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You seem filled to the gills with anger, envy and jealousy. Why you mad, little fella?

I recently changed my grip from an interlocking grip to the standard overlapping grip and it improved my consistency immensely. I think it has something to do with stability during impact, but I'm unsure, which is why I'm making this thread. Before I changed grips I was very inconsistent, mainly off the tee. Now I'm hitting mostly long and straight drives and I have yet to hit a poor iron shot. I've only been playing golf for about a month and a half (everyday, barring severe rain) and this has been the single biggest change I've implemented into my game. Wednesday I shot an 87 and yesterday I shot an 84. Both legit scores as I never improve my lie or give myself putts. Those were the first two rounds I played with the new grip. I felt fantastic. Before switching grips I'd do well on certain holes and do incredibly poorly on others. I was at the range on Tuesday after playing 18 and hitting incredibly bad shots. I had about 10 balls left and was super tired so I thought, "hey let me just see what a different grip feels like." Not thinking anything would come of it. I hit 5 perfect Drives and 5 perfect 5 iron shots. Never had I done that before with the driver. I don't want to jinx myself but I feel like once I improve my putting and chipping from around the green I can get good at this game. Can anybody who legitimately knows what they're talking about shed some light on why changing grip styles would have this big of an impact on my shot consistency?

I've been running and working out with Vibram's for a year now. They're great. I just got a pair of Speed's sent to me from a friend in the UK. Not really sure how well they'd translate into golf shoes, though. I don't think they'd offer much traction.

I wasn't saying that with the intention of offending people. I posted here to get advice on whether or not I should learn golf with forged irons. Two people attacked me and now you seem to feel compelled to do that as well. Like I alluded to earlier, people who talk shit or act cunty in general, especially on the internet are broken humans. It makes you wonder why they are like that. Nobody wants to be around people like that. Ultimately I end up feeling bad for them because obviously if everything was going well in their lives they'd be super friendly and really cool. Also, why even make ridiculous assumptions about me and my friends feeling entitled or not knowing proper etiquette. That's kind of baffling. Unless you were once again trying to attack me. Anyway, thanks to all of the people that responded legitimately. I'm still unsure of whether or not I would be better off in the long run learning with forged vs. cavity irons. I'm going to head up to the Callaway Performance Center at one of the courses near my house to get fitted and evaluated.

I don't have a job in the sense that I'm a guy who gets up at 6:00 AM and slaves away until 6:00 PM. I've been fortunate enough to have enough foresight to allow me to make money a bit more intelligently. Why? I will for sure put in a good amount of time at the driving range, and will only begin seriously playing once I feel confident in my ball striking and shortgame. In regards to the "that guy" thing. That's silly bullshit and the only people that think that way are negative douchebags who don't have their egos in check or people that care too much about what dummies think. I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by really cool and positive people, who want to have the best possible time with everything we do. None of us think a certain way because Jim Rome told us we should. Thanks for the advice on the driver. I changed that up. Also, I understand $2000 is a lot of money to a lot of people, but for me it's worth it. When I get into something seriously I go all out.

There's a Callaway performance center at a nearby course. So I'll look into that, for sure.

Hello, I'm relatively new to golf and am planning on playing 18 holes a day once the weather lightens up and I find a course I feel comfortable enough with to buy a season membership. Do any of you from the central Massachusetts area have any recommendations? I'm not completely new to golf as I played for a little bit when I was in jr. high, 10 years ago. Some of the courses I played were: Indian Meadow, Holden Hills, Pine Ridge, Cyprian Keyes, Worcester Country Club, Green Hill, and an extremely poorly kept course with a name I can't remember. It was pretty much the worst golf course I've ever seen and was up a steep hill in kind of in a ghetto area. Anyway, I was wondering if any of you had any info on how the courses I mentioned have been maintained and if there are any other courses I should check out. Thanks.

Buying locally means paying over $200 in tax alone. I'd much rather buy from Golfsmith or a similar online vendor. To the other person asking, there's really no reason why I chose all Callaway clubs, I just figured I would stick with a singular brand. Is there anything wrong with Callaway on a whole?

I'm going to begin playing golf, with the intention of becoming as good as possible, once the weather lightens up here. I plan on playing 18 holes every single day. Now, would I be better off learning with forged / blade irons; or should I opt for the more forgiving cavity backed irons? Also, I have $2,000+ to spend. I plan on purchasing: Callaway Razr Hawk Tour - 9.5* Driver Callaway Razr Hawk - 3 and 5 wood Callaway Razr x cavity or forged - 3-PW Callaway Jaws Wedges - 56* and 60* Odyssey White Ice #1 Any good advice would be helpful.