What was your first set of sticks?

[Corgi]

Not counting my Hornung junior set, First set was my Dad's hand me down Gary Player International Irons by Professional Golf (The forerunner of ProGroup I believe) with Ben Hogan Laminated Speed Slot woods and a Bulls Eye putter. These irons had the weight up high like the old Tommy Armour's. Thus my propensity to hit any modern blade too darn high. I wish they made a new muscleback with a hunk of weight nice and high. :-)

[ia hawkeye fan]

Ben Hogan Apex ll blades....the club pro told my mom it was a good beginner clubs to learn on. My hands hurt every time I missed a shot.
Founders Clubs driver, 3 wood, and 5 wood.
Titleist Bulls eye putter
PowerBilt golf bag
Wilson Balata balls

[knh555]

My first full set was a used set of Hogan Radials bought in 1984. I still have them and reshafted them last year for my eight-year old and he's hitting them great. I've hit a few Pings since then, but am actually back to my second set of Radials, bought in 1989. They just feel comfortable, though they're a bit tired after all these years. I just picked up another set of New-Old-Stock Radials and am planning on building a mixed set with my Apex blades, probably carrying the Radials 2-6 and the blades after that. Not yet sure where I'll break the set though.

Anyone else keep going back to one of their early iron sets?

[alevings]

Spalding Epic's, irons & woods Bought them Appx. 1970 , think the entire set was about $100.

[t_m_harris]

First set was a set of Lynx Predator Irons I bid $15 bucks for a silent auction. Think it was 1984.
Almost fell of the couch laughing once i saw these things again. Seriously have not seen or thought of them in 20+ years.
[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/LYNX-PREDATOR-IRON-SET-3-SW-NICE-SET-CLUBS-LOOK111-/120670113449?pt=Golf_Clubs&hash=item1c187fcea9#ht_500wt_1120"]My First Set Ha![/url]

[secondary]

1984 ish? Pinnacle's with early cavity backs that had a dumbbell looking weighint system on the back. Very foggy. I know it was a set of Powerbilt's after that. Sweet bright orange bag that went with it. Fuzzy was the man! I remember hearing the rumor that those wood heads used a different type of oil on them that made them "harder".

[meroj]

1974 set of Jr. clubs. Power built blades.

These beauties had a sweet spot the size of a tsetse fly and were just as hard to hit.

[Drumdog]

1973 - Spalding Championships
Driver-3wood-5woo
3-5-7-9 irons
Putter
Bag
1 dozen balls
Bought at Pay-n-Pak
Total cost $110.00 = half the money I had saved for my first car.

[underparpanther]

wilson 1200 irons and woods...no wedges at all.....knockoff bullseye putter

[Drewmun]

My brother and I shared a set of Spalding Match Play. Driver, 3W 3,5,7,9, Putter. God-Awful green Wilson bag that cut into your shoulder. GIven a Michelob Light PW and Macgregor Great Scot SW with a Silouette Grip. Played with Blue Ridge Golf balls (Orange) purchased at Miles Lumber $10 a dozen. First (and last)membership was at teh local town park for $20 all you can play. There was a sign that said "If it weren't worth a buck, then don't come back" next to the first tee.

[Golfer?]

ping EYE 2 black dot. HAWT

[VanSkiver77]

first post... I was around 9... My grandfather retired and bought the new Ping Eye 2s (pat pend) and gave me his Walter Hagen Trophys 2-9 with matching 1,2,3 wood and putter... steel shafts painted brown... always embarassed to play with them... now appreciate them... 20 years later, I got the Pings... still and will always keep them...

[HoosierHacker89]

I got a ram box set that had driver 3 and 5 wood, hybrid. 4-P, and a knock off anser style putter from k-mart in 2005. They were like $99.

[pueblo]

[size="4"][color="#0000ff"][b]In 1961 I bought Kroydon woods for $5.98 and Kroydon irons & putter for $3.98 at Fed-Mart. Still have the putter![/b][/color][/size]

[Meurig]

Hogan Radials. Used them for about 3 years then upgraded to Hogan GCD Tour. Don't really know if that was a "upgrade" looking back on it!

[Rohlio]

Not counting the assorted cut down collection my dad made me when I was ~7.

