Cory Crelan and the Retro Golf Club

2022-02-13

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Hello, friends, and welcome to The Golf Leif. I'm your host, Leif Skodnick – a minimally talented golfer living in Rye, New York. Golfers – and if you're listening to this, you are one, or you're listening to this to humor me – are nostalgic. We're nostalgic for places – where we played our first 18 holes, where we first broke 100, 90, 80, and so on, favorite courses we've played or places we've dreamed about visiting, like Augusta, Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, or St. Andrews, and perhaps ...

Hello, friends, and welcome to The Golf Leif.

I'm your host, Leif Skodnick – a minimally talented golfer living in Rye, New York.

Golfers – and if you're listening to this, you are one, or you're listening to this to humor me – are nostalgic. We're nostalgic for places – where we played our first 18 holes, where we first broke 100, 90, 80, and so on, favorite courses we've played or places we've dreamed about visiting, like Augusta, Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, or St. Andrews, and perhaps most of all, the clubs and balls we used to use.

A few months ago, while doomscrolling on instagram, I came across the Retro golf Club account run by former assistant pro Cory Crelan, who has amassed an astonishing collection of vintage iron sets, persimmon (and some vintage metal) woods and putters in a garage in Wilton, Connecticut.

There are brands and club lines from the past that jogged my memory - Ben Hogan and MacGregor irons, Orlimar woods, Zebra putters, to name a few.

I had to find out what exactly Cory was going to do with - literally - van loads of vintage clubs, so I figured I'd ask him myself.

You can find Cory online on instagram @retrogolfclub. Check it out for a walk down the fairways of your memory.

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