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captainunderkrupp · 1 year

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some trolls band together theories/notes!! (contains some spoilers for the new trailer!!!)

In the first movie, Creek had chartreuse pants. In the second movie, Hickory had chartreuse skin. They both betrayed a loved one for a leader type person. In this movie, the characters who have chartreuse hair include Clay, Velvet, and Veneer. I can't wait to see if Clay follows the pattern, especially since he seems to be with Viva in the trailer.

The Putt-Putt trolls all seem to be monochrome, besides Clay and Viva. While it would make sense that Clay doesn't share the same color scheme as them, I'm curious about Viva... especially considering Poppy IS monochrome, being pink all over. Give her some properly crazy hair like Viva, and she would fit right in. Poppy also was the main demonstration of camouflage in the first movie, having her hair look like grass and moss to hide from Chef! I really hope they bring that aspect back more, especially since the Putt-Putt trolls at least seem to hide themselves shape wise as golf balls.

Viva asked specifically if Poppy's father was King Peppy. I'm curious why Peppy wouldn't have mentioned Viva at all, because while he is the type to hide or ignore upsetting information, he also cares deeply about his subjects, refusing to leave them behind. He even was very careful about his daughter Poppy in the process of saving his citizens. I theorize that either Viva is lying to Poppy, or she is a half sister, one that either Peppy didn't know about or was switched at birth with Poppy.

Another thing to note: while Viva looks remarkably like Poppy, practically her twin, she doesn't share ANY colors with her father, wheras Poppy shares her hair color with him. Tiny is practically a copy of his own father, and Branch shares his skin color with each of his brothers. Now, they don't share appearance so much with their grandmother, Rosiepuff, except that John Dory perhaps shares her hair color somewhat. However, that has another generation (the parent(s) of the BroZone) to explain differences of color and appearance. Why does Viva look the way she does?

While Velvet and Veneer somewhat fit within the aesthetic of their toony/alien subjects, I think their appearances are being influenced by Floyd's essence, and we'll see a transformation back if they are without it for a period of time.

I'm so curious about Spruce's family, especially his kids. I theorize that the vacation island residents we see are at least some related to him! I also think it would be a neat gag if some of them were in his hair, or he was carrying an egg.

I wonder what the brother's opinions of Branch being with Poppy will be. Will they acknowledge it, or will Branch be spending part of the movie convincing them that yes, this is a real, solid relationship? Especially since boy bands are often known for being forced to maintain the illusion of being "available" for fans, and thus being banned from certain relationships, at least publicly? I'm also thinking about this in the fact that Spruce is married and has given his brothers niblings.

Spruce is definitely gonna yell at JD for dragging Tiny along and not actually protecting him properly like a proper child, and then Tiny is gonna be annoyed that Spruce IS treating him like one lol

Sadly, I'm not sure we're going to be seeing much of the bergens in this movie :( They're just not very present or available in the trailers so far. I do love seeing them again though!!

ok thanks for reading I'll probably update this in an rb when I actually watch the trailer all the way through LOL

#trolls #tag later #trolls band together #trolls theory #writing tag #talk tag

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barrenclan · 1 year

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I'm OBSESSED with the Deeplings so bad, Heart of Winter Pussy-Willow and Deathsong especially... if you ever wanna do some fun little side comics or a Pinepaw sequel, that would be so cool. I know you're already doing TWO COMICS which is wild tho sdjfkffjk so I'll take all the amazing info / work you're willing to give <33333

Yeah, it's true, I am kind of doing a thousand things at once constantly. But I am planning to make two minicomics someday, both of them featuring Deepdark. I don't have any plans to make a sequel to PATFW, though.

I was discussing these exact characters on the PATFW discord today (related to a Succession AU, but don't mind that), so here's my thoughts.

"hickory's a lot more straight-laced, he's a bit more like boring top of the chain accountant who's been there for decades and plays golf on the weekends but he's got that daddy issues thing where like all of his younger siblings are better [and more interesting/clever/strong] than he is so he's constantly passive aggressive. he's annoyed cause wolf's jaw and heart of winter can constantly outquip him"

"[pussy-willow is] kind of a pathetic pushover but I imagine he does have a secret sharpness that get brought out sometimes. tbh juniper is the emo sadboy among all of them

pussy-willow is like um. a punching bag with knives inside it I think"

"heart of winter is roman [roy] if he was transgender and killed."

