{"id":1086,"date":"2013-08-10T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcgolfhouse.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2013-08-10T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:52:08","slug":"ben-sayers-jr-golf-club-manufacturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/ben-sayers-jr-golf-club-manufacturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sayers Jr. Golf Club Manufacturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBen Sayers Jr. Golf Club Manufacturer<\/p>\n<p>Ben Sayers Jr. commenced manufacturing golf clubs on a large scale about 1912 in North Berwick, Scotland. Over the next six decades Sayers clubs appeared throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Golf Museum received on loan a rather unique set of 10 Ben Sayers woods. The woods are clearly numbered 1 \u2013 10. The balance point is at the same point for each club. The loft on the each wood increases as the number increases. The #10 wood has the loft of a #9 iron. Similarly the length of the shaft decreases as the loft increases.<\/p>\n<p>The type of grip is characteristic for golf clubs manufactured in the early 1950\u2019s. The corrugated sole plate for each wood is unique for the time frame, but Sayers used a similar corrugated pattern on hickory-shafted putters in the 1920\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum is searching for additional information for this matched set of Ben Sayers woods<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sayers Jr. Golf Club Manufacturer Ben Sayers Jr. commenced manufacturing golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itbcpro.ca\/bcgolfhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}