ben hogan oil hardened 3 wood

teevons · June 8, 2012

I just remembered I had these heads from Cleveland Golf. They made a club called Pertanium. Persimmon head , titanium face. These 3 heads I acquired a long time ago from a person who got them from the plant manager at Cleveland golf when they were making persimmons for Cleveland in California. One of the heads has the neck cut off, One has no soleplate and the other has a Cleveland Limited soleplate.
I need to finish these some day and take them for a test drive.
I would like to put a larger neck on the one with no neck and have get a hickory shaft from Tad and have something real cool!!

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I could see where someone could design a persimmon wood with a full face titanium insert that could conceivably be made thin enough to bring the COR question into play. There would probably have to be some empty space behind that insert to allow it to flex.

I think the nature of persimmon is self limiting to the point where it wouldn't be possible to make one of the size where the dimensions rules would come into question. You could probably violate one dimension or the other but not both. The result would likely be pretty odd looking.

Now, if someone shows up with an old driver with a leather Wilson Reminder Grip, then you'd have an issue. I'm not a fan of the idea of bifurcation of the rules, but if there was one area I'd make a change I'd allow the use of molded training style grips on all clubs for the masses (and the sky's the limit on possible designs). I've thought about installing a putter grip on a regular club turned to the right where the edge left of the flat spot would be perpendicular to the leading edge to the club. You then set your left thumb down the flat spot and you've got what looks to me like a pretty good grip. I just think something like this would get the beginner off to a better start, as well as allow the recreational player to be more consistent.

I agree with Bella that probably was the point Charley was making. Didn't Louisville Golf almost have a deal in place with someone to play a persimmon driver on tour a few years back, and that player decided to go with a metal driver instead?
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