Thank you. And there had been nothing compelling in Tommy Armours pipeline since the 845s launch. A story about how Tommy Armour went bankrupt? Tommy Armour PGA Forged Blade Irons Set 3-9 Stiff Steel Shafts RH Nice. Perfectly timed just before the upcoming release of the latest latest 845. It is now 1991 and we had over 500 players join the Hooters Tour and with added money and players received 50% off the Hooters menu prices.. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------. They have an ebay store and a regular website. Driver. The company bet the ranch on the Ti-100 in 1996-97 and lost badly, as the Ti-100s set a new standard for golf industry flops. RThat was also the time period where Callaway was living more off of their name than they were off of innovation. . Greens were slower than I expected( I guess about a 9-9.5) Driver: EXS10.5, weights neutral ||FWs:Rogue4W + 7WHybrid: Big Bertha OS4H at 22 ||Irons: Mavrik MAX 5i-PWWedges: MD3:48,54MD4:58|| Putter:Inertial NM SL-583F, 34"Ball: QStar Tour - Divide ||Bag: Three 5 stand bag. Shot some of my best scores with these until they were stolen. That, ultimately, is how Sports Authority came to own the Tommy Armour Brand. That resonated with me, said Hoeflich. Shafts are Rifle 6.0 and grips are Golf Pride! I had them for several years and also believe many manufactures copied the tech in these clubs. 5 Testers Needed! NOW AVAILABLE: GolfWRX G/Fore Hats and Holderness & Bourne Polos! 2 through Wedge for $20 bucks after trading in the "then very popular" 855's. . 13 watching. Young players today like challenge of trying to hit the MT's 2 iron. Honestly, I didnt seem to notice a huge performance gap, but perception seemed to hurt. I have the Silver Scot MB Blades and I also love them. 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. The very first Tommy Armour irons weren't made by Tommy Armour at all, but by MacGregor, and for a very good reason: there was no Tommy Armour company at the time. Taylormade R510TP - Speeder 757 But that's to be expected when you sell 660,000 sets over a seven-year period. $14.99 . Tennis & Racquet Sports; Apparel; Fan Shop; Help Center Value Guide. $10,500. You can say its success ultimately led to Tommy Armours demise and youd be right. Hope this helps.. You can post now and register later. Sports Go back to your Golf Digest Hot List ya hoser. Same Modelsame Stated Regular FLex. Never know when one day you hit it for the last time. I saw Jim Gallagher use this model at the Belfry Ryder Cup Items in the Price Guide are obtained exclusively from licensors and partners solely for our members research needs. That was the good news. MACGREGOR TOMMY ARMOUR V.F.Q. Titleist SC Studio Design 2.5/Cleveland HB 11S. Im one of a few people I know who use Hoeflichs Nickent Pipe Putter, which still has a cultish following. Unfortunately, the ownership game of hot potato was about to enter the lightning round. I havent played a round with them for 25+ years but occasionally hit them into my practice net just to recall the feel which is great when you strike the sweet spot. 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. AYRTIME. 845 FORGED PERSIMMON. 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. Articles, Upper Deck Highlights Different Hockey Card Products, Re-Examining 1991 Classic Draft Football Cards, Kobe Bryants Jersey Auctioned for Over $5 Million. Ending Today at 5:00PM PST 4h 30m. I gamed them up until this past fall when I opted to get a set of newer GI irons. Mr. McNally told me if I would relinquish the name The Hooters Tour and rename it The Tommy Armour Tour, his Company would add $10,000 a year to the purse plus give all registered Tommy Armour Tour Players a tour staff bag at no cots and the 845s 1 iron through all four wedges for $190.00. FOR SALE! Huffy, as it turned out, was sinking faster than anyone realized. 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. Tommy Armour 845s Silver Scot Irons 2,3,5,6 (4 Clubs) Regular Flex Right Handed. Sign up for a new account in our community. SPONSORED. I played each off the second to back tees the first time and each off the tips the second time. $52.99 shipping. Ad posted 2 days ago Save this ad . Another great company and another what might have been. I had a solid Nickent bag at one point save for my Odyssey Rossi Putter. The Tommy Armour 845 name still has cachet, making this a welcome revival. Tommy Armour 855s Golden Scot Men's Graphite Sr Flex Iron Set 4-SW 394471874309. Upload or insert images from URL. 845 name with new woods, irons ,Used Tommy Armour ROYAL SCOT 3I-SW Regular Flex Graphite Shaft Iron Sets,tommy armour forged silver scot i Tommy Amour Royal Scot Golf club Set with bag rons 7-pw, . Brown painted shafts Lots of great stories about the Silver Scot. TORCH. Great piece of history. Irons are solid and give as good a feel as my Titleist 695MB or Nike VR Pro