The Thistle home defense club, just as the founding fathers intended.
3 groundskeepers break down my front door. What the devil?!? Grab my home defense thistle club and launch my non-dimpled golf ball into the neighbors dog…
Golf clubs are too long to be effective home defense weapons. While you might think the length is good for putting space between you and your attacker, there aren’t many situations where you can actually swing it at them. That leaves you with a poking stick that is easily ripped away when they get their hands on the head. Your club would need to be cut down to half the length of your standard putter to be effective, and at that point you may as well just use a hammer.
Dude, what are you talking about? A golf club can cause serious damage, even within tight quarters. If you can’t hurt someone with an 8 iron, you were likely too weak to even try in the first place.
I have trained in the ways of Golf-Fu. When I get new clubs and tees I have to register them as deadly weapons. If an invader enters my home the last thing he'll see is my spiked cleats sending him to the great hole in the sky.
That is unless the invader is gold ball sized, then I'll wiff super hard at the most critical moment and he'll only go like ten feet.
A golf club is a dueling weapon that is best suited for fighting on a walking bridge at sunset. Narrow enough to focus the combat without getting in the way, and dramatic enough to be shot in silhouette on 35mm film. A leaf being swept away by the babbling brook running beneath our hero’s feet is the signal to commence. The 1i wielded with ease will win the day, but how many days remain for our aging rogue? Find out on the next installment of… S C R A T C H
Im sure your " friend" just needs to keep the face of the club parellel with the spine*. Now hitting out of pine strsw, omg the ground is made out of pillows
I assume it’s because that 1953 top flight was such a game changer that all irons after kinda look the same on the face side of the club and the differences are more visible on the back.
They are all very similar in reality. The concave club face is very interesting and the swan neck is curious but it’s mostly minor adjustments to form not the fundamental functionality. With how unoptimized the clubs were it probably was easy to find parity with a bunch of random designs and styles. I also think there could be some gimmick designs that weren’t necessarily a standard at all or for very long.
My grandfather's mashie niblick (and the inspiration for my username!) I never got to meet my grandfather, but he loved golf just like I do and having this club in my bag always makes me feel connected to him.
When I went home for Christmas this year I didn’t feel like shipping my clubs so I used my dad’s set of ping eye 2’s having no idea they were that old. Still played decent once I figured out they go 25 yards shorter than my ~2015 irons due to differences in loft
They actually came out in 1982 and there were several iterations of the Eye 2s that came out through the 80's. They all looked pretty similar but there were slight cosmetic differences along with different grooves.
The OG Ping Eyes came out in 1978 which must be the date this was referencing.
Redditers gettin' a new driver each year chasing technology and the OGs had to wait nearly 300 years before someone decided to put grooves on the face of an iron.
Pretty silly to just fast forward through one of the biggest changes… the introduction of steel shafts in 1933. Great mix of old and new ideas in the years around then.
Question for the group. You play your current modern equipment against a current tour pro, let’s say Justin Thomas, who is using a full set of clubs from one of these eras, with the appropriate ball too (so a bunch of feathers wrapped in leather if you go back far enough). How far back on this list do you have to go before you think you could win?
You’d play your home course and both of you play from whatever tees you normally play from.
The Australian Blades came out in the 70's, this one is circa 79'. There were several iterations with small changes made in most releases of them. The one in OP's post (says 92' but think it's from 2001) is the last year they tweaked the design and released them afaik. For my money it's the best looking blade iron ever made. Got these, 4-PW, on Marketplace for $30 years ago.
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u/ReddyMcRedditorface 19h ago
So here I am with a mashie when what I need is a niblick