Golf Things That Gladden The Heart

[Voyager EMH]

I will try To find out where the putter is from Crow.

Whatever it was, there's a fairly good chance that he already has one.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

@Tashyboy you need to wangle an invitation from your mate at Rockliffe. It's a quality course, quality set up. Don't let them convince you to play off the whites though, it's long and tough from there. Well worth the trip up from your neck of the woods.

If you play it midweek you might even catch the mighty Boro, , training, same site.

 

[Tashyboy]

@Tashyboy you need to wangle an invitation from your mate at Rockliffe. It's a quality course, quality set up. Don't let them convince you to play off the whites though, it's long and tough from there. Well worth the trip up from your neck of the woods.

If you play it midweek you might even catch the mighty Boro, , training, same site.

He actually said there’s always an open invitation to play there for all the lads. He plays of 1.4 and was saying he needs to be more accurate with his longer woods as it is a long course.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

He actually said there’s always an open invitation to play there for all the lads. He plays of 1.4 and was saying he needs to be more accurate with his longer woods as it is a long course.

It's long and it's tough but it's also very nice. Definitely one where you play the right tees for you as otherwise it just becomes a slog.

I think there was a bit of a race between Rockliffe and Close House to be the premier club in the NE but Close House got the British Masters and just pulled away. That doesn't mean it's better, it's just ahead in perception terms. Both high quality places.

 

[jim8flog]

I could have played in the comp yesterday, very glad I did not when the players I would have joined took 4 hours 45 minutes to play the round.

 

[srixon 1]

A lot start with a par 3 (us included) but not sure how many have a par 3 at the end. I know the Forest of Arden championship course does and i think St Pierre's main course might

Both courses at St Pierre do, and they are both stupidly too long for the average golfer.

 

[Tashyboy]

I will try To find out where the putter is from Crow.

True to my word. Am back in the room. So the owner of the club/s is non other than my brother. That I didn’t know til half an hour ago. I also didn’t know he had a few old clubs. Anyway the one we putted with was the one with the pyramid on it.

 

[Tashyboy]

 

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[Imurg]

I think Crow might need a moment or 2 after seeing those pics.....

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

After a difficult back nine yesterday that saw me knocked out of the Summer Singles...I had a few holes this afternoon just to (hopefully) reassure myself that it's not that bad - and that I'll be OK for my Winter Singles Semi tomorrow. And I was reassured..

 

[Voyager EMH]

Here's a blow-up of Tashy's pic.
I wonder if I will be correct that Crow already has one (maybe more than one)

 

[Orikoru]

That thing looks like it's been dug up and would crumble into dust as soon as you struck a ball with it.

 

[Tashyboy]

That thing looks like it's been dug up and would crumble into dust as soon as you struck a ball with it.

It weighed a ton

 

[Tashyboy]

Odd thing is that one of them says “ made in Scotland” but has Sherwood Forest on it. Wonder if it was for Sherwood Forest golf club.

 

[Crow]

True to my word. Am back in the room. So the owner of the club/s is non other than my brother. That I didn’t know til half an hour ago. I also didn’t know he had a few old clubs. Anyway the one we putted with was the one with the pyramid on it.

A nice collection of clubs Tash.

Club 1 is a brassie, hickory shafted so probably 1920s to early 1930s, I wouldn't try playing it without doing a bit of restoration work on it first, that goes for all of the clubs except the putter which receives very little stress
Club 2 ditto
Club 3 is a cleek which was a long iron made by Cochrane of Edinburgh for the professional at Sherwood Forest, R.C. Tunbridge? He would have received the head and then assembled it for one of the members at the club.
Club 4 is an early steel shafted driver, 1930s
Club 5 is also a driver but I can't see enough of it to know if it's hickory or steel shafted, I'd guess that it's hickory and that the head has come off at some time, probably 1920s to early 1930s.
Club 6 is another hickory shafted brassie, probably 1920s to early 1930s.
Club 7 is another hickory shafted brassie, probably 1920s to early 1930s, obviously has led a hard life!
Club 8 is another driver, I'd guess hickory shafted and again probably 1920s to early 1930s.
Club 9 is an early steel shafted spoon, 1930s
Club 10 is a mashie made by F.H. Ayres, I'd guess hickory shaft and so again probably 1920s to early 1930s. A mashie has a similar loft to a modern 6 or 7 iron
Club 11, the putter, is by J.B. Halley and I'm guessing that this is also a hickory shaft so probably 1920s to early 1930s. The pyramid was one of their marks used on club heads, often referred to as a "cleek mark", it's shown in the page from their 1936/37 catalogue below.
JB Halley & Company were a London sporting goods retailer, founded by James Bryce Halley, they started making clubs in 1889 with the heads coming from James Anderson of Anstruther, first for wholesale and later for retail. Later factory was at Granville Works, Conduit Lane, Hoddeson, Hertfordshire, EN11 8EPJ.B. J.B. Halley traded for many years, at least up until the end of the 1980s.
@Voyager EMH is correct, I have a similar putter as shown in the picture below, I also have a very nice set of irons from the 1960s and at least three other early putters.
Club 12 is a mid-iron by Forgan and I'd guess hickory shafted (Forgan are the oldest golf club manufacturer still in business) A mid iron is around a modern 4 or 5 iron.
Club 13 is another hickory shafted brassie in need of some TLC. The whipping around the neck of the woods was to provide support to the wood and reduce the chance of the wood splitting as in this example.


There were three main woods in the hickory and early steel era:
The driver, the brassie which was similar to a 3 wood and had a brass sole plate to protect the wood from the ground, and the spoon which was similar to a 5 wood, again with a brass sole plate.

(I bet you wished you'd not mentioned it now!

 

[sjw]

True to my word. Am back in the room. So the owner of the club/s is non other than my brother. That I didn’t know til half an hour ago. I also didn’t know he had a few old clubs. Anyway the one we putted with was the one with the pyramid on it.

Never mind the clubs... You didn't know you had a brother til half hour ago?!