Vintage Golf

[fundy]

On a well known internet auction site Up at £75, put them on my watch list, got an offer from the seller for £65 & took it. The MS-2 2 iron I got for an offer of £20, the set of woods was £50 and the missing putter was a fiver (£10 with the postage). So £145 all up.

Put Nick out of his misery and post him some pics

 

[Crow]

Nicely done!
We'll have to have a game when all this CV-19 stuff has gone.

 

[Crow]

Put Nick out of his misery and post him some pics

Just had to look up the 0615, that's a classic design too, I'm impressed!

 

[Blue in Munich]

Just had to look up the 0615, that's a classic design too, I'm impressed!

I will be if it ever turns up, it's a week past it's delivery date...

So just in case I took up a seller offer on a Bulls Eye putter of £7.50 last night.

Nicely done!
We'll have to have a game when all this CV-19 stuff has gone.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Nick, out of interest do you use modern balls or older ones?

 

[Crow]

Nick, out of interest do you use modern balls or older ones?

Most of the time I use new balls, but soft ones.
The main reason for that is to protect the faces of the woods, although I think it's more the hard cover of really cheap balls that does the damage, think of the old range rocks.

I generally play Callaway Supersoft, Titleist Trusoft or equivalents.

Occasionally I'll play original 1.62" balls but because they're not being made any more I tend to limit this to days when I'm playing with other devotees of the vintage world.

What we'd all like most is a balata equivalent that spins enough to get the launch from persimmon woods. Persimmons were designed at a time when balls span and so they're designed to launch that sort of ball. Modern balls are pretty much designed to spin as little as possible (taking the artistry out of the game!) which makes getting a drive with a low lofted wooden wood difficult. A 2 wood can be a good compromise.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Most of the time I use new balls, but soft ones.
The main reason for that is to protect the faces of the woods, although I think it's more the hard cover of really cheap balls that does the damage, think of the old range rocks.

I generally play Callaway Supersoft, Titleist Trusoft or equivalents.

Occasionally I'll play original 1.62" balls but because they're not being made any more I tend to limit this to days when I'm playing with other devotees of the vintage world.

What we'd all like most is a balata equivalent that spins enough to get the launch from persimmon woods. Persimmons were designed at a time when balls span and so they're designed to launch that sort of ball. Modern balls are pretty much designed to spin as little as possible (taking the artistry out of the game!) which makes getting a drive with a low lofted wooden wood difficult. A 2 wood can be a good compromise.

So the investment in a couple of dozen Titleist PTS Wound was a good idea then?

 

[Crow]

You'll need to get used to more traditional lofts too, the MS-1s came out around 83/84 so you'll be somewhere between the 80s and the 90s on the table below, probably nearer the 1980 mark as they were marketed at the better player.

 

[Crow]

So the investment in a couple of dozen Titleist PTS Wound was a good idea then?

Could be.
There's a lot of chance on how an old ball will behave, partly depending on how they were stored and partly on luck. Sometimes they'll go fine, other times they're rubbish, all part of the fun!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I have a 100+ year old putter with my name on it.
Says I was a Scottish Internationalist in 1911.

 

[Bigfoot]

Most of the time I use new balls, but soft ones.
The main reason for that is to protect the faces of the woods, although I think it's more the hard cover of really cheap balls that does the damage, think of the old range rocks.

I generally play Callaway Supersoft, Titleist Trusoft or equivalents.

Occasionally I'll play original 1.62" balls but because they're not being made any more I tend to limit this to days when I'm playing with other devotees of the vintage world.

What we'd all like most is a balata equivalent that spins enough to get the launch from persimmon woods. Persimmons were designed at a time when balls span and so they're designed to launch that sort of ball. Modern balls are pretty much designed to spin as little as possible (taking the artistry out of the game!) which makes getting a drive with a low lofted wooden wood difficult. A 2 wood can be a good compromise.

I've still got my Dunlop 65 from the day at Tadmarton Heath ! Great day.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Louisville Golf's website has some very nice Tom Stewart model irons.
Check them out...they're brand new clubs!

 

[Crow]

I've still got my Dunlop 65 from the day at Tadmarton Heath ! Great day.

Think mine disappeared somewhere around the turn.

 

[Crow]

Louisville Golf's website has some very nice Tom Stewart model irons.
Check them out...they're brand new clubs!

That defeats the object!

 

[Blue in Munich]

Just had to look up the 0615, that's a classic design too, I'm impressed!

I am now, it's finally arrived.

 

[Crow]

I am now, it's finally arrived.

At least that's one you can start to use, rolling a few putts on the carpet.

 

[Blue in Munich]

At least that's one you can start to use, rolling a few putts on the carpet.

When my co-worker is upstairs in meetings, chipping practice occurs in the lounge.

 

[Swinglowandslow]

When my co-worker is upstairs in meetings, chipping practice occurs in the lounge.

That's a brave man?Let us know when the first window goes!,,,!

 

[Blue in Munich]

That's a brave man?Let us know when the first window goes!,,,!

The cheek of it; you're confusing my chipping with Dando's!

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Could be.
There's a lot of chance on how an old ball will behave, partly depending on how they were stored and partly on luck. Sometimes they'll go fine, other times they're rubbish, all part of the fun!

I've been looking a lot on YouTube re Mike Austin and his teachings etc. He made his name in the days of balata balls apparently, and I am myself not too sure what they are.Are they the small ones (Dunlop 65?) that had a lot of elastic windings and a middle little sack with a white liquid in it.
I remember as a kid we would open up some golf balls we found to get at the white liquid, just for the fun of it?
Did they go as far as modern balls?