In February, U.S. Industries bought Odyssey Sports of Carlsbad, CA, (yes, that Odyssey) for $17 million. I am interested in trying them out myself, but have not been able to physically put my hands on a set to see how they are. In 1985, Hoeflich was promoted to VP of Marketing. I polish them. Posted July 3, 2007. Great piece of journalism. You can guess what happened. MGS has been spitting out things for a long time. I remember the TA 845S being heavily discounted, but I went with the Top Flight Tour irons which were also pretty inexpensive. I remember the discussion with John very well and was a proud staff member with Tommy Armour all of my years at Sunset Ridge in the 80s and 90s. I got the Wilson Staff RM forged cavity backs in my avatar. Menu. What a fantastic story, I am happy to say I am still playing a set of the original TA 845s Silver Scotts. Year 2002; Brand . Yes they are weaker lofted by todays standards (for example my Callaway Diablo Edge 7i is 32deg, the same as an 845s Silver Scot 6i). The very first Tommy Armour irons werent made by Tommy Armour at all, but by MacGregor, and for a very good reason: there was no Tommy Armour company at the time. Callaway X-forged irons from 2007, true temper black gold shafts. I'm glad I did. The 845 irons were my favorite set of irons ever. That came from the back end of my buddys car, a Porsche 928, says Hoeflich. Me thinks I will shove some shafts in them and take them out for a trip down memory lane. Thats not surprising since the 845s long irons have been designed for power and accuracy. Be sure to ask if the seller is a authorized TA dealer if you are buying off ebay. We know about someone who bought (on sale) a pair of G Loomis graphite shafts which would've retailed for more than $1750, that is as PXG charges today. Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than Canadian dollars and are approximate conversions to Canadian dollars based upon Bloomberg's conversion The company we came to know as Tommy Armour actually started in Ohio in 1910 as the Burke Golf Equipment Company. Where to start? They were great clubs. That was the good news. I loved Nickent stuff. Good read, had those irons for yearseveryone can take note about how the game of golf is played with clubs, and the business of golf is made by selling clubs.and even the best have to be updated someway to grow and keep companies going.see why there are new lines of clubs every year.If Ping still made Eye2s we would all be playing better golf but they would be going our of business.. What well written walk through equipment history. The company squeezed every last dollar out of those sticks, too, selling more than 660,000 sets over that time. Excellent used condition 810 39 irons 718MB PW is a 46 black sm7 vokey Nippon Mondus 3 105 X Stiff Shafts Standard length and lie Pick up Bittern 3918 or ., 1309169292. I had them for several years and also believe many manufactures copied the tech in these clubs. $140.00. How are they? Subsequently, PGA-PGA TOUR Properties wanted out of the equipment deal with PGA Golf and spent the better part of the next three years trying to get its name back from Morton Grove. That why I bought a set for my collection. Still look great! in Instruction and Playing Tips, By Up for sale is a set of Tommy Armour Forged Silver Scot Irons. TearDrop filed for bankruptcy, having never turned a profit during its three-year stewardship, leaving behind an army of unpaid creditors. Heres hoping the 845 Re-boot is as good as some of us suspect. Tommy Armour Women's 2021 845-MAX Hybrid/Irons. Thanks for the article ! What a great club in the 90 s . FOR SALE! Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Mizuno MP-59 Ti Muscle Forged Iron Set 4-PW KBS Tour 120 Stiff Steel Mp-29 PW at the best online prices at eBay! They are a pleasure to play with and if I had to thin out my clubs ,They would be one of three sets that would.make the cut even though I have several top shelf sets of much more expensive clubs. You could also write a case study on how the 845s, quite unintentionally, led to Tommy Armours downfall. C $31.28 Its clearly an 845 promo. i went back to old faithful s. It won a few LPGA Tournaments the year it was introduced, which helped Nickent deepen the toe hold established by their most excellent hybrids. where there was a golf tournament. Shot some of my best scores with these until they were stolen. Loved these clubs as my first real players clubs (as opposed to some unknown Northwestern or Sportmart Mizuno set). The TA-1s were respectable, and the Atomicsdespite the goofy name, were pretty hot performers. Will still play the TA 845s Silver Scots for many more days to come. Its an engineering miracle that the 845 was designed in a kitchen with new weight balancing and turned out to be a solid performer, maybe even a trendsetter! MacGregor introduced the Tommy Armour Silver Scot Tourney in the 1940s, predating the Tommy Armour company by nearly40 years. I was an English teacher and I had a friend who helped me get a job as a sales rep for MaxFli golf balls, Hoeflich told MyGolfSpy. buisthreeputt; Jul 31, 2005; General Golf . haga de sta publicacin su favorita feb 14 I am sure Dicks, who started small, will be a superb asset. With TA going through so many changes, I don't know who exactly is Customer Service. