DennisM

Just in case anyone is looking for a new putter at a great price, the same 2 Cleveland putters like I have, along with other models, are now on sale for $49.95 at TGW. I just got their catalog in the mail today and saw it.

Both of mine feel super and are made from superior materials. Regardless where you buy them, I highly recommend the Cleveland line of putters as a less expensive alternative to some other name brands.

Heaven knows, these days we need to save as much money as we can. The game is expensive enough as it is.

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lancelsoldes

I picked up a couple of older Ping putters the other day at a yard sale.



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rotarygolf

Its good, but i am just confirming that is these sticks are heavy to play a golf?

DennisM

Vintage clubs are sometimes fun to play with, just for the hell of it, but modern technology is what makes new clubs superior, not so much the weight difference between old or new clubs.

Weight differences are only a small part of it.

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Stretch

Modern tech has done lots to golf. A lot is also gimmicks now a day. Don't know if anyone has checked out the new TM bladez. The 3-7 have pockets cut out. Wonder what that is like as well as wondering why they didn't do it for the rest of the set. Will have to check out some reviews.
Putters you can only do so much for, its got a flat face and anything other than that is only looks. Irons have lots of types. Blades, muscle & cavity backs, GI, Super GI. They have evolved but what else can be done? The woods have evolved many times over from wood to steel to titanium to carbon fiber and so on.
The biggest difference between old and new is the lofts and if you play old gear like me, you can have some fun with the guys you are playing with.
My eye2 are a club to a club and a half more than the newer stuff and when someone asks what I hit and I tell them my 8 and they grab their 8 and sail it 30 yards over, I sometimes laugh. You got to know what you are playing and how far it goes.
I hope Santa brings me some nice Japanese forged steel for Christmas. If he does, I will post up some pics.

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Gont

I found this old club in my garage, can anyone tell me aprox. how old this thing is? I dont know anything about it...think it says spalding on the head. Looks like it has a hunk of lead in the head too, only half of its left now.

Any help would be great.

DennisM

Is the shaft actually wooden or just metal painted to look like wood?

A back weight like the head has on it is something that started around 1900 and went on with wooden club heads until the 80s when metal clubheads came into style. The grip looks like a genuine wrap on, not a slip on... And the head is whipped, the thread holding tension on it to connect to the shaft. Again, that went up to about 1980...

It's definitely a Spalding, but in the condition it is, it's really hard to tell anything more about it unless the sole plate can be read to say what model it might be.

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Gont

The shaft is real wood, I'll try and see if there is any other writing on it. Thanks

Edit: No other writing on it that I can see. Guess I'm SOL

DennisM

Real wood shafts were used up to about 1930 if I'm not mistaken. Cajun could tell you more than I can.

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Cajun

This club is very interesting....

Dennis is right about the shafts, by 1935, pretty much everything had steel shafts. That said, this club is a sort of annomolie, almost all Spalding clubs from that era were "endorsed" by someone. Meaning there's always more text than just "Spalding" on the club head. Even the first Spalding clubs had "A.G.Spalding" stamped in the club head, presumably using his baseball career recognition to try and sell clubs. There's a bunch of others produced around that time with various other text and endorsements, either the club model name, model number or pro endorsement, but nothing with just "Spalding". Based on the shape and thickness of the club head, I'd say it's from the 30s, but most clubs by then had full sole plates and the lead wasn't just in a cavity on the back surface of the head, it was covered by the sole plate inside a cavity in the back of the club head. I also couldn't find a Spalding club in my resources that had a brass face plate and 5 rivets. This clubs is a mix of 30s head shape/size and much earlier face plate shape, lead weight shape/location and absence of a full sole plate. Strange....

I'm stumped, could this be the world first knock off golf club? Maybe one of the other members may have more info for you, but I'm nnot sure what it really is.

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