past - present Drivers

[BigDaddy_Sean]

This got me thinkin' .. what are some of the main drivers y'all have used throughout your career?

I started playing in 1990 .. after a few oversized graphite golfsmith thingy's:

Taylor Made Tour Burner 7 degree - Aldila gold graphite stiff ('92 - '93)
Founders Club ?? model ('93)
Tommy Armour ?? model ('93)
Big Bertha Warbird 9 degree ('93 - '95)
Yonex 48" graphite - college coach wouldn't let me take it to tournaments, lol ('95)
Titleist Howitzer Titanium 8 degrees ('95 - '97)
Great Big Bertha Warbird 7 degrees ('98 - '04)
Taylor Made R580 aldila nv-65s 7.5 ('04 - present)


what about irons?

My main set in my haydays were an early 1980's model Titleist Forged Blade (2 - PW) with X100 Dynamic Gold shafts - still have the irons. I bought these irons from a used store in 1992 for $80. Reshafted, regripped, fixed the lies, etc. Used them through college.

I switched between a few sets over a summer before I use the ones I still use today:
2 - PW Tommy Armour 845s Ti's.

[iacas]

I've only ever had... a few.

I played the first few years with a persimmon MacGregor/Nicklaus driver. I still have it. Then I got the original Titleist PT driver. Still have that, too. Next I got the Titleist 983K (yeah, I went that long between them). From that I moved to the 905S because I should have gotten the 983E. Now I have what I have in my bag because it's marginally better than the 905S.

[FAHooGolfs]

I started playing in 1998...

Drivers:
- Mitsushiba, one of those "buy 3 woods at once" sets
- Excalibur steel shaft (after the Mitsushiba head flew about 200 yds down the 5th hole and into a pond)
- TaylorMade SuperSteel 9.5 (hated that driver, never could get it in the air)
- TaylorMade 320 (great driver, can't believe they made clubheads that small though)
- Titleist 983K (current driver that I'll stick with until I find something that gives me an extra 15 yards or so)

Irons:
- Spalding Tour
- Excalibur (starter iron set)
- TaylorMade SuperSteels (won in a drawing)
- Mizuno MP-33s (thought I was better than I was)
- Ping S59 Tour (current irons - really like them a lot)

[Jeepthrills]

I started playing serriously in 1993. I bought a set from Nevada Bob's it came with a steel headed Accell 10*. Next came the orriginal Taylor Made Burner Bubble 9.5* stiff. I was hitting it very long and very high with no roll. In fact, I could actually back up my driver. Three years latter I got what seemed like a great deal on a Tour Forged TiBubble II 7.5*. It was too much club and had the sweet spot of a pea. I struggled with it for two seasons and then traded it in to Golfsmith when they were offering a special 50% extra on trades. I went to the original Nike 270 Titanium 8*. Unfortunately I only hit it into a net 10 times before I bought it. I used it for the next 2 seasons and played reasonably well with it but wanted more loft. Last season I traded one of my clients 3 personal training sessions for my current driver, a Titleist 983K 9.5*. Funny how it all came full circle and I am back at 9.5* and hitting the ball about the same distance. Then again, I was in my 20's then.

Accell Acer 10*
TM Burner Bubble 9.5*
TM TiBubble II Tour Forged 7.5*
Nike 270 Forged Titanium 8*
Titleist 983K 9.5*

[flap]

OK drivers in the BASEMENT Wilson Persimmon

Taylormade Original "one"
Original Big Bertha
Javathon
Kevlar knock off of new cleveland Hi bore
Taylor system 2
Titliest 975
Titliest 975 J
Titliest 983K
Callaway Hawkeye titanium
Yonex Rekin 2
Yonex Rekin 3
Yonex ADX
Callaway FT3 {current} and several more that are burried and I cant reach them right now.{but If i buy another my wife will and stick it well you know

[BigDaddy_Sean]

Nevada Bobs?? the one in Ypsilanti?

I used to work in golf shops in Ann Arbor, Caddy Shack to be precise. It was on main street on the west side.

Also worked at the Golf Haus in Grand Rapids on 28th street a few summers in college. Went to GVSU.

[Jeepthrills]

  BigDaddy_Sean said:

Nevada Bobs?? the one in Ypsilanti?

This one was in Farmington Hills. I don't know if it's even there anymore.

