Golfing : We Owe It All To Trees And Golf Balls
Golf clubs have come a long way from the earliest days when roughly hewn branches many have used to knock around stones or wooden balls. You may have found, to your dismay that your young son practicing the same trick with rocks and stones, only with your new high tech, very expensive set of golf clubs.
Early golf clubs were almost certainly made entirely of wood with the club head and shaft being made of different types, glued together a bound in twine. Hazel and ash were used for the shaft wile apple, beech; blackthorn and pear were popular for the head of the golf club, whether it was used for driving fairway or approach play.
These clubs were satisfactory for use with the feathery golf balls but when the gutty golf balls arrived in the mid nineteenth century it put a strain on those golf clubs. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the golf club started to look very different, as an alterative wood hickory was used for the golf club shafts, and iron heads were developed to withstand the battering of the gutty, as well as to gain extra difference. It was also realized that golfing clubs with...
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