ith the demand of the wooden clubs. (Hist. Coarse, 11)All the wooden clubs would start being replaced with steel and iron in 1848 when the gutta percha ball first appeared. The clubs did not have to be so soft at contact with the ball so metals were good to use in the clubs. In the beginning of the usage of metals many men would build and grind down the clubs themselves, but soon many American companies would join in and produce many of the brand name irons that are still around today. The wood in the shaft needed to be stronger so instead of ash the companies would use hickory witch is a stronger wood. The irons stayed about the same for many years until the 20th century.In the twentieth century there have been more technological changes in clubs than the combined past. In the early part of the century people started putting metal in the shafts of the irons instead of just on the head. Different types of metal then started coming out due to the bounce that one would get off the club to the ball at impact. The shafts of clubs have become different also, instead of wood shafts now there is graphite and other types of synthetic fibers that go into a shaft. Today Shafts can be built for different types of swing speed and basically to fit a golfer to their swing and still get good distance and control. Just as clubs have changed over the history of golf due to technology or enlightenment, the ball that golfers use has changed equally as much if not more. In the beginning of golf, people would use stones and pebbles to hit to the target but this soon gave way to wooden balls made out of elm or beech. These balls had no aerodynamic properties after a short use. Gradually, they adopted a ball made of white leather and filled with cow’s hair witch was used in a Scottish game call Kaatsen. It is believed that these balls helped in the development of a new ball in the early 18th century.In the early stages of the 18th century a ba...
