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I live in Charleston. If you are looking for reasonable rates and good courses, Charleston National (I am a member), Patriots Point, River Town (LPGA Ginn), and Wild Dunes are going to be you best values. Kiawaha rocks of course but bring the pocket book, $200+ on most and over 4 bills for the Ocean Course. If you want to play Charleston National and need an extra person hit me up, I get a pretty good guest rate. ;)

I am not so sure I totaly agree with that. I have some that seem to last a long time and others which I feel are crap and lasted just a few rounds. I have gone to fulll cord grips on all clubs and do not use a glove a present but if I did, it would be the Nike. I had the best luck there before I went glove-less

This is most likely the best answer here. I have tried many a putter including the Bullseye and foud the best for me is an Anser 4. Hands down, I'll never change, end of story. I feels so right and I have the best touch and most confidance with it, and that is where it lays, confidence.

+1 here. Wrong flex for your swing and you will definently be all over the place. But you can fine tune it to help with ball flight just like mentioned above. Get checked. Best advise.

Nike Tour Blades. JMHO. Best looking irons.

I have a set of Wilson Staff irons, 2-PW from the early 80s that are in near perfect condition and have been played pretty much. I even had them re-shafted about 6 years ago with S300 TT and they will still perfom as good as most others out there. They are not my every round clubs and I rarely pull them out now, but they are the irons I started with and have played many rounds with. Play them maybe once a year just for the heck of it and still to this day get great results.

Yep the yardsales are great sometimes. I picked up a new (never played) R5 TP for $20.00.... that to me was a steal. Girlfriend bought it for her boyfriend, they broke up, she sold his gifts at a yardsale before she moved.

Gotta be the well stuck iron shot. There just seems to be no better feeling. JMO

Kiawah Island, Ocean Course. Hands down the best I have been on.

I actually had this problem. I fixed it by hitting balls with my feet together with a 7 iron. Over and over and over. If you turn your hips in front of your hands in this drill you will fall over. It is still a part of my practice for about the first 5 or 10 minutes of range time. I feel it keeps my timing in order.

I have just one. A 19* to use in place of a 2 iron. I think this is enough for me as I hit my long irons very well.

This is a great club. I have had one since they first came out and hit it very consistantly. Just remember that this club is fairly thin faced and if you tee it too high you may come under it or if it is sitting up high in the fairway or rough be sure to take that into consideration when setting up and making you swing. Tee it low and it is a great short par 4 club for off the tee shots, and even long par 3s.

A better buy than.........?

This could be. I know that if I am hitting a low hook with my driver I have moved it a little too forward in my stance. A few inches back and all is well. Wheather it fades or draws with ball position depends also on your swing path.

???????.....Laadies and men in their 70s.....???? I guess thats why a lot of pros are hitting them??? ....and they are in good shape and in their 20s and 30s...with negitive handicaps...hummmmmm? I use my 3 iron and a hybrid, it is just a useful utility wood as I see it. I like both clubs. Remember, Cobra came out with what could be called the 1st hybrid, the Baffler.

You guys may think this is funny. And I was laughed at a couple of times when I pulled it out, until I ripped it down the fairway like a string was tied to it at the other end, but I have a Hippo Giant 400cc Titanium, $100.00 brand new, stiff shaft and a power house of a driver. Now I use a launcher, but I still have that Hippo and I am not afraid to whip it out in front of anyone and let it go.

I use a hybrid, I consider it more of a 2 iron than a 3 iron. It is 19*. My 3 iron is 20.5 degrees. I carry both. So stop hate'n on the 3 iron and put it back in your bags. The hybrid is great and has a lot of uses, but so dose the 3 iron.

I currently use a Tour Edge 3 wood and I like it a lot. Also, just on the higher end used club end of things, I bought my Ping i3's 3-PW and iWedge (52* gap) for under $280.00 at Edwin Watts. Someone had traded them in and they were hardly used at all. Sometimes you can find a good deal on higher end clubs if you have the tme to shop around.

+1/2" I am 5'11" but the 1/2" seems to feel best to me.

I guess I am the only one. I really like the way the Nike Forged Blades. I currently use one of the sand wedges and I am looking to get rid of my Ping i3's in return for a set of the Nike Blades. I just like the way they look at address. I learned to play golf with forged blades and I have always had an attraction to them. I always fell good looking down on a forged blade before a shot.

Ping Anser 4. It is the best feeling putter (for me) that I have ever picked up. It is a little on the heavy side. Some may not like that, but I do. Keeps me from have decel syndrom.

+1. Crafty's got it right. What looks good and is comfortable for you, provided it is the shot needed to score good on the hole. Good mind set is a big plus.

Paused the video of the side view a couple of times and it looks as if you may be staying very flat or keeping the club head almost square to the ball through a lot of the swing. Try to get it pointing straight up at waist high on the take away and the follow through. Also try not to bend quite so much at the knee. Watch the hips. One of my biggest battles was getting my hips too active. Hips beat hands through the ball, block to right. Hands too fast through ball pull left. It is all about timeing. Your swing speed is a good pace to allow you to really work things out. Nothing takes the place of a few good lessons. Hitting the practice balls in the back yard is good but being able to see your ball flight will also tell you a lot.

Most standard from the fairway shots for me with irons are just slightly left of center. Woods of course are further left, about left heel. Then depending on the type of shot I need for trouble, I will adjust based off of it needing to fly high or a low punch or whatever. Just seems to work for me. I tend to be of the schooling that if you stay down through your shots and you are comfortable over the ball at address (no matter where you line up the ball) you stand a good chance of making good contact. I think a lot of higher handicapers tend to make a swing even though they are very uncomfortable at address. Thus resulting in poor contact. I know that when I started playing, this was one of my difficulties. I just had to learn to get into the position that felt as if it would result in a good chance of making the shot I wanted.

Overlapping for me. I have played with the other two ways but overlapping just seems more natural and comfortable to me. I used to play with a pro on fridays that used a baseball or ten finger grip and he said he flet as if he could get his hands a little more involved by using this grip, but it never seemed to work for me. To each his own.