Chrysanthemum's doing fine. He wanders around a lot. Everyone's a little scared of him so no one really bothers him, and nobody's sure what's going on in his head at any given time.

#ask #anon #deeplings #juniper

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scotianostra · 3 months

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Golfer Willie Park Snr was born on June 30th in Musselburgh.

Park is remembered as one of the greatest golfers of the 19th century, and a pioneer of the sport in it'searly years.. His story and the story of his brother, Mungo, and son, Willie, are an integral part of golf's heritage. Musselburgh, which lies across the Firth of Forth from St Andrews, was golf's second home. Park was fortunate to grow up in a environment in which golf was undergoing a metamorphosis into a world wide sport. Although the game was typically the preserve of the wealthy due to the cost of hickory shafted clubs and 'featherie' golf balls, there was still opportunity for ordinary folk to enjoy the game. Park came from the caddy ranks to become a golf professional. Although he later set up his own ball and club making business, he made his money from challenge matches. He was a great adversary of Old Tom Morris, Willie Dunn and Allan Robertson. In 1860, Park beat a field of eight including Old Tom Morris, to win the inaugural Open Championship. He won again in 1863, 1866 and 1875 and was runner up four times. However, back then, challenge matches were more keenly followed than the Open. Matches between Old Tom Morris and Park were especially popular with large crowds attending. Park's brother, Mungo, won the Open in 1874 when it was staged at Musselburgh for the first time. He partnered Park in many challenge matches including the infamous one at North Berwick when Young Tom Morris received the sad news of his wife's imminent death. Mungo later worked as a professional at several clubs.

Wille Park Jnr was born in 1864 and he carried on in his father's footsteps to become one of the most respected and successful golfers in the history of the game. The Park family are a golfing institution and their place in golf's history is assured.

Willie snr is described as Park, a tall, strong man, was a very long hitter and an excellent putter, but sometimes got into trouble through overly aggressive play. Park died on 25th July 1903 at Levenhall East Lothian.

#scotland #scottish #history #sporting history #golfer #pioneering golfer

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velvetvexations · 3 months

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I would be very interested to hear you talk about golf, expecially what you like about it. I don't really understand the sport of it, to be frank, but I always like hearing people explain why they like things I don't care about, to find the beauty in them, y'know? It's how I learned to like tennis.

Thank you for asking, it means a lot to me!

As someone who most enjoys playing video games when I can listen to a video or podcast, it was great getting into golf games as essentially puzzle games that took up the CPU I needed taken up to be able to focus on what I'm listening to without the ADD kicking in. From there I gained an appreciation for the actual sport itself, and I would so much love to play a real round some day even knowing I would suck so badly.

Mainly, I really, really enjoy the precision. The feeling of getting any good shot, much less a hole in one, is amazing. It's a very careful thing, like building a ship in a bottle, you have to calculate to get the ball to do what you want it to. It's very similar to Monkey Ball, actually, which is a series I love for the exact same reason.

One thing I love in particular is hickory golf, using clubs from back when woods really were made of wood. The sound of a hickory club hitting the ball is so delightful. It also reins in the power creep - a problem with golf is that it's slowly been getting easier and easier to send the ball into the stratosphere because both the clubs and the balls themselves have been so scientifically optimized. This has resulted in some courses having to expand their boundaries just to stay functional. Hickory clubs aren't just aesthetic, they keep the game grounded. It's a shame it's only a novelty.

It makes me very melancholy that like guns, golf is hard to be jazzed about in a praxis way, but I try and change people's minds about it and propose ways it can be made praxis. I really believe in the joy the game can bring. It's a luxury sport, yes, but it's a luxury for a reason, it's fun without requiring you to be all that athletic. Back in the day, golf used to be the kinna outdoors activity with your friends that people - mostly men, of course - aspired to go out and do whenever they got the chance, settling for bowling as a poor man's substitute. Even my dad, a redneck drunk to be blunt, bought a relatively expensive set of golf clubs to be able to play despite being so opposite the stereotype.

