Interesting article about a pro trying to make a comeback on the Champions Tour.....using Persimmon Woods....!!
Persimmon Woods Comeback....
I absolutely love this. I'm still attracted to the concept of playing hickory golf. Today's equipment is like cheating, but it does add to the fun.
I used steel shafted persimmon woods 3 and Ginty 7w when I first started playing 27 years ago and I loved them. Wonderful feel. I wish I had kept the Ginty and gotten it refinished.
I did drive a 440 something yard par 4 with that 3 wood, but it was steeply downhill (the hole was built into a mountain side) and I probably got a cartpath bounce or 2 
.....I also 3-jacked for the par 
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KCee I used steel shafted persimmon woods 3 and Ginty 7w when I first started playing
I've always wondered about those Ginty woods.....didn't that "keel sole" cause problems on firm fairways? It
looks like the sole almost comes to a point that would require PERFECT contact, otherwise wouldn't the club bounce into the ball??? For that matter, Callaway Warbird soleplates might have been the same way.....?
fatshot wish they had mentioned where he gets his wood heads (Louisville Golf???).
Todd has a a huge amount of Persimmon blocks to work from. I have over 100 blocks I have gathered over the years. They used to be available but finding old growth 50's persimmon is hard to find. Here's Todd's business. https://www.todddemsey.com/
One could find good hard maple and glue up laminated blocks to form heads if they wanted.
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I hate seeing these sites, Louisville golf, Tad Moore, etc. Makes me wanna sell all my shit, break out the Plus Fours and get in the time machine.
https://www.tadmoore.com/products/championship-set
This is all I'd really need.
https://www.tadmoore.com/products/oa-short-rh-play-set-8-clubs
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scotts33 Best way IMO is use garage sales etc in your area and put together hickory sets. I have reworked some hickories for others that play hickory golf and that's the way to amass sets of hickories. The "new" hickories don't have the play ability and mystique of the "old" hickories.
You must have forgotten that I was in a hickory phase a few years back. I restored and reshafted and whipped/gripped a bunch of originals from thrift stores and played in a few hickory tournaments. Met and played with Tad Moore and bought one of his reproduction putters. It was an awesome esperience but very time/travel prohibitive to attend the events. It was a blast learning to turn shafts to fit hosels, remove pins and re-pin heads, refinish shafts. I even built my own whipping station. I still have whipping thread and the associated tools. 
P.S. There is a very SERIOUS debate ongoing in the hickory competitive world regarding originals versus reproductions.
sdandrea1 I knew that but I am saying forget about new stuff and finding the old is much more rewarding and cheaper. New stuff is just that only new but the old stuff was new at one point in time. Part of the issue with the hickory crowd is their elitism.
I am like Todd I'll play older clubs cuz I like the challenge and feel part of my bag/clubs and walk 9. Part of the Minimalist Golf I like to play and it's walking golf. All part and parcel, they go together.
Love a good persimmon, but never really play them at the course. Big props to Dempsey for going out and playing something he made.
I should really take one of my deep face classics out this season...
Not Persimmon, but Laminated Maple.
Anybody that want these for an experiment, make me an offer...
ode https://golf.com/news/bryson-dechambeau-wows-persimmon-us-amateur/
At Cherry Hills US Amateur Aug. 2023.
Scott and Steve,
I have a set of steel shafted Eye 2 woods. Can graphite be installed? Is it risky to the club? I think I read that wooden hosels are usually cracked and that makes it problematic to reshaft.
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Not hard at all. Remove the whipping,, then use a red hot heated steel rod to insert down the shaft. After a couple tries, the shaft should come right out.
Just make sure you get'm cleaned out before reshafting.
You'll have to re whip them once the new shaft is cured. That is a talent in itself.
Don measure the BBGM before deciding on shaft and tipping resulting flex. The deal with using smaller heads even the Ping Zing's which were larger than most persimmon heads of their day is tee height and AofA most don't factor that in. It fits my game but for many that have changed their driver swing to an upwards AofA with 460cc heads it's an issue. On average I am about 5 -10 yards shorter with a 43.50" shaft vs a 45" shaft on 460cc at 86 mph driver SS. The older guys with lower driver SS won't see the appreciable gain that modern metal wood heads perform at unless they are over 100 mph from my experience. All 460cc heads do is allow more miss room and lazy golfers. LOL
To do whipping correctly it take experience if you want to have a great looking end result.
I’ll give the stock shafts a good try.
Maybe, instead of the ball roll back, the USGA could have outlawed all hollow-body head construction (irons &/or woods - whether filled with goo or not). 
CallMeAl Anybody want Ping laminated woods?? Call Whirlaway in Methuen or maybe Haverhill MA… they are the biggest outlet for crap you’ve ever seen. I call it “The Golf Museum”. So they have a one of those Al Czervick golf bags FULL of them. This is the place that still has original sets of Ping Eye 2 irons.
