Tennessee
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I got this bright idea a couple months ago - to take some of my classic club collection and put together a bag of playable clubs. So I keep on collecting clubs, both for hat racks and just cause I like golf clubs, when I run across this set of Hogan Magnum Irons in a thrift shop. I also picked up a set of knockoff Copperheads last summer, which had the putter in the set, of all things.
I'm all excited when one day I walk into a thrift shop and score a 1974 Cobra Baffler for $1.99, and about a week later, find a Cobra Baffler Steel Classic 3 wood in another forlorn barrel in another thrift shop for 80 cents. Got plenty of old putters in my putter collection, so I start looking at woods. I finally get down between a set of Walter Hagen Ultradynes I've had for about six months, and a full set of PowerBilt Citations, 1,3,4,5,9. (Who knew PowerBilt built a 9 wood back then?)
So the temps here finally get back into the 50's, and I head for the range.
WHAT WAS I THINKIN'...
I took the Magnums, the two Cobras, a funny driver called an Iron Stinger in an old bag, and my regular set of modern day clubs in my regular bag.
After a medium bucket, I have to say...Hogan Magnums 1, me 0.
I hit the Cobras well, and actually am looking for a spot in my bag for the original Baffler, but if I want to punish myself with old clubs, I can think of easier ways of setting off my arthritis and other maladies. Boy, was that a hard bucket!
I'm all excited when one day I walk into a thrift shop and score a 1974 Cobra Baffler for $1.99, and about a week later, find a Cobra Baffler Steel Classic 3 wood in another forlorn barrel in another thrift shop for 80 cents. Got plenty of old putters in my putter collection, so I start looking at woods. I finally get down between a set of Walter Hagen Ultradynes I've had for about six months, and a full set of PowerBilt Citations, 1,3,4,5,9. (Who knew PowerBilt built a 9 wood back then?)
So the temps here finally get back into the 50's, and I head for the range.
WHAT WAS I THINKIN'...
I took the Magnums, the two Cobras, a funny driver called an Iron Stinger in an old bag, and my regular set of modern day clubs in my regular bag.
After a medium bucket, I have to say...Hogan Magnums 1, me 0.
I hit the Cobras well, and actually am looking for a spot in my bag for the original Baffler, but if I want to punish myself with old clubs, I can think of easier ways of setting off my arthritis and other maladies. Boy, was that a hard bucket!