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Par 4 with a 200 yard forced carry over an ocean inlet. If I drive, I'm over the green. My only play is a 3i off the tee, unless I happened to throw my driving iron in the bag. This is at a course near my wife's parents in Nova Scotia.

That was a hell of a drive.

I hope Fowler can hold it together through Sunday. not a huge fan but he works hard.

86, and once again it's my driving that kills me. What's wierd is that I hit it well at the range, on the launch monitor, but on the course, it slices like a m**********r. I know it's me, not the club, but christ, this is the worst i've ever driven the ball. Thankfully my swing coach is coming out on the course with me tomorrow to see what i'm doing wrong (and bringing his GC2+HMT and tablet) off the tee. The rest of my game is very, very good considering I missed 2 full seasons of golf (I started at ~6yo, and was around scratch since I was 18 or so), but I sliced my driver on 4 holes today, wild into the woods. That's 8 shots I never should have had to make. And when I dont slice it, it's still not a good shot, leaving me in second cut with a hybrid, or the wrong side of a dogleg giving me no shot at the green. I never, ever had these problems before, and i'm very anxious to get it fixed up. I HATE it. I'm playing a round tonight with my wife, i'm not even putting the GBB in the bag. I'll use my 3w, and add my callaway ApexUT driving iron.

By the end of summer I want to be breaking 80 regularly. I'm determined to be at least as good as I was at my best at 32, pre injury. It's 29 years since my dad got me playing, except the last almost three years from a bad workplace accident. I didn't fall as far as I expected.

I'm playing the tp5, and I have six Kirkland Signature balls I need to try out. Loved my first round with them. I really hope Costco does another runof them. I don't have much faith in snell being as good as the balls I play. I'm sitting on 5.5 dozen TP5's, and a dozen each of tp5, prov1 and prov1x. So I certainly won't run out of balls this season. Still interested in trying a sleeve though.

he bowled 300, a perfect score(as far as I understand, I hate bowling).

Color has never factored in my choice. I'll take pink if I thought it would make my game better, for me it's all about the feel of the grip all the way through my swing. I have a hatred of wraps because they always feel to me as the club is twisting, even though I know in my head its not. I subconsciously adjust because or it. My shop has each of the grips they sell on a standard 7 iron (this year they are using a Ping G 7 irons for the new grips. My grip was on a 2015 Mizuno, (they only go back 2 years in grip stock), and the 2016 grips were all on Titleist 716 AP1, i'm guessing they do this to also try and sell the clubs as well as the grip), so you literally go into the "Grip Room" with a GC2 and HMT, pick out the grip you want to play from racks of 7 irons line the sides of the bay, and hit balls with it. Then try another, and another, until you are sure it's what you want. You can also compare performance across all of the grips to see any differences in consistency, create averages of each grip with all shots, as well as with just the good shots. It's an impressive setup. They do the same thing with Putters on their indoor putting green. That's how I found my first Superstroke Fatso, I bought 6-7 since. (one on each of my three scotties, one on my Nike B2-01 my Wilson 8801 (I think that's the number), and two on Mallet putters I gave away (One scotty, one TM, I cannot putt with a mallet putter, it has to be an offset blade and 35 inch or it just feels wrong and doesn't look right to me). None on my long putter, but it's not like I ever used it anyway. I practiced with it enough to get a feel for it, but I only gamed it twice to try it out. I just didn't enjoy putting with it. I will say one thing though, the only grip that has truly, truly helped my game is the SS Fatso when I first saw them 4-5 years ago). My putts per round went down an average of 4 strokes over a month of use, and has only improved since then. It locks my wrist and lets me get the speed I need to get to the hole on long putts, and really stops me from messing up on my swing path on shorter putts, since my wrists feel locked. It has helped immensely in holing the 5-6 foot putts that I struggled with before (My putting strategy for a long put (20+ feet) was always get the right speed and line to die near the hole, or directly behind within 3 feet, because if I hit it 6 feet short (rarely) or far(more often), my putting average for the round drops and I ended up with three putts that were caused y bad form in my stroke. Now i'm draining those 5-6 footers more often than I should be. Thankfully putting and chipping were two things I could work on easily after I could wanlk again post accident. My wife even encouraged me to have a putting green built in our back yard (we live in the country, and my house sits on 22 acres of perfect seaside property that would make an stunning 6 hole home links course (totally off topic). The grounds are rolling and sweeping, tree's litter the grounds in ways that would make creative and challenging holes, unfortunately they would all be hitting into the same green. :/ But if I do get one put in, im going all the way, I I have a backhoe to dig bynkers and a beach to realsand fro,

It they have evidence, and they don't come forward, they are just as complicit as him.

I just buy balls,lots of em. When I find one I love, I buy 5-6 dozen. I usually play one round with a ball and throw it in the practice bucket, unless its torn to hell from hard wedge shots or whatever. This year i've been playing TP5's as my main ball. It's amazing, but it would never survive two rounds.

I gotta order a sleeve of these.

