Thrift Store Jackpot

[Bigarch]

8 hours ago, ezgoer said:

Oddly enough Daiwa used to be pretty popular about 1990 give or take. I never have had any. Couldn’t afford em then cuz we’re pretty high end. Kinda early days of graphite shafted everything, some multi material/composite tech if I remember right. Bet they were popular with senior and ladies golfers. Think I just heard Tiger even played Daiwa irons at some point early on. Who knows probably a hand me down 80’s set from his pops.

 

Wonder at what age people started lining up to give him clubs???

 

That's a nice putter.  Daiwa was a great brand in that era... including persimmons and blades before they became one of the first companies to incorporate graphite shafts into a lot of their iron sets.  David Graham designed several of the iron sets for them. He was known as a golf club tinkerer and many other pros would have him work on their clubs before there were tour vans following them around.

 

Tiger played the DG273 (named after Graham's winning score in the 1981 US Open) throughout his amateur career.  And Ian Baker-Finch won the 1991 Open Championship with them too.  Every iron that Tiger has played since then has had a similar look to those Daiwa's at address.  The DG201 is also a really good looking blade as well.  https://golf.com/gear/irons/tiger-woods-old-blade-irons-daiwa/

[No_Catchy_Nickname]

On 8/9/2024 at 12:55 AM, AdamMH said:

 

I think I know why...

 

... It's missing one of the tungsten sole weights. I imagine it feels really light?

 

The heel-side weight, right? With the other sole weight remaining on the toe, that would make it easy to slice off right for sure.

 

But a few years ago I had one of those i25 drivers for a couple of months, and although it was definitely intact, I pretty much got the same results with it as @bogieboy😂

[ezgoer]

3 hours ago, No_Catchy_Nickname said:

 

The heel-side weight, right? With the other sole weight remaining on the toe, that would make it easy to slice off right for sure.

 

But a few years ago I had one of those i25 drivers for a couple of months, and although it was definitely intact, I pretty much got the same results with it as @bogieboy😂

Wonder if it possibly could be a (PING era design consequence)? In my modern I switched out of my PING G driver this year. The G is 2 models newer than I25 I think.?. Can tell you it was a massive adjustment going to that G 4 years ago. Light headed and vague feeling at first so hard to know where the head was. Not like I know where it is all the time anyways. Yeah at first it was a right side of the course machine! I switched from a Titleist 910 D to it back then. Mine had the off the shelf Alta 55 gram stiff shaft. G was very forgiving and unique soft impact feel compared to many other moderns. Tough getting it under 3000 rpm’s spin is the main reason I swapped out. The 400 that came right after the G is supposed to be as good a driver as today’s. Certain models still sell for a shocking amount.

Edited August 25, 2024 by ezgoer

[No_Catchy_Nickname]

16 hours ago, ezgoer said:

Wonder if it possibly could be a (PING era design consequence)? In my modern I switched out of my PING G driver this year. The G is 2 models newer than I25 I think.?. Can tell you it was a massive adjustment going to that G 4 years ago. Light headed and vague feeling at first so hard to know where the head was. Not like I know where it is all the time anyways. Yeah at first it was a right side of the course machine! I switched from a Titleist 910 D to it back then. Mine had the off the shelf Alta 55 gram stiff shaft. G was very forgiving and unique soft impact feel compared to many other moderns. Tough getting it under 3000 rpm’s spin is the main reason I swapped out. The 400 that came right after the G is supposed to be as good a driver as today’s. Certain models still sell for a shocking amount.

 Don't know if it had anything to do with the design philosophy of PING at the time. What I do know is that I really liked the look of the i25 at address and wanted it to work for me, but it didn't.

 

The regular G400 with stock Tour Stiff is in my modern bag. Been in since it came out in, I think, 2018, so six years now. That is probably a crime of some sort on the main WRX board😜

[ezgoer]

5 hours ago, No_Catchy_Nickname said:

 Don't know if it had anything to do with the design philosophy of PING at the time. What I do know is that I really liked the look of the i25 at address and wanted it to work for me, but it didn't.