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Nice Left Handed Ping Heppler FLOKI 34" Putter w/Cover Strong Arc #327923 at the best online prices at eBay! I love them. or Best Offer. FOR SALE! I live the wing back look. . And it all started with an English teacher. Items in the Price Guide are obtained exclusively from licensors and partners solely for our members research needs. Titleist SM6 54 S Grind Molds, which created the tooling for most of the investment-cast clubs being made then. My personal history is that I picked up a set of early 845s 3i-PW (pat. When I got home, I got some candles and melted the wax into the shape of a cavity and those cavity balance weight pads. 845 FS. Brings out shiny set of 845 bc beryllium copper. Cannot remember what it was called..) That's rightyou get a brand new, still-in-the-plastic club to try for two weeks for just $25. Bought 1 set of new clubs Hong Kong pings told guy who made them didnt like them. Tommy Armour. The grounds crew has been at it hard for a while now. Tommy Armour 845s SilverScot 3 and 4 Irons RH. Very Collectible and rare. If youve been paying even a little attention, it doesnt take high-level editorial or business-specific insight to say the golf industry has changed over the past 30 years. Tommy Armour 845S Silver Scot 3 Iron Stiff Flex Tour Step Steel 1003730 Fair. Shipping Available. This was the first good set of clubs I ever owned. $399.98. My first really good driver was a Genex425. We compared them. Sports Authority was no golf authority, however. Single Irons; Shafts; Grips; Bags & Carts; Balls; Headcovers; On-Course. $20.00 shipping. $10,500. . I started playing Mac Gregor The clubfitter for my replacement set said I should keep the MT irons for historic purposes. A former assistant professional to me, Jeff Matheson, went into sales for them as well as a former junior golfer of mine, Ted Meyer. Many of the Macs from the 60's and early 70's are less than $100, and the remakes from the late 70's and 80's are often less than $50 unless absolutely mint. Hopefully the 845 is resurrected as it was a great club. 845 FS. Feedback. The best story will receive the #1/500 set of Tommy Armour 845 Forged irons. Powered by Invision Community. Iconic club makers like Wilson Staff, Powerbilt, and MacGregor have been reduced to mere shadows of their former selves I applaud the current heroic resurgence of Wilson, a sentimental favorite of many of us with memories of Snead, Sarazen, and Palmer using their clubs. Ill always be proud to have been a part of building one of golfs iconic weapons. Im rooting for the latest incarnation to be a big success. . Las mejores ofertas para Putter de hoja pin Hi #020 / RH / acero ~34,75" / agarre bonito / gw5719 estn en eBay Compara precios y caractersticas de productos nuevos y usados Muchos artculos con envo gratis! Most of the ones for sale have rifle shafts which is nice. Grew up seeing a lot of people playing with this set and I kinda knew that they were an iconic set in the history of golf like the Ping Eyes. 163961. Great article! MacGregor Tommy Armour V.F.Q. AT1 Golf Clubs Steel Tour Blades set Signing up is free, and you'll see fewer ads and can talk with fellow golf enthusiasts! Finally, I was amazed to find that John Hoeflich was the brains behind the 845s. The Story of an Icon: The Tommy Armour 845s | MyGolfSpy . Every cavity balanced 845s iron has its sweet spot engineered just where it should be in the precise physical and optical center of the club, resulting in a much larger effective hitting area.. The golf world reacted with a collective yawn. Putter de hoja pin Hi #020 / RH / acero ~34,75" / agarre bonito C $267.01 . Sluckers magic touch was failing him so he turned to the golf industrys time-tested Bad Decision Playbook. Modern Irons Comparable to Tommy Armour 855s? : r/golf - reddit Gen-X had no background in golf so it teamed up with GolfWorks and Ralph Maltby in hopes of turning chicken-you-know-what into chicken salad. