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By Clay E

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  1. I just started collecting balls this year. I had a chance to pick a closed course and ended up finding about 1500 balls. Many of them are from the mid to late 60's and early 70's. Lots of cool old Titleist balls. I bought a book so I could identify them. Currently I have over 70 different titleist balls and have sorted out signature balls and some neat logo balls. I'm learning alot about the game but have NEVER played. I bought some clubs at a garage sale and have been hacking around my back yard. I even bought a vintage Titleist hat off ebay.I have discovered what fun this is and now am thinking of getting serious. My wife is getting nervous! Any advice out there for a fresh player and ball collector? 

  2. Don O

    Don O
    Madison, WI

    What a great way to start 2 hobbies! Golfing and a golf ball collection. Those balls would generally predate Surelyn type covers, be it balata or something else. So even if not badly damaged from being in the elements, a beginning golfer not only has issues controlling a slicing ball flight, but literally slicing the covers on the ball. I burned through a lot of balls in the 60s with a 5 iron on the high school football field without losing them. It would be like taking up tennis with a wooden racket with cat gut stringing. Technology moved. Right now a lot of PGA members at golf courses and stores like GG/Dick's are offering packages for beginning golfers. It's like $99 for 5 classes. If getting involved doesn't result in a divorce, this is the best way to get introduced. I can assure you that teaching yourself in the back yard or a local athletic complex will almost certainly limit your potential - almost as bad as doing an appendectomy on yourself. Good luck - and finding the site is another good move on your part.
  3. Congrats...I have some vintage balls that my grandmother left me after she passed away, one ball is from Merion and appears to be Circa 60's!  I hope you have fun with it, that is what a hobby is all about...as far as golf enjoy!!

  4. TeeBee72

    TeeBee72
    Huntington, IN

    Glad to see you on the site, Clay !!!   Trent

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