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2. Hickory golf - Wikipedia

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   Hickory golf is a variation of golf played with hickory -shafted golf clubs. In the United States the main organizing body is the Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG); in Canada, the Golf Historical Society of Canada; in the U.K., the British Golf Collectors Society; and leading on the continent, the European Association of Golf Historians and ...

3. Shaft (golf) - Wikipedia

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   The shaft of a golf club is the long, tapered tube which connects the golfer's hands to the club head. While hundreds of different designs exist, the primary purpose of the golf shaft remains the same: to provide the player with a way to generate centrifugal force in order to effectively strike the ball. When properly gripped the player can hit ...

4. Wood (golf) - Wikipedia

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   The shaft is the true engine of the wood. Widely overlooked, the proper shaft increases distance and accuracy, while a poor shaft can lead to inconsistent shots, slices, and reduced distance. The oldest shafts for all golf clubs were made of Hickory wood. The shaft was whippy and light, but inconsistent in flex from club to club and quite fragile.

5. Obsolete golf clubs - Wikipedia

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   These early clubs had hickory shafts and wrapped leather grips. To secure the joins between the shaft and the head of the club, and between the grip and the shaft, whipping of black, waxed linen thread was used. Pre-1900 clubs (smooth-faced gutty era) used 7-ply thread. Clubs from the era 1900 to 1935 required 4-ply thread.

6. List of golf equipment manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Acushnet Company; Adams Golf; Aldila (shafts); Antigua Apparel; Ben Sayers; Bettinardi Golf; Bridgestone Golf; Buggies Unlimited; Callaway Golf Company; Cleveland ...

7. History of golf - Wikipedia

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   A golf-like game is apocryphally [1][2] recorded as taking place on February 26, 1297, in Loenen aan de Vecht, where the Dutch played a game with a stick and leather ball. The winner was whoever hit the ball with the fewest strokes into a target several hundred yards away. Some scholars argue that this game of putting a small ball in a hole in ...