Combo's. Owned a set of 845s. . Thank you I gamed the 845s back in the day, wonderful irons to play. Aren't you concerned you might bust up the woods hitting rocky range balls? Molds, which created the tooling for most of the investment-cast clubs being made then. Too many things did go wrong for TearDrop. They were slippy by the back nine. Post your items for free Local pickup Buy Cheap or Sell Second Hand Iron sets easily with Yomla. Gilford Securities Analyst Casey Alexander put it bluntly to Crains Chicago Business that year. Wonderful article, John. They were a great set. My favourite part of the trip was non golf related. But that's to be expected when you sell 660,000 sets over a seven-year period. CPMs difference . iacas, January 26, 2020 FOR SALE! I havent played with them in a bit they were great clubs got me hooked on golf. The club that came out before the 845 was actually the 835 Silver Scot metalwood, said Hoeflich. Please put and questions or comments here, Please put any questions or comments here, Please put any questions of comments here, Tommy Armour Silver Scot Cavity Back Forged. I swear every other hackers bag had TA or TF irons back then and I still them today every once in a while. event.. . Im not hating on anyone, its brilliant marketing. AT1 Golf Clubs Steel Tour Blades set irons 3-PW - $98.02. 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational - Discussion and Links to Photos, 2023 The Honda Classic - Discussion and Links to photos, 2023 Genesis Invitational - Discussion and Links to photos, 2023 Waste Management Phoenix Open - Discussion and Links to Photos, 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am - Discussion and Links to all photos, Fitness, maximum efficiency for the time spent. Well see if MGS can put their money where their mouths are when it comes time to release Most Wanted lists in conjunction with how much each OEM has paid them in advertising or wine-and-dine trips to their HQs. I still have room for improvement on the former. $20.00 shipping. Back when UST Shafts were strictly UST, in namenot UST/MamiyaNIckent had an ongoing deal with them, and they mad Speed Rated Shafts: which were actually closer to the flex you might be looking for. Upper toe area of cavity: CAVITY BALANCED. Funny the guy who designed them also did DCI and Taylormade RAC, because I moved to the RAC LTs from the 845s. tommy armour 855s irons. My line isnt always great, but my pace is pretty good for a guy in his mid-70s. Stiff shafts. *We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. The sole is quite wide, but it doesn't stick out beyond the top line at address. $140.00. Not sure if anyone can help, but I have a set of TAs and I cant seem to find where in their history they come from. Loved these clubs as my first real players clubs (as opposed to some unknown Northwestern or Sportmart Mizuno set). And old clubs could be really brittle by now, esp in the necks. NWT!!!!! If you don't need to bend them, they are a decent club. Once Hoeflich and his team had a general idea of what they wanted, Hoeflich went to California to work with R.G. Thank you for all your help John, and for the kind words. I played the MacGregor MT (1972) "flatsole" irons from 1974 to 1994. I love them. I captained the freshman team, but was never able to break into the starting line up my sophomore year. NOW AVAILABLE: GolfWRX G/Fore Hats and Holderness & Bourne Polos! Huffy Chairman Don Graber said, This acquisition is a significant step forward toward our strategic vision of positioning Huffy for future growth as a diversified, branded sporting goods company.. Nor many 3 putts because I am usually with 2 ft.. At 78, having a lot of reading knowledge, and club building; witnessed Ping start up with a putter and the comparable recent computerization of the carbon-poly golf shaft, allowing superior advances, I sure hope Tommys clubs incorporates these improvements and can compete with Callaway/Taylor, etc.. Stealth irons vs. P790 irons - how do you decide? (Didnt even come close) But you can also say the company was a victim a pawn in a much larger chess match between corporations and personalities that didnt know their own limitations. Great article! where there was a golf tournament. Those seemed like a decent game improvement iron. I just hope that TA and Dicks get the 845s right and more inline with the look and feel of the major OEMs. I bought mine on Ebay - paid 153$ - breat value for money. I have upgraded my driver and woods a few times over the years, but I have still not found a reason to drop my TA 845s. For a while the Eye2 irons were off limits to players and some tour players switched to the 845 with Mark Calcavecchia being the most notable. Within days of the sale, Tommy Armour released the 845s. Pat. Richard in UK. 2 irons; 3 irons; 4 irons; 5 irons; 6 irons; 7 irons; 8 irons; 9 irons; Pitching Wedges; Gap Wedges; Sand