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Yeah, but with 8.5 degrees of loft. My SS is only 102-105mph, so I don't think I could generate an ideal launch angle with that loft and a stiff shaft with a high kick point.

I just ordered a Callaway FT-3 Fusion Tour Nuetral, 9.5 degrees with a stiff Aldila NVS-65 to try out from them. I've tried the 10 degree normal Ft-3 with the Callaway/Aldila NVS-55 in a stiff and didn't like it, and I hit a 10.5 degree Tour with the NVS-65 on a launch monitor and was hitting the ball way too high, so hopefully this setup will work out nicely. I think its worth 25 bucks to try out a club on the course and range, and I might as well do it now so if I like it I can buy one before the free fairway wood deal expires. I'll report back on how the site works after I've played the club and returned it.

Heh, I got 2 tickets to tomorrow's round for free. It helps to have a friend that works at the USGA.

I'm gonna go +3 for the winning score. Any ideas as to what the cut will be at?

I think Phil will take it, but I'm hoping Goosen will, I love watching that guy play golf. When he's on, he is the best in the world(i.e. when he won at Shinnecock).

My iron set is in the shop getting regripped, so I decided I would do a little comparing and contrasting. For the last 3 years, I've played the first generation Taylor Made RAC OS Irons, 3-PW, with steel shafts, and I love them. But, I've always had a very high ball flight, which is a good thing most of the time, but occasionally makes me feel like I lose distance because of it(my 3 iron launches on a slightly higher trajectory than my dads 6 iron, and he has what I'd call a mid trajectory). So, rooting around in the garage last night, I found his irons from when he played high school golf, a set of Wilson Dyna-Powered Staff Model blades, 3-8, we seem to have lost the 9 iron and pitching wedge somewhere along the line. So after a little cleaning up, I decided I'd take them out today and play 9 holes with them to see if I have what it takes to hit a blade style iron, and what effect they have on my trajectory. Obviously they will be way more unforgiving, because of the small head size and the rock hard, formerly rubber grips. However, I'm looking forward to seeing how I shoot and what I can do with more traditional irons. I might even bust out an old persimmon wood or 2. Full report on how they compare and how I handled the more traditional clubs to come later today.

I need some new grips for my irons, and my normal golf shop can't seem to get their act together and order enough stock of them, so I'm looking for another reputable golf shop that carries Golf Pride grips in Warren, Sussex or Morris Counties. If anyone knows of any, it would be hugely appreciated. Thanks. -Ben

Probably an aftermarket finish on that putter. The Scotty Cameron's with the crown logo on the face all came from the studio with an oil can finish on them. So unless the oil can finish wore off and then the putter was extremely well maintained, its been altered. I doubt that was the case though, because the finish is way too even. It doesn't really look like Pro Platinum either, so my guess is that it was refinished by a company other than Scotty Cameron. Post up pics and ask about it at www.cameroncollector.com , they should be able to give you a definite answer.

I color each of the 6 deeper dimples on the Callaway HX Tour golfballs in with a black Sharpie. Definitely makes it easy to indentify my ball in a group.

I like Phil way more than Tiger, and think that certain aspects of his game are better, but certain aspects of Tiger's game are way better than those of Phil's. Tiger comes off as way to much of an automaton to really be fun to watch unless he is absolutely owning a tournament, whereas Phil looks like he's having some fun out there. For now, I give the edge to Lefty, simply because of his recent dominance on tour, but I think recent wins at majors play a huge rule in determing who is better month to month and year to year.

Tour version isn't totally ruled out, but I feel like the shape of the normal one would be more forgiving on off center hits. I have no trouble getting a driver into the air, but i need a club that is more designed for forgiveness on toe and heel mishits than workability, at least at this point in my game. When I get to a shop with a launch monitor, I'll hit pretty much everything they have, I don't care about brand name, as long as the club works for me.

Can't wait to see the full review of this club, even though its the Tour model and not the normal one. I've pretty much narrowed my new driver choices down to the FT-3/FT-3 Tour, the SQ, the MacTech/Tour and the HiBore. Gonna have to schedule a date with a launch monitor soon.

6 over par 42 for nine holes with a both a triple and double bogey at Riverview Golf Club outside Easton, PA. On the plus side, I tried out of the new FT-3 drivers and liked it a lot, but really wanna try out the Tour version with a heavier shaft, a super light head attached to a 55 gram shaft just feels weird to me.

8 over par 80 with a three putt bogey on the 18th hole(from less than 20 feet). It isn't that great a round, but considering the fact that I only broke 90 2 or 3 times the previous year, I'm pretty happy with it. Goal for the summer, break 80 consistently.

Yesterday it looked like they were raked parallel to the line of play to me, and one of the ESPN announcers made a comment alluding to a last minute change from perpendicular to parallel, but I wasn't paying super close attention. With the sand being wet and heavy with today's rain, the furrows should be especially challenging if someone was to draw a settled lie in them. Thats how it should be. Or, better yet, they should play them like one of the golf teams we play, where the bunkers go completely unraked, and you draw the lie that you draw, whether its a footprint, divot or anything else.