IcemanYVR

The MP-33's were the best irons I've ever owned. I wore out 2 sets and was on my 3rd by the time life caught up with me and I decided to get something less demanding. They're deserving of every Mizuno cliche. If I ever come across a new or like new set, I will probably buy them just for nostalgia sake.

I'm just across the border in BC, but I'd be interested as well. I've played some great courses in WA, including some of the ones mentioned.

Title says it all. Looking to buy a Titleist 905R 9.5* with a Grafalloy Blue shaft. Men's right hand. Stiff flex. Must be willing to ship to Vancouver, BC Canada. V5Z 4B2USPS has some really nice boxes for shipping clubs. Looking to replace a long lost love...

Congrats... looking forward to watching you on the show...

I have a combo set, my usual set consisting of Mizuno MP-52 3-4 irons and MP-33, 5-PW. I have the MP 52 up to the 5 iron, and of course my MP-33 are a full set 2-PW. If you can make sense of that, then you're better than me :) I can switch in and out as conditions and playing dictate. They are all loft/lie and swing weight matched. The feel between the set is very consistent the only thing being the ball flight is a little higher in the long irons, which in my opinion, is never a bad thing :) Even Rory McIlroy used a combo set when he won at Quail Hollow, AP-2 and MB's. As for selling them, they seem to sell quite well on ebay, so I wouldn't worry about that too much.

I don't know Sean... you're at 2200 feet give or take... come out here to sea level where IRL a 260 yard drive is as good as 300 and as good as 330 on the internet and I would buy a country club... funds permitting of course, but I would then need the funds to hire Tom Fazio or Rees Jones to make they type of course that I like.

It was free, and it was done by a major club manufacturer, not a store. I was fit by their tour van, at the time, arranged for me by a friend who played on the Nationwide Tour. I wouldn't get it done at a golf store, or trust the accuracy of their equipment. Paying $100 for a proper fitting... totally worth it if it helps or improves your game.

Junkard Dog ...pretty much means I'm all over the place, but can always find a way to get it in the hole

Sorry, but that's not a real driver fitting experience. You just hit a few drivers at the local golfmart, and picked the one the computer said you hit the best. A proper driver fitting entails hitting many drivers, with a launch monitor on a practice range, with different loft and shaft combinations until you find one that gives you the optimal launch conditions for your swing. When I was fit for my driver, they probably had over 200 drivers all made up (from one manufacturer) and it probably only took 30-40 swings to find the right club. I started off by hitting my current driver, and then they used the data to narrow it down for which combination would be best. I probably only hit less than 10 drivers. A proper fitter really knows their stuff, and after the fitting I had gained about 20 yards in driver distance through a combination of new technology, and optimium launch angle and ball spin.

All Cleveland wedges currently for sale are also available as conforming, but usually only as special order. (from the tech rep I spoke to last week, and also somewhere buried on their website) Cleveland and Vokey wedges are both great, but there's a big difference in feel between the two. You need find a place where you can hit them from different lies (without tape and not it a store) and decide for yourself. I'm replacing both of my wedges becuase one of them is worn out, and I want to replace in a pair, but both will be Cleveland. Luckily for me, I can still get the same loft/bounce combinations as I already have.

I have the opposite problem, I usually tee off very early in the morning, and it's tough to see my first hole, and sometimes the tee shot on the second. What do I do you ask... I just pull out my yellow Srixon Z-Star and play away... haven't lost one yet. They don't glow in the dark... but they're the next best thing

I don't think they are very accurate at all. I recently went to the one at my local GolfTown and it said I hit the ball 230 with a big fade. It also said I had a swing speed of 101mph (I'm closer to 105) and a launch angle of 18' IRL, I consistantly carry the ball 265-270 with a slight draw, and launch the ball between 12-14' I recently had a fitting at Titleist Fitting Center on a practice range for a driver, and the swing specs for GolfTown were not even close. So I think that taking the results "with a grain of salt" would even be asking too much.

It's a great drill when you're starting to practice your putting. Once I could make 25 in a row, I moved out to 5 feet and tried to make 100 in a row. If I miss, I have to start over. I do this once a week, really helps with the stroke. That's a different drill, and there are many variations of it. You shouldn't work on your stroke on anything but a flat put. You need the proper feedback that you can only get from a flat lie and flat putting path. Don't get me wrong, it's a great drill, and a necessary one... just not for working on your stroke.

45, walking and carrying... have played some 36 hole tournaments back in the day, those were more tiring becuase of the mental stress... but these days, I'm pretty sure I couldn't do a scond 18 without a cart

thanks for the updates Ben, good to hear you're making progress my game didn't drastically improve either until I ditched the driving range for the practice area

good idea for a thread I do a variation of that, except that I never usually putt out my putts, I have a whole separate putting practice regimin and I'm fine with that... I'll take 3-5 balls depending on the size of the practice green... I also use my 54, 8I, and 6I pretty much 95% of the time when chipping. 1) hit one ball with each club to the same flag, this really helps develop the feel, especially in your hands 2) using the same club hit a ball to each of the different flags on the green, repeat with your other chipping clubs. I seldom hit multiple balls to the same hole, I find it very repetative, and it really only helps you with that exact shot, lie, distance, roll... etc. putting... I have 5 drills that should drop most people 3-4 strokes, but that's for a whole different thread.

late reply I know... but still trying to decide between the 66 and 76g UST Proforce V2 shaft. It looks like the 76g was the "stock" shaft. Is this weight you were referring to when you said "made for each other"? I've always hit the "stock" upgrades shafts in Titleist drivers pretty well. I also wonder if the larger head weight (compared to a 65g shaft in my 975J) will make the club feel roughly the same becuase it's balanced by the slightly heavier shaft ... maybe I'm being too anal???

great to hear you like them... I'm thinking about adding the 3,4, and 5 irons to my bag, just for the extra forgiveness and higher launch in the longer irons.

... unless they got the game to back it up, and they better seriously be able to bring it Wasn't calling you a poser for posting stats, we're all curious... i just think it's information a poser will use to feel good about their clubs or justify their purchase.

Just curious... is that drivers or irons, or wedges... or even putters... if a player uses an Odyssey (Callaway) putter but a Ping driver, do both manufacturers get to take credit... those kind of numbers are useless, and can be skewed any number of ways. I guess these numbers only really matter for posers

I don't like either of them... I don't find them all that knowledgeable, and each of them is rather annoying in their own way. Just because you are a good writer, does not mean you make a good on-air TV commentator nor does it make your commentary or analysis interesting... ... just my $.02

learning to windsurf on the Columbia river is epic... it's akin to playing your first round of golf at Augusta

you can usually spot a hustler... for one thing, I've never met a hustler using a stand bag, it's always some old bag they just throw on the ground... ... of course these are all just generalizations, but for the most part, i would bet the majority of them hold true

if by picking up my two kids a couple of hundred times a day and walking 5 miles around the backyard cleaning up and chasing after them then yes... otherwise no