Talking Cult Clubs - What are your all time Favourites ???

[9stick]

Bridgestone J15CBs!!!

[leeux]

1. Macgregor VIP Foil CM 1025

2. Ben Hogan Apex II

 

Both gorgeous to look at and superb feeling, of course for the Hogans you need to be Bernhard Langer to play them as they have no forgiveness. The Macgregors actually have decent forgiveness for blades.

[hwnstyle21]

Just threw a TEE CB2 with a Blueboard 83 3w in the bag. It’s a beast. 

[WilCox]

TaylorMade V-Steel PaintBreak Fairway Woods

 

I played a 13* and 18* with Graffaloy ProLite shafts.  Awesome fairways.

[johnmharte]

Cleveland CG1 Black Pearls 

Had mine since 2005ish.  
Taking them down for rehab, have some Mizuno MP-20s coming in used.  
I'll be sanding, re-bluing the heads.  The original S300 shafts are pitting and seem a little bent at the tip over time.
So I'm putting in KBS Tour black nickel shafts...that will be great afterwards.   

Edited May 21, 2021 by johnmharte
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[Tlaughlin479]

Taylormade R510 TP

Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

[adamnbomb]

Nike Method 001

OG Rocketballz 3wd

[HighlandKid]

Still use an original Taylormade V-Steel 3 wood bought from new.

15 degree - Stiff Dynamic Gold Lite Shaft

 

Best club in the bag.

 

Taylormade 300 forged irons, again had since new only swapped them out this year for TM P7 MC's

[BCULAW]

Love the topic!

 

I’ve owned more gear than I should admit, and I move in from even the clubs I love!  Here are the ones I most regret:

 

Driver:  Titleist TS3 with HZRDUS Smoke 6.5 is currently in my bag, and it is my favorite driver by far. Never had more confidence than I have now. Honorable mention goes to the old Titleist 983e. Bought it for $17 in the used bin in 2011, and it beat everything I put it up against!

 

Fairway: 15* Nike T60 with Diamana Redboard 73x. This thing was absolutely magical deep-faced forgiveness wrapped in a perfect, long-hoseled, pear shaped package!  I could do anything with it. I remember playing a tournament where one of the holes was a short, pine tree lined golfer right. No one could cut the corner because of the trees, and there was not enough room at the dogleg to hit driver. I played a sawed off, stinger knockdown fade (actually more of slice) that was the most perfect shot I’ve ever played. Like a dummy, I decided to try a different shaft and ruined the redboard when i pulled it. The club was never the same, but I will never get rid of it. Honorable mention:  nothing comes close!

 

Hybrid:  Titleist 910h with MFT Diamana Ahina. To this day, I do not believe a better hybrid has been made. The adjustable hosel was a game changer for me. When I put this in the bag, I started reaching par 5s I’d never previously reached and the long par 3s became a lot easier. Honorable Mention: Adams Idea Pro with Matrix Altus regular. 
 

Irons:  Srixon z785 with Modus 120s. This is the hardest because I’ve owned SO many great sets of irons. I mean TONS!  I love blades, and could rattle of 10 sets of MBs that was a pure joy to play, including the MP14s, MP4s, 714MBs, Blueprints, Scratch SB1s, etc. I also absolutely loved the Ping s56sand my current 620CBs rank very highly. That said, the Srixons were simply the best performing, best feeling irons I’ve ever owned. The v-sole, IMO, is the single most impactful feature on any club I’ve ever tried. Not only did it make turf interaction a dream, it seemed to guide the club through the swing, down the target line and towards the hole. I never hit more shots directly at the flag than I did with these irons. Oh, and they felt absolutely incredible. Honorable Mention: Mizuno MP14. Iron royalty, IMO. 
 

Wedges:  Nike SV Tour with DGS400. These were the surprise winners for me. I have played Vokeys, MDs, Cleveland’s, Scratch, etc. and even some hand ground custom beauties, but the SV Tours - especially the satin 60/10 - helped me play my best golf. They were perfectly suited to my green side techniques. When I switched to them, my short game improved immediately. Honorable Mention: Cleveland RTX4

 

Putter:  I’ve never had one I like - even a little. All putters suck and putting should be banned from the game. Since I have to choose, I’ll go with my 30 year old bronze Ping Anser that I bought for $2.99. I can’t make anything with it, but at least I look like a killer on the greens whose weapon of choice is a gnarled handled six shooter from the Wild West with dozens of notches scratched into its worn leather holster. I mean, who else would use a 30 year old putter but a real roller that makes everything he looks at with it, right?  Honorable Mention: 60* Scratch 1018 wedge. I suck at putting so badly that I once went 10 rounds or so putting exclusively with the leading edge of my lob wedge. The 1018 was particularly effective for this purpose because it had a very straight leading edge that made lining up putts a breeze!

