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I would suggest AGAINST going to a wedge that is part of a set. I'm a high handicap, and I picked up a new set of max game improvment clubs. The set had no SW. My SW being about 30 years old, I went online and replaced the SW with the closest thing I could find to my set. I hate it, never swing it, and am looking to replace it. While I will take all the help I can get on an iron, my personal preference is for a thin top-line, traditional wedge. Many game improvment wedges have huge clubheads to carry momentum through the grass/sand. Preference wise, I hate that, because I feel like I'm swinging a hammer on a shot that is about feel. Again personally, I also feel like it is harder to play a wedge like that when trying to open or close the face for different shots, because I just can's see the angle or feel the club as well. I ended up with a cheap RAC wedge that I love. Ultra traditional, but I play it almost as much as any other club in my bag. TL:DR - get a good wedge and ignore your set.

Love the original, and was sad to see the Gamer on closeout. I might have to buy a bunch at $17.50/dz. I noticed that they're advertizing the price by comparison to other balls' MSRP, putting the Gamer at $29.99/doz. Looks like it was so successful they're just going to rerelease at a higher price. Then again, if it plays like the original but doesn't get ripped up like it (I'm a sllow swinger and I destory em) I'd be OK paying an extra buck a ball.

If I waste a drive and end up on the wrong fairway, I always announce my intention to check the ball (yes, even playing alone, I'm weird) and lift the ball just high enough to turn it to see what it is before putting it back in the same exact spot. This is a small part of the reason I stopped playing a Nike ball - seems like 1/3 of balls I come across have a swoosh.

I started on a muni par 3 that came thisclose to getting shut down this year. I'd like to get back over there. What I play now is a par 3 attached to a 9-hole "executive" course. Both are kept in fantastic condition, with greens that make you think if you don't hit it stiff. Its the course of choice for women's leagues here in Omaha, but I find walking it solo for $7 is the best 45 minutes I can spend on my golf game.

Personally, I liked the Nike Ignites. I play that set now, and personally preferred it to the sumo or Slingshot sets. Ignite sets are $299 new these days, and less elsewhere. for the price and and skill level, coming up from shooting 125s with blades, it was the perfect choice last year.

I used to like them when I didn't really golf, because I could go out and hit my 50 yard drives and not ruin anyone's day. Now they just produce bad habits and I have to go out the next day to rebuild my mental game.

I'm looking for a golf glove for my wife. She used to use the Foot Joy gloves without the tips on the fingers (3/4 gloves). Now we can't find those anywhere. Everyone that's 3/4 is some crazy, aloe infused, won't ruin your tan, crazy thing. Does anyone still make a normal leather of faux-leather glove without full fingers? Thank you to anyone that can help on this.

I was never comfortable hitting my woods out of the tall grass, so I used to carry the 2 on my old wilson staff MB set. My game improved when I took it out. Now I carry a 3h and 4-pw. I love the 3h, but now the 4 iron is the scarry club in my bag. Im' thinking about carrying my 2 iron again, just because my 4 iron won't intimidate me sitting next to that thing.

I guess I'm screwing up the other direction. I'd never thought to calculate my course handicap, so at a 28.6, I've been capping at an 8, when course handicap should have me capping at a 9. I'll need to pay more attention to that in the future. Not the same issue as you, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.

That happened to me on Sunday. I started the day by hitting it to 4 feet from the rough at 160, and my iron play stayed that way. I straightened out my drives and was really playing quite well. My putting was a little worse than average, but I was OK with that. I turned 3 Par 5s into a total of 26 strokes (you read that right) and still scored a 100. That is a good score for me from the blues, but it was a fantastic round except for those holes.

This is the first and only time I'm ever going to beat anyone with an 8 handicap!

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I agree that it depends on use. I bought a GI sandwedge and I never use it. I use my SW only for short shots (chips, pitches) and the giant, near hybrid size of what I got didn't work for me. I'm more of a slice through the rough/sand guy than power through.

I ifnd that when I'm making a total mess of my LW, its because I've started decellerating to the ball, afraid I'm going to hit too hard, meaning I pull up and blade it. The only time I ever focus on one part of my swing is my LW. I only think about the follow-through on the swing, and that keeps me from rocketing the ball over the green.

Ali. Presently, I think it has to be Tiger. There are a lot of sports stars today, but I think Tiger and Becks are the only worldwide, can't go out without getting mobbed, superstars we have today.

My 3 iron hybrid. It just feels right. I'm not a good golfer by any means, but that club I can hit from any lie. It is also the only club that I can shape shots with, from high draws to line-drive runners. I like my driver and my 60* a whole lot, but my h3 is my favorite club to pull, becase I get to act like a real golfer when I have that out.

I use mine for damned near every shot inside 40 yards. I deloft it for runners and pop it up to get over trouble. Mostly, I like it because I can take a mroe full swing and not worry about overshooting the hole (too badly).

Both times I've flirted with breaking 100, I upt up an 8 on the 18th. One was a par 3. I feel your pain.

I can do either through my club, but I do total score. I'm just too lazy.

Well, if you aren't entering scores hole-by-hole, its not, because it can't know if you got 2 7s or a 4 and a 10. If you can edit or delete scores, enter a round with all eagles on 18 holes and a 50 on the last hole. It should be pretty clear if it cuts that 50 to a 7.

Wow. Thanks to everyone for the comments. I don't know many serious golfers IRL, so it's nice to get so many different opinions. This does open up another question though. I see that a lot of people would have done what I did, or do similar things that break the rules. What percentage of the time do you, personally, play an entire round 100% according to the rules? Also, what do you do with your scores when you play a "casual" round and don't follow the rules: Do you post a score on GHIN like I did, or do you just toss the card?

By the rules I think I'm peanlized for playing a wrong ball, and because I absolutely knew it was a wrong ball, DQ'd for serious willful breach of the rules. I guess I should instead say that I had an 89 on the card going into the 18th and got DQ'd. That might be more accurate and more impressive.

If I had it all to do over again, of course, I'd have hit a provisional. I didn't know that the course parking lot juted out so far, and it didn't cross my mind - very uphill 18th hole. Between the fact that my playing partner had his day go to hell and he just wanted to get in the clubhouse (he chipped and putted out while I was looking for my ball) and the fact that I figured I was having a horrible day anyway, I didn't do the smart thing and rehit. I tried to "simulate" what would have happened if I had played out. What I did was designed to produce a reasonable worst-case so I could put a number on a card and report it for my handicap. I would have rehit, I think I would have put it on or close with my 4th, leaving me with a 6 or 7. The moral of the story, I guess, is not to get lazy when it comes to the rules. I'm guessing I'm going to suffer a horrible accident, never golf again, and bore my grandkids with the story of "did I ever tell you about the last time I played golf and almost broke 100?"

I was in the opposite spot, feeling like I was hitting my 12* well but not getting the distance I wanted. I went in and hit mine and the 10.5 into a launch monitor at Sports Authority, and found that I was hitting the 12* consistently 15-20 yards longer. End result - I've leard I'm a bad golfer playing with the right driver. That saved me $200 bucks.

For me, this is a huge one. Also, as a corrilary, its when pace of play/practicality interferes with legitimate scoring. For example, When I hit a good drive and can't find it, I stand where I think the ball was and throw the ball backwards into a similar lie, maybe 20 yards behind where I think it actually was. I think that's "fair" but certianly not in the rules. When I end up with a good score on a day where I had to do something like that, I stew about it the whole way home, knowing the score is not legit.