A set of junior seve ballesteros slazenger clubs. Was about 28 years ago but good none the less.

My brother had the dci's which I always wanted growing up but they were also a little too heavy for me at the time.

My first set came from the local driving range.
They were called "Precision Made" - Laminate driver, 3 & 5 woods with steel shafts. 3 - SW Irons. All for £140.
The putter was very basic, flat faced, un-named and bought with Green Shield Stamps.
My friend had a slightly better putter, bought with Embassy cigarette vouchers.
Precision Made was not a particularly accurate name. On my first round with them - on The Warren 9-holer in Wallasey - the heads came off THREE of the irons! Took them back and they were "secured" (with glue!).
They lasted me a long time and the 3 & 5 woods became paper weights when they snapped across the neck.
I moved up to Wilson GE1200's eventually, which were stolen... but that's another tale.
JT

my first clubs when i was a junior was a half set of mitsushiba golf clubs, im sure i still have my pitching wedge in the garage.

I first got into golf about 50 years ago when a Putt Putt (think sophisticated crazy golf) arrived on the seafront in the late 60s.

My first club was a Lilywhite Frowd solid brass-headed putter, also bought with Embassy coupons (courtesy of Mum and Dad). It didn't have any alignment mark so I cut a slot in the top with a hacksaw (imagine doing that to a Scotty) and filled it with black Humbrol paint. I didn't do a very good job as the slot wasn't square which might have explained my dodgy putting at the time. I've kept it for sentimental reasons.

A pitch and putt then opened and I moved from some second-hand hickory-shafted irons to my first new iron - a Winfield 6 iron from Woolworths! I bought a few more of the same irons before graduating to a Wilson Sam Snead Blue Ridge blade 7 iron - no cavity backs in those days but my first proper golf club from a recognised manufacturer!

Some Wilson woods followed - I'm sure that the head of the 4 wood was smaller than the ball.

Does any one remember moving from the small British ball to the much bigger American ball? It felt like we were playing with a beach ball, yet it was only 0.06" bigger!

I always wanted some Wilson X-31 clubs which looked really professional. I doubt that I would have been able to do them justice then and I certainly couldn't hit them now!

Happy days...

Brian,
We must be of a similar vintage - I remember the smaller British ball. Seem to remember some grumbling about the game starting in the UK and that the US should conform to our standard... That went well, then...
Also remember balls being wrapped in cellophane with a sticker seal to hold it together. Seem to recall that Penfold and Dunlop were near the top of the preferences... Not sure you could buy them with S&H Pink stamps!!
JT

First full set was png Eye2’s
Then bought Driver and 5 wood
Great clubs now illegal sadly
I still have them and my png Ansa puter
It seems so long ago!

I started with a set of Howson DJ100's. It is amazing to think of the progress I made with an off the rack set. I went from never playing before to 18 handicap with these in 5 years.

I quick stop with some miz's and then had my first custom fit of clubs at the Belfry and they fit me into 690MB's.

The rest is history, currently gaming 716CB for my irons.

I will be showing my age too!!
I got for Christmas in the early eighties a half set of Slazenger Peter Alliss clubs!!
Persimmon driver that never went straight!!!
It was also the era of getting up at 4-30 am to queue up to play the pay and play courses and rounds took hours and hours waiting on every tee!! This was before the farmers all sold their land for golf courses in the boom

Yes, I've done that Municipal thing...
The ones on Wirral all have (or had) "attached" clubs with reserved tee times at the weekend... Some had more that one Attached Club while others had block bookings for "Societies" inked in every week.
We, the then Unattached, put balls in the trough... but if you didn't get off before 0630, you didn't get on at all.
Have often gone home & back to bed without my golf fix. That's what eventually drives you into club membership.
JT