Equipment Game Changers
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CREDIT: Gary Locke
A new club joined the Texas wedge and the Utah Jazz in the oxymoron pantheon: TaylorMade's steel-headed Pittsburgh Persimmon. Purists hated the sound it made at impact, but Jim Simons won the '82 Crosby with a Pittsburgh Persimmon and the revolution was on. Nine years later Callaway introduced an oversized metal driver, the 190-cubic-centimeter Big Bertha, which seemed huge then but was less than half the size of today's 460cc cudgels.


