The expensive act of changing flex

[MiniBlueDragon]

Originally Posted by Clambake

As you can see, your selfish decision to move gradually into new clubs will have enormous impact on our global economy and way of life.   Please, please, please....for the sake of all humanity.....run as fast as you can to your local retailer and buy your new clubs NOW!!!!

Very good indeed! I thought the last point might be "someone who you forced into a life of crime will steal your clubs anyway" haha

Alas however you're too late. The irons were bought a couple of weeks ago and the wedges ordered, today the wedges arrived at the store to be picked up so I took the fitting above and decided to sit on it and decide what to do. Approximately 2 hours later I had persuaded myself that trying to play with a mix of different flexes would be detrimental to my progression so I was back at the store trading in my reg shaft JPX's for the stiff shaft ones (the 3H is out of stock so that's on order)

I took this before I wandered back down to swap the woods:


Bag is all done now for many many years to come.

[Clambake]

Originally Posted by MiniBlueDragon

Bag is all done now for many many years to come.

On behalf of everyone, thank you for not allowing society to totally crumble away because you failed to do the right thing and spend your money now.     But please remember, our whole economy is built on you refreshing your clubs every once in awhile, so please don't wait too many years before doing it all again.    I'd hate to think that you alone could be the cause of another economic crisis in a few years.

[Beachcomber]

Originally Posted by Clambake

MBD, I think you should forget about moving into a new set of clubs, reshafting, or any of these economical options.    Frankly, you have a moral obligation to society to make the changes to a properly fit set of clubs all due speed.   Delaying your spending to change out your set one club or group of clubs at a time will have serious consequences:

Your delay in purchasing everything now means your local golf retailer will not be getting some of the money they were forecasting, so their business will be hurt.   They'll probably have to lay off some staff, so you'll be contributing to unemployment in the UK.

Since your golf shop has laid off staff, when you do go back later to get clubs they won't have the trained staff anymore, and you'll be fit for your new club by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.    Your delay means you won't get the right clubs for you, and you will ultimately be very dissatisfied with your purchase.   Your disappointment may even make you give up the game, and you'll simply wander around muttering expletives the game of golf, generally annoying everyone you meet.

Delaying your purchase also means the manufacturer won't be getting your order earlier and they're also building that into their forecast, so they also will be impacted.   They will probably have to lay off some manufacturing workers.    Since these jobs are likely in China, this means that there will be a larger supply of unemployed workers in China, and from simple supply and demand of labor then the manufacturing wages in that region will not go up, and may even go down.

Driving the Chinese labor pricing down means that offshoring manufacturing to China becomes even more attractive to foreign companies trying to reduce their labor rates.   This will help increase the flow of manufacturing jobs from the developed countries in Europe and North America, reducing in even more unemployment domestically.

This greater flow of manufacturing jobs to China will even further upset the global trade balance, impacting currency rates and hurting interest rates.

The manufacturers also won't have the additional monies to allocate for future R&D.;    Laying off R&D; means they'll be laying off engineers and metallurgists.    These are higher salaried positions, and the leverage effect in the economy will be significant.    Local businesses such as restaurants, cleaners, department stores, etc. will all feel the effect of the loss of these well-paying jobs.     Some will probably have to close their doors as a result.

All these laid off workers will be hard pressed to find new jobs because of the decline you've started, and to simply feed their families they will be forced to turn to a life of crime.    Normal husbands and dads will steal cars that are smuggled to Albania to sell to Russian mobsters.    Young mothers will be forced to turn to prostitution.   Some parents may even have to turn out their own kids into prostitution, or sell them into slavery.

As you can see, your selfish decision to move gradually into new clubs will have enormous impact on our global economy and way of life.   Please, please, please....for the sake of all humanity.....run as fast as you can to your local retailer and buy your new clubs NOW!!!!

Post of the year right there! LOL

[Beachcomber]

Originally Posted by MiniBlueDragon

Very good indeed! I thought the last point might be "someone who you forced into a life of crime will steal your clubs anyway" haha

Alas however you're too late. The irons were bought a couple of weeks ago and the wedges ordered, today the wedges arrived at the store to be picked up so I took the fitting above and decided to sit on it and decide what to do. Approximately 2 hours later I had persuaded myself that trying to play with a mix of different flexes would be detrimental to my progression so I was back at the store trading in my reg shaft JPX's for the stiff shaft ones (the 3H is out of stock so that's on order)

I took this before I wandered back down to swap the woods:

Bag is all done now for many many years to come.

Nice!  Congrats bud.  Now you only have one thing left to do... Go out and play!!

[tristanhilton85]

Originally Posted by MiniBlueDragon

Bag is all done now for many many years to come.

Doubtful... I've said the same thing many times to myself and it is never true.  There is always something new that you just have to have or some crazy good deal that you just can't pass up.

[MiniBlueDragon]

Originally Posted by Beachcomber

Nice!  Congrats bud.  Now you only have one thing left to do... Go out and play!!

True! I feel sick this morning; need some fresh air I reckon.

Originally Posted by tristanhilton85

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiniBlueDragon

Bag is all done now for many many years to come.

Doubtful... I've said the same thing many times to myself and it is never true.  There is always something new that you just have to have or some crazy good deal that you just can't pass up.

Lies! Not listening... La la la la la la la la....