Did You Know…

As Makai, my big and lazy Anatolian Shepherd, and I were walking this morning I reflected upon nice golfing weather finally getting here to the heartland of Maryland. While we have continued to play our rounds of Bad Golf, I now have to come up with real reasons for the scores that I am going to post. Oh well, if that was my only problem then I guess I would have nothing to complain about. If you want to see what devastation bad golfers can do then just click here to see in B&W (and maybe some other colors) how badly this wonderful game can be played.

Actually, today I have nothing to complain about. In fact I am going to actually talk about golf.

Long before golf club manufacturers began numbering their clubs (i.e. 3 wood, 4 iron, etc.) each club had a specific name. I’m sure you have heard of a “brassie” or a “niblick” but do you know what that means? Well, you are in luck because following is a listing of oldtime club names and their contemporary equivalent:

    We used to call it a:     Today it is a:
    Driver.............................1 Wood
    Brassie...........................2 Wood
    Spoon.............................3 Wood
    Cleek..............................4 Wood
    Baffy..............................5 Wood
    Driving Iron...................1 iron
    Mid Iron.........................2 iron
    Mid Mashie....................3 iron
    Jigger..............................4 iron
    Mashie............................5 iron
    Spade Mashie.................6 iron
    Mashie Niblick...............7 iron
    Lofter..............................8 iron
    Niblick............................9 iron