Anyone have a "strange" club in your bag?

[JessN16]

I play with a Dunlop "chipping wedge," which is basically a 7-iron mated to a putter. It has an offset hosel, a head that looks like a putter, but it has grooves and a 7-iron's loft. It then has a sight line grooved into the top of it like a putter.

I guess it's built for chipping around the green, but I can hit it from 110 in with a full swing. I can basically do anything within 110 with it except stop/spin it back or come out of fluffy sand.

I paid $19 for that thing at a Wal-Mart about 15 years ago and it's saved my bacon more times than I can remember.

I also have a Taylor Made original Raylor (19 degree) with a titanium shaft that I got at a second-hand sports outlet. Even though I'm a bad golfer, I can hit that club better than most in my bag -- which is odd given that the rap on the Raylors was always that mid/high-handicappers couldn't play them.

My dad carried a hickory-shafted putter right up until he died. I think it was an Otey Chrisman. Sadly, it got misplaced somewhere and we no longer have it.

Jess

[Dub]

No odd clubs in the bag....just the standard stuff. I routinely do "odd" things with them, though not planned.

That is too bad about your father's putter. Sure would have been nice to keep around.

[Bourbon and Coke]

None of the clubs in my bag are "odd" so much as they are "old" or perhaps "terrible."

It's going slow because Christmas is only a few months away (and golf equipment are the perfect gift from relatives who ask "So, what do you want for christmas?"), but by 2009 I should have all the Dunlop straight out of my bag. After taking 43 strokes off my score in July with them there, that'll be a little "odd."

[alf174]

If I get in trouble off the tee I'll use a 22* Wedgewood hybrid (the only hybrid i carry); good for low punch shots about 150-175 yards. It looks kind of weird but it works to get me back on the fairway.

[Stacey_E]

I had the hardest time getting a NIKE CPR 26* wood out of my bag. It was great out of the rough, and absolutely awesome as a fringe/putter chipper. But it was butt ugly and had such a large footprint you couldn't hit it off of the slightest downhill lie. The shaft was so whippy, the harder I hit a full shot, the shorter it went due to ballooning. I finally learned how to control the distance on my Cobra 4 hybrid when chipping with it. But many times I've been shortsided in a tight fringe about 10 or 12 paces from the pin and think "I wish I had my CPR here". It was one of the few hybrids with a shaft only a tad longer than the iron it replaced (38.5 vs 38).

[bigoak]

I put lead shot into the shaft on my 60 lob wedge to get a heavier feel and slower swing speed. I have two putters that " have leaded also "

[michaeljames92]

A callaway vft hawk eye 1 iron. but i don't use it

[FlopShotArtist]

I might stick a persimmon driver in there next time...just because I can hit it off the fairway.

[Eore]

i played yesterday with my dad's 10 year old Cougar 3-iron.

[BenHogan]

The most strange club I've ever had is a 1950's 1 wood with the original grip and shaft.

[JessN16]

Can't believe I forgot to mention this -- and in MY OWN POST, at that.

I have a Golfsmith 11-wood, 13-wood and 15-wood. The 15-wood has about 40 degrees of loft on it. They act a bit like hybrids. I don't carry the 15 very often but I always bag the 11 and 13.

Jess

[NorCalGolfer]

yeah, mine's called a Driver. how do you hit these things? lol

[MyEyeSpy]

Every now & then a lovely 2 decade old 70 degree wedge comes with me, lovely thing ^^ Stops on a dime

[GUAM_golf]

I use an old dunlop surpass 5 wood, like from 2000 or 1999. still works for me so i dont bother buying a new wood.

[cwcaesar]

I have only had it a couple of days, and it's not that strange, but I get a double take when people see that I have a 4 wood. I guess that they are not all that common, and most people use a 3 wood.

[Soup Fan]

My Dad has a left handed wedge is his bag.

He is not left handed.

[JessN16]

My Dad has a left handed wedge is his bag.

My dad did that for awhile. Carried a left-handed 5-iron because he was in the trees so much and would often be faced with a lie he couldn't handle right-handed (i.e., ball up against a tree). I've also heard of a lot of people doing everything right-handed until they get to the green, then shifting to left-handed to putt. Does your dad hit full shots with that wedge or is it something he uses for his chipping game?

Jess

[Guest]

I suspect you may have found the magic of titainium shafts. I have a set of Ping Nickle irons with Ti shafts I loved for years. Finally had to give them up for softer shaft - I turn 70 in a few weeks. Now playing soft-stepped Raptures. Great club but not the feel of Ti