guywoof

I don't know if this will be useful, but I play in the northwest and this time of year it's very heavy air and sometimes cold, and wet fairways with some mud. My driver I prefer to hit semi-low, a callaway razr fit extreme, so I turn to driving with my 3 wood and seven wood and actually outdrive my foursome because of air time with the higher lofts. Got a good bounce with my seven this week and drove it 240. Something to think about when considering distance.

I swore by prov1's, and posted it. Last week, playing with my hickories and hitting a Wilson duo I was flat no roll stopping it with my niblick(9iron) and it has no grooves at all. Saying ditch the expensive balls.

Just kidding. It's our normal foursome answer. Average good hit for driver is, with summer roll, 250, seven iron 160, pw 110. If I was serious about golf I would have to quit.

Driver 140, 3 iron 150, 4 iron 150, 5 iron 150, 6 iron 150, 7 iron 150, 8 iron 150, 9 iron, on a good day, 160. pw 110. Although I am normally a little more consistant.

Yep. Something you might find interesting regarding shafts....I am also a hickory player, and hickory shafts can be super stiff. So there may be nothing new under the golf sun. In fact sometimes when I finish a hickory round I think we may have taken a step backward..............way to advanced by half. I can get huge distance from some of my irons on a particular hickory shaft. Makes golf the most interesting game by far.

This is an old thread, but I just went back to my old 1996 big bertha irons. For me the best feeling, most accurate irons I've ever played. That would include Pings, Wilson blades, newer Callaways, and Hogans. Knock downs, working, high spin. For me the best.

Everyone is different but I would say the G15. Not as long as some. I have a couple low handicap friends who also swear by Ping G15. I use the stock stiff shaft, but shaft flex is very important.

To go 180 degrees who I really like are Couples, any Irish golfer, Jim Furyk but mostly his caddy, and anybody with the guts to hang in there on any tour when it's tough and not looking good.

I cheer on Nick Faldo and root against Jim Nance. How about fewer interviews with guys you met in car washes, fraternity brothers, people who nobody knows.

None. Ping zing 5. Great sound and feel.

I agree. A friend loaned me a set with tri-gold sensicore shafts and the feel a bit dull and board like. My reg. set has s300 dynamic gold, never got stung yet, and a very soft feel.

I started playing with a set of old hickories, plus some new hickory woods form Louisville golf. Played for about a year. It is way more interesting for me then regular golf, although I still do that too. Most of my irons are pre 1930, rusted, some with slightly bent shafts. I score exactly the same. Hickory has great feel. A lot of run-up shots. But the woods go straighter, not as far. On a long course it's tough so I will sometimes include my Cleveland five wood. I never intend on entering a tournament. Anyway, give it a try. Just get one club and start from there.

When I play pro V1's people throw callaways at me,

I don't use one anymore either. Found them sort of useless. If your grips are OK they really don't do anything for you, anyway for me.

My handicap would be in the 30's if I couldn't hit the high spin knock down wedge into the green and have it stop. It's the only good shot I have, so I use the pro v1 and it does the best job. Everything else seems to dribble off somewhere. I am not a great golfer, but would be way worse without that ball.

I've read that Bobby Jones recorded a 360+ drive at a tournament with his hickory shafted driver. I think that making courses "obsolete" with technology serves no useful purpose. Of course modern equipment can hit it longer, but not that much longer. my guess its mostly the ball.

I still play with my persimmons, new and old. And my Wilson fg51 blades..........also play hickory. The old clubs have great feel. I never liked the big headed drivers. My misses took away any presumed length I got from ti drivers, The driver I use now is from Louisville Golf, the "smart " driver. I seem to get more distance with it than with my best ti hit. Still play pings, too.

I sometimes use a persimmon, and with the new balls get a much lower ball flight and thus tremendous roll. I hit the persimmon a few yards shorter, but am much more consistant and rarely mishit it. I think the weight of the head gives you a greater sense of what your doing. I never hit the sometimes insane, high fade with the wooden club like I do with titanium.