Everyone loves mini golf, at least. But the artistry of flinging a ball across a course with a mighty wack and having it land where you want it to is incomparable

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belle--ofthebrawl · 11 months

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Hmmmmmm...y'know what Belle, you are such an amorphous entity in my mind that I'm really having trouble deciding what you would be like in person. Mostly because I imagine you being some sort of Wet Creature more than anything else. So, keeping that in mind, I assume you enjoy peaceful quiet, the beauty of nature, and to lure wandering men to their deaths.

How close am I?

Very accurate. I leave wet footprints everywhere I go.

I love to wander and have found such interesting places. Abandoned train tunnels. Dried up riverbeds that come alive in the storms. Wild apples and hickories and a dirt throne under a highway bridge. I've had strangers ask to join me, but they never linger long when I smile back and invite them to the local cemetery. (It really is beautiful there!)

I've jump-scared so many people since my favorite woods borders a golf course. Good honest fun!

Mostly.

I'm also going stargazing next week! Very excited about that. Not so excited about the promise of cake pops...never understood those things. Just think they're gross.

We'll see if better snacks turn up.

#i can neither confirm nor deny the cannibalism.

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ares857 · 6 months

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thegratefulgolfer · 3 days

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Day One: 2024 Ontario Open Hickory Golf Championship

The first day of the 2024 Ontario Open Hickory Golf Championship is in the books. The first of two days was played at the Whirlpool Golf Course in Niagara Falls. The course was in great shape considering the amount of rain that fell the day before and during the first six holes of my round. I was paired with Ben and Hugh; two great gentlemen who have smooth swings and have a bucketload of…

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#Golf Historical Society of Canada #Hickory Golf #Hickory Stick tournament #Ontario Hickory Golf Championship

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empty-masks · 2 years

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Book Five, Chapter Five (Epilogue)

CW: Strong Language, Sexual References, Graphic Violence, Fantasy Bigotry, Smoking, Alcohol Use, Light Body Horror

Returning to Black Hill both a conquering hero and a failure of a hunter, Piper collected on Blondie’s bounty by tossing his severed head, which had long since cooled down to the appearance of a grisly, fur-covered amber statue, onto the desk of Penelope Hickory. Her achievement in taking out such a large liability earned her an audience with the board members, and subsequently a sizable raise. And though in that moment she was tempted to try and spark an all out war against the ten escapees, she simply couldn’t bring herself to admit to her superiors that the bounty was still technically active. Instead, through gritted teeth, she told a little white lie to save face— their quarry had fallen down into the old Gutter’s Glade Mine crevasse after they had fled into it. And, as it turns out, the way down had completely sunken in, rendering the bodies completely irretrievable. Unless they were to send a search and retrieve operation up into the equivalent of enemy territory, there was no chance in hell to bring those damned miners to corporate justice. And sure, this sentiment brings upon some disappointed sighs and annoyed grunts from her superiors, it’s nothing the money she makes didn’t almost immediately dampen. By that point, she earned equal to the amount of Blondie’s salary, which is enough to keep her and Janet afloat so long as she’s on the grind. So, in a way, she walked out of that board room with a little extra wisdom. Battles you can’t win now were battles you might as well not fight, especially if you could wrangle up some cash in the process.

Piper spends the rest of her days continuing Blondie’s deadly legacy. She worked directly for the board members of Shepherd Gemstone as their right hand (with her squad of mercenaries being their left, no matter how much she despised it), lived happily with Janet and her children, and generally speaking, made the most of her corporately-funded adventures. Even if it means becoming more familiar with death than she ever had been before.