Wedges; . I believe that the first VIP's come on to the marketwas in about 1968 after Jack Nicklaus was signed by MacGregor and had a few wins under his belt. Pasted as rich text. By 1999, Tommy Armour released the TA 845 EVO line, the first true replacement for the 845s. It's easy! Its an aditorial. Ive got the muscle backs as my back-up set (primary set is X-tour) and they are great. Well, glad you enjoyed it. TOMMY ARMOUR 855S Golden Scot Men's Graphite Sr Flex Iron Set 4-SW (8 clubs) - $223.15. I preferred Celebration, but thats maybe because I holed a shit load of putts both times. I have a set and heard they were made by MacGregor also. California on the Golden State Tour. I know I spent more on a full set of Win. buisthreeputt; Jul 31, 2005; General Golf . Some have posted on this board that when they went to bend the lofts, the clubs broke. Be sure to ask if the seller is a authorized TA dealer if you are buying off ebay. 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. Great article. Still playing 3 Nickent hybrids (a 2, 3, and 4), and still hitting them well. I am surprised that the berrylium copper version was not mentioned , sorry for the misspelling , I thought that the price of them approached $2000. in The Grill Room, Copyright 2004-2023 The Sand Trap .com I then decided to gain eligibility on the European Senior PGA Tour at their Open Championship qualifier. It seems nearly every golfer has a story involving the original Tommy Armour Silver Scot 845s. The 2006 iron line has people talking and it's fun to see golfers getting excited over Tommy Armour. Dicks apparently understands what it has in the 845s, which is why the namesake is making a comeback next month. By the end of 97, TearDrop purchased RAM Golf for $10 million and Tommy Armour for $24 million. We compared them. They really did have something going on. **TOMMY ARMOUR GOLF TRAVEL BAG** $150 (Honolulu) . Played the silver scotts for 12 years, even carried the 0 iron for awhile! (2016 2020). My late father played MacGregor Tommy Armour Silver Scot Tourney irons (he was a 4 to 7 handicap golfer, even into his 60s, before he died). They wrote the 845 business and the EQL was kind of shoved into the background.. This was the first good set of clubs I ever owned. I did play in one Varsity match against Duke University and my famous acknowledgement was when the Varsity Coach, Howell T. Hollis, told me I was academically ineligible for the 1965 season. The 845s stayed current in Tommy Armours catalog for seven years an inconceivable run considering todays one- to two-year product cycles. Those pads changed shape as you went from the 2-iron to the pitching wedge to keep the weight balanced in the center of the club.. Rare 1963 Macgregor Tommy Armour Silver Scot A2 Iron Set Rh, 2-11, New Grips. Syberson, Tommy Armour Zaap . I heard about J.C. Goosies Spalding tour in Florida and realized Florida was much more affordable for a Mini Tour player. By 845fs Silver Scot. . Progressive offset. Click below to begin your paid subscription. Fairway Wood. I am looking forward to seeing what Dicks does with the new and improved 845s Silver Scots.will they pay homage to their history while embracing newer technology. Minty TaylorMade Sim2 Max-D 9.0* Driver Head Only Sim 2 MaxD 9.0* Driver Head. (thirty one years later, she still is the love of my life!). Karma or maybe the ghost of the Silver Scot himself had the last laugh as Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy in March 2016. The Edge became the best-selling iron Hogan ever produced. $399.98. 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. WE compared 4 irons and the length and sole were pretty much the same. Newer ones didnt seem the same so ended up with Titleist DCI. i hit a shot with the newly purchased tommy armour silver scot hybrid 18* stiff shaft model and it goes right down the middle roughly 230 yards. 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. Two days later the iron arrived and I boxed up the six with the prepaid return label. If my memory serves me right, the 845 hit the market just as Ping and the USGA started arguing over the Eye2. The M75s were made mid 1950s and again in the early 80s. I would call them mid-size. Cast from 431 stainless steel with a thin L-shape face insert (to assist shots struck low), steel weighting with tungsten . It is without question the most consistently paced putter I have ever had, and Ive had a bunch. They were a gift from my brother to replace an incomplete set of Ping Eye 2s I was playing. Cobra happily filled that void. M85's. They are the same size as my buddy's Nike Pro combo irons. In the 1990s, I remember thinking, Two companies shots at the same golfer.. Weighting and such. Free delivery and returns on eBay Plus items for Plus members. The Titleist DT Solo and the Wilson Staff Duo work quite well with wooden clubs, if the club is in decent playable condition. eli_yates; Nov 19, 2007; Golf Equipment Talk; Replies 4 Views 5K. Heres hoping the 845 Re-boot is as good as some of us suspect. Tommy Armour Silver Scot Forged Iron Heads, 4-P, Excellent. Was told this by "Armour Customer Service." Still have them and take a coupl to the range now and again. His first assignment was to develop a new iron. I didnt take up golf until the 90s when Tommy Armour was going out of business. Loved Nickent Hybridsstill have a 3DX Iron Wood 4-hybrid. The 845s were a great set of irons for the price point and were very easy to play. That's kind of a big deal. The grounds crew has been at it hard for a while now. I dont know the difference between the new irons and the 845s. Feedback. 