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  1. Spezza

    Spezza
    Summerside, PE

    So I came across a vintage MC Gill "The Seventy" 2 iron this weekend. can anybody tell me anything about this club. has an old steel shaft painted and the club head looks like a 40's headshape. It has a full leather grip intact and a metal weight at the butt end of the shaft. any help would be great. i can't find any info online.

  2. Lou G

    Lou G
    San Diego, CA

    I saw a Mc Gill Seventy One left handed driver on e-Bay for $19. The head had no plastic insert and the club had a steel shaft. A couple sites show that Mc Gill was from Valparaiso, IN. I found something at Louisville Golf that says that their "Fancy Face Driver" is a reproduction of one made by Klin-McGill. The end of the hickory era is the late 1920s, according to the text. The rest of the searches revealed some site called "Proxibid"
  3. Spezza

    Spezza
    Summerside, PE

    Hey Lou thanks for the help! i found the same info also hahahaha your right it does say Valparaiso, IN. I found the same website also proxibid. i would enjoy finding out how old it actually is. i actually hit a few balls with it yesterday and for someting so old and beat up feels not bad! kind of neat seeing this and actually hitting a ball with it. it is a 2 iron and when i compared to my current clubs it is the length of my 4 iron and loft between the 5 and 4. No wonder everbody hits it so "far" now. its all the specs. pretty neat piece for me and my buddie for $8 bucks. any more info guys keep it coming. 

  4. Lou G

    Lou G
    San Diego, CA

    stroke control said:

    Hey Lou thanks for the help! i found the same info also hahahaha your right it does say Valparaiso, IN. I found the same website also proxibid. i would enjoy finding out how old it actually is. i actually hit a few balls with it yesterday and for someting so old and beat up feels not bad! kind of neat seeing this and actually hitting a ball with it. it is a 2 iron and when i compared to my current clubs it is the length of my 4 iron and loft between the 5 and 4. No wonder everbody hits it so "far" now. its all the specs. pretty neat piece for me and my buddie for $8 bucks. any more info guys keep it coming. 

    I also found it a lot easier to hit my old X31 Staff irons (my dad bought them brand new in 1967, I used them between 1979-2006 and the handed them down to my son-in-law in 2007). I don't use stiff shafts in irons anymore and I have gone to a 7W-5H and 6-PW setup in place of them. I have some pretty nifty sticks from Louisville Golf. This includes a Niblick Vanguard 5/21 and Even Stripe 10/28.5 persimmon fairway wood. I also have a persimmon 34H from them and it is a beast! (I carry it as a backup for the 6 and 7 irons and also use it for plowing through thick grass, on the 140-160 yard par 3s). Louisville makes a few lines of persimmon woods (Classic '50s, Niblick 2-13W fairways, Even Stripe 6-8-10W and some hickory-shafted models). They were featured on "How It's Made" (persimmon woods made for golfing). For 7 months of 2010, my wood setup was 980F 3W and the two persimmons and I shot a 42 for 9 on the Riverwalk Mission course first time out with these. My current 7 wood has replaced the 980F 3W and the Louisville 5 wood for over a year now. I still bring the persimmon 5W and 10W along for the ride occasionally since my regular playing setup is 12 clubs (and that includes the 34H), and it feels nice to whack a golf ball with a real wood every now and then.

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