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really? ladies and jr's loose distance? I would have put money on it that it was the opposite way. What would your guess be on lost yardage of a Pro V to a Womens ball? The only reason I ask this is that I hit a "comparison drive" this weekend. First ball was with my R7425 and a Pro V, my buddy just got an F12 so I hit another with it and for some unknown reason someone in the 4 some had a DDH lady that I teed up and put about 5 yards shorter than my first drive.

I don't know about others but when I started at 10 years old I was playing hockey, baseball, soccer and swimming at the same time. My parents told me if I wanted to play golf I had to use money from mowing my grandparents lawns for clubs. Obviously I didn't have much and was at a friends house who's dad played golf when he was younger but didn't have the time for it anymore, he had a bag of mismatched blades from the late 70's that all still had leather wrapped grips on them and persimmon woods. one way or another he ended up giving/selling them to me so I could start to take lessons and get into jr golf. I am gratefully every time I walk on the course that I started with a blade in my hand and not a cavity back as you truly learn how to swing a golf club when thats what you start with. I used that same set of mixed irons until I got to high school and made the mistake of buying some cavity back irons to help "improve my game" well leaving my blades at home and carrying the cb's took me from a 4 handicap to a 12 handicap. I didn't have to be nearly as precise and tight with my swing and that introduced hooks and slices into my game that werent there before and I was literally only good enough to make the team with them for my fresh and soph years. I went back to blades my jr. year and made the move to highest handicap to my varsity teams #2 player and back to competing with Overton (from the same city) not just standing watching him win everything anymore.

rusty, the reason for replacing is simply due to age and fatigue. That's what I had planned to do with my 6 iron I just dont hit my 6 very often that it needs it as my 6 iron cracked at the hozel and the one I ordered is minus 1 inch on it's current shaft

Hey everyone, I'm going to be reshafting my irons after my next tournament and was wanting some advice. I am currently playing Mizuno MP-14's with S300's which has been my shaft of choice since 2000. I plan on going with what I know and having new S300's put in the heads and some new grips put on them after the come back from getting re grooved and plated. HOWEVER I was playing TaylorMade rac MB irons before I returned to mizuno this season that have Rifle 6.0 shafts in them that are pretty much brand new. I have been considering just swapping heads on those shafts and getting new grips but my concern is that with my mp-14's matched with the S300's I can easily work the ball high, low, left, and right and I always struggled to work the ball with the rac MB's on the 6.0's. I don't want to pull the 6.0's from the TM heads if thats a characteristics of those shafts though so I was wondering if the difference could be in the shafts or if it would be a head issue (club or human) Thanks ZT

we used to do a drill once a week on my HS team that was a single iron and a putter for our round. I would choose my 7 iron most of the time but sometimes a 5 iron. This was probably one of my favorite practice days the other one was when we played the course only from the bunkers.

In all reality he's probably playing a direct copy of what ever forged blade on the market, be it Miura/Mizuno/Titelist what ever I dont see nike engineers being able to recreate the blade from all their own designs that was LEAPS andbounds better than companies that have been making them since the mid 1900's. Drivers and woods I would be confident in saying that Tigers big bodied clubs are as much Nike as the Karman Ghia was a Volkswagen. I'm sure things along the lines of drivers and fairway woods maybe even wedges would have a big enough trickle down that his stuff would warant them spending millions upon millions of dollars to devolop them. Also when it comes to putters I see their high end putters being a Scotty Cameron situation that they are putting their name on them. Having worked in manufacturing for the auto industry I have seen SOOOOOOO many companies sit down with others and discuss things like wiring routing to save a few feet per harness and so on. As well as companies such as Toyota or Ford sending employees out to purchase a adversaries product to disassemble it piece by piece to see what they used that could benefit them if put into place. ZT

yeah we just had a miura dealer open up in my city that does a flat rate per club for them which means I can match the heads to any shaft and grip he has access to for $235 a piece. When I demoed them I was 100% happy with the standard silver heads and the KBS tour 90 shaft that I hit in the store. He keeps tour velvets on his demo shafts since it's a cheap but good grip and most people are ok with it for demo stuff. I went back in a few days later to get some new spikes for me shoes as mine were shot and he was setting up a new KBS display and it had a black shaft in it so I asked him about it. He told me that they just re did the finish on it to make it much more durable coating and I had seen the BLACK tournament blade heads on the miura website. At that point I was 100% positive of the set up I was going with which I think will be AMAZING as I've never seen a solid black blade with a black shaft. As it gets closer to the time of order I will be able to try any grip in the store to see what one I like the best since like I said before, the duo's really pulled me away from the TV I've been playing since 04ish

I can understand that john but don't worry I haven't looked at a magazine in years. These are clubs I've hit before but didn't have the pockets to build them right. As far as the grips go. I've played tour velvets for about 8 years but tried a set of duoduros this season and liked them a bit more so right now I'm not discounting any grip

the heads are going to be Miura blackblades http://miuragolf.com/productimages/blackblade_beautyfromtheeast.jpg with KBS tour black shafts http://kbsgolfshafts.com/shafts/kbs-tour-shaft and what ever grip feels the best in my hands in a solid black. These should be REALLY REALLY sweet and I cant wait to get them built

thanks for the feedback everyone, i really appreciate it. I have printed out the score cards and am waiting to hear back from the tournament director on what tees my flight is playing and will be going to the range tomorrow and again saturday (my tournament is next sat) at my flights tee time and then I will go back out to the range again next thurs to play the "simulated card course). Here goes nothing right? I'm hoping for the best but ready to have fun no matter what happens and am ready to see where my tournament mental game is at.

OK I have my first tourney of the season coming up (yes I know its late for a first but I've been rebuilding this year) next weekend. Right now my routine has been(putting) 10 in a row from 3 feet (only looking at the ball at setup then keeping focus on the hole), a 4 ball latter starting at 3 feet then moving the next ball 1 putter length back making 3 of 4 three times before moving on. Next is what I call a funnel drill, what I do is start at 3 feet then the next ball is 3 feet over 1.5 feet back (continued for 5 balls). I must clear the funnel 3 times. I then move to lag putting and putting from the fringe with a target range I have to leave 85% in. After that I move to hitting greenside chips from an assortment of distances and lies using my gap wedge and my 7 iron splitting my bag of balls in half at each location. I then make my way to the range working on my driver and my irons I use most during a round for about 3/4 of the bucket working on striking between two tees. I then finish off with my lesser used irons to keep them sharp as well. I am currently doing this 3-4 times a week and always with music (not sure how that's effecting my practice time though). I'm putting this out there to see if anyone had thoughts for me. Weather to change anything, add anything or take anything away. Thanks

Not sure how many pros/instuctors/coaches we have here on the board. I have however been wondering if there was a difference in reality between individuals that take these given titles or if tournament players want to sound special even if only to themselves

Matt, its not really that I'm reading into the numbers extensively but it is tough to discount them when the computer feedback is matching up perfectly with the real world results. It's really telling me its time to get my swing tweaked for the better.

Yeah I just picked up a new roll of duct tape to see where I'm contacting the club face. A bit off the heel is a defense possibility

Mv that's what we are going to be looking out when I get on the range with the pro. I am already struggling with plying an unwanted powerfade I'm hoping I'm not hitting down on the ball too much