We never even bothered with different shafts or anything like that. Dunbar had a golf club factory parallel to the seventh fairway near the green at Winterfield golf club Dunbar. It was part of the course with wire mesh on the windows and if you were unlucky to hook your second shot you could then be lucky to get the ball bouncing off the roof back on the fairway or even the green. The factory, I think it was named Greentree, endorsed by Lee Trevino and others who visited the place. Great for getting our clubs sorted by master club maker Sinclair Marr, who then became a woman. This is true. Later everyone wanted persimmon drivers and I can remember John Huggan getting a jumbo persimmon driver Still small by today’s standard, but it was big with no plastic insert, just all wood. Huggie was good in his day. The factory moved to the other end of Dunbar and the amount of irons that disappeared from there was unbelievable. I’m sure the forerunner to cavity back clubs were first made there, they called them the “heal and toe†effect and they were miles ahead of everyone else, but we, or anyone else for that matter, never knew it. Cant remember why it shut down as I was in my drunken period for about 7 years or so. I remember getting my first persimmon driver, it was a STIX model and it had a brass insert at the rear of the head. My 5 wood was about the size of a large egg, I could crack a Penfold Ace with that thing. Still used the Ben Sayer irons for a few years.
Now I try and hit my AP2s after trying a set of ZBs for a few rounds but I thought they were too good for me. Fell out with the AP2s went back to my R7s, then back to my AP2s. There.
