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I few years ago I put a perfect golf ball shaped dent in the face on my Cobra SZ 440 driver. It was not real noticeable to the naked eye. The first thing I noticed was that the sound of the driver changed and my drives were not going as far by a good 30 yards or more. The pro at my club confirmed that there was in fact a slight but detectable dent, he also agreed that it did not feel right when hit. Cobra also agreed and replaced it with another SZ 440. The new club was good but not quite as loud or as long as the original. The original SZ 440 was probably the longest driver I have ever hit, thus I believe that there was some defect that casued it to be very loud, very long, and eventually dent.

This is a topic I have done some reading on. From what I have read I do not see where there is any good scientific evidence at all! There are many resources available on this. I frequent the James Randi Educational Foundation web site www.randi.org . There are some good articles on this site related to this topic. iacas, what IS your thought on this?

I have had four total. Until this year I had not had one in two years. This year...510 yard par five, just off the green in two, chipped in for a eagle 3!

Not worth the rsik at all!!! Chew gum, sunflower seeds, etc.

It took me a long time to try a hybrid. I finally did get a 3 iron replacement to try because I almost never used my 3 iron anyhow. I have since reshafted the club and it is my favorite club in the bag. Great off the tee, off the grass and I even use it at times to punch out from under trees and such. If you can, demo different brands and lofts to get what you are looking for. As far as "pros and cons": Pros: very versatile, easy to hit, etc. Cons: Only one for me, I hit the hybrid so consistently well that it sometimes feels like a yardage gap between this and the 4 iron.

From what I have seen, heard, learned from reading various articles is that most of the clubs that are fake tend to be drivers. I am sure that there are fake irons but it is a little less common. In my opinion, I think that the 90% of clubs on eBay are fake statement is inflated. Also from what I have learned, most clubs can be distinguished from fakes. Some are very good fakes but rarely perfect. If they are "perfect" then you have nothing to worry about anyway, lol. Good luck, keep us posted. Some pics when you get them might be helpful for comparison purposes.

What you say does have truth to it but... there were A LOT of guys in the field with a a lot of different driver brands (including past champions) and the guys hitting the Cobra's seemed to do very well.

I do the P90X and one of the components of this is yoga. I have always considered myself quite flexible but this seems to help a lot.

I think that the Cobra drivers are among the longest available. A lot of guys who won their divisions and placed near the top in the ReMax Long Drive Championship used Cobra.

I once found a childrens 5 iron on the fringe of the 17th at my home course. It was dusk, no group ahead of me and the pro shop had closed for the evening. I put it in my bag with thoughts of giving it to the pro shop in the next day or so when I returned. The thing was so short it fell down inside my bag and I forgot all about the darn thing until months later I found it when cleaning out my bag. I once also found a bowl/pot pipe near the 5th green. Didn't keep that one.

I give each club a quick clean with the towel and brush after each shot. I also clean my entire set before every round I play. I can't stand playing with dirty clubs. It amazes me when I see a guy with old hardened mud in the grooves that probably has not been cleaned all season.

No watch, no rings, only thing in my pockets are tees, ball marker and repair tool. I sometimes play with a guy who is a paid EMT and is "on call"; he wears everything including a pager, phone, etc. on his belt. I don't know how he can even swing a club!

I recently started doing P90X, it's a lot more intense than I thought it would be. Stick to it, and it will definitely work! Good Luck!

I first played golf at age 29 and have been playing for about 8 years now. I feel that I would not have the same passion for the game if I had started playing when I was younger. I see some of my playing partners who have been playing since they were kids and they don't seem to have the passion for the game the way I do. In fact, I am now better than most of these guys including the one who talked me into playing to begin with.

Great question, good article. This is an ongoing debate I have with some of my buddies. I say that golf is a sport but I will qualify that by saying that I think it depends on how you approach golf. For myself, I walk, practice a lot, and even my off course workouts are golf centered. For the guys who ride in a cart, play infrequently, drink, smoke cigars or any combination of the aforementioned, it my not qualify as a sport. I'm not bashing these people I'm just seeing the two approaches to the game as the difference between a sport and an activity. PS- PiKapp23, great avatar... I looked into it and found the golfpirate web site. I may have to order some shirts with that logo!!!

epocrates.com, I use it on my PDA, it is used by physicians. If you don't have a PDA I guess it won't work for you though. Actually there is a epocrates online that you can use that is just what you are looking for.

My wife and I both work in the school systems. From what I have read and understand there was a huge push in the school systems 2-3 decades ago to try and convert the U.S. to the metric system. This was done for many of the reasons already listed (it is easier, more common around the world, etc.). Despite this push and large amounts of money and education put into the school systems it simply did not take. Currently it is not really being taught in the schools other than to have a Unit/Chapter on the general topic. My guess for why there has been resistance to the change is: "If what we already use is working fine then why change it" mentality. Not necessarily my own thought on the matter but what I suspect for the U.S. population as a whole.

Ok, I'm doing this from memory but it's my favorite golf joke. I man dies and goes to heaven. As he is being given a tour in a trolley an angel is sitting next to him showing him the sites. Eventually they drive by a golf course and the man being an avid golfer is amazed; "wow I didn't know there was golf in heaven". The angels confirms that yes there are many golf courses as his boss loves the sport. They drive up a little further and the man sees Tiger Woods playing on the course. The man in utter amazement states "I didn't know that Tiger Woods had died!" The angel responds; "that's not Tiger Woods, that's God, he just thinks he's Tiger Woods."

Knight Offset 10.5* R Wilson 10.5* R Impex 10.5* R King Cobra Gravity Back 10.5* R Cobra SS 350 9.0* S Cobra SZ 440 9.0* S Cobra SZ 460 9.0* S Cobra Speed Pro S 9.5* S Currently have my eye on the Cobra L5V 9.5 S

How about this... What is art and what is porn? Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964..."I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." Who is a hacker and who is a player? RangeRat..."I can't really define either, but I know them when I see them."

I sense the start of a 12 step self-help recovery group starting here!!! I too have to admit to this addiction. Clubs, balls, bags, divot repair tools, trips to Golf Galaxy, etc. etc. etc. BUT I LOVE IT!!!

I tend to agree, it seems as though some take this too personally (as some sort of a "slam") and other are just using the terms to define a persons level of play. I have never been offended by the term hacker even when I considered myself one.

I put in for skins all the time but that is my limit. I agree with some of the other posters that certain forms of gambling kind of take away some of the aspects of golf that I enjoy.

I agree that those are probably the two reasons but... I remember an article a year or two ago in either Golf Digest or Golf Magazine that was advocating allowing push/pull carts to be allowed to go across greens to speed up play. The article noted that the wheels on modern carts do less damage than golf spikes on the green. Of course there is always the etiquette issue that many would site to counter this.

Not true on the Cobra point. The new Cobra L5V has an adjustable head you can set from 1* closed to 0*/square. This is the club I have my eye on.