golfer2b2000

I am actually 5'6" tall. (or short)...I played with them today, and did quite well with them. Definitly slowed down my tempo. Shots were consistant. Still too soon to make a judgement. Have to play at least 10 more rounds or so. As to the compressed air for removing, or installing grips, yes, I do wear safety glasses. There is an art to doing this, but with some practice it is actually much easier than using two sided tape. Putting grips on clubs like this you need to use very short bursts of air. Then just keep working the grips on as you use the short burst of air. It almost sounds like when you are letting air out of an inflated baloon and you are squeezing together the tube letting the air escape.

Years ago this course was referred to as Armco I do believe. I haven't played it for years. It's not cheap to play, but I found it worh the money. It is not flat either, nor is it short. At my age and hitting from the regular tees I find myself pulling out the 5 wood more often then a short iron.Greens can be quite fast, and some of the placements can be more than a challenge.If you don't mind seeing your scores rise a bit, but you are more up to a challenge give this a try. I think you will be happy you did...

Just got the chance to play this course a couple weeks ago. What a great course!!

I seem to be one of those who prefer a longer iron. For years I have played with a 50 inch driver which I had a Callaway 12 degree head on it. The driver was not built to give me extra distance, but to create a smooth tempo for which to drop the clubhead onto the ball with great consistancy to improve accuracy hitting fairways. Yes, this really did push the swingweight quite high, but the consistancy of hitting fairways improved greatly. I am going to lenghten a set of Titleist AP1,s. I am going to start at a plus 2 inches seeing it is easier to cut lengths down rather to extend them. The swingweights will be off the wall. I will put the original grips back on the clubs using compressed air so if I want to shorten them it will be much easier. I also understand that my shaft flex will dramatically increase. Again, this is not to increase distance, but rather to generate a more consistand swing to promote better accuracy. If worse comes to worse, the only thing I am out is 30 dollars for the shaft extensions. I am looking for feedback to you golfers out there who may have experminted with this, and to what your results may have been. Thank you

I have a Callaway mini driver, and I was thinking about replacing the shaft. The shaft takes an adapter. I am not seeing an adapter for the mini drivers but I do see them for just about every other driver that Callaway produces.My question is this. Are all these adapters standard, or do I need a special adapter to fit the mini driver???

Yes, their site is not what it use to be, and I believe it will slowly fail. I know that my use of it has diminished, and will probably continue to do so. I use Amazon when I need to. I think its a much more trusted site, and whenever I had to return an item, it was much more easy to do so. And reaching them was a lot more easier than trying to reach someone on EBAY

I had to contact EBAY and also PayPal. Contacting EBAY is no easy task. I don't believe you can reach them by phone if you have a problem. I finally did get in touch with PayPal, and after probably a month I was issued a refund.

Yes, they are assumptions, and that is exactly what they are. But if they happen time after time again, there just may be some truth to them. It sounds like you are a firm believer in EBAY, and that's fine. I do not need proof. You dont need to have proof that a neighbors dog bit you. Usually the teeth marks are enough. You would'nt happen to be an attorney would you???☺️

I use to use EBAY years ago, when it first came out. I even sold a few items. Never had a problem. The only real issue I had was last year when the item I won the bid on was no longer available. I was offered a replacement which I totally declined. It's upsetting to win an item that you wanted only to discover that the merchant has allready sold it out of one of his other outlets. I don't feel that is right either. But my issue is like I stated in the first part of this thread. Granted, you have basically two different types of people bidding on an item. In this case lets say a golf club and lets say its average going price is 200 dollars. You get a lot of people that start out bidding like 10 dollars, 20 dollars and so forth. These people are hoping to get something like this for next to nothing, and that rarely happens. If the merchant has 150 dollars invested he can't sell it for less than that and make a profit. So if the bid maxes out at 100 dollars, the merchant has lost 50 bucks. He can't stay in business doing this, so he has a third party that will keep uping the bid in hopes that the other bidder keeps advancing his bid. In this case to get him to bid at least 150 or more so the merchant makes money. If the third party wins the bid because no one bids more that the 150, the merchant pays him a small perchantage, and the merchant will hope to sell it to someone else. It's basically like a reserve bid for which I havent seen many times at all on EBAY anymore. They may have even done away with them... I liked the reserve bid, because I could decide even before I made a bid, if I was willing to pay at least the reserve price...

I do not call it buyer friendly when you purchase an item from EBAY, and you receive it and it is not what you ordered. This is not EBAY's fault, but because they are the service, thats who I will go to. These massive sales centers do not just use EBAY. They have other stores, and if the item sells from another store before they can get it sent to you, they normally send you a replacement, which is usually not what you want. So Lets say a person bids on an item, and he has an emergency as to where he can't purchase the item. Is that fraudelent too???

