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bkuehn1952

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With the advent of metal-headed drivers, some golfers dispensed with head covers for their “woods.”  The thinking is the head is no longer wood and any damage is limited.  I admit the clanging of metal heads hitting together is a bit of a bother to me but not so for the irons clacking.  So I use head covers on just my “woods” both as a noise dampening method as well as a tip of the cap to traditionalism.  A golf bag just does not look complete without a couple of head covers.

Many people use their head covers to display their allegiance to a college or professional team.  Others prefer the puppet-like large animal heads.  It is also pretty common to see the matched set look.  High rollers can spend $75 and up for a hand knitted Jan Craig cover.  Someone looking at my bag and the head covers I use might correctly decide I am a frugal golfer.  The covers are pretty beat-up yet each one has a story.

Driver – back in 2014 I won a Nike Covert driver in a website drawing.  For someone who rarely wins any sort of drawing or raffle, it was pretty exciting to receive a new driver in the mail.  Of course, the driver came with a standard Nike Covert head cover, which almost immediately began to unravel at the open end.  Eventually the unraveling got so bad this frugal golfer decided to “cauterize” the end strands since the woven material was synthetic.  Which led to everyone asking, “What happened to your head cover?”  At some point in 2015 I lost the head cover.  I realized it was gone but decided it was not worth going back to search for a “cauterized” head cover.  I used an older Callaway cover for the balance of the season.  Apparently my golf buddy felt the Feng Shui of a Callaway cover with a Nike driver was not good so he picked up another Nike cover for me.

“The B” – My granddaughter made my 3-wood head cover from one of her old soccer socks.  In lieu of a “3”, the head cover is emblazoned by a “B”.  When I played Kings Barns in Scotland, the caddy asked about the club and I told him about the switch from “3” to “B”.  That club promptly became “The B” as in, “we don’t want to go too far on this drive, let’s use The B.”  The nick name stuck and I no longer carry a 3-wood but instead have “The B.”

7-wood – I picked up this head cover in 1993 when I played Pebble Beach.  Enough said.

Utility – This is the oldest and rattiest of my covers.  It dates from our practice round attendance at Oak Hill for the 1989 US Open.  Curtis Strange won and I picked up a head cover as a souvenir.

 

What does everyone else use to protect their Driver and/or fairway woods?  Any stories to share?

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onthehunt526

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"The B" that's pretty cool, I had a Nike driver at one point... I got a generic Nike headcover for it, the bottoms do seem to unravel pretty quick, either lousy material or lousy craftsmanship or both. Do you have a picture of "the B" headcover? I find it pretty cool that your granddaughter made it for you out of a soccer sock, that girl has MIT or RPI in her future.

pganapathy

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My R5 TM driver came with a head cover.  For a set of Slazenger woods (D, 3, 5) that I picked up cheap, I found a set of matching covers (both are black) with a zip and the driver is now in my mom's bag and hopefully she can use it well (she rarely plays much these days, except when a tourney she wants to take part in comes along).  The irons have a set of head covers too, which I only take off on the course.  At all other times I keep them on to prevent metal on metal damage and for lesser noise.  The iron covers are for 3 to SW, so my LW and putter are without head covers

Ernest Jones

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I thought we would be discussing hats. 

Wally Fairway

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Driver - one I picked up that says "Pebble Beach" (even though I didn't play that course I wanted more that one that said Spyglass Hill or Links at SB)
3-wood - and old driver headcover from the wooded driver days, so it is much smaller and fits my 3 wood very well, it has a company logo for a company I worked at from 87-93
Hybrid - one is a Mid-Pines logo (my favorite course in the Sand Hills), and the other is came with the club so it has a Cleveland logo.
Putter - Red Scotty cover

The driver & putter covers stay off during the round, but I make sure to not bang them when putting clubs back in the bag.

pganapathy

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@Ernest Jones, valid point, so getting onto hats, I use a baseball style cap that was a giveaway at the Kingfisher Triangular Tournament I played a couple of years ago.  Have so many other caps of this type that will use these only

choppineapple

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I use a Scooby Doo for my driver and a R2-D2 for my putter.  I don't have any woods or hybrids at the moment so no other covers.  I was told that the part of the driver cover that covers the shaft is to protect the shaft from being hit by the other clubs that are shorter.

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