Hickory Era Golf Club Names
Maps historical hickory-era golf club names (mashie, niblick, cleek, etc.) to their modern iron/wood equivalents.
- Driver—modern driver
- Brassie—like a strong 2-wood or 3-wood. Named because the sole often had a brass plate
- Spoon—higher-lofted fairway wood, somewhere around a 5-wood or 7-wood. The face had a slight "spooned" loft
- Baffy / baffing spoon—even more lofted fairway wood, almost a modern hybrid or 7-wood
- Cleek—long iron. Could mean several things, but commonly equivalent to a 1-iron through 3-iron. A "driving cleek" was especially tee-shot oriented
- Mid-iron—around a 2or 3-iron
- Mashie iron—transitional club between cleek and mashie
- Mashie—roughly a 5-iron
- Spade mashie—6-iron territory
- Mashie niblick—7-iron or 8-iron
- Niblick—9-iron or wedge, Heavy, steep-faced, excellent from rough or bunkers
- Jigger—low-running chipper club
- Putter—putter, though shapes varied wildly
