An Overview of Modern Golf Clubs

Video Transcript

" This is Johnny Miles from The Lake Powell National Golf Course in Page, Arizona coming to you with another hot golf tip for Expert Village. What I’m going to talk about right now, one of the biggest changes in golf. Now, if you notice, we’ve got 2 sets of golf clubs here and luckily, they’re both mine. This set, totally modern, the best that Callaway Golf can make and probably the secret putter in the world. This on the other hand is a set of hickory-shafted Tad Moore gloves. You can buy them brand new today. They are replicas of 1925 golf clubs. Hickory shafts, forged heads, the woods have persimmon heads. I even added a little lead weight so I’d hit a little straighter. You know you can actually tinker a little bit. I like to play retro golf maybe once a week, once every 2 weeks. I take these out and play a little golf and it kind of reminds me of the way the game used to be. Now, I can take out my spade mashie or I can take out my 8 iron. They go about just the same; they feel both pretty good. I can’t tell a lot of difference, I’ll be honest with you. I hit them both pretty much in the middle of the club head; 3 years of practice, but what I can tell a huge difference in are woods. When you take out a persimmon wood and you take out one of these new drivers today, guess what; this one would fit inside. These new drivers are so good, they have made the game more fun to play. They haven’t made it easier because the hole is still the same size. As long as the hole’s the same size, scores are not going to be that much better, regardless of what Mr. Jack Nicholas and a few others want to say. The driver makes the game fun. We all like to hit a long ways and we like to hit it straight, and these new drivers, you can get them customized by your pro. You can have a draw built into it; you can have the shaft you want in it, the size of grip you want on it, and wow these things are so big you can’t even miss the ball. You’ll never embarrass yourself in front of your friends. This is the biggest change in golf. It doesn’t make the scores a lot lower, but it sure made it a lot more fun and has made John Bailey and a few others some heroes, just like Sean “The Beast” Fister. I guarantee you if he hit this and I hit this, I can out drive the beast. "