Year 1990, witb?

[lke90]

A lot of memories and very good info in this thread! Thanks guys

[NRJyzr]

I can't contribute to the 1990 WITB, I didn't begin playing golf for another 8 yrs or so. :)

 

I've always wondered what it would have been like if I had...

[scomac2002]

I can't contribute to the 1990 WITB, I didn't begin playing golf for another 8 yrs or so. :)

 

I've always wondered what it would have been like if I had...

 

I may have owned a set of clubs by then, but I didn't actually start to play with any sort of regularity until 2007. Looking back on this thread my first contribution was a photo of the first vintage bag I put together, but the following might be a bit more accurate for 1990:

 

 

 

Should give this set-up a go at some point.

[MoaningM]

1990

 

Mizuno TP9 irons

Taylormade Burner driver

Taylormade brassie with a boron shaft

Ping eye 2 lob wedge

Ping eye 2 1 iron

Ping anser putter

 

Great gear all of it still; happy days

[BarneyRubble]

Love these threads...

 

My bag:

 

Driver: Toney Penna “Original”.

 

1 iron: Ping Eye 2

3-PW Hogan Apex PC

Sand Iron: Wilson JP2

Putter: PING Anser 2

 

Never carried a fairway wood. 1 iron was just as good for placement.

 

Matt

[Chris122]

Carried over from '89,Titleist laminated driver stiff,Bob Charles 3-wood,Titleist '82 Tour Model blades 3-sw,Ping Anser.

During 1990 I had Mizuno Pro Original with S400,when I was good they were very,very good but when I was bad they were horrid!

It was the shafts and so (still in '90) I changed to TP-9's with R300 and on to a Howson copy of TM driver with dimpled head and a GOLD shaft!

The cheapest and one of the best drivers I ever owned.

[dcopp7]

1990, I was in 4th grade. I played whatever my uncle that worked at the "dump" gave me. 8th grade was when I really started playing decent shots.

[Blade Junkie]

1990 Birth Year ?

 

First off, I'd buy the December 1989 issue of Golf Digest for $7.95, which has the Equipment Preview article for 1990 ... "the complete buyer's guide"

 

https://www.ebay.com...hYAAOSwepZXTe66

 

 

Then I'd make my club choice and hit eBay !

 

 

The risk, of course, is that you end up with about 15 birth year sets :)

[84425]

1990 I played (age 15):

a metalhead MacGregor driver (department store crappy driver tbh), the steel shaft was sort of S-shaped as i tended to throw my driver everytime I misshit it...

Browning laminated 4-wood

3-SW MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Golden Bear irons (from what i remember they had a muscle shaped a bit like the Hogan Precisions, but can't find an pics online, department store line of clubs i think) R300 shafts

Either a Ping Anser of a Bullseye putter.

[The General]

probably a illegal substance of some sort, if I recall :)

[URStillAway]

All Ping. Used these from 1980-1994

 

I still have the woods and the putter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Buzzkill]

1980's

 

 

[Nard_S]

Yonex ADX driver & Cobra Greg Norman forged blades.

 

Taylor made Tour Spoon and/or Raylor

 

Dave Pelz reverse 3 ball putter

Yonex ADX driver & Cobra Greg Norman forged blades.

 

Taylor made Tour Spoon and/or Raylor

 

Dave Pelz reverse 3 ball putter

 

Ah, the Mac-Cobra's, beautiful blades. A real purity to those clubs. Real demanding, but incredibly rewarding to nut.

 

For something more practical, surprised nobody mentioned Tommy Armour 845's

[Muligans]

Had my dad’s hand me down Golfsmith professional grind irons by Miura for a while at one point which is now boxed up, now playing a Mizuno zp1.

[dcopp7]

For something more practical, surprised nobody mentioned Tommy Armour 845's

were they released before 1990?

[57Staff]

1990 didn't have any clubs - my '76 staffs and '58 Mac SEOM were stolen during a PCS move.

