Anyone go back in time?

[Big Johnny69]

I don't golf as much as I used to, so I figured, instead of trying out the latest and greatest gear (and have a bunch of money tied up in gear), sell my stuff and put together a cheap "retro-ish" bag of clubs .No adjustability, no speed pockets, just good quality gear that I used to enjoy playing .

Scores have been similar to my usual level of play, so after all of these years chasing the Holy Grail of clubs, its been the end user all along. Haha!

Anybody else enjoy busting out the old twigs for a round?

Here's the set-up:

TM R510 TP w/Speeder (looking for a cheap 905 or 983)
Titleist 906F4 15 and 18 fwys w/Proto-By-You
Titleist 804 OS 5-PW w/Nippons
Original Vokey SM w/stock steel
And I have one blade and one mallet putter I rotate.

[tywl]

At least once per year...I will game my first full set of irons...Titleist DTR's steel shaft 2 iron to SW...Callaway Big Bertha Warbirds...Bullseye Putter...Titleist DT wound balls...scoring usually simular in the high 90's range but mishits sting the arms alittle more.

[4underthru9]

At least once per year...I will game my first full set of irons...Titleist DTR's steel shaft 2 iron to SW...Callaway Big Bertha Warbirds...Bullseye Putter...Titleist DT wound balls...scoring usually simular in the high 90's range but mishits sting the arms alittle more.

Don't have them anymore, damn, but I really loved my DTR's (Distance Through Research for the younger guys) I hung on to the SW from the set for awhile and sharpened the grooves a few times.
It was my go to club for 100 yard shots back then, since then I have like other golf nuts spent a fortune on newer clubs but felt I played a better game back then.
Of course the older I get the better I played back then.

[nearace]

I bring out the old blades every once in a while, only when I need to really focus on my game.

[muskokaERIC]

My retro set is 1991 Ben Hogan apex grind irons from 1-equalizer and a Hogan sw with Hogan apex 4 shafts as well as a pair of Spalding woods 2w and 4w.

[synergy]

When I see a guy like Matt Kane smack my ancient RBZ driver 270+, I know (knew) that it’s not the twigs that are the problem. I can only manage 200-215 outta that. Tho, I did manage a 252 yard drive at Muskoka Bay yesterday.

[johnny canuck]

I don't golf as much as I used to, so I figured, instead of trying out the latest and greatest gear (and have a bunch of money tied up in gear), sell my stuff and put together a cheap "retro-ish" bag of clubs .No adjustability, no speed pockets, just good quality gear that I used to enjoy playing .

Scores have been similar to my usual level of play, so after all of these years chasing the Holy Grail of clubs, its been the end user all along. Haha!

Anybody else enjoy busting out the old twigs for a round?

Here's the set-up:

TM R510 TP w/Speeder (looking for a cheap 905 or 983)
Titleist 906F4 15 and 18 fwys w/Proto-By-You
Titleist 804 OS 5-PW w/Nippons
Original Vokey SM w/stock steel
And I have one blade and one mallet putter I rotate.

I've got a "retro" bag I break out once in a while.

975J Driver
VSteel 3&5
Taylor RAC Blades (1st issue)
Original Trusty Rustys
Callaway s2h2 putter

It's nice using the old sticks; amazingly, they perform just as well as my current kit.

[Pingnut]

There are some clubs I wish I'd kept.. but I always sell what I'm not using or saving for the kids.

[mcgsxr]

I never left. Almost all my clubs are from the late 80's or early 90's. I bought them all here on the BST in the late 2000's!

I just don't have the game to spend more. Sometimes I pine for new wedges, but eventually a lefty posts up some newer Clevelands and I call that good enough for me!

[NiblickJeff]

OK so I must basically be a fossil! I'm a member of the Golf Historical Society and I play a cobbled together set of Hickory Shafted clubs ( woods, irons and putter) that were all made in the 1920's and "renovated" so they don't kill anyone....re-gripped, heads re-epoxied, shafts refinished and whipped etc. I actually played 18 holes last week at Watson's Glen in Ajax with them and played Port Hope G&CC today with them.

[tobybear]

I have a full set of Persimmons along with a walter hagen ( by Wilson ) forged blades that I have used a LOT this year after finding them at a thrift store a few months ago. Blades are blades ( but with VERY weak lofts ) but with persimmon woods its a different ball game and a bunch of fun

[Big Johnny69]

Great stories guys, keep them coming!

[4underthru9]

OK so I must basically be a fossil! I'm a member of the Golf Historical Society and I play a cobbled together set of Hickory Shafted clubs ( woods, irons and putter) that were all made in the 1920's and "renovated" so they don't kill anyone....re-gripped, heads re-epoxied, shafts refinished and whipped etc. I actually played 18 holes last week at Watson's Glen in Ajax with them and played Port Hope G&CC today with them.

Good for you, there are many golf clubs I wish I had kept but none anywhere near that old, kind of explains your handle on here though.

[bl8d]

I'm a bit of a Retro-nut myself and my tradition was to start and finish the season with one of my retro sets.

the peculiar thing I found with the retros, because they aren't off-set, is that I play them better from a slightly open stance whereas the more recent off-set, I have to play from a slightly closed stance.

[The Yard]

just retired a Taylormade r510tp, such a classic that will find a nice home in the backup bag!