What I mean is this...If you bid on an item, and you are the high bidder, you are suppose to purchase the item from the seller. If you do not do so, EBAY can, and will put you on a blacklist where you are not able to bid on items in the future. This will probably not happen on the first occurance, but if it occurs numerous times, they mpst certainly will.

Probably not, but its so easy to justify that merchandise gets misplaced. Some of these sellers do thousands and thousands of transactions. And EBAY does not want to lose these customers because they are their bread and butter. But let you win one bid, and don't send the money in, or basically decline winning the bid, and you wont ever have to worry about bidding again.LOL

I just placed a bid on a set of irons, and again I was outbidded. These were used and identical to a set I missed out on yesterday that were brand new. The difference in the price between the new clubs, and the used ones were 40 dollars, plus the set of used ones that sold you had to pay an additional 20 dollars for shipping where the new ones were free shipping. I was also next to the highest bidder. I am not making rediculous bids either, but I am trying to get a nice set of clubs and save a few dollars. I have another set I will try tomorrow. Change my tactics, and bid a fair price. Lets see what happens...😁

I understand this fully. If I decide what my maximum bid is going to be, and I am dedicated that I will not go any higher, if I lose the bid it's no big deal. I did sit right there in the final seconds just to see what happens.Some people do get caught up in the competition of needing to win the big at any cost. That's why sometimes items go higher than what they really should. I shouldnt get upset if I set my highest bid at like 200 dollars and see that someone got it for 205. And I am not upset as to what has happened. I just feel like there may be third parties out there that are working with some sellers to bid the bids up to a price where the seller is willing to sell the item. Then the third party gets a small percentage. I can't believe that a new driver where these major selling companies are selling at "BUY IT NOW" prices at lets say around the 250 dollar mark, are selling in an actual auction for 100 dollars less. It doesnt make any sense.

But they do not disclose to you who the highest bidder is, so there is no way to contact them. You are right though. They may have a number of the same, identical items. But the thing is this. These are NEW items. Not used. Checking the "buy in now items", you will see that the number of different vendors are basically within 20 or 30 dollars of each other. On this paticular item I put in a bid of I believe 140 dollars. I was outbid and the item sold for 145 dollars. If you check the buy it now prices you cannot find this paticular item for less than 250 dollars. If this just happened once, I would not be as suspious as I am after this happened twice to me within a week...

I truly enjoy trying different drivers, putters, and even iron sets. I know this doesnt help my game, but I am at an age where I just enjoy trying different clubs. If I don't score with them oh well. Recently I have been in a driver crave, and what better place to look for them than EBAY. So here is the story... I find a brand new driver for sale. I bid on it. Not a lot, but an average amount I would say.I am watching the timer from like 3 minutes till the end of the auction.In the last 5 seconds while I am in the lead, all of a sudden the bids go crazy and I lose the item by a dollar and a half...No big deal right... So I get an email stating that I didnt win that paticular bid, but there are other items similar to the one I lost the bid on that if I am interested, I can bid on...Sooooo, I click on the item to see, and this one is EXACTLY IDENTICAL to the one I just got outbid by. It's also by the same seller. So I being like I am, I bid on this new driver. Only this time I bid 25 dollars more. I watch the ticker like I am watching a Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game. I am on the edge of me seat... Once again, I am the high bidder until... 5 seconds before the end I again get outbid and lose the item by a measly buck and a half... I guess what I am getting at is I am wondering if this is purposely being done by a third party who just may be in contact with the seller, and if the seller does not get what he wants out of the club, or more, the third party bids the item up, but does not have to purchase it from the seller.. Anyone else ever have any similar thigs happen???FISHY???:)

When I was a lot younger, in my early teens, I could not afford a half set of clubs, let alone a full set. I played with a 3 wood, 3 iron,7 iron, 9 iron, and a putter. I had 3 golf balls I remember. They were called Fautless, and the reason I bought them is because if I hit them into a lake or pond, they would float. I didn't realize though if you hit them into the middle of a lake that it would take forever for them to make their way to land. Anyway, I learned to hit those clubs different ways. Hood the 7 iron to produce a low boring shot, or open the blade up on a 9 iron to land it softly. Because of this I turned into a decent playing amateur golfer. You don't need a full set of clubs to play good golf, or score good. You just have to know how to play with what you have. In other words, you could give some people 30 clubs to play a round with, and their scores would not be any better...

