Hickory Era Golf Club Names

• Driver—modern driver
• Brassie—like a strong 2-wood or 3-wood. Named because the sole often had a brass plate
• Spoon—higher-lofted fairway wood, somewhere around a 5-wood or 7-wood. The face had a slight “spooned” loft
• Baffy / baffing spoon—even more lofted fairway wood, almost a modern hybrid or 7-wood
• Cleek—long iron. Could mean several things, but commonly equivalent to a 1-iron through 3-iron. A “driving cleek” was especially tee-shot oriented
• Mid-iron—around a 2or 3-iron
• Mashie iron—transitional club between cleek and mashie
• Mashie—roughly a 5-iron
• Spade mashie—6-iron territory
• Mashie niblick—7-iron or 8-iron
• Niblick—9-iron or wedge. Heavy, steep-faced, excellent from rough or bunkers
• Jigger—low-running chipper club
• Putter—putter, though shapes varied wildly

How these clubs were assembled into a bag, and by whom, is part of Hickory Era American Golf; to swing them today, start with Hickory Golf Starter Guide.