Harry Gilroy, in a similar vein, moved up on the Shepherd Gemstone ladder for a period of time post-success of Blondie’s post-mortem execution, managing the operations of multiple mining outposts across a few square miles— Smokestone, of course, included. Thanks to a couple smart foreman hires and the corporate suppression of any and all magical incidents in his jurisdictions (his paper shredder was consistently the fullest “section” of his office), he kept profits high enough for long enough for his superiors to take notice. He even was held in higher esteem than Hickory at the peak of his internal glory, something he absolutely dragged her through the mud over. Eventually, however, Gilroy’s head becomes a bit too big for his shoulders. He’s fired directly from the Board after news of an unprecedented number of magical afflictions, alongside a sizable number of employee uprisings in his jurisdictions, breaks to the overhead. In a drunken stupor, he blames everyone but himself, storms out of the Shepherd Gemstone HQ and pisses on their front lawn, where he is then arrested for public indecency. He becomes a washed up, former high-roller in his neighborhood, rumoured to have taxidermied Blondie’s head and hung it up above a fireplace somewhere private. He spends his hoard of blood money on expensive booze, golfing trips, and renovating his home in an attempt to gather the attention of the single women in his community. Thus, he is cast out from the one thing he knows, rich and bitter.

Though Honeysett is idyllic as it is, everyones’ plans eventually send them out of the small town, with Pickman’s Hope being far and wide the most popular ending destination.

Azariah and Roxanne leave first, planning to aid with any reconstruction that needs doing (though there wouldn’t be much by the time they get there, seeing as how the town is known for its building expertise). They instead get involved with Samson’s doings around town, organizing the unions for work and acting as the occasional carrier of goodwill to neighboring towns. It ends up being a challenging occupation, especially since they have to compete diplomatically with corporations looking to take jobs from them and their people, but Azariah’s wit usually helps bring home the bacon, and Roxanne’s organizational skills helps make sure they can eat it, too. Pickman’s Hope sees a steady increase in cash flow, and it’s not long before the couple have their own home built, courtesy of the town, with their own garden and everything.

When they’re not working, they spend their time together indulging in the few, but substantial pleasures around the town; and, as everyone else trickles in, with them as well, acting as the guides they always have whenever something goes wrong. It’s not uncommon to find them filling the same role that Samson does, being everyone’s uncle or aunt and helping them paint fences, weed gardens, or settle minor disputes in bars. And though Azariah initially was tested by some of the rowdier locals about his capabilities (everyone knows Samson’s got it in him to stop scuffles, but this new Hare? and at his age?), but folks quickly realized that there’s to be no funny business with him around. What’s more, the rumour began floating around that Azariah liked the fighting— there was something about his eyes during the days when drunks would challenge him that burned those events into the memories of the sober. And, of course, if Roxanne was around in the case of these events, she was wicked accurate with her cane when she had it (and if she didn’t, you’d best believe she was going to pick up anything around and bludgeon your sorry ass with it), able to knock the buzz out of the most uppity of union workers.

Judith and Leon are next to leave, having decided that the best thing for them to do is just jump into a new life, leaving the adventuring business they’d been drafted into completely behind them. That means pursuing new business, the kind that would be calm, peaceful, and hopefully complimentary toward the skills that they’ve been building up. After a day or two of thinking while on the road, they decide to open a flower shop.

Judith runs the economic end of the store, taking back the person she once was from the grips of an angry, bitter, corporate version of herself, by indulging in the simple, sweet pleasures of accounting. And it doesn’t take long for her to take to the front desk as well, committing to memory prices and tax ratios, and developing pricing strategies for larger orders such as weddings, feasts, or public events. Every flower, down to the petal, she teaches herself how to price. As the days go by, she feels herself softening more naturally in the presence of customers. Sure, she has a very low tolerance for bullshit, and she’s none too happy when folks take a long time at the counter thanks to their own incompetence, but she absorbs that annoyance with ease, instead of letting it stew in her system. It’s amazing what not letting grudges overwhelm your emotional system can do for your mental well-being! At some point, she considers writing a book about her physical and emotional experiences having escaped from an exploitative mining company, but in a way, she figures that she should wait until she’s not busy with numbers before trying to work some words.

Leon ends up the gardener, and though he’s only blessed with a literally green thumb and not a metaphorical one, a little help from the locals helps him to blossom into quite the flower expert. Arranging, however, is where he ends up finding out his talent is. His touch with colours is subtle, yet when the final piece has been completed, results in patterns that seem to shine the same way a polished gemstone would. It doesn’t take long for him to experiment with complex fragrance combinations as well, though, it doesn’t take off the way that he’d hoped. Instead, he finds himself satisfied with the scent of a particular flower, known as the Cinnamon Cup Rose, as it lets him laugh without coughing up a lung.