A gentleman I know has a set of MT 588 golf irons he is interested in selling to me. The shaft though is listed as stiff flex. I have been playing regular shafts for some time now, and not really sure if I should go into a stiff flex. I know that flexes differ from one manufacturer to another. My question is that can most people tell a difference between stiff and a regular flex? Who makes this shaft because I doubt if Cleveland makes them. Looking for a bit of advise from you fellows out there as to what I should possibly do. Thank you

Getting fitted for a driver is probably the best way to go.But golf club fitters are like doctors. You can have good ones, and ones not so good. Also, how many times have you went out to a course to play a round and the driver you used yesterday has seemed to left you. Our bodies, and swings change like the weather. That's the fun thing about this game. I enjoy building a shaft and trying it in a driver and compare with my others.With the new adapters it makes it a lot simpler than heating, and pulling a shaft. Lead tape???What is that..LOL. Yes, I still do that sometimes still. Back in the days thats all we had. Just stick some out on the toe, or heel. You could easily hide it on the bottom so as not to be seen while you address the ball. I also seem to have better luck drawing the ball when I use a more lofted driver like a 12* Just because a driver is 12* does not mean you are going to sky the ball. You will in most cases probably add rotation to the ball, which does promote accuracy, but loss of some distances. By changing a shaft I am able to hit the ball lower expecially with a shaft that has a higher bend point..

I do have the Diamana stock shaft in my driver.My driver is not a real problem, but I enjoy hitting the ball and feeling a nice soft report through the shaft to my hands and arms.As you know there is way too much time spent on drivers where if you really want to improve your game you should probably concentrate on other parts of your game. I have driven many balls to within 100 yards of a green only to walk off with a bogey. I play 5 different drivers with I dont know just how many different shafts. I actually have an old Callaway VFT 12* driver on a 49 inch Penley shaft. It is said that the longer the driver is, the harder it is to control. Probably true in a lot of cases but not all. To me it makes me swing with a better tempo, and not to try to crush the ball because of the extra weight of the driver. My distances are basically the same. I am at an age where I am no longer as competitive as I was 30 years ago. My distances have really dropped off. Scores have increased, but to play a round and hit the ball consistantly means to me more than my score. But usually the better you strike the ball, the better you score. I have played rounds where I felt I struck the ball well, but my score didn't reflect my performance. And also played not good, but got a few lucky breaks and scored well. Sure is a funny, but great game...

I appreciate your imput. At my age I probably shouldbe playing something a bit softer, but I got this club used for a low price and thought I would give it a try. You normally do not see a 12 degree loft with a stiff shaft. I have the ability to put together a shaft for it and the proper adapter. The many many different shafts out there are really confusing. I have checked places like 2nd swing golf and might just be further ahead to purchase the whole driver in a 12 degree face in a regular shaft. Won't be that much more than building one myself.

I am looking for a new shaft for my driver. What I am playing with now is a Titleist 913D2 in a 12* loft, and a stiff shaft. I am in my mid 60's. I like to work the ball with a slight draw. I find it quite hard to do this with the stiff shaft, even when I set the club for a draw..would purchasing a shaft in a weaker flex give me more of a tendacy to draw the ball? My swing speed is right around 90. Thank you.

I enjoy reading what other golfers have to say about different courses and all. I don't just use a site to sell items which I rarely do. I thought I asked a simple question and got what I would call, and other people a "negative" response. If you do not allow me to sell golf items that is just fine. There is other places I can go. But usually sites like this you can find more of what I call trusting people. I am an avid skeet shooter, trapshooter, and rifle shooter and find that sites dedicated to the sport, (like yours), is a better place to buy.

wow!! you really have a very difficult time understanding questions for some reason. First of all your rules do not PLAINLY STATE how many posts you must have. "READ YOUR RULES"!! I asked a simple question as to how many post I must have and instead of being polite and just answering my question, you have to offer me a "dig". Then I ask how to up my status on here so that I may be allowed to advertise, and you completely skirt the question by explaining to me what the intent of this site is all about. I DO take time and look over what other golfers have to say about topics on here, and have found them quite delightful. Maybe you should take a few lessons, and I am not talking about golf lessons, and try to be a bit more helpful, instead of trying to just insult people. But its all explained when I see that you are from Erie, Pennsylvania. I live just south of you an hours drive. I have played a few amateur tournaments with people from Erie, and found them to be arrogant. (sorta like yourself).

so since I am "just a registered user" I am not allowed to advertise? So what do I do to up my ststus on this site to be able to advertise some of my equiptment?