First Ever WRX Golf Crush ??

[EaglesGolf99]

Oh! Wow! ... That's going back some time now!

 

Probably back to TheGolfChannel.com or 4GEA.com.

 

Probably would be 1 of 3 things:

 

(1) Titleist 970 Silver Top Fairway 15° | Owned

(2) Nike Miura Split Cavity Proto 2-P | Owned (2-4)

(3) Nike Forged Blade Original 2-P | Owned

 

I want to build a retro bag, and at the same time I don't! LOL!

[grm24]

The Jan Stephenson pictures in the bathtub with golfballs were great as well. I'd post them but I'm sure it would offend some pinhead here and they would be removed. ;)

[Pworld]

Titliest DCI irons or PRGR irons when i was a kid in the 90's

[MattyO1984]

There were two pretty much at the same time for me, I must have been 13 or 14 I think and it was a Scotty Cameron Tel3 and a Titleist 975D. They were THE clubs of my childhood. Kept the putter in the bag for 10+ years and the driver was in there for 4 or 5 years. I would do exactly the same as you OP, I would sit and look at the pictures and reviews on them in magazines and know that I would have to keep my head down, do all more chores and save up money to get them. I did that with the Tel3 and then got really lucky when as a combined Birthday & Christmas present, my single mum got me the driver. Honestly, just loved those clubs. I still have the Tel3 and I bought a 975D from eBay a few years ago just so that I could have one again.

[braincramp52]

THIS^ Man, I had just started playing in 88 and I was a huge Freddie fan. When I saw the Lynx Parallax irons advertised in Golf Digest I knew I had to have them. They were the first new set of irons I bought. They took like 3 weeks to get them and I thought they would never come. Loved those things!

[bdmiller61]

For me it was about 10 years ago when I began exploring the world of custom shafts for the first time. My first 2 loves were the Diamana Whiteboard Flower Band and the Graphite Design Tour AD DI. I ended up with a Whiteboard which I love and still play. I am, however, continually amazed to see how popular the Tour AD still is on tour

[joekelli]

I never did get to hit one, but the Goldwin AVDP driver was always one I drooled over. The thing just looked way ahead of it's time.

[DavePelz4]

Hey Mr. MtlJeff Sr., welcome to GolfWRX!

[AFcelica]

Tourstage z101. Wish I still had them

[RH82]

Taylormade Burner Bubble.

[Oldplayer]

905r was an early crush. Played it for a while too. Played a ZL Encore for probably 4 or 5 years. Yes and Z101's. Still have a set. The ones that really stuck were Sonartec SS-03 3 wood and the TM V steel 5 wood. They are still in the bag!! Learned of them all from WRX and had a big crush on all.

[kess13]

MP32 were the first piece of equipment that elicited an emotional response from me. Had a mint set twice, sold a mint set twice. I'm just not supposed to date super models I guess.

[Ghostwedge]

A guy down the street from us was the Powerbilt rep for our area. Had a garage full of the persimmon drivers, shiny blades and bright orange staff bags. I didn’t even play golf at that age but was gaga over the beautiful finishes on those drivers. He retired when the metal woods phase started and i bought up his last few Citation drivers. Still have em, don’t hit em.

Had a crush on Zebra putters too , screwed off the bottom plate, attached shims, washers, pennies, nickels, dimes whatever trying to get the weighting just right.

 

[kruege]

One of the first things for me wasn't a club, it was the ping L8+ stand bag. That bag seemed so far out in front of everything else on the market. Always envious when we played HS matches against the affluent schools that had them as team bags with the school name on them. While we had the lightweight jones bags with no stands. Everything in the bag was wet after the first hole of tournaments since you had to lay it on the ground and they soaked up dew like a sponge. A couple years after HS i finally picked up a used one, then I caught my first glimpse of the hoofer...

Club wise, it was Titleist dci irons. Started playing golf in High school with a set of master grip eye2 knockoffs. Got some real eye2's used during college. But always loved the looks of the original dci, and then the 962 and 962b. Finally, for my 21st birthday, my mom took me to get fit for and bought me a brand new set of the dci 990. Played those for over 10 years, then sold them to a good friend who played them for another 6-7 years and i think he has them set aside for when his son is ready for full sized clubs.