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. How are they? Moisture is a greater enemy than golf balls. C $31.28 SN# M2217. When Tommy Armour released the 855 Silver Scots in 1995 to counter the new and incredibly popular King Cobra irons, they were more than a little late to the party. Make Request. Well Done, John. Great read. I needed something to do, he said at the time. 207. Awesome!!! Enjoyable article.played 845s for a good 15 yrs and still have a set of graphite stiff in the garage I cant bring myself to sell. What a well written and well researched article. Another , what night have been golf company. I'm glad I did. Detriot Red Wings Pavel Datsyuk Adult XL JERSEY!!! Theyre walking on a tightrope.. I might go see the event here, just to discover what the on-course experience is like. Just be real careful with old woods and newer balls. Bob MacNally ran a great company. Clear editor. I believe they are late 50's clubs. The driver in my sig is persimmon; the fairways are laminated maple. They are just awesome and still totally playable irons. They got replaced but it wasn't the same, and not as if MacGregor will replace yours now. Thanks John for the great article and taking me back down memory lane. *This content is backed by the MyGolfSpy Integrity in Advertising Promise. Year 2006 ; Brand Tommy Armour; Head Weight . Luck have it, I met Gini Fine on a blind date on a Thursday Evening and proposed to her Sunday night. FF was in good overall condition apart from two greens which were recovering from some disease and had been partially re-turfed. Upper heel area of cavity: PAT. I will ship to the lower 48 states and accept Pay Pal only. 845 SILVER SCOT (GREY FINISH) 845 SILVER . We need to hear those stories. Year 2020; Brand . Im 69 years young. E. M. . The frequent recycling of the 845s from one company to the next seemed emblematic of something unhealthy about the golf industry from the 60s forward. However, now that I am in England I opted to attempt to qualify for the Sunningdale Senior PGA Open. As an experiment we once lined up a handful of the latest Big Bertha Driver, all with the Factory Cally Shaft. I wish Nickent hadnt bitten the dust that would be another great business story fro MYGOLFSPY. Tommy Armour 845s Silver Scot 8 Iron - NICE! Tommy Armour 855s Golden Scot Men's Graphite Sr Flex Iron Set 4-SW 394471874309. Spec-wise, the 845s featured a 36-degree 7-iron and light swing weights ranging from C9 to D1 in stiff flex. I put a special tri wall shaft in them when I worked at True Temper. RussUK, November 17, 2016 Add to Wishlist. Free shipping for many products! RARE Tommy Armour PGA Silver Scot Forged Blades 2-9 LH, Tommy Armour 845s Silver Scot 48* Pitching Wedge. 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. Still have my eye 2s from the 80s and I still have a set of 845s heads that are screaming to be reshafted. I switched to custom fitted wood bothers forged cavity backs and a new Taylor made metal wood and went to a 5 handicap. They cant afford for too many things to go wrong. . My first set of cavity back clubs replacing Hogan Apex II. My personal history is that I picked up a set of early 845s 3i-PW (pat. Single Irons; Shafts & Components . Mine are waxed after every round. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, (your email address will not be published). MyGolfSpy, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tommy Armour is a golf club brand that has been on the market for quite some time. Sports Authority was no golf authority, however. It came with a custom fitting system. The Tommy Armour 845s titanium 9 iron with G-Force graphite shaft is likely the most impressive golf club every produced in the history of golf club manufacturing. Love the article. So Im guessing they are an entry level set from 90s, but cant find any other photos of a similar set online. I was ready to litigate, but I had an invitation to attend the Japanese Senior PGA Tour School Qualifier and my wife did not want to Fight. Thus, that was the end of The Tommy Armout tour. $499.99 *. Iron Set. But they always loved selling clubs. 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.