What’s your favourite book? What’s your favourite song? I hate those type of questions. They are simply impossible to answer and anyone who does have an answer must be a little, well quite frankly, simple. We all have favourites for different circumstances, different times in our lives, different relationships and places.
If someone asks me to name my favourite film or album or artwork, my mind always goes blank because there’s too much to consider to even begin thinking, and if I do, I start to get emotionally distressed. But when a clubhouse discussion the other week turned to, “the best golf club you’ve ever owned,” there were far fewer options to choose from and my mind went into a happy frenzy, recalling the best memories of my near 40-year golfing life.
In fact, that golfing life flashed before my eyes in about 30 seconds – My first thought was the Caddy 3-wood I had as part of a junior set that came in a red sausage bag. That thing was only about two feet long, but I can remember giving it a fair skelp. Given I was only about twice its height, a fair skelp was probably only about 95 yards, but hey.
As I grew up, I had a lovely set of Wilson Patty Berg ladies’ clubs, then I recall a beautiful Mizuno persimmon 5-wood that had belonged to the club pro for a time.
Later, there was a Ping Eye 2 driver that was a great favourite and a very early Callaway Big Bertha 1-iron that I could hit a country mile. My current set-up includes some great sticks. My Srixon ZX7 irons are crackers, and I’ve had the same Titleist 915 3-wood for nearly 10 years. But nothing in today’s bag made the cut when we decided to narrow our selections to the top three clubs we’d ever owned. These are the three I went for…
Titleist 905T Driver
(Image credit: Titleist)
This was my first choice. It was an absolute weapon. I have never driven so straight as I did with this driver. 9.5 degrees, a beautiful sleek head, smaller than a modern driver but still big enough at 400cc. A deep face and just so comforting to look down on. No fuss, nothing adjustable, only a super solid head that produced great feel and highly consistent results for its time. I only gave up on it when I had to accept, I was losing distance versus contemporaries who had moved on with newer head technologies.
A key reason I loved the club so much though was the shaft. Graffaloy Blue. It must be one of the best shafts of all time. For me, the stiff Graffaloy Blue produced the perfect flex and kick…
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