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2. Karsten Solheim - Wikipedia

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   Karsten Solheim (September 15, 1911 – February 16, 2000) was a Norwegian golf club designer and businessman. He founded Karsten Manufacturing, a golf club maker better known by the name of PING, and the Solheim Cup, the premier international team competition in women's golf. [3]

3. Golf club - Wikipedia

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   A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most versatile class, are used for a variety of shots; hybrids that combine design elements of woods and irons are becoming increasingly popular; putters are used mainly on the green to roll the ...

4. Ping (golf) - Wikipedia

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   It focuses on golf equipment, producing golf clubs and golf bags. The company was founded by Karsten Solheim, following a career as an engineer at the General Electric company. In 1959, he started making putters in his garage in Redwood City, California. [1] In 1967, he resigned from his job at General Electric to develop the PING company.

5. Obsolete golf clubs - Wikipedia

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   Wooden clubs generally had a metal base-plate and were made heavier with a lead insert into the back of the head; often the face of the club had an insert of bone or ivory to reduce the wear from impact on the wood. They were: Play club: driver; Brassie: so called because the base-plate was of brass; equivalent to a 3-wood [a]

6. Wood (golf) - Wikipedia

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   An Adams Golf Insight BUL 5000 460 cm 3 9.5° (left), an early 1980s Pinnacle Persimmon driver (right).. A wood is a type of club used in the sport of golf.Woods have longer shafts and larger, rounder heads than other club types, and are used to hit the ball longer distances than other types.

7. Ben Hogan - Wikipedia

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   This may be the reason that his early play with right-handed equipment found him using a cross-handed grip (right hand at the end of the club, left hand below it). In "The Search for the Perfect Golf Swing", researchers Cochran and Stobbs held the opinion that a left-handed person playing right-handed would be prone to hook the ball.