The Shankster

I’m no expert, first glance looks like your rotation is minimal both on your back swing and your follow through, look pretty stiff. We’re all a work in progress that’s why we’re on this dang site.

I think It comes down to the events having more fans recently along w our very ‘brave’ (cough cough) society. People feel like they have more freedom these days to say what they want. Alcohol or not, sure, more alcohol may make more people prone to being braver but limiting alcohol sales won’t do much.

Still thinking -20??

It’s working out perfect! Glad I got fitted. I thought it sounded excessive myself, even on a casual swing my head is perfectly level w the ground. Amazing

-17??? Hmm, seems like a stretch to me. I’ll take the under So who takes it? Is it won outright, are we looking at another playoff or it coming down to the last hole like last week?

Thanks for the insight. I ended up getting fitted. Turns out may have been a good thing, I needed 4% upright bend on my heads and a relatively stiff shaft along w a high launch shaft. We’ll see how I play them, liked them on Friday. I’m definitely more confident already! Thanks. The fitting took place last week. Very insightful. I’ll see how I end Up playing them. I’m already very confident with them. You’re spot on w the superstore, that’s exactly how I felt!

Thanks for the insight. I've tried out quite a few clubs already. Feel like I have it narrowed down. I suppose the real question is, is there really going to be a huge difference from a 'custom fitting' specific to me over the out of the box set's.... I was not thrilled with the big brand PGA Superstore "fitter" that worked with me for about 10 minutes before he seemed to come to a conclusion, It seems there would in fact be much more to finding the right clubs for me specifically. I am now playing at least once a week for the last couple months so there is improvement I'm seeing. I'm for certain due for new clubs, I'd hate to invest in out of the box clubs only to invest again in 6-12 months on a fitted pair, if, that's what's needed... So you'd suggest a custom fitting.....?

I've been a very casual golfer for 22 years. Played semi consistently in my younger years. Played very inconsistently for a span of about 5 years, quit playing all together for about 5 years, picked it back up seriously a year and a half ago. I have a set of very old King Cobra Oversized irons I've played many many times and most recently. I've never been professionally fitted, I've purchased a set of R7 Irons when they first came out however many years ago and played relatively well (for me), then I sold them and always kept the Cobra's as a back up. Anyhow, until last year, I never had an official handicap, I went from a 30 down to a 23 since I've been tracking. Shot my best round ever 3 weeks ago at an 88. This clubs are pretty unforgiving on a missed hit. I'm going to get a new set, I went to the PGA superstore to get 'fit', well, that sure seemed like a joke. The guy spent 10 minutes with me and came to the conclusion that a standard out of the box set would work for me, was not thorough at all in the 'fitting', I guess I'm wondering how beneficial a custom fitting would be for me being that my handicap is pretty high and my thought is any newer clubs are going to feel way better than my Cobra's.... any feedback is appreciated. I'm open to doing a custom fitting and paying for it as I think it'd be fun to see what conclusions a real fitter come to.