![]() ![]() Club-makers experimented with different materials on the club face, such as leather, metal, bone fragments, and other materials to increase distance and prevent breakage.Īround 1750 the first club heads made of iron began to emerge from local blacksmith shops, used for “niblicks” or wedges. This high cost of the clubs made the game of golf an activity reserved for the higher class. The wooden clubs were expensive due to the time and effort that went into making them and they were prone to break. With the introduction of the “featherie” golf ball in 1618 golf clubs continued to be made with wooden heads, although forging iron into the head was possible, because of the delicacy of the featheries. The club head would be connected to the shaft with a splint and then bound with a leather strap. These golf clubs were made up of wood with the shafts being made from ash or hazel and the club heads being made from tougher wood like apple, holly, beech or pear. In the 1500s a set of clubs consisted of: a set of play clubs, “longnoses”, for driving fairway clubs or “grassed drivers”, for medium range “spoons” for short shots “niblicks” similar to wedges and a putting “cleek”. The first record of commissioned golf clubs was by King James IV of Scotland, who hired William Mayne, a bow-maker, to craft him a set of clubs and made him the Royal Club Maker. Golfers soon turned to skilled craftsmen to produce higher quality equipment. The earliest golf clubs were initially carved by the golfer themselves and typically out of wood. Since the inception of the game of golf, players have continually tried to improve upon their equipment. ![]()
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