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December 15, 2005
The extinction of the one-iron
I've been looking at hybrid golf clubs this holiday season as a possible gift for one of my relatives, so I enjoyed this this Jason Sobol article on the demise of the one-iron, which is one of the most difficult golf clubs to hit well and the reason why the easier-to-hit hybrid clubs are replacing the one-iron in most golfers bags. Sobol notes the late Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Times sportswriter Jim Murray's classic lament about the futility of hitting a one-iron:
"The only time I ever took out a 1-iron was to kill a tarantula, and I took a 7 to do that.''
Posted by Tom at December 15, 2005 06:09 AM
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