I really, really need to try out a lot of grips before I get the one I like most, and feels the best in my hand. This year I tried a ton of them and ended up with Golf Pride 2015 Limited Edition New Decade Multi Compound Platinum for everything but my Putter (Superstroke Flatso grip which I absolutely love). Older grips, but they feel soooo good.

I have no problem with course getting longer, but I don't think a Par5 should be over 600 or so. If you hit the fairway, and nail a pure 3 wood (a decent golfer, good swing speed), I dont think you should ever have more than a 100y wedge into the green. I've met very, very few amateurs who can hit a green like that two.

I carry my driver about 270, and get more with bounce and roll. 3W- 240 yards 5w- 225 yards 3h- 220-225 (but a totally different flight and no roll when I need it. 4i- 210 5i- ~200 6i- 190 7i - 178 (average from lessons on launch monitor, the only one I remember exact off hand) 8i- 160 9i- 145 PW- 130 48* 110 52* 100 (sand wedge, this is my bunker saver, and I just feel every shot so well with it) 56* anything shorter I really want to take a club out to put in my Edel 60*. I want it to be the hybrid, but I know I need that Stopping power sometimes. I may not change anything. But I love that 60 around the fringe. I pop it up hard, and it hits and hops and dies right there. It's gotten me up and down a thousand times. I could take out the 56 and put in the 60, but theres some distances i'm very sure of with the 56 that I know I can't do with the 60. First world problems. These are all estimated (from memory), properly calibrated swing software and hardware, including a trackman and launch monitor (we hit onto a real range in the summer from inside the monitor booth, and on to a projector in the winter)

Man, I hate this "Hit it like a 7 iron thing thats going on. Matching length sets with just different lofts. Now this. When I was on the launch monitor hitting irons, they brought me out a set of these "things", whar horrible, horrible clubs. My wedges were too hot and my long irons were too short, I ended up hitting a set of irons that had about 75 difference from PW to a 3i.. No thanks. And he was really trying to sell me on these. In the end it was the vapors fly pro's, or the Ping i200's. Not gonna lie, the pings were my first choice, but reshafted and lie and loft fixed, with new grips, the ping's were about 500$ more expensive overall, whereas the Nikes were very, very close in numbers (spin, trajectory, smash factor, distance, etc,) and I loved them so much I went with the Nikes. Luckily, since Nike is no more, they were able to find a set of the Vapor Fly Pro's in exactly the lie and shafts I needed at a pro-shop in alberta (they literally searched the country to get me these clubs, and had em sent over 5000km to get me what I wanted for the price I wanted. Ping would have just made me a new set, but again, price.

Since i'll be away for fathers day, I got 4 rooms with golf packages for myself and my wife, my mom and dad, my brother and his gf, and one for my sister and son for this weekend. Only 5 of us golf, and one is only a 6yo, so he'll be doing a junior glof school for the weekend, while the other 4, myself, my wife, brother, and father, each get a round Friday, two Saturday, and two sunday. On the Links at Crowbush! One of the nicest courses anywhere, and an extremely challenging course. I've played there many times in the past. Aside from the old course and some European courses, this is my golf Mecca. Can't wait.

http://www.callawaygolfpreowned.com/golf-clubs/single-irons/irons-2014-apex-utility.html?cgid=single-irons Best driving iron ever made, great out of the fairways, I love mine. I havent had it in my bag in a long time, but theres a course near my wifes familes town that it comes in absolutely necessary for a couple of long, long dogleg 5's. The second shot in is a perfect Callaway Apex UT into perfect wedge position for me (if my first shot hits the midde or right of the doglegs). I think one is like 580 yards, and the second 565 from the tips. If I got for it with a 3w on the second shot of the 580, I almost always end up in the front bunkers that protect the green and blow up my whole, where this lays me up short for a distance i'm completely comfortable with. The 560, I drive the 2 iron to lay up short of a dogleg right into the ocean, where i'll then drive a 3w up close (Again, when my shots are good), and usually have a nice wedge in. If I hit 3w off the tee, I might cut that dogleg and end up literally in the Atlantic ocean. And you can't drive over the dogleg because the other side is protected by sparse trees and very large boulders, covering bunkers on the other side of them.

Yeah, backspin has certainly seemed to come down in recent years. I was shocked when I got fitted and came away with the GBB.

Even all these years later, Tiger threads never disappoint.

M<an, i've never been less enthused about a final. Only Montreal could have made this final worse. IDGAF about Nashville, and I hate the Pens (even though I grew up near enough Crosby and like him quite a bit. We played in the sames league in HS (QMJ) but my time was well before his. I did play with Roberto Luongo for two seasons of QMJ in highschool. I was his right side first line defence. And the three days between games for this final. WTF. Mon-Thurs-Sun? Why not Mon-Wed-Fri-Sun. the way it is supposed to be.