 

In 1992 bought a set of 1990 Hogan Apex BH Grind 2-PW, Wilson Staff JPII SW, and Bullseye flange putter. I still have those clubs though I prefer my '57 Staffs and '58 Precisions

[Shallowface]

For something more practical, surprised nobody mentioned Tommy Armour 845's

were they released before 1990?

 

1988

[cardoustie]

Hmm

 

I had Titleist tour model blades and a Tom Watson sand wedge

 

Two persimmon drivers. Slazenger and Power Bilt Thoroughbred

 

Persimmon 3 & 4 fairways were majestic persimmon block MacGregor blondes with the aluminum inserts. Made my albatross with that 3 wood !!

 

Wilson 8813 putter, oh baby, I didn't know what a 3 putt was back then

 

I can hear my spikes click clacking away as I walk on the path around the valley of the par three 12th hole of the local muni I was a member at

 

2 years shy from becoming a university golfer carrying Taylormade blades and a Bridgestone Whopper driver !!!

[cardoustie]

I moved from my Titleist tour blades to these bad boys

 

These were the rage for a while. The 1-4 irons were hollow bodied and compared to true blades, easy as pie to hit

 

The 1 iron is in a tour bag behind me in the office right now

 

I can tell you that compared to my peers in university golf I was a much stronger long iron player than most because of these

 

 

 

[Forward Observer]

Toney Penna persimmon driver (that feel was the best)

Ping laminated 5 wood...225 carry and very consistent

Ping BeCu 1-W + 60*...square grooves

Zebra putter

Titleist Professional wound ball...you'd have to check it for roundness after a few holes, or replace immediately after a thin shot.

Metal spiked shoes

[Kirasdad]

Palmer metal driver (white head with a white shaft, yep there’s nothing really new in golf)

Taylormade 3 and 5 metal

Ping eye two red dot 3-PW

Wilson R90 SW (this puppy had a brown shaft, you could spin the hell out of it out of a bunker)

Putter was either a 8813 or a Zebra (The former when I was rolling it good, and the latter was when...well, I sucked.)

 

Even better...these were the only clubs I owned. I maybe had an extra putter or wedge laying around, but that was it. I was still mostly living in NYC. My apartment had one closet. No room for extra anything, much less golf clubs.

 

Played Bethpage Black dozens of times, 24/25 bucks takes you all the way.

 

[@_the_crook]

for sure in 90 and a bit after I was playing these irons.

[Richard 77]

November 1940. Think I’ll pass

[ohioglfr]

1990, I was playing Tommy Armour 845s irons and metal woods. The irons were great but, I wouldn't play those woods these days.

[@_the_crook]

> @ohioglfr said:

> 1990, I was playing Tommy Armour 845s irons and metal woods. The irons were great but, I wouldn't play those woods these days.

the original 845 driver was a small headed rascal wasn't it ? straight hitter like the Hogan Series 56, but no mass.

today's three woods are bigger.

 

[StackMan1]

Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5*

TA 845s 1-SW

Ping Anser

[Hawkeye77]

1990? I had Wilson Staff Tour Blades, the black woods that came with that set and an old putter that looked like an Anser I had picked up at a Target store.

[ralph11]

Ping Eye 2 copper beryllium irons 3-pw

Acushnet Bull's Eye putter

Cobra Driver 9 degrees

Ping eye 2 -----2 iron

Ben Hogan Sure Out sand wedge

 

 

[Tommix]

 

1970’s PGF Status Mark 11 irons ( upgraded to foam filled TM burner mid irons around 94)

Taylor Made Burner driver ( horrible slice machine)

Greg Norman Putter

AND the love of my life.

PGF Little Slammer ( small plastic head with heavy sole and lead insert on shorter shaft) designed in 60s by Tom Crow of Cobra fame who later came out with the baffler.

 

 

 

[greg]

Good thread! Hmmm, I played some Golden Ram Tourgrind Frequency Matched irons in 1990 - those are still the longest irons I ever hit, believe it or not.