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« 2011 Australian Open Final Round Comment Thread | Main | 2011 Australian Open Third Round Open Comment Thread »
Saturday
Nov122011

Video From The Australian Open Heritage Exhibit

The Australian Golf Heritage Society has a booth in the tournament's exhibition area where master clubmaker, repairer and student Ross Baker is making a club over the course of the tournament days. I shot some video while he talked about putters...

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Fascinating. Thanks very much Geoff.
11.12.2011 | Unregistered CommenterAverage Golfer
Nice going Geoff. Ross is a great gentlemen and a real student of golf history, what he doesn't know about clubmaking is not worth knowing.
11.12.2011 | Unregistered CommenterNeil Crafter
What was that noise at 2:10 of the video?

Very interesting stuff, the clubmaking that is...
11.12.2011 | Unregistered CommenterDel the Funk
For a moment I thought he was making a boomerang.
11.13.2011 | Unregistered CommenterTrixie

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