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  2. Wow, that was super helpful. Thanks so much for the insight. You earned 5 internet points today.
  3. I don't know. I really don't know too much about the fitting process... I just looked online for a two-iron shaft and didn't see one. Not sure what and uncut shaft really even is. Thanks for the reply.
  4. Here is my "cheat sheet" I carry in my back pocket every time I play. I have a shot I can trust from 12 yards to 125 yards... almost none of them are full shots. They say some golfers are artists and some are engineers... well I have NO artist in me. I just can't play by feel much at all. I love knowing that if I am 63 yards out a sand wedge wedge with a backswing that goes to 7:30 is the shot. I may hit it 65 yards one time and 61 yards the next but I am going to be in the neighborhood of the pin if I hit it clean (which I do much more often with these "cutoff" shots that with a full swing). Figuring out how far I hit all these in-between shots has done SO MUCH for my game... I now love being in that 40-80 yard from the pin zone that most of the people I play with kind of dread.
  5. Hey all, I was hoping I could get some help. I just upgraded my irons to the new Titleists (have AP3s in low end of the bag and AP1s in the top end). I was fit for these and the Project X LZ shaft (5.5/115) was recommended. I absolutely LOVE this shaft... has a great snap at then bottom of my swing... really feel like I hit is much more crisply and take a great divot in front of the ball. I play a 2-iron (Titleist MB) a lot as my home course is short but very tight so I play it off the tee a lot. I currently have a Dynamic Gold S-300 in this club. I tried to find the PX LZ shaft to fit my 2-iron but Project X does not make this in the LZ model (they do make one for the rifle shafts). Any ideas? Could I use a 3 iron shaft if it was extended a bit... would I have to modify the tip if I tried to put a 3-iron shaft in a 2-iron? Any help would be appreciated.
  6. So our club had a demo day and the Taylor Made guys were there. I didn't really need anything as I am happy with my game right now but I didn't have anything else to do so I thought I would go out. I have no intention of replacing my irons or wedges but I thought I would hit the M1 driver and 3 Wood just for fun. I currently have a Titleist D15 driver (Rogue Black 60g shaft) and accompanying 3 would. I seemed to hit the Taylor made stuff pretty well compared to my current driver but their launch monitor wasn't working so was hard to have an apple to apples comparison, particularly since there was a pretty good tail wind that day. They tried to match the shaft in the Taylor Made as close as he could to the shaft I currently have. I got to talking to the guy from Taylor Made he told me he thought the problem was that the current shaft on my Titleist club was "worn out". He told me that with a reasonably high swing speed like mine (usually about 105mph) the shaft became become more "floppy" over time. He even told me that his son swings pretty hard and has to change his shaft twice a year due to this problem. This seemed pretty reasonable at the time but when I got home I started thinking about this more and it now sounded crazy to me. Is it possible that I could meaningfully alter the swing characteristics of a 2-year-old shaft just with normal use? Or was this just the greatest salesmen ever, trying to get me to buy a new $250 shaft? Not that it matters much (this was meant to be a general discussion about whether "wearing out" as shaft is even possible and not a specifically about any particular shaft) but he fit me for a Kuro Kage 60gm stiff shaft with a mid kick.
  7. My only issue is that she never signed an incorrect scorecard. Her scorecard, when signed, was correct. I have no problem with the initial 2 shot penalty but she never signed an incorrect scorecard. If the score can be amended 12 hours later then the scorecard can too. Edited for typo.
  8. This is a great question and one that I have been struggling with recently too. I have gotten my handicap down to a 7.5 and have wondered about getting new irons myself. I have a set of Taylormade Rocketbladez irons that are 4 years old. Every year I go hit the latest and greatest irons and I just don't see any meaningful difference so I have kept my current set. Interestingly, I was overseas playing a round with family and had to use a rental set. They were a 10 year old set of Big Berthas with tons of offset and huge cavity backs... super game improvement irons. I found that the long irons were so much easier to hit with no appreciable loss of distance... mid/short irons easy to hit but I thought they were somewhat less accurate than my rocketbladez. What I ended up doing was buying a set of the Berthas off ebay and then replacing my 3-5 irons with the Berthas... now I have the super game improvement Berthas for my long irons and kept my rocketbladez for the mid/short irons. It seems to have worked great so far. Lastly, I asked my local pro about switching to a more advanced set of irons and he asked me a really good question. "Justin, how often are you going to try to fade or draw a ball into a tucked pin location". The answer is almost never... if I can't throw the ball and get it closer than I would with a swing then I aim for the middle of the green. As such, if I'm really just looking for solid contact and consistent distance I really don't need a club that is more "workable". Golf is hard enough as it is... playing with a club that makes it harder to hit the ball squarely doesn't make sense when I look it it like that.
  9. I've looked around the site for an answer to this but have not found anything... apologies in advance if this has been answered before. My course has a couple holes that are pretty short but the approach shot always gives really uneven lies... really hard shots for me. I know that if the ball is below my feet its going right, above my feet and its going left (assume a right handed golfer for all of below). Likewise, if its an uphill like its going to hook and downhill will fade. My question is what do I do when I get a combination of these... specifically an uphill lie (going to hook) where the ball is below my feet (going to go right)... or the inverse, a downhill lie where the ball is above my feet. Just assume that that grade for both lies is the same... its just as much up/downhill as it is above/below my feet. Does one of these two conditions matter more? Any help would be appreciated.
  10. Loved Rivera Cancun, probably my favorite in the area. Myacoba is really great too but really tough, expensive, and slow the two times I've been there. Played Moon Palace last Christmas and was very underwhelmed. Nice course (but not knock-your-socks-off) but very expensive and they nickled and dimed you to death. Just one example... I asked for tees from the starter and he gave me two tees... WTF?!?
  11. My two favorites: "Its not how, its how many" Not sure who said it first but one of my golfing buddies says it every time someone hits a bad shot that ends up good. "A doctor who shoots in the 90s needs to practice more golf... a doctor who shoots in the 70s needs to practice more medicine".
  12. How about him saying that his last practice round before the US Open in 2007 he played 9 holes and shot a 54. And yet, he still went out and won. I can't imaging Tiger (at that point) shooting a 54 on 9 holes playing with one club let alone his last tune-up before a major.
  13. I've taken several strokes off my HC this year and got to the point where I really didn't know what to work on. I felt like I did everything pretty well, nothing great but nothing horrible. I found an easy spreadsheet at another website (golfrwx I think) where you could input your data and find your strokes gained really quickly. All you have to put in is your club, lie, and distance and it spits everything out. I found it really helpful. I would have never guessed that long-iron shots were the weakest part of my game but its pretty consistent that this is the area that I need to work on. In terms of the idea that this isn't useful because you are comparing yourself to professionals I think this misses the point a bit. Of course, in every one of my scoring categories I'm "losing strokes" compared to the pros but I can now see which ones I am losing strokes the most and which ones I'm closer to treading water.
  14. For me the key is to get your weight forward as much as possible. It's almost impossible to hit a crisp shot with a divot in front of the ball if you have much weight on your back leg at all at impact.
  15. I think you should put it in your bag so you can warm up with it before your round. I've always enjoyed the story about Tom Watson always hitting his 2 iron in his warm-up sessions. When asked why he did that he said that if he hit it well he was very confident starting his round and if it wasn't going well he didn't worry about it because, "nobody can hit a 2-iron". That's the way I remember the story being told at least.
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