New equipment for 2009 ordered!

[Zeph]

Not sure if this is the right category, but I saw a few similar threads.

Anyways, here are my orders for new equipment of the season so far:

Mizuno MP-57 3-PW



Ogio Grom Black/Copper



120x Titleist Pro V1 AAA-condition 2008 model



It'll take some time before I get everything, but the season won't start for some time here anyways. Can't wait to try out the irons. I was jumping back and forth with MP-52 and MP-57, I haven't tried any of them, limited selection where I live, but I've tried a great many clubs and really want to try a cavity model, today I've got a cavityback, but after playing with them for two years I don't like the feeling of cavityback. From what I've gathered, the MP-57s are the next step from CB. I'm probably not good enough to use anything with less forgiveness, at this point I don't even know if I'll ever need them.

Until I've tried the different models it's pretty much impossible to tell. All I know today is that I don't like the clubhead to be too heavy or too big. I'm not a great ballstriker, but I'm always looking for the best feeling, I can always work on my game, but the clubs stay the same round after round.

The irons and balls I found on eBay, the bag from a local internet dealer.

[iacas]

120x Titleist Pro V1 AAA-condition 2008 model

Hope they look better than the one in the picture you posted. No way those are anywhere near AAA.

[PiKapp23]

Congrats. Especially on the irons. I have been looking at the MP-57 and MP-52 for the last few months. I have hit both extensively on simulator at golf store and I like both a lot. I think the 52's are probably a little more forgiving, but there's not that much difference between them (although at my golf store the 57's are still $!00 more).

[Bump-n-MI]

Can't wait to try out the irons. I was jumping back and forth with MP-52 and MP-57, I haven't tried any of them, limited selection where I live, but I've tried a great many clubs and really want to try a cavity model,

Risky buying something you have not hit...good luck.

[Zeph]

Hope they look better than the one in the picture you posted. No way those are anywhere near AAA.

Probably, I just found a random picture. The last time I ordered AAA/AAA- I was very pleased with the balls. The scuff marks was no more than I made with one shot.

Risky buying something you have not hit...good luck.

Yep, but my filosofy is that you can play with any club as long as you give yourself a chance to learn to play them. They'd have to turn out really bad if I don't want to use them. I try not to judge a club by its first impression, of all the sports out there, I have learned that golf is the hardest to master, I could not possibly expect to judge a club from a few hits.

Being a game where the mentality matters 90% I think having a nice club between your legs is important. I'm not that good anyways, any club that's better value than the set I got today will work. If they don't work for me at all it's no biggie, they're slightly used, so I paid half of what they cost retail over here. They're not so common here so selling the set would not be a problem.

[jbiz]

I just did the same thing - going back and forth between 52s and 57s. I finally bought a set of MP-57s new on eBay without hitting them at all.

First time I used them was last weekend and it was a little rocky. I was pretty sore from lifting weights, and I hated the grips that came with them. I got them all re-gripped with red/black New Decades, like the rest of my clubs, and hit 2 buckets at the range yesterday. Things went much, much better. They feel absolutely incredible. The 4 and 5 iron are going to be the biggest challenge. The shorter irons are so, so sweet. I can't wait to get them back on the course.

[Drew]

Well... I jumped into golf after a multi year absence last year and purchased my buddies old Cleveland CG-4s from him with the bag and drivers/fairway woods from a nicklaus set he got from Costco a few years back... I said look... if I love it I will buy real clubs after I have played a little and feel like I can be committed to it... I broke 100 once last year and played 25 times. So... this year after a new years vacation in Vegas where I watched cart after cart roll past my window at the JW marriot I said... I am ready and came home with the fever...

So Far...

1 set of used Cleveland Hibore XLi Irons from ebay for $350
1 Set of New Cleveland CG 14 Black Pearl Irons 52, 56 & 60 from eBay for $205
1 New Ogio Atlas Bag (Last Years Model) From Wallys for $130
1 New Clickgear 2 Cart from Uintah Golf Locally for $189
1 Used Nickent 47 Putter Chipper (for those with high handicaps or ages) (I love it)
1 New Scotty Cameron 2.7 Putter $194 (eBay)
1 8.5 loft Cleveland Launcher (looks to have never been used) Loft is so low but with shipping it cost 20 bucks.
1 11.5 Cleveland HiBore Driver (3 year old model but new) for $80 off eBay
1 17 degree Hibore XLS Fairway Wood (New for like $70 on eBay)
1 15 degree Hibore XL fairway wood from Ebay.
New Wintersof Gloves
Nikon 550 Rangefinder from Cabelas Bargain Cave $150
& Most exciting are the huge selection of Ross Dress For Less Addidas, Nike Golf, Ashworth, Sean John (Ill look pimpin for sure) golf shirts and then Perry Ellis Shorts etc for about $10 Per Shirt and $3.50 per shorts (got an Ashworth v Neck Sweatshirt Vest (orange with Blue Piping) for $3.50 and the white golf shirt for underneath for $6.50...

I am doing my part to stimulate the economy! Now if this dang snow would melt!!!

All with stiff shafts (I swing just over 100 and climbing) The Woods are all Fujikura Yellow Shafts with low kick and are stiff..

I went and hit most of these on saturday and talk about game improvement irons... I was hitting freezing golf balls one club at least longer than I was hitting those old clevelands in August! Not only that... They are ACCURATE for me.... I am no where near finessing some curve into my shots... Please let em just go straight! But these seem to be working. I will go a bunch more and we shall see! My big goal is by lesson or a zillion hours at the range or this new magic equipment to break 90 for real by September!

Play On...

Drew