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Early golf clubs were all made of wood. They were hand-crafted, often by the players themselves, and had no standard shape or form. As the sport of golf developed, a standard set of clubs began to take shape, with different clubs being fashioned to perform different tasks and hit various types of shot. Later, as more malleable iron became widely used for shorter range clubs, an even wider variety of clubs became available. While many of the clubs manufactured between 1901 and 1935 came from Scotland, more and more started coming from larger US manufacturers. These early clubs had hickory shafts and wrapped leather grips. To secure the joins both between the shaft and the head of the club, as well as between the grip and the shaft, whipping of black, waxed linen thread was used. Pre-1900 clubs (smooth-faced gutty era) used 7-ply thread. Clubs from the era 1900 to 1935 required 4-ply thread. From 1924 golf clubs started to be manufactured with steel shafts, pyratone shafts, aluminum shafts, and fiberglass or resin shafts; many of them were given a wood-look coating. ==Woods== Wooden clubs generally had a metal base-plate and were made heavier with a lead-insert into the back of the head; often the face of the club had insert to reduce the wear from impact on the wood. They were: * Play club: Driver * Brassie: so called because the base-plate was of brass; equivalent to a 3-Wood〔In the UK in the 1960's, it was argued that the 2-Wood was introduced for use with the larger 'American' ball on the lusher American fairways.〕 * Spoon: Higher-lofted wood; equivalent to a 5-Wood * Baffing spoon or a Baffy: Approach wood; equivalent to a 7-Wood These were made of wood and were used until being replaced by the numbered system used today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Obsolete golf clubs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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