Persimmon Collection when we get too old...

[Mayhawmac]

Hello All,

 

New to the forum. I have a scenario to discuss if anyone has any insight. After collecting some nice persimmon that I value a fair amount more than the money I’ve spent on them (I guess that’s why we collect?). Not that I would want or need to recoup the money that I’ve spent on my collection (I wouldn’t have bought persimmon golf clubs if I needed that money) but what am I going to do with this collection when I get too old to play? Sell them all individually on eBay? Or sell the whole collection as a set? The only people I know who value this stuff I have only met thru email so I don’t want to give them away to people who don’t want them like my kids.  

Just curious what others plan on doing with larger collections of say 30 or more uniquely valuable clubs?

[deejaid]

I’ll probably be buying and selling until the end.   I’ll make sure everything is catalogued so my kids know what it is and what it is worth and they can deal with it when I’m in the ground.  I don’t see myself selling it all in one big lot as shipping logistics would be tough.  I might whittle down the collection or become more focus in my collecting.

 

And I do plan on playing persimmon until I can’t play golf anymore.   I have a few sets of Senior flex and even a Ladies flex set of persimmon that I figure I can play as long as I’m still upright.

[tannyhoban]

I ditched mine about a decade ago some on ebay, some I just donated to goodwill. I used to refinish them as a hobby. As interest waned in them I moved on.

 

Looking at them and not playing them made no sense given the space they took up and refinishing them suddenly seemed like a lot of work.

 

So off they went.

 

[baloo]

Seeing as I'm one of the younger persimmon enthusiasts around here, I vote you send them to me!

More seriously, eBay is a good option. If you aren't worried about recouping money and/or have some less valuable ones, drop them at a thrift/Goodwill spot.

Edited January 20, 2021 by baloo

[Swingingk]

First things first:  Welcome to the forum!  It's always great to "see new faces" around here as it were, especially with so many folks drifting off to other venues.  

 

As for your question I'd say it depends on whether or not you still have interest in them and enjoy having them.  If so then keep them and forget about what happens to them after your gone.  If you can see a need to dispose of them in the coming years then probably eBay is your best bet.  You might try finding buyers through local buy-n-sell websites too.  Selling as a lot will likely mean basically giving then away.  

 

Giving them away isn't the craziest idea either.  Sometimes folks come along that really appreciate what you have and would also really appreciate and value such a gift.  As an example the teenage boy across the street from me has fallen for golf in a big way so I invited he and his Dad over to check out my hoard.  He was playing with crappy die-cast non-matching irons and a rude old John Daly driver so I let him take home several iron sets and drivers to try out.  One of the sets were fairly late model TaylorMade MB's from around 2010 - the ones with the little hexagonal weight screwed to the back - nice blades actually.  I had reshafted them with Hogan Apex 4's of all things and new midsize Lamkin full-cord grips.  Well damned if he didn't just fall in love with them!  I mean he really loves them and plays them well.  I thought it was so awesome that he fell for blades that I ended up just giving them to him.  His Dad said no way though and made him pay me something for them which is of course the right thing for a young fellow to do, but I was perfectly satisfied to give them away knowing that they were going to a good home where they would be appreciated and more importantly - would be played.  I'm pretty sentimental about my stuff though and am generally more interested in making sure it goes to folks who will love it like I do as opposed to recouping my investment.  

 

I guess I've rambled on enough.  My point is that you should keep them if you still love them and eBay them off or give them away if you don't.   That's about all you can do.  Good luck!

 

 

[Swingingk]

Oh, and I forgot to add one more thing:   show them to us!!  😆   Seriously I know everyone here would love to see some examples from your collection.  Please do post some pictures and if your having trouble doing so then we can help you with that.  Pics!!!  ☺

[Foozle]

11 hours ago, Swingingk said:

First things first:  Welcome to the forum!  It's always great to "see new faces" around here as it were, especially with so many folks drifting off to other venues.  

 

As for your question I'd say it depends on whether or not you still have interest in them and enjoy having them.  If so then keep them and forget about what happens to them after your gone.  If you can see a need to dispose of them in the coming years then probably eBay is your best bet.  You might try finding buyers through local buy-n-sell websites too.  Selling as a lot will likely mean basically giving then away.  

 

Giving them away isn't the craziest idea either.  Sometimes folks come along that really appreciate what you have and would also really appreciate and value such a gift.  As an example the teenage boy across the street from me has fallen for golf in a big way so I invited he and his Dad over to check out my hoard.  He was playing with crappy die-cast non-matching irons and a rude old John Daly driver so I let him take home several iron sets and drivers to try out.  One of the sets were fairly late model TaylorMade MB's from around 2010 - the ones with the little hexagonal weight screwed to the back - nice blades actually.  I had reshafted them with Hogan Apex 4's of all things and new midsize Lamkin full-cord grips.  Well damned if he didn't just fall in love with them!  I mean he really loves them and plays them well.  I thought it was so awesome that he fell for blades that I ended up just giving them to him.  His Dad said no way though and made him pay me something for them which is of course the right thing for a young fellow to do, but I was perfectly satisfied to give them away knowing that they were going to a good home where they would be appreciated and more importantly - would be played.  I'm pretty sentimental about my stuff though and am generally more interested in making sure it goes to folks who will love it like I do as opposed to recouping my investment.  

