McIlroy_man

The reason he is higher in the Race to Dubai is that the list is based on earnings for the season whereas the Fed-Ex cup is a points based system. He earned a significant amount of money for winning the wgc, more than for winning most other tournaments but the Fed-Ex cup points might not have been much more than a normal tournamant win

Just put it in the bag yesterday.....ping rep took nearly 2 weeks getting it to me!! 9.5 stiff with the axiv core....best driver i have ever owned! and its the first non Titleist driver i have had in 6 years! yet it puts all of them to shame

I have just stopped scoring well in all competition rounds i play! This year has just been horrid for me on the golf course whenever i have had a card in the pocket. I beat my handicap probably about 80% of the time im playing bounce games but cant get anywhere near it in medal rounds. Last year my worst medal score was 75 (Par 69) and i played in about 15...this year ive played in about 10 and my best score has been 77 I didn't play any golf from August last year until April this year due to Uni work and a shoulder injury but surely that hasnt made me lose my competitive edge completely?! I feel everytime i stand on the 1st tee now that i need to shoot low and the added pressure im putting on myself isnt helping! Any mental tips anyone has to keep calm and focused?

i dislocated my shoulder 9 weeks ago at the range! first time it had happened and was pretty damn sore! started playing again last week and seems to be ok so far! touch wood

i have had similar problems for a while now, but it started from playing football...well soccer to you guys...it has never got to the point where i cant walk or play golf and it has never given me enough trouble to go and get it checked out! if your worried about it though then you should get it checked out...its quite a common problem for footballers over here and can have them out for a few months! speaking of injuries though, ive just blown my shoulder hitting balls at the range! 2nd last ball as well...just hit it and something happened to my left shoulder...doc reckons it came slightly out of the socket and fell back in...cant play golf for 4 weeks!! ive never heard of it happening to anyone before, better not be a recurring problem

I totally agree! looks really cheap compared to the 909's. It would certainly put me off buying it!

to which part? i mean obviously it depends on your angle of attack into the ball, but the majority if players will create much more spin with a lower lofted club i also worded the last bit not to great, it only imparts more side spin if you come accross the ball, not if you hit it square on.....thats why most players use higher lofted clubs im not sure on the science behind it, but that is what i was told by both the titleist, callaway and t/made fitting staff for your average player a 10.5 loft with a low launch shaft is easier to hit than an 8.5 with a high launching shaft im just basing it on what i was told by the guys that do it for a living....it may be wrong

the shaft is what determines your ball flight and launch angle, the loft on the head is to control the amount of spin you put on the ball. the lower the loft, the more spin...also with less loft, you impart more side spin on the ball which for your bad shots - slices, hooks etc, makes them worse! but no one should be buying an OTR driver anymore when you can so easily be fitted for one by a qualified fitter! so they will know best what head, loft, shaft etc you should be using

the new taylormade irons are crazy long! i demoed them before they came out when the t/made tour truck came to my work. He was saying that they have made the face as thin as possible in order to maximise the trampoline effect, which we all know is limited in drivers. im not sure if there are limits for irons or not. the loft is also stronger on these irons compared to t/mades standard loft Anyway, when i was hitting the burners, i hit the 6 iron as far as i hit my own 4 iron!! howver you get no feel from them at all and i couldnt shape them at all. but for any mid-high handicapper these irons would be a great set!

When i was playing the old course at st andrews a couple of years ago. i was on the 17th tee and thought id give it a real go and cut a bit of the corner with the driver. I hit a massive slice right into the hotel and heard it crash of the roof. So thought to myself lost ball. I then proceeded to reload and hit the exact same shot and again hear it crash of the roof! I didnt want to embarrass myself further by doing it again so we just walked on up the hole and there right in the middle of the fairway were both of my golf balls, lying no more than 5 yards apart! couldnt believe my eyes....i then managed to get a par!

You cant change your handicap based on what you believe to be the SSS. Your playing handicap has been worked out to be 13.4 from a SS of 73. They must have a reason for working the handicaps out to a SS of 73 instead of 70. Were these competitions that you played in? if so then the CSS could have been 73 based on other scores handed in. Very rarely in competition play does the CSS remain the same as the SSS

they make the best irons by a country mile. wedges and putters are up with the best too, however they are still playing catch up when it comes to woods imo! I work in a golf shop and get to hit pretty much every new iron that comes out and nothing i have hit have come close to the feel and workability of my 67's. I cant ever see myself getting a set of irons from now on that arent Mizuno! your playing off 1.3, so you would be looking probably at the new mp-68's and they look sweet!