Well, after getting back into it, i'm playing well. I broke 90 3 times in my last three rounds. Do past achievements count, or is it from here forward? Because before my injury, I had many eagles over the 20 years I played, two Hole in Ones in my lifetime, and i've broken 80 more times than I can count, butI don't really want the breaking 80 badge, I want a little goal to work towards, but I would like the Hole in One badge since it's not really something you can practice getting better at. I'm sure i'll get an eagle soon, so I don't want that one right yet either. Edit, didn't even realize I posted in here already.

Shot an 87 yesterday, and it felt like I played well. But again, 3 off the tee FOUR times. One was literally driven too far. A 25' wide river runs through the fairway and into the ocean (its an Oceanside course)at 280 yards out. bI never expected to hit my best drive of the day 270 yards, let alone watch it roll into a fast moving river (we had a lot of rain this spring, so rivers are really high). One was off into the woods. One sliced into the ocean, and the other landed nowhere near water, but was hard into the left edge of the woods, so I took a provisional, and of course we could not find my ball. Thats 8 strokes I should not have needed to play (or give up in penalties). Other than that, my course management is good. I did birdie the first hole, a dogleg right par 5, and then drained a 25 footer for birdie on the 18th. So I started and finished well. In truth, aside from the 3 off the tee's, I only blew up one hole. A 175 yard par 3 that I caught fat, then a wedge that landed on the fringe as far away from the hole as possible. Chipped towards the flag, landed on the downslope and rolled back towards me, 20'+ from the flag, which I then 3 putted. Pathetic. But the next hole I made par, and then a par on the final par 3, which is the nicest hole on the course, and only 112 yards from the blacks (103 from the forward tee's) which is completely over water. If you miss short, its water, miss left your safe, miss right or drive the green, you're in a horrible bunker. I nailed a beautiful wedge shot to 10 feet, and left my putt hanging on the lip, literally, with a slight tap for par. I really don't agree. The misses are just as important as the great shots. You can't improve a well struck shot, we focus on the bad ones because thats where we need work. My drives are long, but 1 in 4 is a wild slice (instead of my natural fade on my better shots, or straight drives on my great ones), so obviously I need work there. Those are the important shots, not the ones that did just what you wanted.

I'm seriously thinking of adding my 60* back in my bag, I hit it very well, i'm just not sure what club to replace, my only real option is my 5 wood, which is about the same carry as my 3 hybrid, but gets a lot more roll where I need it. The hybrid lands, hops, and stops, even on a hard green, I guess because it's coming down at a much steeper angle. But I love that 5W roll-out I get with it on really long par 5's, those few where I have no chance on getting on in two, but the extra ~20 yards roll gives me a short pitch to the green. Golf club choice is the bane of my existence, so if you are anything like me, good luck. I have a bunch of putters too, and I can never decide between two of my Scotty's and my Nike B2-01. I know many here don't like Nike clubs, but the stuff they made their last two years in business (Especially Irons and putters) were truly excellent clubs. Maybe an Edel putter fitting is in order (I just hate the 4 1/2 hour drive to the only Edel fitter around, but it's not so bad, they always give me a free 18 holes with my purchase of anything Edel, and the course is stunning). That E-3 Platinum is a beautiful short stick.

Get on a launch monitor and find something that launches high and lands without too much run off for long shots at the green, and gives you the distance you need. Check backspin, check carry distance, check your average ball flight, And take the two clubs on opposite side of it for comparison. I Hate hitting my 5w into a green, but my 3h is perfect for it. Problem is, I tried about 15 hybrids before I found THE ONE. So take your time and don't get frustrated. Same as driver. I hit the GBB Epic, the new Ping G, the new Titleist, The GBB Epic Sub Zero, King LTD, King LTD Pro, and the M1 and M2. At the end, I had Ping G, the GBB Epic, and the Cobra King LTD (everything was 9-9.5*). I hit about thirty more balls with each, and from sheer numbers, shot dispersion, and my own feel of the club, the one I didn't even want to hit to begin with won out, because that damn GBB Epic is long as hell, forgiving, and just so damn easy to hit well. And throughout training and on the course, I just love it. (on that note, how does anyone ever play a driver that is 10.5*+. I tried the GBB in a 10.5*, and it was ridiculous how much backspin I got, and how much higher my launch angles were. It was just an experiment, but now I know why hardly anyone hits a driver over 9* Seriously, when you need a new club, take it to a launch monitor. Get the stats you need. I had to do it for my whole set this year (except for my wedges and putters, which i've been fitted for previously). And people can say what they want, the Vapor Fly Pro Irons are damned fantastic. Nike finally makes good Irons, then drops out of the business. I'm eyeing up those Ping I200's though. Not just because Ping finally made a nice iron (Yes, I hate the look of most Pings), and the feel off of them is amazing. Sorry for the off topic rant into my own clubs, but my advice comes down to two things, launch monitor, and get fitted. \ Sorry for the double post, the first was accidentally posted before I was finished, then it wouldn't let me edit for some reason.

Get on a launch monitor and find something that launches high and lands without too much run off for long shots at the green, and gives you the distance you need