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Congrats Cut Back. Hopefully everyone will be happy now. You've gone from a some kind of putter-butcher (majority opinion) to an putter-innovator. Maybe Scotty will give you a call and offer you a job. I'm not sure why it got so many guys worked up, I'm guessing what you did is the kind of thing that Scotty does all the time. Make a putter, take it apart, tinker with it. The difference is he doesn't post his experiments on the internet and then ask people to comment on it. :) You should change your "In the bag" to Scotty Cameron Detour (Cut Back Limited Edition). ;) Happy putting.

OK, I'll stick my 2-cents in here. My understanding is this: The way to find this position is to put a piece of dowel (or a club / basically anything straight) behind your ball in line with your target. Start your backswing and stop at the point the club is horizontal /parallel to the ground. If you were to have someone take the club and place it straight down on the ground, it should be parallel to the dowel you put down as your target line. They should look like two straight pieces of railway track with your club on the near side. Clear as mud? Probably. Hope I'm right and if so, I hope it helps.

I agree, the 07 Burner is a really great driver and even if the shaft isn't right for you, you could try to trade the Callaway for a new shaft. I may have missed it but I don't think you said how well you hit the Callaway. If you smash that down the middle every time, then you should probably stick with it. If you don't hit the Callaway well, you could do a lot worse than the Burner. As golf'n'biker said, find a store with a demo and give it a go.

The "Putt for dough" John Doe scholarship or the John Doe "putt for dough" scholarship. Or the long form: The "Drive for show, putt for dough" John Doe Scholarship. Obviously works better if your name really was John Doe Then it could be: The John Doe "Putt for Doe" scholarship. Maybe you could change you name? Otherwise it still works with your real name. Essentially the scholarship winner would be Putting for the dough, and chipping for the dough, etc...

It's a solid app, gets quite a workout on my phone. The updates have given it much more adaptability and for only about $10 (It might have been on sale) it was a bargain. It kind of feels like some of the early editions of Tiger Woods on the PS2, very simple, very repetitive but for some reason I can spend ages playing it.

I've had a big drop in distance since going from TM Tour Burners to my MP 52s. The lofts are 1 or 2 degrees different, the TM's were stronger lofted, but the difference appears to be bigger than that, almost a club.

If you find John's Balls. Please return to his wife.

There are lots of different tips to prevent the old death grip. I don't know how good any of them are but there are things like imagining you're holding a tube of toothpaste; the theory is you've got to hold it tight enough so you don't drop it but not too hard so that toothpaste would come out. Another is imagine a scale of between 1 and 10, 10 being death grip, hold your club at about a 3. One other is hold it firm enough so that it can't be gently pulled out of your hands by a mate. But, ultimately I agree with the other guys. You're probably hitting way too many balls. You may be gripping fine to start with but as you get more and more tired, you will be gripping tighter and tighter until you're shredding your grip, your hands and your glove if you wear one. Go easy tiger, and remember that the object of the game is to have as few shots as necessary, not as many as you can. That goes for the course and the range.

In the video Momentus Golf CEO Jim Sorenson comments that in practice for trying to qualify for the Open he made 199 of 200 putts. I'd like to know how it actually translates on the course. How many putts did he have during the round? For those of you who have one, how do you go when you practice without it? Anyone done the drill with the guide and then tried to do the same drill without the guide?

Been working on setting up with right forearm on plane, struggled a bit with consistent contact until today when I focused on keeping it on plane during the takeaway and throughout the back swing. This meant my right arm was much closer to my body throughout the swing. For anyone who does this (I think it's all part of The Golf Machine theory), is this what it's meant to feel like or am I making my arc shorter by doing this and robbing myself of distance. I was absolutely smoking the ball but it was hard to judge distance because of a really big headwind. Any thoughts?

I think the new rule only applies to questions relating to "I found a website that has R9s for 37c with a free Golf Cart and a pair of plaid Plus Fours thrown in for nothing, do you think this is legit?" I'm pretty sure other golf related websites (links to courses, new products, etc.) are fine.

If I averaged 28 putts, I'd be off 3 too. Goes to show there are many different ways to score. Whenever I start losing the plot with my irons I go out and work on my chipping (This is obviously a strength of yours anyway so shouldn't take too long to get the feeling), and then my pitching and then my 3/4 and full wedge shots. I set up some sticks for alignment and go back to basics. Focus on Flat Left Wrist, hands ahead of the ball, getting a good impact position and then I make sure I end up in a balanced finish position. It usually only takes me a session at the range to get it back on track. When I've got that sorted I start moving through the clubs. I did it at lunch today and after 10 minutes of chipping and 10 minutes of pitching I hit 25 balls with my sand wedge. It was awesome, I was aiming for a light pole about 70 metres away and was all over it. I even hit it twice! Needless to say the confidence is back and I'm looking forward to Sunday's round. Good Luck.

LOL. Comedy Gold.

