including good old wooden woods, way back in 1983, to be followed by Wilson Walter Hagens, my first brand new set, and susequently Wilson 1200GE.

 

[bernix]

A set of Wilson X31 irons and a Taylor Made putter. I started without a wood !
Played the set about 6 months. Returning from my first trip together with my golf clubs (Ireland) I found them damaged on transport. Credit Card insurance copensated for a new set and I bought Titleist DCI irons and Tour Model woods

 

[cm_qs]

First real set was half set of Mizuno Astron Irons which I got from my best mate when he went on his first holiday to florida and splashed out on a set of Pings.
A Daiwa putter (made by the fishing rod people - I wish I still had it) and a driver which was hand carved from timber from Noahs ark.
All in a garish red nylon carry bag with furry strap and no name.

No golf shoes / waterproofs / designers shirts or any of that palaver.

I fitted right in at the Larkhall muni course which was identified as the cheapest pay and play course in the UK a couple of years back at £4.50 a round. Happy days!

 

[HTL]

Wilson Deep Red 2. Got them after Harrington won his first Open.

 

[krokodil]

First club was a Phil Rogers (I think..Phil somebody)forged 5 iron, with a cane like shaft, that was used on nearby fields by 3 of my friends and me.

First proper set was a 2nd hand set of Sam Snead blade irons and Persimmon 2,4 and 5 woods-still believe that there's nothing better than the feel of a well struck shot with a 'wood' wood.

 

[USER1999]

Wilson blades, half set, with wilson 5, 3 and 1 wood with persimmon heads the size of a cotton reel, and stiff steel shafts.
Moved up to a set of game improving wilson 1200GEs when my Dad bought himself his first set of Pings.
First proper driver was a Callaway H2S2, which was really the forerunner of the modern big headed drivers (before the warbirds and big berthas came along).

 

[TonyN]

I featured in the magazine for this post last time.

My first set was a set of regal, in a nasty blue bag. 1 3 5 woods, 4-pw cost 150quid for the lot from tj hughes about 11 years ago. Only used them for the first time last October, when I really got into golf, I went out and bought the stuff in my signature.

 

[birdieman]

How much did ping putters cost in the 80s i not old enough to know i always thought they would of been expensive

I don't know why I remember this but my Ping Anser was £35 from the pro shop at Inverness GC in 1987.
Must've been a lot of money back then. Can't remember what I got back for the Bullseye though.
Truth is Anser and me didn't get on very well, putting has always been a love/hate thing with me, it's either great or rubbish. The older you get the harder those 4 footers become.

 

[grumpyjock]

The first set I had were cut down hichory shafted Morris irons and 3 wood, off my first wage packet I bought a second hand set of [I think] gary player irons, 1&3wood [perssimmon] and 3,5,7,9 PW & SI had to buy a putter out of the scrap bag.
Sold them on when i joined up then bought a 1/2 set of Pinseekers when i came back on leave [left them at the old mans house].
Now have a set of graphite shafted and too many woods.
am going to get a hybrid this weekend to replace the 3&4 irons.

 

[Smudge]

The first set i bought were wilson sam snead blue ridge blades with a 2,3,4and 5 persimmon woods that repaced an old set of blades my dad gave me. all in aa brown dunlop bag, those were the days.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

My ping Anser 2 was £45 from my pro back in 1982. Can't remember if that was full price (I doubt it as I got a staff discount as the assistant) but I thought at the time it was the best putter on the market

 

[andiritchie]

thanks for that my dad bought my first proper set off the pro and payed 35 for the putter and 150 for the ping eye 1s i always wondered if we been ripped off as i was only 12 and my dad knew nothing about golf guess it was not too bad

 

[rgs]

Greentree sombrero trevino irons 2nd hand around the mid 70's. Still amazed we could manage to hit the ball with thes bladed irons.
I still have them in my garage.

 

[vig]

1st set was either pinseeker or max faulkner (can't remember which) from my ma's catalogue, had them from about 14 to 20 with a St Andrews blade putter which i still have somewhere, persimmon 3 wood which I also have somewhere.
Upgraded irons to palm springs desert classics fro the first AG in the UK the got some CF pal springs ASW which i still have in garage. along with an early 80's berylium copper ping pal 6 putter.
I just can't seem to throw anything away.

 

[DCB]

Ah the Greentree irons. That was what all my mates and I aspired to when we were in our early days of playing. I ended up with a half set which lasted for a few years before being shelved in favour of a set of Sayers Crown irons. Still tiny heads compared with todays efforts.

 

[RGuk]

First real set was half set of Mizuno Astron Irons

Legendary.....My mate had these, I got the Tommy Armour....both very good, but the 845s had the edge.

 

[Boabski]

wilson fatshafts were my first set with deep red driver and 3 wood , my first putter was a Ram Zebra mallet

 

[shanker]

My ping Anser 2 was £45 from my pro back in 1982. Can't remember if that was full price (I doubt it as I got a staff discount as the assistant) but I thought at the time it was the best putter on the market

I hope you holed a few with it, Homer! £45 for a putter in those days and with a discount!