it shouldnt mess with performance at all. if you cut an inch off the tip of the shaft then it would play a lot stiffer, but cutting it off the butt is only going to affect the length, not how the shafts play im pretty sure anyway!

i had my mp-67s all bent 2* stronger and i only noticed a difference in the distance i was hitting them, it really didnt do much for lowering the ball flight for me. in terms of performance, they felt exactly the same, played the same, just went a ittle bit further All it does is basically make you hit a 5 iron like a 4.5 iron in terms of distance. you dont really think about it before hand, but do you actually hit your 4 iron much lower than your 5? you will most probably notice very little drop in ball flight

biggest difference with fakes is usually the grips, the grips on fakes are much thinner than they are on real clubs. the fakes are definately getting better, and callaway is one of the worst for fakes, but there is always differences! writing style, colour, texture of graphics, shafts etc Easiest way to find out though is to take them to your nearest golf shop and have them check them against a set that they have, its much easier to tell if they are real or not when you have a genuine one to compare it to!

1) Lower handicap to 1.0 or better 2) Make my university and golf club's men teams (a regular starter, not the odd game) 3) Shoot at least 6 sub par rounds (3 last year) 4) Practice at least 3 times a week and play at least twice a week, plus a lesson every 2 weeks 5) Get back in shape! put on quite a few pounds last year as i ate badly and didnt work out much 6) Reach the final 4 in the club championship 7) drop my PPR to >30 and raise my FIR to

thanks for the suggestions so far guys, i was up at the range today and was focusing more on not swaying and keeping my weight on the inside of my right foot....man it felt weird! once id got through the first 50 balls or so i started hitting my irons really nicely with just a touch of fade at the end ( I may still have been swaying a touch, definatley a lot less than usual though but i wont be certain that ive stopped doing it until i see it on video)....the problems again were with the longer clubs, the driver and 3 wood were just firing all over the place This was the first time i had hit any balls in 4 weeks as the ranges have all been shut here because of the snow, so it could be a bit of rustyness too, but i just dont seem to be able to hit a good ball without swaying with the long clubs. Im going back up to the range on thursday and will try and get a few videos of my swing then for you all to have a look at...il get some with irons and woods. cheers

My swing has always had a big sway in it and it has made me less consistent than i know i could be. I have had many lessons and the sway was one of the things ive worked on, but i can never seem to get rid of it! I can have practice swings without the sway and hit soft shots without the sway....well really only pitches and maybe up to about a soft 9 iron shot...but the minute i start trying to hit the ball hard the sway comes back. It can really effect my driving as i cant get my hands to catch up with my body so can start loosing a lot of shots to the right. Does anyone have any simple tips or drills to help me get rid of this for good? I'm willing to put a lot of work into this as i need to become more consistent to get into my university team. Cheers

i know this doesnt answer your question, but i noticed your playing with 57's atm. Have you though about getting a set made up of different Mizuno models? maybe 52's 3 & 4, 58's 5,6,7, and 68's 8,9,PW? i know quite a lot of guys do this and i preferred the feel of my 67's to the Titleist blades when i tried them. Just an idea

doesnt matter if its got no monetary value...you should never sell an old putter! you never know when you might want to go back to it! asthetically i dont think anything could look worse than than a standard detour so its not like you ruined a good looking putter...imo anyway

no, it wouldnt work at all. You would have to cut a fair amount off the shaft to make it the same length and doing that would mess up the flex, kickpoint etc you will also probably find that the 3 wood and hybrid have different tip sizes! if you wanna change the shaft, then do it right and buy the hybrid version of the shaft

no...$500 is a hell of a lot of money to drop for a round of golf! St Andrews which you all are saying is a course that you would pay that sort of money to play is only £120 a round which just now is under $200! is Pebble Beach double to course that St Andrews is?...no way! therefore i couldnt justify paying that much money to play it on the otherhand, fair play to Pebble Beach, the demand is high enough for them to charge that price so why wouldnt they? after all, if we had the money we all would pay it! i would also expect that to a fair few of the people playing there, $500 is a tiny amount of money!

best way to put it is that there is no industry standard anymore. the manufacturers choose the length that they feel works best with the head and will fit the average person. if your looking for new irons though, then you should get fit for them thus making the standard length irrelevant

yeah im pretty sure he could. he would probably just fill in the sight dot and then engrave a sight line instead. i mean the man can do pretty much anything to a putter! I think he quotes up to 4 weeks for only engraving, but it depends on how busy he is. he may have quite a few putters at this time of year...people wanting their putters done in time for the season starting