Goodbye Old Friends

davethegolfnut

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So, I finally made the leap.

I'm a bit of a collector of used clubs. If I see a used set at a garage sale or the golf store for a good price, I'll usually be tempted and sometimes give in.

However, I was cleaning out the garage today and realized there was a set tucked into every nook and cranny.

If you've seen me on another thread, you know that I took the leap and bought a set of Cobra King F7 One-Lengths recently, and I'm really enjoying them.

So, I decided it was time and I did a big purge.

I donated about 50 clubs to our local Goodwill that were too old to be any value for The 1st Tee via SecondSwing.

In the bin at Goodwill were.

  • My Wilson 1200 GEs that I've had since the Mid-80's, played those for about five years.
  • My original TaylorMade Tour Preferred blades that my dad gave me when he was done with them. Played those for even longer.
  • And... My original Persimmon woods from high school. I would have kept those, but the heads were in rough shape AND they've been caught in a basement flood and the shafts were really pitted with rust.
  • (Plus a bunch of other this-and-that clubs)

Off to 2nd swing are two sets of Silver Scots, some Big Bertha Irons, and my TaylorMade Burner Bubble Irons that I picked up when I really got into the game again. I really loved those and they were the first clubs I broke 80 with.

Left in the house are my One-Lengths and my Adams XTD's that I'll use as a backup/guest set.

It was hard letting some of these old friends go, but I reckoned if I .really get the itch to have an old set of 1200 GE's or similar I can pick them up for 10 bucks.

Next, I probably should parse through my putter collection, but that's a bit harder to do.
 
Those XTD's were so underrated. Great irons!

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Thank you for sharing that great story!


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Goodbye Old Friends

Great gesture,silver scotts were awesome irons.


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I need to do a purge too. I Have a ton of old stuff.
 
I'm not sure I could purge as you did. My set of Tour Preferred irons from 1981 was the set that I played my first 2,000 rounds with and I have too many great memories to let them go!
 
Those XTD's were so underrated. Great irons!

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Those were my favorite looking set of irons for a long time. Unfortunately I did not get along with them at all.
 
My wife bought me a set of Wilson 1200 GEs for Christmas back in the 80's. I loved those clubs!
 
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