[JohnBarry]

I have been passing along my old clubs to two former Pro Basketball players (over seas) I work with to get them into golf, they are both hooked now!

[The Artful Duffer]

I didn't realize that by asking one question I'd let loose the sentimental floodgates. So yeah, I pulled the ad off craigslist. I wasn't getting any takers. And after reading several of the stories, I don't think I would have actually been able to let them go, 13 year old set of TM irons I didn't figure they'd be at the top of anyone's wish list other than my own. So the Firesoles and they're matching stand bag are headed back into storage until the next time my iron play goes south. As for the other bag with the Tommy Armour woods and assorted other goodies that I have no attachment and no use for, I'm taking a note from JMiller and dropping them off at the local First Tee chapter at Columbus State. So I clear out some room and help grow the game. Karma win.

[R.P. Jacobs II]

The Artful Duffer, on 03 May 2012 - 06:32 PM, said:

I didn't realize that by asking one question I'd let loose the sentimental floodgates. So yeah, I pulled the ad off craigslist. I wasn't getting any takers. And after reading several of the stories, I don't think I would have actually been able to let them go, 13 year old set of TM irons I didn't figure they'd be at the top of anyone's wish list other than my own. So the Firesoles and they're matching stand bag are headed back into storage until the next time my iron play goes south. As for the other bag with the Tommy Armour woods and assorted other goodies that I have no attachment and no use for, I'm taking a note from JMiller and dropping them off at the local First Tee chapter at Columbus State. So I clear out some room and help grow the game. Karma win.

+1..Go Buckeyes!..Fairway & Greens 4ever....

[JohnBarry]

You could always pass them down to your son or daughter some day!!

[Shambles]

The Artful Duffer, on 03 May 2012 - 11:32 PM, said:

I didn't realize that by asking one question I'd let loose the sentimental floodgates. So yeah, I pulled the ad off craigslist. I wasn't getting any takers. And after reading several of the stories, I don't think I would have actually been able to let them go, 13 year old set of TM irons I didn't figure they'd be at the top of anyone's wish list other than my own. So the Firesoles and they're matching stand bag are headed back into storage until the next time my iron play goes south. As for the other bag with the Tommy Armour woods and assorted other goodies that I have no attachment and no use for, I'm taking a note from JMiller and dropping them off at the local First Tee chapter at Columbus State. So I clear out some room and help grow the game. Karma win.

I didn't realize that I had waxed sentimental and never intended it. I tend to keep things I invested a lot of time learning and do not like tossing tools that are still perfectly good, especially for a fraction of what I spent on them. I do have memories with my old clubs but those memories are more of how well they worked for me and if I get into trouble, sometimes a return to the old tools helps me find the reason for my problems. Most times it's a feel good exercise seeing that they can do just as much as the new stuff and even more than I remember ever doing. That feels particularly good because it tells me I was the one that got better and not the club.

It's the stuff I dislike or am disappointed with that get recycled to find another owner. I try very hard to understand my clubs and after about six months or a year of fiddling with them I may or may not decide to keep them. Each purchase is hopefully different enough to be worth the expenditure but more often the same or inferior. Automatic Obsolescence is pervasive regardless that I look for improvements in new products.

I have a lot of Golf clubs but do not consider myself a Ho. My inventory has very little value to anyone but me and are not worth the effort of selling. Some of my most precious are so disfigured from my mistakes that even I would not buy them if they were not already mine. However, most of them can still be played.


Shambles

[The Artful Duffer]

Shambles I wasn't calling anyone in particular out on that one, just generalizing. You did hit the nail right on the head. Clubs are an investment, as well as the time that each of us puts into our games. Blood, sweat, tears, blisters, and range time. But no one can dispute the return on investment when you see the ball drop in the hole. How about we call it waxing poetic then? There's no greater feeling than a well struck iron be it 30 years old or fresh from the forge. Knicked up or mint condition. Forged or cast. All clubs have value be it monetary or sentimental. Often times the sentimental value far outweighs the monetary and maybe that's the way it should be.

[Shambles]

The Artful Duffer, on 05 May 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

Shambles I wasn't calling anyone in particular out on that one, just generalizing. You did hit the nail right on the head. Clubs are an investment, as well as the time that each of us puts into our games. Blood, sweat, tears, blisters, and range time. But no one can dispute the return on investment when you see the ball drop in the hole. How about we call it waxing poetic then? There's no greater feeling than a well struck iron be it 30 years old or fresh from the forge. Knicked up or mint condition. Forged or cast. All clubs have value be it monetary or sentimental. Often times the sentimental value far outweighs the monetary and maybe that's the way it should be.

I didn't feel called out. I felt guilty for once again having drifted from topic just because someone mentioned a set of Eye 2's. I'm such a foolish OC when those clubs are mentioned.


Shambles

[The Artful Duffer]

Shambles, everyone gets a little OC when the ol Eye 2's come up. It's all good. I've never met anyone who didn't love those clubs.