 

The regular G400 with stock Tour Stiff is in my modern bag. Been in since it came out in, I think, 2018, so six years now. That is probably a crime of some sort on the main WRX board😜

G400 LST was what I was hoping to find to replace but they still sell for close to $300 in nice condition. It was very hard finding one. Maybe people that have em don’t want to give em up? They often come up as an alternative option when all the newest $599 drivers are discussed. I ended up with a 2021 Callaway Epic Max LS that was quite a bit less expensive than the 2018 PING. 
 

Yup over on the main board I could be flirting with legal charges of some sort being real close to 4 years behind.

(Shhh don’t tell anyone but I wasn’t even fit to it……)

[No_Catchy_Nickname]

8 hours ago, ezgoer said:

G400 LST was what I was hoping to find to replace but they still sell for close to $300 in nice condition. It was very hard finding one. Maybe people that have em don’t want to give em up? They often come up as an alternative option when all the newest $599 drivers are discussed. I ended up with a 2021 Callaway Epic Max LS that was quite a bit less expensive than the 2018 PING. 
 

Yup over on the main board I could be flirting with legal charges of some sort being real close to 4 years behind.

(Shhh don’t tell anyone but I wasn’t even fit to it……)

 

I don't see many come up for sale around me, either. A guy who used to work in my local secondhand golf shop once told me that PING users tend to hang on to their clubs longer, especially the woods.

 

And as we all know here, EYE2s are virtually indestructible. In fact, it's rumoured that top boffins are conducting research to find out if a set of EYE2s will be able to withstand the heat death of the universe.

[Joe85]

On 8/26/2024 at 5:14 PM, No_Catchy_Nickname said:

 

I don't see many come up for sale around me, either. A guy who used to work in my local secondhand golf shop once told me that PING users tend to hang on to their clubs longer, especially the woods.

 

And as we all know here, EYE2s are virtually indestructible. In fact, it's rumoured that top boffins are conducting research to find out if a set of EYE2s will be able to withstand the heat death of the universe.

A man once risked his life to save his Ping Eye 2s:
 

 

 

 

[bcstones]

Stopped in a semi-local thrift store...bypassed a beginners set of Hogan Princess (I already have 2...tho they do need to find a good home,pm me). However, picked up these 3:

- MacGregor Tourney 5 wood (think it's an early '70s T-Sole), MacGregor Tourney Steel shaft, & a green/black Victory grip;

- a Clover & Lynch brass putter, shaft over hosel (have no idea of who "Clover & Lynch" were), straight shaft, perfect leather grip;

- a Old Master mallet head putter, no shaft band, shaft over hosel & that Old Master grip (I forget who made the Old Master putters - First Flight?)

 

 

 

 

aluminimum insert

 

 

 

 

 

Colver & Lynch 1 4K putter

 

 

face & back are same

 

 

looking at the top

 

Old Master

 

 

looking at the face

 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2024 by bcstones

[bogieboy]

On 8/25/2024 at 9:24 AM, No_Catchy_Nickname said:

 

The heel-side weight, right? With the other sole weight remaining on the toe, that would make it easy to slice off right for sure.

 

But a few years ago I had one of those i25 drivers for a couple of months, and although it was definitely intact, I pretty much got the same results with it as @bogieboy😂

Yeah, heel side weight is missing... i think it has more to do how the club feels than how its weighted, as my current driver is a 2016 big bertha fusion, playing an inch longer than standard, ust proforce 65 stiff shaft, AND an 8g weight in the heel instead of the stock 5g... dont know what that puts swing weight at, but i would be guessing somewhere high D or low E swingweight... you FEEL the head load the shaft... as for the ping, its standard length and would be suprised if its even D1 swingweight.... you just feel like youre swinging a stick... possibly just a ping thing, like @ezgoer was saying... very vague feel.... this is the first ping i have ever put behind a ball...pretty much been a callaway guy aside from a 2 game stint with a titelist 913j that i really wanted to work, felt great (probably the proforce 65 shaft that was in it)and when hit well went long, but just wasnt consistent, similar to the ping in that regard... 

