i need help! Who knows about all wooden golf clubs (Drivers)

[NEEDSHELP123]

i have an all wooden driver that i know nothing about i need help!!! Anybody?

[Gerald]

How about a picture ?

[Shorty]

Originally Posted by Gerald

How about a picture ?

Or perhaps even a question.

[bunkerputt]

Wood comes from trees.  The shafts of the Golf club woods were made of different types of wood before taken over by hickory. The varieties of woods include ash, greenheart, purpleheart, lancewood, lemonwood, orangewood, and blue-mahoo. In the middle of the 19th century the shafts were then being replaced by hickory wood. Despite this strong wood being the primary material, the long-nose club of the mid nineteenth century was still prone to breaking at the top of the backswing. The club heads were often made from thorn, apple, pear, dogwood, beech in the early times until persimmon became the main material. Golf clubs have been developed and the shafts are now made of steel, titanium, carbon fiber, or other types of metals. The shaft is a tapered steel tube or a series of stepped steel tubes in telescopic fashion. This has helped the accuracy of golfers. The grips of the clubs are made from leather or rubber.

[dbuck]

Originally Posted by NEEDSHELP123

i have an all wooden driver that i know nothing about i need help!!! Anybody?

As others have said, a picture or what you need to know might generate additional responses. Do you need help with identification, repairs, etc?

[bunkerputt]

I suspect this is a subtle form of trolling.

[LeftCoast]

What's a wood golf club? [/sarcasm]

[Conspirator]

Wood shafts was the only choice until 1979 when TaylorMade introduced "Metal Woods". The Big Bertha from Callaway a few years later became the Metal Driver that really started the conversion to metal  vs. wood.  There our some that will say I'm crazy but for the average amateur golfer, total distance really hasn't changed much from the combination of a sweet spot hit with a wood driver and the balls that we used in the late 70's early 80's vs. what we get from a 460 Titanium Driver with a modern 2 or 4 piece golf ball.  I’m talking your typical 75 to 85mph club head  speed  golfer, not you 110+mph musclemen.  You had to hit the sweet spot on the old wood drivers because the face size was so small it was really sweet spot or a topper, pop up or outer club toe hit or a shank hit.  And due to the fact they had a metal sole plate a topper would always cut your ball, or what we called a smiley. Ping didn’t use Persimmon wood instead they followed the cavity back concept used on their irons and transferred it to their woods.  Pings were laminated sheets of wood, with a very large hole bored in the very center of the sweet spot and behind the plastic screwed on front plates.  They were also much larger than any Driver at the time and so there was a lot of forgiveness in the larger face.

Today’s metal drivers are larger, lighter and longer which helps all of us.  Bu what helped us all, especially the beginner to intermediate player is there is very little side spin on today’s metals.  At worst today a new players slice will put him on the outer rough of his fairway.  With wood and the older design balls it was not unusual to see a slice or hook that would be played from the extreme rough of an adjoining fairway.  There are many club builder that will refinish a wood driver and bring it back to looking like the day it was new.  I believe both Golfsmith and Golfworks offer that service and also for irons.  If you are having a club refinished to display not play tell you club maker it can save you a few bucks vs. a refinished driver that will be used in play.  The best drill for finding the sweet spot on a driver is to use an older original and smaller metal driver.  You can’t miss the sweet spot by an inch and still see the ball flying down the range with the smaller older metals.

[Gerald]

Quote:

What's a wood golf club?     [/sarcasm]

It can either be clubs that have to used when your ball has landed in the woods or clubs made for hitting a ball into the woods ........

There are a lot of the later