Hickory Plugs

As the golfing world transitioned from wooden shafts to tubular steel, wooden plugs were used in the end of steel shafts as a simple and cost effective way of affixing wound leather grips to the clubs. One of the most cost effective ways of creating these plugs was by cutting up the now superseded hickory shafts into short lengths, and shaping them to fit the ends of the steel shafts.

Many, many hickory shafted clubs ended their useful lives in this way.