Forgotten Golf Brands

[jonry]

Learned to swing a club with a Northwestern 4 iron in the 90s, and the club was already 20 years old at that point.

[PingManT]

Palm Springs clubs were popular when I started playing

[Glftips]

Peerless

[BCases]

On 4/5/2024 at 5:06 PM, Donn lost in San Diego said:

Not exactly a long ago far away brand. 

Sorry , I guess I didn't realize how long the time period had to be.

[Popeye]

Remember the Black Triangle Sleeve that Molitor balls came in ?  I think I bought them just because of that box !

[BigPee]

My favourite irons were Tommy Armour Silver Scot 855s.. 

 

 

Brilliant

[BCases]

Jack Hamm and the Hammer driver. His infomercials were hilarious. I hope that was far enough back for Donn lost in San Diego.

Edited April 9 by BCases

[hongman]

Sounder Golf clubs always interested me as they were clubs played by Seve..!  Unfortunately, none of the golf outlets near me carried Sounder Clubs, so I ended up playing Spaulding and Wilson

https://soundergolf.com/en-us/blogs/journal/solid-5-lost-golf-brands

[DanieldR]

Anyone remember founders clubs? Don't think I've seen them mentioned. Had some tour presence as well!

Edited April 12 by DanieldR

[poprocksncoke]

1 hour ago, DanieldR said:

Anyone remember founders clubs? Don't think I've seen them mentioned. Had some tour presence as well!

yeah, mentioned them a little earlier in the thread but The Judge drivers were underrated.  Made a pretty good set of blades as well.

[DanieldR]

19 hours ago, poprocksncoke said:

yeah, mentioned them a little earlier in the thread but The Judge drivers were underrated.  Made a pretty good set of blades as well.

I know them from their blades, never knew about the driver, will have to Google that! And didn't the founder (pun intended) go on to start TaylorMade?

[poprocksncoke]

On 4/13/2024 at 9:16 AM, DanieldR said:

I know them from their blades, never knew about the driver, will have to Google that! And didn't the founder (pun intended) go on to start TaylorMade?

Gary Adams started Taylormade and then later started up Founders Club

[Rob Person]

Has anyone heard of pal joey copperhead irons?

I may or may not have just bought a 5-9i set at goodwill.  They are a ladies flex shaft. The heads are in ok condition.  I figured it would make for a good project for regripping, polishing, and cleaning up.

[poprocksncoke]

6 minutes ago, Rob Person said:

Has anyone heard of pal joey copperhead irons?

I may or may not have just bought a 5-9i set at goodwill.  They are a ladies flex shaft. The heads are in ok condition.  I figured it would make for a good project for regripping, polishing, and cleaning up.

Dont remember seeing the copperheads but do remember they had a grooveless wedge, think it had a milled face.

[Wib081]

1 hour ago, Rob Person said:

Has anyone heard of pal joey copperhead irons?

I may or may not have just bought a 5-9i set at goodwill.  They are a ladies flex shaft. The heads are in ok condition.  I figured it would make for a good project for regripping, polishing, and cleaning up.

My mom had a set of pal Joey ping clones I played as a kid. Loved them

[fixurpitch]

Pixl Golf. They licensed the MP-33 shape from Mizuno and the Eye 2 shape from Ping. They machined out the face, added a thin polymer layer, then pressure-fit titanium hexagon posts in as a face. They cut grooves across the posts.  I have a set in the basement, 3-P plus a 1 iron.  Shot some of my lowest rounds with the crazy things. 
 

 

[KeithHan79]

Just for the heck of it, the first set of clubs I had was a Lee Trevino starter set make by Faultless. Another brand that I haven't seen in years was a Spalding offshoot called Tour Edition. It was a solid golf ball (Not a wound Balata ball, which was the preferred setup back in the day.) that was touted as high spin. Greg Norman used to play them and since he could make a ball back up with those things, many of us bought in on the concept. Another golf club brand that I don't see any more was from a sporting goods company named Voit. I guess what all this means is I'm now a Geezer...

[Golfgirl8350]

On 3/26/2024 at 4:24 PM, Erin B said:

PinSeeker 2, my first real set. Bought them at a Roger Dunn store in Arroyo Grande CA in 1999. I don’t think they’re around anymore but their story is really interesting. If I find it I’ll post it…. I found it!!! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-26-fi-24993-story.html

My first decent set of clubs were Pinseeker. Loved those clubs. Roger Dunn had a single store in Oregon...this must have been 2000 or so. 

[poprocksncoke]

1 hour ago, Golfgirl8350 said:

My first decent set of clubs were Pinseeker. Loved those clubs. Roger Dunn had a single store in Oregon...this must have been 2000 or so. 

Have an old set of Pinseeker ladies irons in the garage somewhere, used to belong to my mom.  

Edited May 1 by poprocksncoke

[Rob Person]

Still trying to find a deeper dig of info on These Pal Joey's I picked up. Truly not alot of info on them, but what I ha e read is that they played decent.

These are the copperback series.  Going to be cleaning them up, and probably regripping them... maybe

 

[Deepred]

On 4/3/2024 at 4:47 PM, injectedcutty said:

I've been out with the family today because they love thrift shopping, so I figured I'd try to find clubs lol. No luck, but look at these gems..

I remember those MT  clubs from the country club Pro shop in the 70's.

[Deepred]

Kenneth Smith

Feel Golf

Shamrock

Bristol

Palmer

Dave Pelz

 

 

[poprocksncoke]

39 minutes ago, Deepred said:

Kenneth Smith

Feel Golf

Shamrock

Bristol

Palmer

Dave Pelz

 

 

Had a Kenneth Smith 2 wood I used to love hitting off the tee.  One day I teed off on 18 and the head exploded into multiple pieces.