Stadium and Club
In the first years of golf, players did not need to bring 14 clubs.
1950s before the 1950s
The original course was actually a Scots who did not know how to use the dunes on the east coast. Because there is much sand there, the water is easily lost and it is impossible to grow crops. So someone has a clever move and may use it as a course to protect the fields. Can also be used to play entertainment, so the famous "links stadium" was born.
This natural course quickly became popular in Scotland, and even formed a "links style", without too much artificial modification, try to keep the original terrain and enjoy the gifts of nature.
Due to the relatively simple terrain, the research and design of the club has not yet started. People only need to use 3-5 clubs to finish a game of golf.
1850s to early 20th century
With the popularization of golf, certain states of the original dunes themselves have become the shackles of the development of the golf economy at that time. The contradiction between the development of golf and the course has intensified, which has led to people’s thinking about the defects of the course. Many people, Especially professional players have proposed to transform the natural course to adapt to the development of golf. The style of the golf course has become more and more diverse, and the length of the fairway has gradually increased.
At this time, there are more and more people joining golf. New entrants cannot achieve satisfactory results with their limited clubs. Even the practitioners of the classic swing school can no longer respond to the rapid changes with swing techniques. Stadium. By this time, the demand for club materials and abundance became a consensus among golf enthusiasts.
Therefore, in the late 19th century, golf club manufacturers ushered in a big explosion. From the perspective of the number of clubs, tees, fairways, and a series of irons have been developed and promoted to facilitate the majority of golfers to choose corresponding clubs when facing different distances; from the perspective of club materials, traditional wooden shafts are unified The situation in the world has also been broken. Steel, aluminum, iron, and carbon fiber shafts are now emerging, helping golfers continue to improve their performance and conquer the course.
It was only in the second half of the 19th century that golfers had more than 10 clubs in their bags for the first time.
Golf course and clubs in this life
Early 20th century to present
As the development of club technology becomes more and more mature, you can experience the fun of golf without heavy muscle training, and more and more people begin to participate in Gower sports. In 1934, at the American Amateur Championships held in Massachusetts, a player came to take 29 poles-this move directly led to two years later, USGA and R&A introduced a limited player in the game. The upper limit of the clubs you bring with you must not exceed the requirement of 14.
Some people think that the increase in clubs will make golfers rely too much on the progress of technology and ignore their own technical training and personality cultivation, thus deviating from the original intention of golf to challenge itself. What makes this view undesirable is that it misunderstands the meaning of golf's challenge to self, while not seeing the contribution made by the change in the number of clubs to popularizing golf.
With the increase in the number of clubs, the distances and obstacles that were originally difficult to cross, players can easily cope with different clubs, which allows the court designers to release their nature. Many creative ideas have been practiced, resulting in so many Classic course with different styles.
Through the above history, we can know that the number of clubs is increasing with the variety of courses and the difficulty of the course. In other words, the richness of the court first came before the richness of the clubs, and when the number and materials of the clubs were enriched, they in turn further stimulated the development of the course design. The club and the court are actually complementary to each other and affect each other.