 

bottom line, this is why they make different drivers that feel different..  LOL 

[tripanfal]

So, since that Daiwa putter was so nice I started paying attention and I found a set for 30$ - couldn’t pass it up. Looking forward to trying these out today - I think blue may be the flat lie option? Plus, it’s my first 10 iron.

Edited September 10, 2024 by tripanfal

[elwhippy]

Daiwa were really popular in the UK in the 70s and 80s. They produced excellent persimmon woods, with graphite shafts, and quality irons at reasonable prices. The Trypower iron was a great game improvement iron with a Ping like finish, but 1/3 of the price. 

[bcstones]

I have a Daiwa CG 1iron DH-8401…(hopefully before Woods got interested in Daiwa)…needs to find a home. pm me

[No_Catchy_Nickname]

2 hours ago, elwhippy said:

Daiwa were really popular in the UK in the 70s and 80s. They produced excellent persimmon woods, with graphite shafts, and quality irons at reasonable prices. The Trypower iron was a great game improvement iron with a Ping like finish, but 1/3 of the price. 

 

Yes. The Trypowers were my first proper set of irons. Went from a near beginner to 12-handicap with them.

[JungleJimbo]

3 hours ago, elwhippy said:

Daiwa were really popular in the UK in the 70s and 80s. They produced excellent persimmon woods, with graphite shafts, and quality irons at reasonable prices. The Trypower iron was a great game improvement iron with a Ping like finish, but 1/3 of the price. 

Daiwa is still known for high quality graphite shafts technology (mainly for fishing rods 🎣)

 

https://www.daiwa.com/scandinavia/technology/index.html

https://daiwa.us/collections/rods

 

 

Edited September 11, 2024 by JungleJimbo

[tripanfal]

Played them today - I don’t have a ton of experience with other iron sets but I am familiar with Pings so I am going to use them as my basis for comparison. They feel soft to me, very close to Beni ISIs. The TR S graphite shafts aren’t too shabby for their age, little bit of whip to it in a waggle. My good shots felt right, high launching very similar ball flight to the Ping Eye 2 - can you believe it? I kinda wish I had hit a Ping Eye 2 in a graphite shaft as a basis for comparison - but not yet.  Again, little early to say but close to the same carry as my Ping Eye 2s. Did have some weird misses for me. (I hit them straight sometimes - it surprised me) I didn’t think they were great looking but they were nice behind the ball - form follows function. Going to have to take them out tomorrow to double check. 

[Christen_The_Sloop]

Daiwa are one of the brands I have a major soft sport for. I used a Daiwa SW, with a flange the previous owner had ground to oblivion, for a good part of my junior days. I might have grabbed it out of a bag of cobwebbed clubs in the deep recesses of the pro-shop of my old home club when the shop staff bought me lunch for cleaning the members clubs, so they F#$% the dog.

 

And, of course, there was an expensive set of Daiwas - Hi-Tracs, If remember correctly, with graphite shafts that sat in that same shop for the length of my junior years - far too expensive for the penny-pinching membership.

 

Daiwa is one of my regular searches for vintage Japanese steel. 

 

I have a couple sets of DG-8201s - Beautiful scotch blades that could double as razor-blades.

A set of Pro Special IIs very similar to the 8201, but it looks like they were only touched by the A grinding team. A special set I won't soon part with.

I also have some Advisor Limited Pro Whisker with really nice old graphite that look like they weren't used more than a couple times.

And, finally a set of the DG273 by David Graham in a sort of Nickel Chrome finish that I've never seen before or since. I sometimes wonder what the original sticker on those were. One of the 1980 - early 90s sets where money was no object.

 

I also have a persimmon 1W Advisor Pro with the sticker still on it... Needs a reshaft, if I could ever find something decent to put in it.