Olive and Cherry move down simultaneously, and for a short period of time end up living together in a single-level on the outskirts of town. It doesn’t last long however, as Olive gets tired of the noise from his mechanical work at all hours of the day and moves closer into the town square, where she instead gets to listen to the sounds of the sidewalks.

Olive’s reasoning for leaving what is ostensibly a fangirl’s fantasy villa was that she felt as though the power she was given by the Mountain Thing wouldn’t quite get used to its fullest potential if all she did was sit around Honeysett, which was filled to the brim with folks who could more than handle themselves. The burning inside pushed her toward humanitarian work, and so, she decided to learn the art of field medic-work from Roxanne. She slowly worked her way through the skills presented to her, at first getting stuck on the hurdle of being covered with blood (as that sort of thing is terrible to get out of feathers), but working through anxiety after anxiety throughout the years. Roxanne wasn’t the easiest teacher to work with but she’s definitely a thorough one, and with the incredible diversity of Pickman’s Hope and beyond, there’s a lot for Olive to learn, all while keeping track of her own condition as best she could— with the occasional check-up on her old pals.

By the time she’s learned everything that Roxanne has to teach her, she’s already been working at the local emergency response team, and has more than a few encounters under her belt where her power, and her medical knowledge, has come in handy. There were more than a few times where she saved a life by means of skilled hands and focused eyes, be it removing a bullet or deflecting one, and in time she became well-known enough among such circles to be offered permanent positions in adventuring companies and collectives, parties of many sizes and skills asking if she’d become their in-house medic. The answer she gave them, of course, was a “no,” though she was more than happy to patch them up if she was nearby, and was more than eager to pass her knowledge onto others in the field.

Cherry, on the other hand, realized that it probably wouldn’t be good for him to stick around his dads’ place for much longer. Though they love him dearly, they don’t love the amount of noise that his work and main hobby brings, so he picks up a job at the local mechanics’ Union in Pickman’s Hope and gets his hands dirty. It doesn’t take long for him to be promoted from a shelf-stocker to someone who actually works on vehicles, and his propensity for understanding models that nobody else had seen before turns him into the “I don’t know, ask him” guy for anyone in the know about cars, a label he happily upholds. With the blessing of Samson, Cherry also gets to work on establishing a racing club there in town, working to create a new breed of backwood valley-folk racers that can compete with even the biggest sponsors further out west. It’s another feather in the town’s cap; it’s a new and fresh way for folks to compete among themselves, all while attracting eyes. Aside from that, it means yearly events, and that’s just plain good for local morale.

Brie, of course, leaves last, having to hitch a ride to Pickman’s Hope to pick up her car, to then drive back north of Honeysett to meet up with her girlfriend. After months of being gone and with hardly any money left to her name, she treats her to a fancy dinner to drop the news about how the quarry with Shepherd Gemstone fell through, that she’s realized things about the line of work she’s in that she doesn’t like, and that she’s nearly been killed multiple times over the time she’s been gone (and that she’d like to not repeat this experience ever again). And so, after much talk over a couple glasses of brandy, a sizeable bill for the pork chops they ordered, and a few days to mull everything over, they decide to move down to Pickman’s Hope, where Brie not only knows people, but also where she could get a job doing something less actively perilous. And a job she did get after a brief talk with Samson— she now works as a local detective slash investigator, helping to suss out corporate interests and potential moles from Shepherd from the town, as the discovery of Hieronymus T. Thistle’s treachery was something of a wake up call for the union head. Though it’s not entirely out of the line of fire, it puts her in a spot where she feels truly confident that the work she’s doing is for the greater good. And, of course, the constant reassurance from her peers helps quite a bit.

