littlewag7

I am scheduled to have a full iron fitting on Tuesday morning. I work at a golf course that is a Titleist supplier and can get me AP2s at a discount but they wouldn't be fitted to me. I am going to a course that has basically every brand available, and will hopefully be trying them all. My question is, will the clubs at the course be overpriced compared to a golf store such as golf HQ/golf Galaxy, or cheaper? Or the same. Im trying to decide if the $25 fitting fee with a purchase is more valuable than getting AP2 through my course for probably $900. Any suggestions? The course fitting is also on an outdoor range with a launch monitor.

Little background first, I started golfing "seriously" at the end of last year. I've dropped my handicap from a 16 to a 7 now. I bought taylormade burner plus irons last year because they were cheap and good game improvement irons with a lot of forgiveness. Im at a point where I'm only planning to get better at golf from here, I hit the burners well, good distance, can work them a little and they have a good trajectory, but in my mind, I feel like I should be using "better" irons if I wish to continue improving. i played a round today using my friends Mizuno MP69 blades and shot a 38 with them. They felt good, but nothing too much different than my burners, other than not being forgiving on slight miss hits. If I continue to improve my game, when should I upgrade my irons? What's a good dictating factor for when I'm "outplaying" my current ones?

Today I went to Dicks, and I was hitting in the simulator there. I knew I wanted a a SLDR because I've hit my friends before and loved the feel of it. However, on the simulator, I was swinging 106, and carrying around 265ish, all the balls were a slight draw/fade, or straight. My variation was 27 yards. So the furthest left to the furthest right was 27 yards, not bad. I bought the driver, a 9.5 Stiff with a Speeder shaft, not the Taylormade one, (someone guess how much I paid), and went to the driving range. I hit a large bucket of balls, tons of slices, maybe 3 draws, a handful straight, and 90% were right. Basically, my question isn't, how accurate are those simulators? I'm sure they give the benefit to the user because they want to sell clubs, but I wouldn't think it would have been that drastic. Or, do you guys just think I swing differently in a small simulator room ha on a wide open range? I'm just tired as f*** of my slice, and i need to find a cure for it.

The shaft in my RBZ Stage 2 broke a few weeks after buying it from rock bottom golf, Taylormade said they wouldn't do anything because it was from Rock Bottom. I had an Aldila Voodoo 60g shaft put into it. It is about a half inch longer than my 3 wood now, but I believe it is a wood shaft not a driver shaft. The guy who did it had it sitting around and charged me $25 for the fix and shaft, so I can't complain. Is there any downside to a short shaft? Possible distance, but should technically be more accurate? I haven't been hitting it well at all, lots of slices, but I feel it's just my swing.

I did not. He just did it and dropped it off at my golf league when he was there. I used it for the league that night but it hasn't been great

I'm 90% it's a 3 wood shaft.

I professional redid my RBZ, he said he would find a shaft that he had in storage and used that one and installed it. I assume he knew what he was doing, but who knows.

I bought a Taylormade RBZ Stage 2 driver over the winter on sale. The shaft in it broke and I contacted taylormade, they said they wouldn't do anything because I bought it from rock bottom golf. I then had an Aldilla Voodoo shaft put into it, it is a stiff shaft, but the length of a 3 wood, ever since then, I have not been able to hit that driver. I had an older Cobra Amp driver, the only issue is that it is a regular flex. There are times where I hit it 285 and straight, other times with a baby fade, and other times where it's 240 and 30 yards into the woods. Part of me wants to sell both, and buy a new stiff driver. The fact that I have hit the cobra straight and long makes me want to practice with that. But I just can't get over having to slow my swing down so I don't slice it. Most of my bad drives are, I assume, from swinging too fast for the flex. With my Taylormade before it broke, I hit a fade, but it moved maybe 5-10 yards from where I aimed. So I would aim just left of center and be middle or right of fairway almost every drive. Now that the shorter shaft is in it, I just can't hit the club. I know there are probably some swing issues, but it used to be slight fades, and are now big slices. Hitting friends drivers, I've had no issues hitting fairways. So, basically, I have a Stiff RBZ Stage 2 with what I believe is a 3 wood shaft, or a longer, but regular flex Cobra amp. Should I use one or the other and try to learn to hit those? Or just sell them, if I can, and buy a new driver?

So recently I've started to really play golf more seriously. It has me thinking about what I could do with my game and where it could take me. I am an 18 year old kid, college student, but was never involved with the teams in high school or college now. At my home course I can shoot around par, usually par to 75 is average, my best was a 70, the hardest course by me I've managed to shoot an 83, which by the reactions of my group seems good for that course. I've never had any lessons, never been taught, so I feel like there's many flaws in my swing and stance, and also feel that with good teaching I could knock a few strokes off a round. These scores are also with very much below par putting, I can make the greens with ease, and then 2/3 putt way too often. I drive around 280 flat. But basically my question is, with what I've said, would getting lessons and a teacher be worth it? Could I get into some smaller tournaments and possibly be an above average golfer? Or should I be happy playing as a slightly over par golfer?