Golf Instruction Blog » gutta-percha followed featherie http://golfinstructionblog.com Golf Instruction Blog Tue, 15 May 2012 20:50:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gutta-Percha Ball http://golfinstructionblog.com/golf-history/gutta-percha-ball http://golfinstructionblog.com/golf-history/gutta-percha-ball#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:51:26 +0000 admin http://golfinstructionblog.com/?p=1389 Zzz.......
Creative Commons License photo credit: Andy on Flickr     The advent of the gutta-percha ball led to several changes.   Harder than a featherie, which came before the gutta-percha, it could damage the skinny wooden-headed clubs.   Many golfers found their clubs breaking where the neck joined the head.   Clubmakers designed smaller, deeper heads to better absorb the blow against the harder “guttie.”   The clubhead began to assume its squat appearance.  

Later a  club called the “bulger” (the face bulged forward), was used.   A “brassie” found its way into the game, so called because of a piece of brass put on the sole of the club to prevent damage when it hit the hard ground such as roads or footpaths which were found on courses.   The brassie was close in loft to the driver  and eventually became the 2 wood.

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