Antique Small Head Brassie Golf Club
Antique Small Head Brassie Golf Club
Hickory Shafted Small Headed Brassie.
This small headed persimmon wood brassie is a great display piece with a hickory shaft with a suede leather grip. The head is marked with 'P.H. Boomer' and has a lead weight to the rear, horn sole insert and a full brass sole plate.
Percy Hugh Boomer was an early 20th century golf professional and instructor who won three Opens, the 1923 Belgian Open, the 1924 Swiss Open, and the 1927 Dutch Open, although he was somewhat over shadowed as a player by his brother Aubrey. Born in Islington, London, in 1885 but grew up on the Isle of Jersey where his father was a school teacher in Grouville.
Boomer learned to play golf through the writings of Harry Vardon and Ted Ray and he himself wrote and published in 1942 one of the most popular instructional books of the era, On Learning Golf.
He was one of the top teachers of golf in Europe, became a pro at Barton On Sea 1909, but spent the majority of his professional career at St. Cloud Country Club in the Paris suburbs. He died on 29th April 1949 in Sunningdale, Berkshire, having been the professional at Sunningdale Golf Club since 1941. Boomer was inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 1998. He was a proponent of muscle memory in the golf swing and reminded his students to block out negative thoughts in favour of more positive ones in order to play better golf. He was one of the first golf teachers to use stop-action photography.
Dimensions:
1900-1949
C. 1910
persimmon wood and hickory
P.H. Boomer
Very clean but not to be used as a slight crack in socket joint.
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