Golf Fads Long Gone

[GRT]

Lets hear all your golf fads.

 

Anyone had NBR pants? :wave:

 

Those crappy pull carts with the steel wheel with the grey rubber.

 

Colored golf balls. :cheesy:

 

That stupid ball sleeve thingy at the first tee so you know which group is on deck. :)

 

Balata balls.

 

1 irons.

 

Single strapped leather carry bags with one pocket.

 

Remember when you were allowed metal spikes?

 

 

 

Anyone got more?

[fish]

tassels on the front of all the shoes....

 

wooden headed clubs

 

fish

[wholeinwon]

Brush Tees.

 

Only having 2 wedges.

 

Steel Shafted drivers.

[birdieboy52]

Mesh shirts in the late 1960s and early 1970s

 

Slip on golf shoes

 

Rayon Shirts

 

BanLon Shirts

 

Synthetic upper golf shoes (we're talking about nasty hot and smelly thick plastic here folks)

 

Cotton/Wool Long Stocking Head covers

 

Velour pullovers for the cool fall and spring golf days

 

Salt pellets in the summer-yeah, that was a real fad for many years

 

Kangaroo Leather golf bags

 

Kenneth Smith "Custom" irons-heavist damn thingson the planet

 

17-4 Stainless for the irons

 

Multicolor vertical stripe mens golfslacks

 

Men's shirt collars that wer big enough to slap you in the nose on a windy day (what were they thinking about with these )

 

Doubleknit polyester gut tight long slacks forthe summer--like playing in a plastic bag with holes for your legs

 

Fingerless golf gloves

 

 

I'm sure I'll remember more

[matt411]

These are still pretty good looking

 

 

[Zach Heusser]

The bubble shaft :)

[Cameron Circle T]

ironically enough some of the stuff mentioned a few posts above is coming back thanks to mr. j. lindeberg. multicolor striped golf pants (check) hes got em on his website, big collared shirts (check) he makes some.

 

the cotton/wool long stocking headcovers, still around especially with the popularity of jan craig and rocket tour now.

[Oaks]

Power Pods and Browning Irons...

[Golfchicago]

I gotta give props to the munsingwear line. That was my shirt of choice back then. great to see it is making a comeback. Leather bags, I think almost every bag no matter the size was leather back then. Gotta love the poly plaid slacks the pros wore back then.

[littlepoison]

Madras... may it finally die!

[HipCheck]

Madras... may it finally die!

 

Have you seen the latest Old Navy commercials? Madras doesn't die...It apparently just keeps getting cheaper.

[Titleist87]

The reverse "C" - not really a fad but no longer around.

 

All white shoes (although they appear to be coming back).

 

The Amana structured hat - or any structured had for that matter.

[MrParr1Noid]

The reverse "C" - not really a fad but no longer around.

 

All white shoes (although they appear to be coming back).

 

The Amana structured hat - or any structured had for that matter.

 

Hey Now!

 

 

 

I have to use the reverse "C" finish to keep my pants from falling down on the follow thru.

[shoe295]

One set of tees

 

I miss seeing the ball smile up at me after I thin a 5 iron.

 

1 1/4 inch tees

 

Season pass for a junior golfer $20..good 5 days a week and after 3PM on weekends.

 

just a few I can remember

[pitbull808]

I miss seeing the ball smile up at me after I thin a 5 iron.

 

 

I was just telling a friend who just started how on the old balls if you hit a thin shot it wasn't unusual to see the cover peeled up and some rubber bands sticking out. I remember as a kid rubbing the skins on the sidewalk to rub the cover off and have a pile of rubber bands with the little black center core at the end.

 

 

I miss the fuzzy Ping wood covers.

[Cameron Circle T]

Hey now reid, the college teams still have fuzzy ping wood covers with their mascot on em.

[pitbull808]

Hey now reid, the college teams still have fuzzy ping wood covers with their mascot on em.

 

 

Guess I've been out of college too long!

[rama5]

I miss the uniroyal hex dimple design golf ball, or going back further the fautless golf ball that Lee Trevino pushed. Perhaps with Wilson & Top Flight the premo clubs. I remember my first topline clubs the Acushnet Club Specials.

[GehenHerzog]

The reverse "C" - not really a fad but no longer around.

 

All white shoes (although they appear to be coming back).

 

The Amana structured hat - or any structured had for that matter.

 

 

 

White shoes have been back for the past 2 years. Everyone wears white shoes now.

 

 

Also, colored golf balls are coming back (well a lot of companies are making those crystal balls)

[Onebulldogs]

The "ultralight" movement in irons.

Low Profile Irons

Distance balls for amatuers were hard - Rock Flite anyone

[littlepoison]

Madras... may it finally die!

 

Have you seen the latest Old Navy commercials? Madras doesn't die...It apparently just keeps getting cheaper. :D

 

Cuz they never got rid of the original stock material in the warehouses!

[rgk5]

"17-4 Stainless for the irons"

 

Is Ping out of business?

[littlepoison]

The "ultralight" movement in irons.

Low Profile Irons

Distance balls for amatuers were hard - Rock Flite anyone

 

 

Didn't Cleveland do pretty well sales wise with their lower profile designs?

[buffettman20]

My buddies and i all turned our headcover's inside out for high school and college golf. It worked great with old Callaway or Titleist, Like the biggest big bertha or 975D, and J. The inside of the covers had crazy stipes on them with different colors of thread. The Callaway's all looked similar, but the titleist looked compelety different. Some pink and white, others were blue and yellow. We thought it was cool! Try it if you have one of these old headcovers.

[SCameron009]

Madras... may it finally die!

 

Oh I don't think it's quite dead yet, I think Polo is trying to bring it back into style:

 

http://www.polo.com/product/index.jsp?prod...rentPage=family

 

They even have Madras baby clothes!

 

As people have already mentioned, White Shoes are pretty much yesterday's black!

[vsproto]

Tour Edition golf balls -- thanks to Greg Norman of course. You could spin them off the green and all the way into your garage.

[Carter]

These are still pretty good looking

 

 

 

 

I agree. They should bring them back.

 

Golf fad....how about Kallasy's Swing Magic

Alien wedge

The Chipper

Golf ball do-it yourself Monograms

[JoeF]

Any courses still using those 3 wheel stick steered golf carts?

[RagingAardvark]

Alien wedge

My father-in-law gave me one of those when I first got into the game, didn't tell me what it was, just sent it to me. I think I tried it twice and hated it. It's sat in the garage ever since.

[krgolf]

Kro-Flites

Royal Plus Six

U.S. Royal...Ken Venturi was on the staff when he won at Congressional

Golf Craft...went on to be Titleist equtpment