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Today I had a local club fitter up here, show me George Knudson's old 3 wood, which immediately reminded me of all the stories about Hogans clubs. It was a telephone pole too. Knudson was a big Hogan fan and companion at times. It was a 1980's Minzuno, persimmon, small black head, the stiffest steel shaft available Im told, a Brunswick FM90? The first thought I had was how heavy the thing was. The head was drilled out and lead filled and then the shaft end was severely counter balanced to get the swing weight down to C-9. The man showing it to me is the nephew of George's old club maker and as a youth used to do the runs to the hardware store to buy the bolts they used for counter balancing. He said that George didnt care so much about swing weight but rather the dead weight. He liked it heavy. This 3 wood came in at almost 16 ounces. Doesnt sound like much but it was heavy in the hands. Thing was it sort of swung itself and seemed like it would work nicely to me..............Hmmmmm?


Somewhere in the memory banks I remember a story of Golf Digest listing Knudson as the best fairway wood player of all time. This was a while back of course.