[Texas Golfer]

A used set of Lynx Predators convinced me not to give up golf when I was a kid trying to learn the game in the late 70s and early 80s with a cheap starter set of Wilson clubs.  I think the woods weren’t even wood. Some kind of hard plastic is what it seemed to be.

[eagle2838]

Taylormade Tour Cleek II. My first ever club when I was a kid, I had it reshafted multiple times and I played it through high school until it was stolen along with the rest of my bag. Not long for its loft (19*) given that it was ~20 years old at that time, but so, so predictable and easy to hit from gnarly lies. 

[spartyjeff]

Bridgestone J33 Forged CB Irons. gamed them for 10 years and loved the feel and they held up so well. I really should sell them but I just can't do it. 

[Mike_C]

Here is another vote for the Orilmar Tri-metal.  I had the 14+ with the EI-70 shaft.  Was a game changer, kicked out the old TM 13 degree tour spoon with a titanium shaft I had in the bag for over 10 years.   I also played the 5 wood, which was good, but spun more than I liked, the 14+ 3 wood was special, very long yet still easy to hit off the fairway.  I thought at the time I would also like the driver, but it wasn't even close, I couldn't hit it, but man that three wood.  Why I ever got rid of it, I don't know (well yeah I do, the internet and golf forums).  Not until my current G410 LST have I been able to hit a 3 wood similar to the Orlimar....

 

My favorite memory with that club is this, I semi topped a driver off our first hole, a 400ish par four.  It didn't even quite make it to the fairway.  I had about 285-290 probably to the flag, but had a good lie in the rough.  The guys I was playing with were laughing at me.  I hit the Orilmar like a rocket about 275 (bit of a flier), somehow got it on the front of the green and made about a 40-50 footer for birdie...... they weren't laughing anymore....

[B_of_H]

975D with ei-70

 

Runners up:

J's professional weapon

Original Great Big Bertha

s2h2 3+ wood 

[stimpmeterp]

Adams peanut
TM Rescue Mid

TA 900 Low Bounce wedges
975 LFE 

Cobra Baffler (first gen. modern hybrid)

Adams CMB
BStone J40 / J15

[ctay61983]

2001 V-Steel woods and Srixon 745 irons. Still play both of them. 

[brentm08]

3 hours ago, ctay61983 said:

2001 V-Steel woods and Srixon 745 irons. Still play both of them. 

the 745's are so hard to replace. I am wearing them out and just don't like anything else like them. I like lots of stuff out there ,but not enough to replace the 745's.

[Luke'sdad]

Taylormade 300 Forged. Literally fell into a new in the box set that was purchased for a gentlemen, and regrettably he passed away without ever getting to hit them. The grips had literally started to dry rot in the box. Came w/stock Rifle shafts, 1/2 " over standard, which was pretty close to my specs to boot. 

[justindowney]

MP-32 with PX 6.5 

[jcho01]

Taylormade 300 Tour Driver aka Holy Grail w Penley 
Sonartec fairway with Speeder 757X

Adams 🥜 

Macgregor 1025M

Cleveland 900 Low Bounce Raw 

Scotty Cameron Newport Black Oxide

 

[cardoustie]

Adding in the eye 2 + and the  + no + SW and LW .. I like them better than the originals 

[Hat Trick]

At 61, it would be my Tony Penna Persimmon driver and Dunlop Maxfli Australian Blade Irons 2-P (the 2 is probably a 4 iron today!)

[Wham49]

On 3/4/2019 at 2:55 PM, bubbagump said:

For me:

 

Nickent hybrids

Diablo Forged irons

 

I still work in a Nickent hybrid sometimes, thet still feel really nice

[mat562]

There are many favourites, but this one is the favourite favourite.

 

[bigbullym]

TM 2007 Burner TP

[Phabs]

Nike VR Pro blades and Hogan Apex Plus irons 

[lefthack]

[greenomics]

VR Pro!

[ldchristopher]

MP 64 for me. Something I never should have gotten rid of. I love my ZX7’s but I still miss the feel of a flushed 64. 
 

[btyh]

Driver to this day for cult favorite still 20+ years old

Taylormade 300 or titleist 975j

Taylormade vsteel or titleist 970

Taylormade 300 irons

Titleist 200 series 

Cameron