EQUIPMENT June 30, 2021 Coated shaft golf clubs 1930s-1950s – PART 1. Introduction of steel shafts & end of hickory shafts.Part 1 of a 3 part review of the coated-shaft era of golf clubs, currently a sadly neglected area. The introduction of steel golf shafts from the late 1920s through to the late 1930s, by which time hickory shafts had…