My first set that was actual gear was a set of Ping Eye 2's ( the original's not the +'s) ,

[Prut]

My first starter set in 1972 were Spaulding Johnny Palmers. In 1974 I graduated to Wilson K-28s and in 1977 Powerbilt Citations. I played those for 20 years.

[platgof]

Thrown together set of irons and woods. Paid $25 for them. I really liked the forged 8 iron in the bag for chipping.

[persimmonpal]

Northwesterns!

[lagniappe11]

TOMMY ARMOUR 845s
LOVED THOSE CLUBS

[flyersfan91]

callaway x 20's!!

[Lateisgr8]

[quote name='mat562' timestamp='1197651516' post='824287']
Speaking of Slotline; does anyone remember that mid 80s putter they did? Black, with big gold inserts in the heel and toe bumpers. Sort of a 'son of MacGregor Response ZT and a Ping Anser.'

And the irons they did? Again, a bit of a black and gold colour scheme... sort of a high-tech, glitzy Ping Eye...

What happened to Slotline?
[/quote]

I used to have a Slotline that was an "Anser" style putter except for the plumbers neck went in the opposite direction!!. I think it was called The Slotline "Onset".

[niball]

Top Flite XL5000 complete set with stand bag. Irons ok, the rest awful.

[Tupperwolf]

John Daly starter set from Walmart - driver, 3-wood, 3/4 hybrid, 5-PW and putter, in a stand bag for $150

 

I think I replaced everything with new equipment within 4-5 months starting with the putter, then the driver after the head flew off.

[Orchardist]

First real full set that I got new, Macgregor Challenger. I well remember the day the local pro checked the swing weight, D-4 throughout the entire set. I was still in grade school. I wish I still had them just
for the memories.

[gumbo]

The first set of clubs I learned on was a hodgepodge of thrown-together mismatched clubs that were donated to The First Tee program at my muni. As i recall, I had a big bertha driver with a cut-down shaft, a big bertha clone 5 wood, a callaway x-14 5 iron, TM 320 6 iron, TM burner lcg 7 iron, ping i3 8 iron, some 9 iron I can't remember, a cleveland 588 RTG 60* lob wedge I still game today, a beat-to-hell cleveland 485 56* sand wedge, and a hillerich and bradsby blade putter with a faux wood sheath over the shaft. Those were the days...

Once I got better, I asked my mom to get me a real set of clubs from a used club shop. They had this set of becu Powerbilt TPS irons, clearly modeled after the Ping Eye2 for $75. I had never seen becu clubs, so I wanted to try them. I loved the way they felt, and convinced my mom to buy them. It felt so good to be able to get consistent results from iron to iron. I still have them sitting in my basement. I also got a TM 200 steel with a proforce 65 for a song, and a steel-shafted ping tisi 5 wood for free from my pro. That was my bag for at least a year or two.

[dkirk51]

I got a set of Wilson Sam Sneed's for Christmas when I was 15. They had a flat part on the grip where the right hand heal pad touches the grip. I'm sure they would not be conforming clubs by today's rules.

[808Grinder]

In 1983 my high school friend and I bought a set of used Wilson Signature laminated woods and Irons. He took the driver, 3 wood, 3, 5, 7 and 9 iron. I took 2 wood, 4 wood, 4, 6, 8 and PW with a HnB stubby blade putter. That set costs us $70.00 in total with 2 bags and putters. I then saved my paper route money and bought a used set of Wilson GE with the illegal grip for $200 that I had to make payments on...

[silversurfer8189]

Tommy Armour 845s Silver Scots.

[bamboobender]

A mismatched set of blades, Arnold Palmer something-or-others with a Ram + 1 8 iron and Burke laminated woods 1,2,3,4 with the old TT Rocket shafts. Broke 100 with those and started looking for some real sticks.lol, Got a Ben Hogan 43" "speed slot" three wood and a 44" Tom Watson by Ram persimmon D-5 driver with the "high tech" carbon fiber insert. lol Used to drool over all the new cavity backs, then I bought my first set of matched clubs in '87 Powerbilt "Fuzzy Zoellers" at K-mart, $225 bucks. Cracked the hosel on the three wood after three weeks. lol Amazingly enough, my average score stayed around 90 even with the new cavity backs. lol