Golfing like its 1999!

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craigstardis1976

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Hi People!

So as I have been laid up for a couple of months (though I am returning to work on Monday) I have become somewhat fascinated watching golf from the 1990s on YouTube and using the Wayback Machine to look at golf company websites from that era.

By shopping around at the local Play It Again Sports in Phoenix, I have now assembled a 1990s set of clubs that I am going to game. As I am recovering from being poorly, I had read in numerous places that Callaway shafts in the 1990s played soft to flex. So a Regular played more like an A flex. With that in mind, I have included some pics of the set I have assembled. All told it cost me $160.

I tried the woods and the wedges this past weekend and the smaller head size on the driver did not really phase me. In a strange way it seemed more in proportion with the golf ball to my eye. Distance was harder to gauge because I do not have much swing speed at the moment, 75mph tops. But I would day it hit the ball slightly higher than my Ping G20 but seemed to be straighter. I do like my Ping Driver though so the Great Big Bertha is on probation!

The Big Bertha Heavenwood was of interest to me. In the USA it gained prominence when Johnny Miller pulled off an unlikely win at Pebble Beach in 1994 using it. It is really like a modern day 2 or 3 Hybrid but I found it was more effective from the rough, (maybe the keeled sole plate) and performed similarly from the fairway.

I am sure many new clubs are better and some may see this as a silly purchase but it has been fun watching these clubs being used by professionals back in the 1990s and picking them up for peanuts. The clubs need regrouping and that will be my next effort at making them playable!

Does anyone have memories of these clubs?

Thanks

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I was using a set of those Big Bertha irons until I bought my new Callaways about 2 months ago, ugly as sin but very easy to play, I still have the 3 iron in my locker.
 
I bought an old wooden headed ping driver and three wood last year and keep promising to take it out for a blast. I have hit it a couple of times on the range and thought I had broke my wrists.
 
I had a Great Big Bertha driver, 7.5 degree with X flex, what a club!
It was either magnificent or terrible- no half measures. Those were the days..,
 
Tashyboy said:
I bought an old wooden headed ping driver and three wood last year and keep promising to take it out for a blast. I have hit it a couple of times on the range and thought I had broke my wrists.
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I have an Eye2 3 wood that on our hard desert courses can be a great club with the run out you can get.
 
JamesR said:
That was my driver before the GB Bertha, same results as you.
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Although back in the day when I didnt know that there were different flexes of shaft - I must have had a regular.:whistle:

Would love a hot with one now, to see if I've improved, or I just have the right shaft in it.

It was my first mahoosive-headed driver, it looked like a space hopper on the end of a mop.
 
Loved golf in the 90's and possible golfs golden era,I used to watch the tours on sky and there were so many different winners week in week out and of course the equipment was still the same as it had been for years without the radical designs etc.I remember when the Ping isi and Titleist 975 driver came out in 99 and how huge the heads seemed,I recently bought a mint 975 D from the AG used bin for £8 and am going to put together a retro Titleist bag and play it now and again :).
 
I do sometimes wonder if I had my old clubs back from the 90's, just how much different would I play. If I could choose a set from what I had back then it would be my TM Ti Bubble II Driver, Mizuno T-zoid 3w (green headed one), Mizuno T-Zoid ProII irons 2-PW, Can't remember the model of my wedges, but they were Wilson Staff and I still have my Copper headed PING ZING putter.

I really do not think that my scores would be much different, but it would be interesting to find out one day.
 
shivas irons said:
Loved golf in the 90's and possible golfs golden era,I used to watch the tours on sky and there were so many different winners week in week out and of course the equipment was still the same as it had been for years without the radical designs etc.I remember when the Ping isi and Titleist 975 driver came out in 99 and how huge the heads seemed,I recently bought a mint 975 D from the AG used bin for £8 and am going to put together a retro Titleist bag and play it now and again :).
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That sounds like a great idea!
 
MadAdey said:
I do sometimes wonder if I had my old clubs back from the 90's, just how much different would I play. If I could choose a set from what I had back then it would be my TM Ti Bubble II Driver, Mizuno T-zoid 3w (green headed one), Mizuno T-Zoid ProII irons 2-PW, Can't remember the model of my wedges, but they were Wilson Staff and I still have my Copper headed PING ZING putter.

I really do not think that my scores would be much different, but it would be interesting to find out one day.
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Madadey!

I loved the Greensboro/Winston Salem area where I spent a week earlier this year. Played Bryan Park and Tanglewood, both courses at both locations. Great stuff!
 
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