Antique Vintage Ben SAYERS – North Berwick Scarce Head Hickory Shaft Wood

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Antique Vintage Ben SAYERS – North Berwick Scarce Head Hickory Shaft Wood:
$159.99

North Berwick
Born inEdinburgh in 1856, Bernard Sayers began his working life as an acrobat, notpicking up a golf club until he was 16. He finished second in the 1888 Openwhich helped establish his reputation and boost his main business, giving golflessons. So successful was he with this that he taught in Monte Carlo over thewinter months. The gambling bug must have bitten him as he played a number ofhigh-purse matches in his career, against Willie Park, Andrew Kirkaldy, DouglasRolland and several times against Willie Campbell. He also played foursomesagainst the Kirkaldy brothers with his brother-in-law, Davie Strath.‘The Golf Book of East Lothian’ (1896) tells usthat Davie Strath had a great reputation for ball-making in North Berwick and,after his untimely death, there was great competition at sale for his mould.James Law of the Scotsman newspaper, who had been one of Sayers’ first pupils,secured the mould for him and provided him with £100 worth of the very bestgutta percha. Sayers soon became as a first class ball-maker with Thornton& Co in Edinburgh being one of his major customers.He started major club production in NorthBerwick in 1910 and is known for the innovations of the Stopum iron, a heavilygrooved iron to impart backspin and the Dreadnought driver. His clubs arerecognised by the bird cleekmark, in the early days one standing upright, taildown like a crow and, in later years, bending down with tailfeathers up in themanner of a wren.He is also commemorated by a putter made by hisson, called the \"Benny\", which has a grooved sole to reduceresistance when moving across the green.

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