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Fore! Upload or insert images from URL. Add .50" to shown length for graphite lengths. Arnie I still regularly game two Nickent Pipe putters, one at home from April through end of season and another here in New Zealand from mid-January through end of March (southern hemi summer). . Tommy Armour. That came from the address of PGA Golf 8350 North Lehigh Avenue in Morton Grove. My favourite part of the trip was non golf related. Gamed them until I discovered my Mizuno MP-32s. Convenient. We found CPM variations as wide as 10-12., Nickents USTs 85 MPH Rated Shafts were more like 2-4. I hope they dont screw it up, said Hoeflich. Make Request. . USA & International; Australia; Canada; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; By 1959, Burke sold out to the Comptometer Corporation, a Chicago-based adding machine company. Model Reviewed: Tommy Armour 855. Titleist 915H 3 Diamana, Titleist 915H 4 Diamana You gotta lotta time on your hands, my man. Page One says cut expenses by slashing R&D and marketing to the bone. Page Two says cut prices to make the sales numbers look good to investors, margin be damned.. WHo cares? TearDrop had been a financial mess until Slucker who made so much money in the hardware business he was able to retire at age 40 came to the rescue. $52.99 shipping. Im still looking for a set that feels as good to play as those did back in the dayof course, Im too cheap to actually spend the equivalent money in todays dollars on a set of irons. I'm the guy that said they may not be forged. So far, despite ultra critical reviews by some as regards the current Tommy Armour Line coming out of Dicks, I have been impressed. They are just awesome and still totally playable irons. Thomas, its a great story, and very well written, about the history of an iconic brand. Hey John I switched to custom fitted wood bothers forged cavity backs and a new Taylor made metal wood and went to a 5 handicap. SN# M2217. Being a DLIII and Couples fan., I geeked out since I played the same clubs as the those two Armour staffers. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. $35. His first assignment was to develop a new iron. Plus, the price point was decent, especially for a house brand. That didnt happen for several reasons. Beautiful clubs still have full set on down to 1 iron. **TOMMY ARMOUR GOLF TRAVEL BAG** $150 (Honolulu) . We had 15 players in our first event, including Teddy Hayes (Senior Tour 1993) Skip Kendall Dickey Pride and Mike Brisky (All three played on the PGA Tour) Before we developed the tooling, I went to a club in Chicago Sunset Ridge, he said. I acquired a set of Macgregor M75 Tourney irons and MT Tourney woods that have LTWA stamped on the bottoms. It was a good club but as noted in the article, wasnt supported by the retailers.. When the 845 came out, the guys just jumped all over it.. I have a few sets on M85's. I still have my 845s. I put a special tri wall shaft in them when I worked at True Temper. At 56 years old, the Ford Mustang is still as cool as ever. They have the loft printed on them which I think is special. connor.sexton11 I saved my money from my job as a caddie in 1992 for my first brand new set of irons and I went with the 845s and a box of Maxfli HT balata 100s. I needed something to do, he said at the time. I realise this a bit of a thread resurrection, but I have just returned from a trip to Orlando with the wife and kids and another family. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------. $49.99 + $13.62 shipping. Fantastic irons, especially for the money. I've heard there is a book/catalog out there showing the clubs thru the years??? By October, Huffy filed for Chapter 11. I got to play OCN when I was there a few years ago, and I get to play at Trump one a year or every other year as part of our local inter-club league. But I guessHaters gonna hate., I didnt know that the 845 and DCI had the same designer, but Im not at all surprised. Cobra happily filled that void. In fact just this year I had new intermediate size grips put on my whole set. Tommy Armour Atomic Irons Review - Plugged In Golf About the only difference was the M75's probably came original with T. T. V Chrome shafts and the M85's. But you can also say the company was a victim a pawn in a much larger chess match between corporations and personalities that didnt know their own limitations. The course is packed pretty solid this time of the year. We then launched the DCI Black which was a less-offset version of the Gold. Paste as plain text instead, My first set of clubs ever was the 845s when i was 12 years old. Mike. About eBay; Announcements; Community; Security Center; Seller Center . Would like to see more of these. Upper toe area of cavity: CAVITY BALANCED. Hoeflichs track record is impressive. I watched the Korn Ferry Qual at my local course the other day and some of the best players I have ever seen wont make a dime as pros. Had been playing a set of callaway x-18s and found a set of old TA 855 Silver Scots at the goodwill for $2.00 per club. Exceptionally well written article. Its a lesson in how tremendous success often sows the seeds of failure. Otherwise, you either had the Eye2s or 845sI chose the Eye2s. Way before I had interest in golf, but my hometown has a lot of history with MacGregor. 