Jeez, my round yesterday sounds much like Pivo's round. Started double, double, double. Each time finding trouble off the tee with my driver. Went to the 3 wood and birdied the 4th. Played smart for a few more holes, had a par and a couple of bogeys and then pulled the driver out on 9 and finished with a triple! Dumb. I should've changed my gameplan knowing that the Driver just wasn't on that day and left it in the bag. Finished with 47. It was a case of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions (Going the miracle shot from under the fairway bunker lip) which leads to more damage on the scorecard. On the back 9 I went back to the 3 wood and instantly took all the trouble out of play. Shot 37 with a 3 putt bogey on the 18th. It's amazing how relaxed I became when I wasn't trying to scramble and make up for bad decisions. Good decisions lead to more good decisions. Take the pressure off yourself by playing smart and having a simple plan and the pars will just add up.

As my signature shows, I have the MX 700 3 wood and hybrid. When I was testing and getting fitted for them I tried the 700 Driver but I couldn't hit it for the life of me. I tried different lofts and about 10 different shafts and for some reason I just couldn't hit it. I can't explain it. I love the 3 W and Hybrid, the Driver may work for you. Give it a test at an outdoor range if you can, it's really the only way to know.

Had a big clean out and stashed the rain gear, spare balls, spare gloves, bag of tees, jumpers and beanie in the car instead of dragging it all around week in, week out. 3 X new Pro V1x 3 X old Pro V1x 10 X Wood tees. 1 X Glove. 1 X spare glove. 1 X Pouch for Phone, wallet, watch, wedding ring. 2 X 500ml Stainless Steel water bottles. 1 X Short Sleeve windproof vest. 1 X Chamois for heavy rain days and sprinkler accidents. 1 X towel for face and hands. 1 X towel for Clubs. 1 X club brush. 1 Divot tool. 4 or 5 Ball Markers. I zip-lock bag containing suncreen, bug stuff, band aids and shoelace. 1 X Gustbuster umbrella. 1 X Yardage book. 1 X Mini sharpie and a pencil with eraser/sharpener. 2 X Chocolate bars. 1 X Cardholder with business cards and handicap card. And that's about a third of what used to be in there.

I agree with you. Part B says it all really. A player must not... b) ask for advice from anyone other than his partner or either of their caddies. Unfortunately for you I'm not on the committee and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Committee has the final say. Just one of those things in golf.

The more arrows the better I find.

I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that Kevin Dillon's (Drama) dad is a High School or College golf coach, so he can actually play a bit.

Must be that dodgy putter of his. Time to come back to the original and best. Ping-me-up baby.

I honestly don't think they're as bad as they used to be, which is why I have a 20˚ Mizuno. I went back to a 2-iron a few years ago after hitting hybrids for a couple of years. Didn't matter what I tried to make them do I could never get consistency. So I gave up on them until I tried this one. Very versatile. Good from the tee, the rough, fairway bunkers, even good to chip with. But until I found this one, I completely understood why people didn't like them.

My key for scoring well when I'm playing badly seems to be to go with one type of shot. If I hit the practice range and all I'm hitting is fades/slices, that's the shot I'll take out on the course. There's no way I can fix it during the round so I don't bother trying. I figure I'm better off to figure it out during the week. I just aim everything left and hit the fade/slice. This seems to work for me because when I'm playing badly I usually get into trouble because one shot goes right and the next left. Hitting the one type of shot can feel ugly and sometimes it looks ugly but it takes one of the big misses out of play.

My home and contents policy covers them as a specified item. So they're covered at home and in the car and wherever, the only thing not covered is if I break them while actually playing. So really they're just covered for fire and theft and that kind of thing but better than trying to find another three grand or so to replace it all. Especially with the crap Aussie dollar at the moment.

I'm pretty sure the guys in Entourage had one, can't remember which series though. Looked like fun.

I'm kind of in a similar boat to you and the reason I'm about a 10 usually comes down to poor choices. You have to do what you know is right and if that means chipping out, you have to chip out. Rule 1: Do what you know you can do, not what you think you can do. I've played with a lot of guys with low handicaps and these guys very rarely pull any heroics. Hit the fairway, hit the green. If they miss the fairway they just make sure they put the next one in the best possible place to minimize the damage. They take their medicine and usually salvage par, bogey at worst. I often forget to take my medicine. Quite regularly a 2nd shot in the rough which is like having a runny nose becomes a 3rd or 4th shot in the woods and suddenly my runny nose has become a plague of bogeys because I didn't take my medicine. Rule 2: Take your Medicine. But the best bit of advice I can give you I actually learned while playing with guys off 30+. I noticed they'd always try to use the same clubs off the tee as I was, they'd take the same line I was hitting, all that sort of stuff and it dawned on me that you have to play your own game. So much of golf is macho BS - hit the driver when an iron will do, take the stupid shot over the trees, etc. But if we just do what is required (What is right) we'll score much better. That's what low handicap guys seem to do, they play their own game regardless of what their partners are doing. Seems to work for the guys I play with. I might have to give it a try. Rule 3: Play your own game.