Better Golfing Days

Roughly speaking, the persimmon golf era I’m referencing is anything before 1995, when persimmon woods were used with hickory shafts until 1925, when steel shafts were introduced and adopted as a preferable improvement to the game. As we know, the golf ball has undergone many changes and improvements in its inner materials and design. Besides the controversy with golf ball changes, I believe the major shift in the game has come predominantly with the oversized 460cc driver and metal woods. It wasn’t a problem when the metal heads were the same size as the persimmon wood drivers, but when they became oversized around the late 1990s, the game changed to what it is now — with the emphasis on speed swings and hitting the driver as far as possible, instead of being restricted by small club heads and the need to hit the sweet spot solidly, which is much harder when swinging as hard as can. Golfers using persimmon woods had to be much more accurate with their drivers, just to hit the sweet s...