vintage golf club – wood – Forgan – Gold Medal Driver

114 cm langOUDE TEKST HIERONDERBeautiful looking steel shafted wooden driver golf club with very decorative face The type of wood for the club head is PersimonThe wood is marked with Mitchells Manchester and Forgan St. Andrews.A sole underneath has a nicely shaped piece of ram's horn to fit the wood. The sole plate is marked with 3 crowns and Gold Medal DriverIt has a stepped steel (chromed) shaft and a leather grip. It is 114 cm long. It's a very nice decorative golfclub.Forgan St. Andrews is a British manufacturing company of golf equipment, founded in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Having been established in 1860, Forgan is the oldest golf club manufacturing company in the world.The company owes its foundation to the Society of St Andrews Golfers, later The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, who hired local carpenter Hugh Philp to make golf clubs. Hugh Philp hired his nephew, Robert Forgan, in 1852 as an assistant. Forgan took over the firm upon Philp's death in 1856.Forgan was later appointed official club maker to the Prince of Wales. As Robert Forgan died in 1900, the company was passed to his son Thomas, who remained until his premature death in... lees verder bij Catawiki