 

 

[bogieboy]

Dont think i did too bad on this haul, $12 each for the cleveland 15° driving iron and oddesey chipper, $3.31each for the adams and aliens, and $4.61 for the wilson yard ace....

 

Edited September 19, 2024 by bogieboy

[Tide_Pride]

Check out this Ray Cook Blue Goose lll putter that I picked up at a thrift store. Use an Odyssey putter and have about 6 or so Ping Putters but this putter is pretty unique. Believe it was designed by Scotty Cameron in the late 80’s when he worked with Ray Cook.

[bcstones]

2 hours ago, Tide_Pride said:

Believe it was designed by Scotty Cameron in the late 80’s when he worked with Ray Cook.

The logo's for Ray Cook clubs have changed at least 3 times, the first was the original Ray "PutterMan" Cook (just his name & San Antonio TX, also DBRC on clubs he designed for like Hogan) & after his death each logo changed representating the company that owned the rights to the name. The first company after Ray Cook died, was in California & was the company that Scotty Cameron worked for (I think)
Interestingly, I have both the "original" Ray Cook Blue Goose & the "Billy Barroo"..

And I gotta thank you for showing this - I need to go thru the original Ray Cook putter collection I have to cull the duplicates....so thaks 

[@_the_crook]

Wandered around in the a.m. rain and found these little delights. 

Navy blue Miller bag in very good shape. No rain cover though.

Golden Ram 1 & 3 woods, driver and spoon. Burke Golden Scot 1 & 3 woods. TA 845 driver. Wilson Patty Berg 3i, which will add to some 5i/71i Wilson Pin Highs already owned. Same club head style. Power Bilt 60* scotch blade wedge. No name chrome blade putter. Similar to a Wilson I have but this one has a small muscle along the back. 

[EvanH]

I've taken an extra long weekend (M.I.L. was in town) and this presented me with the opportunity to cruise past an op shop where I've had a little bit of success in the past.

 

Came across 3 - 8 & PW of Spalding Bob Charles "PERSONAL" model. [No sign of the 9 iron]

Fitted with True Temper "PRO FIT" shafts and (what looks like the original grips).

$NZD 1 each ($USD 0.63 each)

 

Visually, they are reminiscent of the 1965 Top Flite irons that @cold_war_era_golfer had in the bag earlier this month (a post from 4 September).

 

 

Edited September 27, 2024 by EvanH

[AdamMH]

2 hours ago, EvanH said:

I've taken an extra long weekend (M.I.L. was in town) and this presented me with the opportunity to cruise past an op shop where I've had a little bit of success in the past.

 

Came across 3 - 8 & PW of Spalding Bob Charles "PERSONAL" model. [No sign of the 9 iron]

Fitted with True Temper "PRO FIT" shafts and (what looks like the original grips).

$NZD 1 each ($USD 0.63 each)

 

Visually, they are reminiscent of the 1965 Top Flite irons that @cold_war_era_golfer had in the bag earlier this month (a post from 4 September).

 

 

 

Those are sweet! Don't give up on the missing iron, there's a chance it'll come around. Ask me about waiting something like a year and a half to finish a set of custom Spaldings...

[bcstones]

14 hours ago, EvanH said:

[No sign of the 9 iron]

till you find the missing 9 iron...why not check the loft progression to find the approx loft of the missing 9 iron & put in an iron of that degree of the missing 9 (it may not necessarily be a 9 iron, thanks to "loft creep").

[AdamMH]

29 minutes ago, bcstones said:

till you find the missing 9 iron...why not check the loft progression to find the approx loft of the missing 9 iron & put in an iron of that degree of the missing 9 (it may not necessarily be a 9 iron, thanks to "loft creep").

A Top-Flite Professional 9i would probably fit perfectly, in fact they may be the same forging.

[EvanH]

Last week when I bought the Bob Charles irons (see post above) I left a matching wood behind.  It was a bit rough and I thought better at the time.  Almost from the moment I got home, I thought to myself "you should have got it".  So I have been waiting for the weekend to come around so I could again shoot down the valley to get it.  And instead of going to one op-shop I thought I'd go to all the ones I was aware of within 20 mins drive or so.

