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dkolo

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  1. Yeah, Romney may yet run, either now to get it to a brokered convention or be the guy to take the call at the convention after a few ballots.
  2. I bet he's doing it pro bono, haha. In fairness to Trump, it's what he himself advocated for: pointing out dirt against other candidates in the primary so that it doesn't spring up on the party in the general when it's already too late to get someone else. It's why he kept threatening to sue Cruz over being Canadian.
  3. Indeed they did. And removed the hitting bays, stuck golf in the back corner, and continue to sell (or, rather, not sell) the same Jetspeed and X-Hot drivers from 2-3 years ago.
  4. That's why they asked. Either there's nothing there and they already created a story out of it for a cycle by playing to the imagination, or there is something there and he just won't release it. The end result to those making the calls is pretty much the same.
  5. Hatchet job is the right term. But people swap in hack job for it fairly often, so I guess the validity of calling it that depends on how you fall on the common error vs. strict meaning debate.
  6. I had a chance to try out the Tee Claw this weekend on the driving range. I'll give it a few more sessions before writing up the final review, but so far it's been pretty terrific with the driver. Works just as advertised, and I was able to get the tee height to where I wanted it, which is the biggest problem with the rubber range tees. I didn't have an issue with it flying away, but I didn't happen to hit any fat drivers (imagine!) yet. I think it's pretty terrific.
  7. I played what I was told was Bermuda when I played in North Carolina on vacation. It was very fast but the course was generally beautiful. I'm not good enough to stress about grass type outside of worrying about tall fescue that can hide golf balls.
  8. I love an 11 am tee time. After morning rush, play in midday sun, and can finish before dark any time of year.
  9. It's a really complicated question without a good answer unless you had something very specific you were looking to achieve (weight / launch / etc). Go get fit by a professional. A blanket recommendation would be worse than useless. As a high handicap myself, it's always been a non-priority in my club buying.
  10. 'Tis the season for incessant talk of barrancas and billabongs. It's every friggen year with this stuff.
  11. Oh heavens, haha. That's a typo for the ages. It occurs to me, and this is something I'll try once I take it to the range, that if the tees do wind up flying down range and that becomes a problem, it might be a good idea to put the tee in a loop from a second Tee Claw next to it to hang on to the tee itself. But that's getting ahead of myself.
  12. I just wanted to pop in and give my first impressions of the Tee Claw. Right, Bill. The lanyard loop goes on the bottom of the peg underneath the tee and is there to hang onto the thing for dear life if it manages to fly away. Getting the loop onto the peg isn't the easiest thing in the world to do, so while I haven't hit it with a 100 mph (*cough* 95 mph *cough*) driver yet, I don't imagine it will come off, especially since it's basically a fail-safe for the claw part of the Tee Claw. Since the other reviewers have covered the most important views, I'll add an underside shot so you can see better what I mean: (cue Wayne's World "EXTREME CLOSEUP" sound drop) I tried out the Tee Claw by twisting it into my carpet and the device gets in there really well; almost too well. I was using it for some putting alignment since I finally had some time to pick up golf clubs today and it does not want to give up the grip on the fibers at all. It takes some finagling to get out. I care more about my carpet than I do a golf mat, so I didn't just pull it out by force, but I'm curious to see how easily the little serrated teeth come out from a mat when I'm done at the range. Regardless, I don't see this thing flying away at all: if you hit it hard enough to rip the claw out of the ground and it still has enough force to pull the peg off of the tight lanyard loop, my suspicion is that you've hit it hard enough to break it and weren't using it correctly anyway. So my first impression is that I'm surprised by how well built the device is for something so small. I think it's going to be very useful. One question I have about the product is that I wonder why the plug on the bottom is sealed flat as opposed to having a hole in it for the tee to ass through? Is that for consistency of tee height and to encourage you to leave the tee in shallow so it will pop out instead of breaking inside the device? I suspect the second one. They include three tees of varying lengths to get you started, but you'll have to mess about with tee lengths more than I would have hoped (not that you can get a tee into a mat too far anyway, and you can always poke a hole in the plug, which is a somewhat flexible rubber or silicone by the looks of it. In any event, I'm very excited to take this out on the range in the next few days now that the snow is gone and the weather is looking up! I've used the second claw as an anchor for some putting drills so far, and I think that's a great way to go. I would use a tee only if I had to get the lanyard farther under the mat to create tension for a drill or something, and didn't want to scratch up the other claw. If you had mesh shoes, you could screw the Tee Claw on there and pretend you have one of the fancy BOA fastening systems on your golf spikes!
