The golf club, one of the essential pieces of equipment for playing this sport, has changed substantially throughout history. Ignacio Gervás, Technical Director of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, focuses on two of them that you may not be familiar with from the era known as the Feathery ball, named after the delicate leather ball filled with feathers, which required special clubs.

One of them is the 'Long nose', long and narrow, made of beech wood and shaped like a nose –hence its name–, while another, made of iron, a precursor to the current ones, was used to hit the ball in complicated situations.

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