'Mongrel mashie' still top dog for hickory holdouts
By Paul Ingrassia EPSOM, England (Reuters) – Before titanium, before graphite, before composites and before steel, golf clubs had shafts of wood, ideally hickory. “Some people think steel shafts will catch on, but I don’t want to rush into it,” says Philip Truett, president of the British Golf Collectors Society. Many golfers felt likewise a century ago, when steel shafts first appeared, painted brown to look like wood.