Jules, Lucille, and Meat all realize that there’s something binding the three of them together, and that thing is their lack of ability to settle down in the place they’ve come to be so fond of. Pickman’s Hope is a no-go for them, because as much as they’d like to go domestic, Jules and Meat are both being hunted by the Carnevale, and Lucille figures that someone like her would be better off sorting out her issues on the road, rather than cooped up in a house somewhere. So, they buy a car from Pickman’s Hope, say goodbye to everyone (with many tears being shed on behalf of Meat having to leave so soon from Brie and Roxanne), and they set out west for new horizons.

And though they’re not the newest of horizons, they certainly did find a new-er climate to work in. The three of them, collectively, set out as another independent contractor group, doing odd jobs here and there and taking advantage of Meat’s Notus powers to get them done quickly and efficiently. Their plans are to make as much money as they can so that way they can retire early and maybe set something similar to Honeysett up (or find someplace like it that already exists, build a place in the neighborhood, and live the good life). The process of getting there however, has only just begun.

It’s getting into the evening hours, and the first flakes of winter are beginning to collect on the lawn of Piper’s residence. Tanner is crowing about how much snow he thinks they’re going to get, Madrone has dug her nose into a book to avoid the walking annoyance that is her kid brother, and Janet has found a cozy spot right up against Piper on the sofa, their fireplace crackling softly.

After taking a sip of her tea, Janet stands up from her spot, walks around the couch, picks up a wrapped box, and places it on Piper’s lap. “Go on. Open it,” she coos.

“Aw, honey. You shouldn’t have.” Piper replies, ripping into the paper.

It’s a box. A box from the Quilting Club with her name on it, to be precise. And whatever’s in the box is heavy, heavier than the heaviest dumbbell Janet works out with for her calisthenics, anyways.

And when she opens it, it’s as though she’s cracking open a treasure chest of sparkling gold doubloons. It’s a replica of Blondie’s old pistol, the hand cannon that turns peoples’ heads into leaky cans of soup. In the glow of her awe, she nearly forgets to shoo away the kids, who are crowding around the “cool gun that Piper got” (as her children are still getting acclimated to calling her “mom”). Its weight, its design, its finish, all of it is pristine and new and exactly how she remembers it. And now it's hers. The final piece is hers.

“My god. You really shouldn’t have.”

Blondie & The Smokestone March End.

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Congratulations to Dr. Wilson on his early retirement from the College of Golf. I kind of thought it was going to last for another 10 years the way things were going. I've known Dr. Wilson since 1996, which is nearly 28 years. There are many stories I could share, but I’ll tell you a couple that are related to my career and his influence on it.

Back in the early 2000s, Dr. Wilson was working on his PhD and encouraged me to get my MBA or a master's degree in something. Initially, I resisted because I had three little kids and a full-time job. He convinced me to do it, and despite the tough times and many nights of frustration, I ended up enjoying the program. I’m happy I completed my master's in business, thanks to his persistent advice.

A couple of years ago, he suggested I pursue a PhD. Again, I was reluctant, but he convinced me. Now, I'm two classes away from entering the dissertation phase of my PhD. His advice, which I sometimes resisted at first, has been invaluable and has significantly impacted my career.

Dr. Wilson has always been like a big brother, offering guidance that, although challenging at times, has proven beneficial in the long run. His retirement will undoubtedly be filled with golf, including Hickory golf, and I look forward to a rematch to win back some money. Wishing you the best in your retirement, Dr. Wilson. I know you’re not going away, so we’ll see you soon. Thanks.

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luciana-909 · 3 months

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The Comprehensive Guide to Golfklúbbar: Exploring the World of Golf Clubs

Golf, often regarded as a game of precision, patience, and strategy, owes much of its allure to the clubs used by players. Golfklúbbar, or golf clubs, are more than mere instruments; they are the tools that translate a golfer’s skill into action. In this extensive guide, we delve into the fascinating world of golf clubs, examining their types, history, and the science behind their design. Whether you are a seasoned golfer or a beginner, understanding golf clubs can significantly enhance your game.

The Evolution of Golf Clubs

Early Beginnings

The history of golf clubs dates back to the early 15th century in Scotland, where golf is believed to have originated. Initially, golf clubs were crafted from wood, with club heads made from hard woods like beech, holly, and pear. These early clubs were rudimentary compared to modern standards but laid the groundwork for the sport.