  13. I had the Odyssey Backstryke 2-ball for the first three years of my golfing. I initially liked it for the forward press it built in and for the very soft feel. I think it's more helpful for a beginner finding his stroke. I've graduated to the Versa jailbird with a Superstroke grip and I make a better stroke and line it up better.
  14. There's a meme going around telling you to turn to page 206 of the book closest to you, and the first sentence describes your love life. Page 206 of Lowest Score Wins is completely empty.
  15. No, it's probably just a random thing. Could've just been a small defect in the metal that caused a stress point. Probably just a sort of thing that happens 1 in X number of clubs, and you just happened to win that crap lottery.
  16. The faces are unsupported and sit on a hollow cavity inside the club. It's unsupported to allow it to flex more for ballspeed. Unfortunately, that can cause it to break more easily. Basically, it's like punching through drywall: it's easier to break through when the wall behind it is empty than if it's attached to a brick wall.
  17. My guess is it is a crack because it has fissures coming into a single point from three directions and the biggest chrome chip is in the middle where the cracked metal would move the most. You still haven't said what model club it is, but most recent clubs like the XR have thin, unsupported faces that are potentially more prone to cracking. But that's spitballing off of one inconclusive photo. It's not as clear-cut as, say, this one:
  18. Well, the first thing you should do is bring it to the local range if you can so they can take a look at it and help you decide if it's something covered by warranty or not. But otherwise, call Callaway. They're very good and no, you'd only have to send them the one club. Unrelated, that's a lot of wear for a 5 iron after less than a year. (Also, make sure you don't type inside the quote box when you quote; makes it harder to respond for the next person. No biggie, just a heads up)
  19. When and where did you get the club? Also, what model is it? Callaway Preowned is 1 year. Callaway proper is 2 years.
  20. It's very good around the greens and for most short game shots in general for filtering those out of your averages. I use my GW, SW, and LW for all kinds of short game shots and the posted averages are pretty close to what I realistically hit them full (maybe 5 yards shy, but that counts slight mishits too, so it's fair for an average). Where it runs into trouble, I feel, is for discerning between intentionally altered full swing shots, like punch outs, and true mishits. It doesn't know whether you fatted your five iron or were just trying to hit it under some branches while still advancing it a bit. The fat shot might affect gameplanning, while recovery shots, not so much. Since people (at least I do) tend to use one or two clubs disproportionately for these kinds of recovery shots, it does have a way of creeping in over time. I noticed this happening to a couple of clubs and have just sacrificed my 5 iron for all my recovery shots, since I rarely hit it full. This way whether I hit a punchy 5 iron, 4 hybrid, or a chippy 9, I'll put down the 5i. It could be resolved with a toggle on the round review of "exclude this shot from stats," but they haven't gone that route yet.
  21. Golf equipment ho! This may be viewed as a badge of honor or disdain, but we all know a bunch of members on here who would deserve it.
  22. I've shot in the 80s, so I think that means I broke 90 (I always forget if it's breaking out of a decade or into a decade). No hole-in-on. I'm assuming holes-in-one during mini-golf don't count, haha I also practice like a dumb ape, but I'll let others judge my qualifications for the foolish simian trophy.
  23. You have a pretty big gap so I would imagine you would need something in there. Whether it's a 50° wedge or something else, maybe even 2 wedges, is a different question. You need to figure out your yardages on each end of the go and try out some wedges to see how they fit into that gap. A 50° might work, but what type of wedge you get will impact that. A bladier wedge might give you different distances than a chunkier cavity back due to different CGs even with the same loft. You really just need to get your yardages and try some wedges. Consider also how it hits tweener distances on pitching. A gap wedge is very typically used on pitching for a lot of folks so see how comfortable you are doing that with the wedge.
  24. That thread is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
  25. Wow, so cool. Best part about bronze is that if you don't know any better, it looks like gold, haha!
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