 

The day started well with a Wilson Julius Boros putter
(I note that @Maine Golfer used a JB putter just a couple of days back).
$NZD 10 ($USD 6)

[I might have overpaid, but it is for a good charity]

and


and
Cool sort of "coke bottle" shaped grip.


Left to right:
~ Wilson Julius Boros
~ Slazenger Bobby Locke
~ Ping Zing



And then there were several op shops of dross.
*Sigh*

The last Op Shop of the day was the one with the Spalding Bob Charles 3 wood I wanted.  Which I got:
If it wasn't part of the overall set with the irons, I'd skip it.
$NZD 1 [$USD 62c at the current exchange rate]

and



And then I'm looking and I see a Spalding Chi Chi Rodriguez Personal model iron
$NZD 1 each [$USD 62c at the current exchange rate]


Edit: If anyone knows about these - so far google has not been my friend - I'd be very grateful. 

Needless to say I started looking everywhere to see how many I could find.
Not a full set, but still very happy.


Not much to them (6 iron pictured)


Looks like original grips and a True Temper Pro Fit shaft


The next thing I am about to post a picture of isn't golf related (apologies) - but it was from the same op-shop as the Chi Chi irons.
It will be of no interest to the americans in the room, but anyone from a cricket playing nation might appreciate it.

So while searching high and low or Chi Chi irons, my eye happens upon a SH (full size) Gray-Nicolls Powerspot Classic
$NZD 15 [£GBP 7 / $AUD 14]

These go for $AUD 150+ on eBay - and that would be cheap - not that I will sell it.
This is a top of the range bat from 1985 [stamped "M" on the shoulder, so I know it is 1985].
These were the bomb when I was playing cricket in the 1980s-early 1990s - used by the best players in the world.

 

You wouldn't use it now - since bat technology has changed so much (drying methods have improved so modern bats are a lot bigger for the same weight) - but it is a great piece of nostalgia.

 

Plus a mate who died 30 years ago (FU cancer) used one, so Powerspots have a special place in my heart.



 

So that was my (very good) op-shop experience for the day.
 

Edited October 5, 2024 by EvanH

[Bob Cat]

@EvanH Love it!

Had to look up Op Shop: Opportunity Shop. Appears to be mostly charitable organizations running them (Salvation Army, Red Cross, etc). Cool!

[EvanH]

6 hours ago, Bob Cat said:

Had to look up Op Shop: Opportunity Shop. Appears to be mostly charitable organizations running them (Salvation Army, Red Cross, etc). Cool!

Oh yes, sorry.   Salvation Army, Hospice, SPCA, etc, charity (op) shops.

Edited October 6, 2024 by EvanH

[bogieboy]

A bit of goodwill haul over last weekend,  a pre spin milled oilcan vokey 52°, a cleveland tour zipgroove (with the laser etch grooves) 52°, an older (pre-laser etch face) lefty cleveland 60°, and a maxfli U-series 4.0 cart bag for a grand total of $30... been needing a new 52°, and a new bag as both my bag and 52° (technically replacing the mizuno 51° with the 52 but close enough LOL) have seen  better days... 

[bogieboy]

And another thrift store haul... a macgregor/Jack nicklaus response zt mi615, a Tad Moore maxfli, an adams a2os womens putter, a ping cushin, and a rbz max PW.... grand total, $13... that Tad Moore may end up in the bag coming this weekend...LOL

 

[ezgoer]

7 hours ago, bogieboy said:

And another thrift store haul... a macgregor/Jack nicklaus response zt mi615, a Tad Moore maxfli, an adams a2os womens putter, a ping cushin, and a rbz max PW.... grand total, $13... that Tad Moore may end up in the bag coming this weekend...LOL

 

Cushin’s ain’t winning many beauty contests but I was shocked how good it works.