Technological Advancements

As the game evolved, so did the technology behind golf clubs. The 19th century saw significant innovations with the introduction of hickory shafts, which provided better durability and flexibility. The 20th century brought even more advancements, including the use of steel shafts and various alloys for club heads. Today, golf clubs are made using cutting-edge materials like titanium, carbon fiber, and advanced polymers, offering golfers unprecedented levels of precision and control.

Types of Golf Clubs

Woods

Woods are designed for long-distance shots and are typically used from the tee or fairway. Despite the name, modern woods are usually made from metal. They have large heads and long shafts, making them ideal for powerful swings.

Driver (1-Wood): The largest and longest club, designed for maximum distance.

Fairway Woods (3-Wood, 5-Wood, etc.): Slightly smaller than drivers, used for long shots from the fairway or rough.

Irons

Irons are versatile clubs used for a variety of shots, including approach shots to the green. They have smaller heads compared to woods and are numbered from 1 to 9, with the number indicating the loft of the club.

Long Irons (1-3): Low loft, used for long shots.

Mid Irons (4-6): Moderate loft, used for a range of distances.

Short Irons (7-9): High loft, used for precise, shorter shots.

Wedges

Wedges are a subset of irons with high lofts, designed for short approach shots, chips, and bunker play.

Pitching Wedge: Standard wedge for general use.

Sand Wedge: Designed specifically for bunker shots.

Lob Wedge: High loft for short, high shots.

Gap Wedge: Fills the gap between the pitching wedge and sand wedge.

Putters

Putters are specialized clubs used for rolling the ball into the hole on the green. They come in various shapes and sizes, each designed to suit different putting styles.

Blade Putters: Traditional design with a straight blade.

Mallet Putters: Larger, more forgiving design.

Peripheral Weighted Putters: Offer greater stability and control.

The Science of Golf Club Design

Material Innovations

Modern golf clubs are a testament to the advancements in material science. Titanium and carbon fiber are commonly used for their strength and light weight. These materials allow for larger club heads without additional weight, enhancing the golfer's ability to hit the ball farther and with more accuracy.

Aerodynamics

The design of a golf club’s head is crucial for reducing air resistance and maximizing speed. Advanced computational models are used to shape club heads in a way that minimizes drag and optimizes swing mechanics.

Weight Distribution

The distribution of weight within the club head, known as the center of gravity (CG), affects the trajectory and distance of the shot. Clubs with a low and back CG are easier to hit and provide higher launch angles, while clubs with a forward CG offer more control and lower ball flight.

Shaft Flexibility

The flexibility, or flex, of the shaft affects the swing speed and ball flight. Shafts come in different flex ratings: extra stiff (X), stiff (S), regular (R), senior (A), and ladies (L). Choosing the right shaft flex is essential for optimizing performance based on swing speed and style.

Choosing the Right Golf Clubs

Assessing Skill Level

Beginner golfers typically benefit from clubs with more forgiveness and larger sweet spots, such as cavity-back irons and perimeter-weighted drivers. Advanced golfers might prefer clubs that offer greater control and feedback, like forged irons and adjustable drivers.

Custom Fitting

Custom fitting involves tailoring golf clubs to the golfer’s specific swing characteristics. This can include adjusting the length, lie angle, shaft type, and grip size. Custom fitting ensures that each club complements the golfer’s physical attributes and swing style, leading to improved performance.

Budget Considerations

Golf clubs vary widely in price, with premium sets costing thousands of dollars. However, there are quality options available at all price points. It’s important to balance cost with the features and performance benefits that best suit your game.

Maintaining Your Golf Clubs

Regular Cleaning

Keeping golf clubs clean is essential for maintaining their performance. After each round, clean the club heads with a brush and warm, soapy water to remove dirt and grass. Dry them thoroughly to prevent rust, especially on metal shafts and heads.

Storage

Store golf clubs in a dry place, away from extreme temperatures. Use headcovers to protect the club heads from damage during transportation. Avoid leaving clubs in the trunk of a car for extended periods, as heat can weaken the materials and adhesives.

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