Long-nose club
The wooden golf club with a long, narrow head from the days when golf was played with feather balls.
Golf comes from Scotland, where club makers made wooden clubs by hand. The heads were long and narrow to suit the soft feather balls.
When the harder gutta-percha ball arrived around 1850, heads became shorter and sturdier. The long clubs are now sought-after collector’s pieces.
Materials: Head of beech or apple wood, shaft of hickory or ash, whipping of thread and leather
Manufacture: Made by hand by club makers in Scotland, such as Hugh Philp and Robert Forgan in St Andrews.
The long, narrow wooden head.
The joint where head and shaft were glued and whipped with thread.
The hickory shaft and the leather grip.