Vintage Golf

RichA · Mar 10, 2022

Crow said:
This article is from 2010 but I've a feeling that they've been around for a while longer than that.

https://thesandtrap.com/forums/topic/37882-dynalite-gold-vs-dynamic-gold/

No date on this but it gives some specs for the shaft at whatever date it is.

http://www.diamondgolf.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/true-temper.pdf

Thanks for that. I've googled it but can only find mention of it as an iron shaft with a 0.370 tip and stock length of 42". No mention of Dynalite driver shafts, that I can find.
This shaft has been squeezed into a TM driver adapter and is a whisker over 43".
It probably shouldn't, but it's working like a dream with a modern driver head on it. The origin doesn't really matter, it just interests me.

RichA · Mar 13, 2022

My putting lately with my Odyssey 2-ball, Ping Anser and Ping B60 has been dreadful. Everything just feels dead and clumsy. Just for a laugh, I put this in the bag for the weekend and used it in club comps yesterday and today.

While my driving and iron play were still p-poor, it's the best I've putted in months.
The head looks like it's been bent a little at some point. The hickory shaft isn't great and it's currently got a rubber grip on it, so it's not exactly a vintage masterpiece.

Is any company making very thin, very bladey, very unforgiving putters now? I've spent the last hour or so googling with no luck.

Crow · Mar 13, 2022

RichA said:
My putting lately with my Odyssey 2-ball, Ping Anser and Ping B60 has been dreadful. Everything just feels dead and clumsy. Just for a laugh, I put this in the bag for the weekend and used it in club comps yesterday and today.
While my driving and iron play were still p-poor, it's the best I've putted in months.
The head looks like it's been bent a little at some point. The hickory shaft isn't great and it's currently got a rubber grip on it, so it's not exactly a vintage masterpiece.

Is any company making very thin, very bladey, very unforgiving putters now? I've spent the last hour or so googling with no luck.

RichA · Mar 13, 2022

Thanks Crow.
Found this earlier, which I like the look of but know nothing about... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-N...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

...but I have just placed a bid on one of those you linked to - the John Letters vintage blade.

Crow · Mar 13, 2022

RichA said:
Thanks Crow.
Found this earlier, which I like the look of but know nothing about... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-N...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

...but I have just placed a bid on one of those you linked to - the John Letters vintage blade.

I don't buy from that seller, he over restores clubs and always puts a new grip on, that Pinsplitter probably had the original leather grip on it before the seller got his hands on it.
The Pinsplitter was available for many years, produced by George Nicoll of Leven, that one is probably 1950s.

The John Letters should be a nice putter, a flanged blade along the lines of the Wilson 8802.

Voyager EMH · Mar 14, 2022

Recent purchase. Firstly, the seller's two photos. Honestly - these were the only photos in the ebay listing.

After cleaning and painting...

RichA · Mar 14, 2022

Very pretty, but just thinking about that skinny bladed 4i and those cord grips is making my fingers hurt. A warm summer afternoon set, maybe.

Voyager EMH · Mar 14, 2022

Thanks. Very shiny for their age. They did not look very shiny last Friday, however.
The muck in the grooves had set like cement. Getting that out was the most time-consuming task.

Early 1980s I think. Will make a nice set with the woods from post #908 which are about the same age. Not hit either yet.

Original grips are just playable. They are not corded. Had a few swings in the garden.

Soles are fairly wide - not scary at all. The 4-iron is on the edge of the photo and my lack of camera skills has caused a distortion.
The 8 looks wider sole than the 9 - which it is not - middle of photo makes it look bigger.

Bought a set of Maxfli irons from the same seller - they are older than these - still working on them.

Voyager EMH · Mar 16, 2022

Won't bother with the seller's photos this time - similar to those above - you get the picture - no other bidders for either set.

Maxfli International.

3-iron and PW...

Love that flush-fit shaft-to-hosel.
The shot of the full set makes the shorter irons appear off-set. They are fairly straight. The flush-fit hosel creates that impression.
When looking down and playing a shot they seem straight.

Voyager EMH · Mar 25, 2022

Putter arrived yesterday.

Gibson of Kinghorn, I believe.
Nice leather wound grip. Pyratone shaft 34.25 inches.
Wooden plug at top of grip and whipping at bottom of grip.

Crow · Mar 25, 2022

Voyager EMH said:
Putter arrived yesterday.

Gibson of Kinghorn, I believe.
Nice leather wound grip. Pyratone shaft 34.25 inches.
Wooden plug at top of grip and whipping at bottom of grip.

I can't make out the stamping in the picture, what identifies it as a Gibson?

Voyager EMH · Mar 25, 2022

Whatever that squiggle is toward the heel, its in "the book".
You can just make out the serrated sole on this blow-up.

Crow · Mar 25, 2022

The book?

I've always seen it as an "S" and I can't remember a definitive answer as to whose mark it is?
Gibson's usual mark is a star.

Voyager EMH · Mar 25, 2022

I went by this in A. A. Watt

Voyager EMH · Mar 25, 2022

Bought from same seller as the above putter with combined postage charge, a nice SW to go with the Maxfli Roberto de Vicenzo set in post #932.

RichA · Mar 26, 2022

Crow said:
When I said the line I meant the line of the putt as I don't use a line on the ball, I can see your logic on having a ball line perpendicular though.

If it's a Golden Goose, they're great putters, picture needed when it arrives!

Quoting from another thread, but this is the best place for the reply...
Not a Golden Goose. There's nothing whatsoever stamped on it, but it does have a Letters shaft and grip. I used it this morning. The most reliable club in the bag today.

Voyager EMH · Mar 26, 2022

Last time I played with @Crow at his course in December I used a Slazenger Magic Touch. I don't have a photo of my one, but I've pinched a shot of one from ebay.

RichA · Mar 26, 2022

The shape of this Yes! Sophia putter on Golfbidder looks familiar too...

Crow · Mar 26, 2022

It's a flanged blade style which has been popular for many years, there are early UK versions but the Spalding HB and the MacGregor Ironmaster are two of the most widely recognised early models.
The style really took off when Arnold Palmer put his name to a version for Wilson; the "Designed by Arnold Palmer" model, which became the 8802 when Palmer left Wilson, there were further variations such as the 8813.

What really annoys me (yes, I can get annoyed sometimes) is that these days the style is usually referred to as a "Napa" style putter, just because the king of putter copying decided to call his version by that name.

IT'S NOT A NAPA, IT'S A FLANGED BLADE!
And breathe.....

This Leyland Ralph Moffitt Autograph version dates to 1966.

Tashyboy · Mar 31, 2022

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