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  1. 1. Which do you find it most frustrating to struggle with?

    • Driving (getting started)
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    • Putting (closing the deal)
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    • other (what)
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Big_M Great Member

Big_M

What is the most frustrating thing to struggle with?
1) the Driver
2) the Putter
3) other

I'm going to say driver because if you aren't playing well off the tee, then it is tough to put something together. You can only recover from the woods, water, heather, and other trouble so many times before being completely demoralized. When my putting goes south I can at least say I played well tee to green, just needed to make some putts. I think it's more tiring to be spraying drives all over the place than to miss some putts.

One thing that seems true though... I have had bad driving days and scored well, but I never have bad putting days and score well... despite this fact I will stick to my original statement though.
My Clubs: Callaway FT-i Tour LCG 9.5° w/ Matrix Ozik Xcon 6 stiff; Sonartec GS Tour 14° w/ Graphite Design Red Ice 70 stiff; Adams Idea Pro 2h(18°) & 3h(20°) w/ Aldila VS Proto 80 stiff; Adams Idea Pro Forged 4-PW w/ TT Black Gold stiff; Cleveland CG12 DSG RTG 52°-10° & 58°-10°; Odyssey...
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It usually is my putter that frustrates me the most. However, it seems like if my driver is working well then my putter isn't and vice-versa.
"When I play with him, he talks to me on every green. He turns to me and says, 'You're away.' "
-Jimmy Demaret referring to Ben Hogan

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Driver: Cleveland HiBore XL (10.5 -conforming)3 Wood: MacGregor V-FOIL5 Wood: Mizuno MP-001Irons: Ben Hogan BH-5 (4-PW)Wedges:52 - Nike SV Tour56 - Cleve...
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Jeepthrills Great Member

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For me it's other. I am reasonably good off the tee and a better putter than my handicap would suggest. Where I struggle the most is longer approach shots. Inside 160 I feel pretty good that I will hit the green on a regular basis. From 170+ it drops quickly. If I'm outside 200, my chances of hitting the green are probably 20%.
Driver: 9.5° 905R Stiff Aldila NV 65
3 Wood: 15.° Pro Trajectory 906F4 Stiff Aldila VS Proto Blue
Hybrid: 19.0° 503 H Stiff Dynamic Gold S400
Hybrid: 21.0° Edge C.F.T. Ti Stiff Aldila NVS
Irons: 775cb 4-GW w/S300 Sand Wedge: Vokey 58° Puttter: Laguna Mid-Slant Pro PlatinumBall: ProV1Bag: Li...
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lamebums Great Member

lamebums

Putting. Nothing's more like a knife in the heart than missing a damned three-footer to save par or bogey.
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Driver: Burner TP 9.5*
3 Wood: 906F2 15*
2I: Eye 23I-PW: 3100 I/HWedges: Vokey Spin-Milled 56*06, MP-R 52*07/60*05Putter: Victoria IIBall: Pro V1xCheck out my new blog: Thousand Yard DriveHome Course: Kenton County...
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r7 425 Dedicated Member

r7 425

the driver look how mad eldrick gets

"People think the size of the head is most important. Wrong. It's getting a quality shaft. test different shafts to see which goes the straightest. Also, more degrees of loft on the head is better than less. Eleven degrees is about right."

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definitely the driver...the feeling i get watching the ball slice into oblivion makes me never want to play golf again sometimes.

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983K 9.5*
906F2 15*
585.h 19* 755 3-PW Vokey Oil Can Spin Milled 54.10 Newport 2 35" NXT Tour

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Ceej Well Established Member

Ceej

Voted putting. Nothing is more frustrating to me than lipping a birdie or par putt.
âI'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.â
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meenman Great Member

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Definitely the driver - it is the one club that is probably keeping me from breaking 100 - one real windy day i used my four iron on all drives and i probably had better ball position on the 14 holes. I usually have 3-4 real bad drives a game. At this point I am happy with a 150 yard straight drive.

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I can live with bad tee shots; I just hit my 3 wood until I'm no longer mad at my poor driver play, which might be the rest of the round.

Poor putting is more disappointing, but the thing that sends my mood south in a hurry is a poor short game. If it takes me two or more shots on the approach - chunking a chip five feet or flying a lob back and forth or skulling the ball sending it into the next fairway - I'm mentally done with that hole and might as well pick up the ball and move on.

In My Grom Bag:

Driver: NVG2 Draw
Woods: NVG2 3 & 5 Woods
Hybrid: Baffler DWS 3Irons: GT Xtreme 4-PWWedges: Vokey Oil Can Spin Milled 56.14Putter: White Hot XG9Balls: NXT, e6+Home Course: Apple Mountain Golf Course http://www.applemountaingolfga.com

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blackxpress Well Established Member

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Short irons are the most frustrating for me. Specifically, anything less than a full power short iron. I can hit a pitching wedge just fine from 100 yds out but once I get within 100 yds I struggle mightily. Sometimes I struggle with a driver but I'm working on that. Even when I'm not hitting the driver well I hit it fairly straight so it doesn't usually get me in too much trouble. I hit my long irons well enough so that I don't typically lose more than a stroke (sometimes 2) because of bad drives. Putting is the best part of my game, by far. If I could only get my short iron play under control I'd be in pretty good shape.

In the Bag:
Driver: Cleveland Launcher Ultralight XL 270

FW: Taylor Made 300 17 degree 
3-PW: Mizuno MX-23

AW: Mizuno TP-T11 52/07 (Bent to 50)
SW: Mizuno TP-T11 56/10

LW: Mizuno TP-T11 60/05

Putter: Original Ping Zing

Ball: Wilson Staff FG Tour

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Leek Dedicated Member

Leek

For me it's the darn putter, especially on birdie putts. If I have 6 or 7 birdie putts between 5-10 feet in a round, I might make one of them. If they were par putts, I make half.

Driver- Geek Dot Com This! 12 degree Matrix Ozik Xcon 6 Stiff
Adams Tour Issue 4350 Dual Can Matrix Ozik Xcon 5

Hybrids- Srixon 18 deg
Srixon 21 deg Irons- Tourstage Z101 3-PW w/Nippon NS Pro 950 GH - Stiff Srixon i701 4-PW w/ Nippon NS Pro 950 GH-Stiff MacGregor...

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x-forged

Id have to say putting. i can deal with bad driving, but if i cant score on the greens with the flatstick, it really affects the score. A 300 yarder is the same stroke as a three-footer, so with that said, putting gets to me when i cant sink it.
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driver- X460 tour 9.5 Aldila NVS 75
irons- X-forged 3-PW TT BlackGold stiff
wedges- x-tour vintage 52, 56, 60
hybrid- FT-hybrid #2 17* putter- Sophia 33" "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."_Mario Andretti
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mikeprooo Member

mikeprooo

I say other...Especially frustrating is when you hit a beautiful drive to the middle of the fairway and proceed to chunk your supposedly easy iron approach shot to the green to set yourself up for birdie!!!
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Tater32 Member

Tater32

Putting by far the most frustrating..........I can deal with a bad drive but not missing a 3 footer..........that drives me mad.

"The golf swing is like sex. You can't be thinking about the mechanics of the act while you are performing." -Dave Hill

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nykfan4life Dedicated Member

nykfan4life

Putting by far the most frustrating..........I can deal with a bad drive but not missing a 3 footer..........that drives me mad.

yeah, bad putts you know you can make also make me pull my hair out.
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