845. Played the silver scotts for 12 years, even carried the 0 iron for awhile! Tommy Armour Silver Scot Forged Irons | #287775607 Tommy Armour Zaap . Shop by category - ebay.ca Tommy Armour Left-Handed Golf Clubs for sale | eBay I wish Nickent hadnt bitten the dust that would be another great business story fro MYGOLFSPY. My first set of irons,hand me downs from my dad, were VIPs. Tommy Armour 845s Silver Scot 8 Iron - NICE! Display as a link instead, And I didnt notice and grammar errors! Going to take them out today. Well I got frustrated so honey pie un boxes1985 Mac Gregor M85 copper faced irons of old and guess what, i started playing good. Maybe this will be the year I get fitted and buy some 2015 technology on closeout. I said, if someone doesnt buy the PING, what are they looking for? He said, something that looks like a traditional-shape short iron instead of something that looks like a propeller on a steamship.. Inside cavity: 845s(underlined) SILVER SCOT. A story about how Tommy Armour went bankrupt? We still love the Beatles and, even though Elvis has been dead for more than 40 years, hes still Elvis. I've been wanting to blades again for a few years now after playing cast clubs for the past few years. I sent the irons to my Dad, and he like the distance and forgiveness of the clubs. Is there a source for the codes to determine what year and other info? I'm glad I did. Still playing 3 Nickent hybrids (a 2, 3, and 4), and still hitting them well. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Used to call them quarter to nines.nice clubs, great memories. California on the Golden State Tour. I think if Tommy Armour had launched a less-offset version of the 845, it would have run for another three or four years.. I couldn't get my irons bent upright (clubmaker was afraid he'd break) so I sold my set. Pat. Progressive offset. iacas, January 26, 2020 Luck have it, I met Gini Fine on a blind date on a Thursday Evening and proposed to her Sunday night. Honestly, I didnt seem to notice a huge performance gap, but perception seemed to hurt. I don't hit em that much, just a few times to get that nice low rising trajectory that todays clubs can't provide. Safe? A few months ago, I bought one of their 48 degree CB wedges to fill a gap in my short game. I had two six irons in my set and no three iron, the service rep took care of it right away and shipped out the three iron the next day (it was after 5:00 when I called). Cobra Fly-Z+ Aldila DVS Matched To Your Swing. That, ultimately, is how Sports Authority came to own the Tommy Armour Brand. *This content is backed by the MyGolfSpy Integrity in Advertising Promise. 1 iron in the game was the PING Eye2 so Hoeflich figured hed start there. Magerman was an avid tennis player and oversized tennis rackets were all the craze (as was the King Cobra), hence the 855 irons and Magermans pet project, the full titanium Ti-100 irons. Add to Compare. At that time The Tommy Armour Tour had over 2,000 paid Members. PEND. If this item contains incorrect or inappropriate information please, Relevant I will ship to the lower 48 states and accept Pay Pal only. Ben Hogan Apex Edge Pro 2 through Wedge for $20 bucks after trading in the "then very popular" 855's. . 1952 to 1972 MacGregor Forged Iron Sets - The Sand Trap .com It was a $50,000 purse and Mike Campbell was the winner.. After the sale of Tommy Armour to Odyssey and without added money to the purses, the number of players fell significantly. I figured if I didn't like these irons I would at least get my money back on the shafts alone, since I was going to build a set from golfsmith before I found these. That unprecedented success not only changed Tommy Armours fortunes, but also those of a key competitor. I fell in love with them and liked them better the Pings I was playing. Traded them for my first set of forged Hogan Edges and always regretted it (even though Ive never stopped playing forged since). Thanks for reply. The look of the drivers, woods, and hybrids were pretty nice, but I didnt really care for the sound and feel. But, ultimately, any club carrying the 845 name has to do one thing and thats perform. Nickent Genex 3DX 21* - Dynamic Gold SL 14 watching. There is a book out there by Jim Kaplan that lists the MacGregor catalogs and history from 1930s thru 1970s. $14.99 . TA Golf worked with Dr Gary Wiren on the development of the EVA and put a lot of money into it. Lol. . I bought mine in 1990. The 845s were a great set of irons for the price point and were very easy to play. or Best Offer. MATERIAL GRAPHITE . Well done business-lesson case story John. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Tommy Armour Silver Scot Collector 3-PW, SW Iron Set RH Steel Shaft Stiff Flex at the best online prices at eBay!

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