[BigDaddy_Sean]

and they just keep getting more expensive too eh? :)

at least i got my r580 for $179 on closeout when I bought it. hehe.

[Wood]

Hmmmmm- Great Question

1- Some Golfsmith gem that was metal on the face, wood back(came with a 3 wood to match)
2- Taylor Made Burner
3- LOL- Killer Bee
4- Callaway Great Big Bertha- still love that club
5- (Present)- Taylor Made R510 TP 8.5*

[BigDaddy_Sean]

  Wood said:

Hmmmmm- Great Question

Me too .. took me forever to go to a new one, still got it too. Amazing during the time of the callaway insurgence that those goofy Taylor gold burners with the bubble shafts were out, I never could hit those.

[Jeepthrills]

  BigDaddy_Sean said:

Amazing during the time of the callaway insurgence that those goofy Taylor gold burners with the bubble shafts were out, I never could hit those.

Funny thing is I wanted the Callaway but couldn't hit it. The swing weight felt way too light. I hit the Bubble way better and went that way.

[NCGolfer]

1. Some piece of crap hand-me-down wood
2. TaylorMade Burner 10.5
3. Titleist PT 9.5
4. Callaway War Bird 10
5. TaylorMade Ti Bubble 9.5
6. Callaway Great Big Bertha 9
7. TaylorMade 360 9.5
8. Titleist JVS 9.5
9. Titleist 983k 9.5
10. Titleist 905s 9.5
11. TaylorMade r7 9.5

More than I'd want to admit...especially in the past few years.

[BigDaddy_Sean]

  Jeepthrills said:

Funny thing is I wanted the Callaway but couldn't hit it. The swing weight felt way too light. I hit the Bubble way better and went that way.

I was the other way around. The bubble just felt way to weird for me, too much weight in the grip end of the club. I played the Big Bertha before the Great Big, felt comfortable with it .. and went about 15 yards further. That club was the bomb .. then comes taylor out with all their new stuff .. never thought anything could go longer than my callaway .. wrong ... get 20+ more yards off of my R580!

[ragontona]

From Oldest to Newest:

1) Some old Wilson persimmon driver (early 80's)
2) Spalding Something or Other (mid 80's)

Took a break from golf.

3) Wilson Invex (mid 90's)
4) Cobra Steel (late 90's)
5) Titleist 975D (late 90's - early 2000s)
6) INTEGRA 320 - yikes (early 2000s)
7) Taylor Made 360XD (up until recently)
8) Callaway BB 454 (current)

Irons:

1) Spalding Executives
2) Titleist DCIs
3) Titleist 704CB

Putters:

1) Titleist Bulls-Eye Milled
2) Taylor Made Rossa
3) Ping G5i Mini-c

[BigDaddy_Sean]

  ragontona said:

1) Titleist Bulls-Eye Milled

Oh gawd, Putters ...

hmmm ... Ram Tom Watson blade .. (liked that one) various old bullseyes - collect them (have about 10) ping answer, answer 2 ping zing 2 ping pal 4 ping darby ray cook milled ram zebra titleist scotty cameron pro platinum II odyssey 2 balls straight shaft white (current) hehe

[Jeepthrills]

I already listed my Drivers. As far as Irons and Putters:

Irons:

Old MacGreggor Blade Set 1983-1987
Stopperd Playing until 1993
Apex Accell II (Nevada Bob's) 1993-1999
Top Flite Tour 2000-present
Shopping Now for 2006-

Putters:
MacGreggor Blade 1983-1987
Knight Crusader 1993
Ping Pal 4 1994-2005
Scotty Cameron Laguna Mid-Slant 2005-present

[uhpilot]

Drivers,

Back in the early 80's I found a Wilson Persimmon 1 wood in a dumpster that I played with for years.

Then I got a new complete set of Wilson 1200LT's that I played with through high school and after.

I then in the early 90's bought a Ping ISI Persimmon set of woods that I played with up until a month ago when I finally went the way of the metal woods.


Ricky

[shakespeare]

1. Some kind of 'wood' piece of crap
2. TaylorMade Burner type of old thing
3. Callaway Big Bertha
4. Some kind of big headed knock off driver (I actually hit it well)
5. Cleveland Launcher 300
6. Nike (the original, it lasted about two rounds)
7. Cleveland Launcher 330
8. TaylorMade R7 (Current)
8. TaylorMade R7 425 or 460 (Future)