re: JD’s driver, the year he won the PGA, for sale

not gonna lie, i'm tempted to bid on that. that's pretty badass. i'll never forget how pumped i was watching him on that sunday

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**UPDATE** After seeing a Golf Magazine article about this auction, Dick Liesz, the then-VP of Technical Services for Cobra that produced this club for Daly reached out to us to provide additional info. He also remarked that seeing this driver again "brought back some very fond memories."

This is the club that we designed for John Daly when he won the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick in 1991.

The head material is called "Lauramid" and was invented in Germany. It not only offered high wear resistance, an inch thick piece of it would stop a .357 magnum bullet at point blank range. My right hand guy and I took a head to the curb and poured concentrated muriatic acid on it --- nothing happened to the head, but the cement curb got eaten away.

Daly at the time had a 142 mph clubhead speed and he cracked every metal wood driver head that he tried. His agent came to us and asked if we could fit him with something that he could play with. The head only has 6.5 degrees of loft... It was an extra firm titanium shaft powder coated translucent red.

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