A longtime golf salesman turned his passion for decades-old persimmon woods and forged blade irons into a business. Remember the sounds?
Once upon a time in golf, there was no sweeter sound than a persimmon driver smacking a balata golf ball. And it felt as sublime and soft as a kiss.
SI: I’m picturing you in a condo with 106 sets of retro clubs filling up all the rooms you used to live in. Am I right?Well, I am in a condo but the clubs are stored at Retro Golf Club headquarters, a storage area. I frequent it almost every night. It’s just one town over and it’s a good change of pace to get out of the house, hop in the car for 10 or 15 minutes and clear my head by working on the clubs.
SI: Each driver, even from the same company, wasn’t identical, either. A manufacturing rep would bring 10 drivers of the same model to a tour pro. He’d hit 10 and only like maybe two.Exactly. When a tour pro had a wood he liked, he didn’t switch. You’d have to literally pry it out of his hands. It’s not like today, where models change every few years and there’s a constant churn.
Well, some guy’s father-in-law passed away and he must have been a serious player. He had exquisite taste in clubs. He had 50 woods, 40 sets of irons, some heel-shafted 8802 putters—maybe 30 different brands of clubs. I bought them all for $200, which was cheap. I filled my car. I thought, This is an opportunity. Over time, my goal became 100 sets of retro clubs because if you’re at a club, a large outing is at least 100 golfers.
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