 

I guess I've rambled on enough.  My point is that you should keep them if you still love them and eBay them off or give them away if you don't.   That's about all you can do.  Good luck!

 

 

I am with you 100% on this. Playing is a huge part of it but I will still enjoy owning my collection; tinkering, holding, researching and gazing at their beauty even if I can't play. Many will tell you I can't play now 😁

However, I do care what happens to them after I complete my 18 here on earth. My son inherited his love of golf from his mother - hates the game! There is no great monetary value in my collection so easiest thing for him would be to weigh it all in as scrap or firewood! I am spinning even thinking about it!😱

I am probably on the 13th or 14th tee in life's round (and well over par) so I hope I have time left to think about how to off load my collection. I would definitely rather give stuff away to people who would love and appreciate it as I do than see it scrapped. Possibly bequeath the few good bits I have to key people? Maybe give what's left to the golf club to sell for what they can get and raise funds for the junior section? Who knows?!

In the meantime I will enjoy playing while I can, try and even out my life's score with a couple of pars over the last 6 and hope for a playoff and extra holes....

[The Aspidistra in the Hall]

Biblically speaking I've completed the round and am now playing the bye, so this issue is relevent and i don't have family.

I've already anticipated this to some extent and have relinquished my tenureship of most of my good stuff. Still some good hickories and persimmons + a Bussy bagstand to go.

But, and the point is, I still have stuff I enjoy looking at and playing but the intrinsic value is the square root of nothing, as they say, or bugger-all if they don't......so if it winds up in a skip my shade won't be offended and the collecting community won't feel robbed

[Jiggered]

Playing with the clubs is over half the enjoyment for me but I still enjoy the handling of them and cleaning/restoring which can continue when I can no longer make the carry over the rough.  Like Foozle I'm also interested in researching the history of the clubs and their makers and this will entertain me after my playing days.

 

As others have said, I have no family interested in golf either so I won't be handing the collection on. 

 

But I do care about what happens to them. As modest as we all may be about our own collections, I think it would be a safe bet to say that each of us has more than a few clubs that would be coveted by other collectors so I'll make sure that the best of my clubs go to those people, and if any of the research I've done amounts to anything I'll pass that on too.

[Stephen8802]

I have some years left before I can't play all of my clubs. But when I can't swing them anymore, I'll give most of them to someone who can. My core clubs, the ones I've had for 40 years, will stay with me until they carry me out in a box. My kids can do what they want with those, but I've had them too long to ever think about not having them in the corner of my room. 

 

I got into golf through the employees entrance. I grew up on food stamps and government cheese, and started finding and selling balls at 8 years old because I needed to make money. I was a caddy at 10, Caddy Master at 16, and went to college on a Ouimet Scholarship. My clubs are more than wood or metal on a stick to me. The early ones--my Hogan '53 driver, M75 4 wood, my Staff irons, my 8802 putter--they are the first nice things I ever owed. I remember the day I found my 8802, and the first putt I made with it,  like it was yesterday; I shook with excitement. And not only is it still with me, I just knocked down 20 puts in my office with it.

 

I have plenty of money now, and, for the most part, can buy whatever I want. I don't buy much, but have plenty. None of it means more to me than that putter, that driver, that 4 wood. I'll move the rest on some day to someone who loves golf clubs, but those will stay in the corner. Because those aren't golf clubs, they are something completely different.  

Edited January 21, 2021 by Stephen8802

[Foozle]

10 minutes ago, Jiggered said:

Playing with the clubs is over half the enjoyment for me but I still enjoy the handling of them and cleaning/restoring which can continue when I can no longer make the carry over the rough.  Like Foozle I'm also interested in researching the history of the clubs and their makers and this will entertain me after my playing days.

 

As others have said, I have no family interested in golf either so I won't be handing the collection on. 

 

But I do care about what happens to them. As modest as we all may be about our own collections, I think it would be a safe bet to say that each of us has more than a few clubs that would be coveted by other collectors so I'll make sure that the best of my clubs go to those people, and if any of the research I've done amounts to anything I'll pass that on too.

Jiggered, you MUST document your research. You have an archive of knowledge and information I have never found anywhere else despite my best efforts. 

[Jiggered]

15 hours ago, Foozle said:

Jiggered, you MUST document your research. You have an archive of knowledge and information I have never found anywhere else despite my best efforts. 

Thanks, it's just a big spreadsheet of UK made irons I started about 3 years ago with a load of pictures accumulated from here, there and everywhere which I've slowly been adding dates to and any other bits of information I come across.  

 

It originally began as just a listing of all the post-war UK manufacturers and gradually developed from there, but I'm starting to tidy it up into a more organised form.