[Swingingk]

My first regular playing partner had a set of Staff Buttonbacks and I absolutely fell in love with them. I had to get some. Still got em and still love em.

 

After that it was Scratch blades. When they first came out some tour player had a custom set with a skull stamp instead of the Scratch "S" logo. Another must have. Still got those too. Mine don't have the skull stamp but I still love them. They're not going anywhere.

 

Finally it's the Staff Fg59's. Total crush but after they stopped making them. I searched for several years until finally finding a new set. Those aren't going anywhere either.

 

That was all several years back and I haven't had a crush on anything since. I'm a satisfied man I guess.

[ZAP]

Tommy Armour 845s. I was just a few years into playing golf and this was my first ever "brand name" buy.

Pittsburgh Persimmon was a close second.

[Jab3384]

All of Duffner’s Waggle’s 3 woods... each and every one of them.

[jwb10]

I remember those staff bags, now that you remind us. I always wanted to be good enough to hit that driver. I never was , but I loved the back weight and gloss finish

[SetTheBarrHigh]

Mines a tie between the Ping i3+ Blade and Titleist Futura. I was convinced when I started playing in 2003 that I needed both to play well.

[Nixhex524]

1st crush.... Byron Morgan DH89.

I wasn't very deep into the golf equipment world and this site opened my eyes to some new stuff for sure... but the DH89 was no doubt my first lust.

[AC in TX]

Scotty Cameron Buttonback Newport ... ooooooooh ...

[kylemd]

Matrix Ozik Candy Lime... have it and still cant hit it.

Adams MB pro black... have em and hit em

Mizuno MP 14’s .. Have three sets of heads

Sonartec woods... still the three metal in the bag , so easy to elevate.

Cameron newport two (original black finish) still play with this.

Cameron Catalina two black finish ( still game opposite the Newport 2).

Miura baby blades.... dont have.

Vega or Yururi flatback blades. JDM forum eyecandy.

 

[Titleist84]

I stumbled onto this site by googling "Titleist 460cc driver".

Found the Titleist 905R discussion and the rest was history.

[jwb10]

First, my friend, not all !

[mich_ping]

Cameron Napa, Ping JAS Tess and then later...Odyssey PT82 (limited).

[mich_ping]

Good call on the TM Bubble and the Big Bertha woods. I am 37 and during high school golf if you didn’t have one of those, you were a second class citizen. I remember our coach got the “Great Big Bertha”...I distinctly remember between that and his alien wedge and zebra putter, we all idolized the guy.

[huskerturf]

Ping iSi Coppers.

[CarloGolfer]

First outside GOLFWRX = King Cobra Overside Irons.

I lusted after them at Sports Authority until they went on sale. The uni-flex shaft probably cost me more than I realized, but I was blinded by desire.

First inside GOLFWRX = Matrix XCON 6

I tried to resist, but couldn't hold out forever.

[ckay]

Great question! I don’t necessarily recall the “crush” but me joining was a result of being able to afford my first new full bag after 10 years of hand me downs as a junior golfer and it was a hell of a bag of equipment.

TM Superquad 282 on an OG IP Whiteboard

Adams 4060 14.5 on an OG IP Blueboard

Built TM TP MBs on X100

Built TM TP Rac wedges

Cameron 009

It wasn’t long after I was throwing candy Oziks in the bag.

I guess the real crush was the mystique of Miura and that led me to tour issue Rac CB forged by Miura. I hit a few balls with them and didn’t like the heavy, thuddy feel of them as I was really used to forged Mizuno and the TM was soft as well.

 

I have come full circle and bag Miuras for the past 3 seasons.

[jwb10]

Just found the 1st commercial for the "truncated dimple" on YouTube. Boros, Casper and 'Ole Sam, with music from science fiction, production values from film school lite, and Sam's line "I'm no scientist, but I'm a believer." No wonder I couldn't wait to get them .....