by Mark Luckhardt@XGD
I happened to be driving in to my local pasture golf club, Bruce Beach GC, a few years ago for one of my solo rounds there and I noticed a golfer with an old time, white cloth golf bag with leather strap and maybe 6-7 wooden shafted clubs...
I bit in to hickory/pasture golf that winter hard enough. I went on E-Bay and picked up two sets of old hickories complete with niblick, mashies, and mid-mashies in astonishingly good shape (maybe I was lucky?).
With these old wooden shafts (of which I have broken a few already), I use a really soft golf ball made byLouisville Golf, or a balata ball. Using conventional hard golf balls would eat up these old clubs. Having said that, you certainly just don't have the same distance by any means compared to my conventional golf equipment. Not that I used to crush the ball by any means, but I rarely hit my hickory driver and balata balls over 200 yards .…continue reading »