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  1. I was curious to see if anyone else on this forum has faced the same issues that I've been facing with this season. Every once in a while my grip on all of my irons feels a bit off at address. I get so uncomfortable that I start to focus too much on having a comfortable grip that it creeps into my shots and shot shape. I start wondering if its my glove, my ball position, or set-up. All mental blocks that suck my confidence meter to zero at the range or on course. It's so baffling to me b/c this comes up once a week for the past 2 months and it bugs the hell out of me. Any thoughts as to why this might be happening? This has never happened to me in the past. FYI, I use a neutral, inter-locking grip and this all started happening after a recent grip replacement about 2 months ago. THANKS!
  2. I'd like to think I have a pretty consistent swing, but for some odd reason my 3 wood off the deck is like a crap shoot. Every other club in my bag I can hit with marked consistency, but my 3 wood is an entirely different story. Usually on mis-hits I know why the ball reacted the way it did and I can correct it on my next shot. The 3 wood, which I can hit around 240 yards when things go well just seems go away from me every so often. I'm talking about low worm burners, shanks, tops, hooks, etc. Maybe I just need to focus on practicing with this club more frequently, but it's starting to get a bit annoying. Any thoughts or suggestions as to what I can do to practice at the range to remedy this problem? What has worked in the past for you? Thanks!
  3. Wanted to know what everyone's thoughts were on skycaddie's soon to be released SGX model. What intrigued me was their smartclub technology where a tag is located on the grip end of each club, which is linked to your SGX gps system. Clubs left behind can notify the user that they should retrieve their club and the technology will also allow the user to log in the data to capture the the distance of each club to use without the need to manually log in your yardages. This could truly be a wonderful breakthrough for recreational golfers who don't have the ability to have on course caddies. The price is steep with a start price of $399.95 for the handheld GPS and there are no prices yet for the smartclub tags as they will be released later this year.
  4. used a golf gift certificate to hook myself up with a 20* and 23* i15 hybrids. imo, they are the best hybrids ping has ever made!
  5. i agree with wrx_junki here... i've owned a 10.5* G10 with the TFC stock stiff shaft and also a 9* prolaunch red. i found the head to be relatively high launching, which is why i went with the lower trajectory shaft. the combo is a pretty solid one if you're looking to move your ball flight a bit lower.
  6. The difference I noticed between my scotty and yes putter was that the scotty had a softer feel and the yes came off the head a bit hotter. Due to this, I use my scotty on sunny days and the yes on rainy/wet conditions. Overall, Yes putters are pretty sweet.
  7. No... you really don't. I'll take socal weather over the 4 seasons here in the D.C. area anyday.
  8. I personally think it's just good form to not take any mulligans and play by the rules. Taking an out of bound mulligan essentially puts you up for 2 strokes that you wouldn't count. Why disservice yourself from the truth?
  9. i agree with most of the folks who've replied here. if you're that inconsistent with your driver (i.e. slice-city -> OB or really bad areas with no chance to go for the green) i would tee off with your hybrid and work on your driver at the range. it would certainly help to video tape both your driver and hybrid swings to see the differences. lessons of course would shorten the time for you to get on the right track and prevent you from engraining any bad habits.
  10. Your wife is a keeper!
  11. Sinking the 20 ft putt for eagle is most impressive. Not to take anything away from your accomplishment, but I actually find that the closer putts (the kneeknockers from less than 5 feet) for eagle are harder since you SHOULD make them. Congrats though!
  12. The 70 year old man you played with is my hero. The game would be so much easier if we made things simple. But I guess it's just more fun to whack the driver off the tee on every par 4 and try to make that low probability shot.
  13. Based on my experience, the lower the handicap the faster they play the full swing shots and the slower they play the short game/putts. Vice versa for higher handicap players.
  14. I've gamed the S57's for the 2009 season and have about 50 rounds with them so far (as well as driving range sessions). Like some of the posters have said, they are cast and so they are much more durable compared to forged irons. The only thing that I would mention that wears a bit would be the milled faces, which is not so much a bad thing b/c I used to get some ridiculous backspin on my short irons in the beginning.
  15. i've gamed the s57's since the start of this year and i absolutely love them. they say it's a "players" iron, but they're just so forgiving. quite easy to shape the ball and sets up nice to my eye.
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