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Ping Eye2 irons are great, many still play them today. You don't necessarily need to add 2", the more important measure than your height is your wrist-to-floor (WTF, no kidding) measurement. Go to Ping's web site and look for their color code chart which suggests length and lie angle specs based on height and WTF.

Just an FYI that NVS 55 stiff shaft in your BB 460 probably plays more like a regular flex. NVS runs soft to nominal flex. DVS is more true to flex.

However, in his book The Art of Putting, Stan Utley advocates a putter with 5* loft, which is more than the typical. Promotes rolling over skidding I believe.

Exactly. You are essentially declaring the first shot unplayable. The one advantage of NOT declaring provisional is when finding the ball deep in the woods leaves no option other than to re-tee as an unplayable. In this case you can not play the provisional, you would have to go back and re-tee.

Saw this on another forum: If it is just sweat stains, febreze the hat, and use enough to get the hat reasonably damp let dry, sweat stains will be gone and hat will smell good.

Supertri is known for high spin. It's good for players who need more spin to keep the ball in the air. If you're hitting it high and with little roll-out, it's a good suggestion to try other shafts to reduce the spin.

My home course uses ghin.com to manage handicaps and you can look up ratings/slopes for front and back nines of different courses. This lookup feature is available to anyone. I'm not sure if they have Okinawa courses. USGA rules require that the course have a separate front and back nine rating to use a nine-hole score for handicap. Once the two nine-hole scores are added, the course rating is the sum of the two nine-hole course ratings, and the slope is the average of the two slopes, rounded to the nearest whole number.

$20 is a great price, just buy a pair and see what you think. The Adidas pants are pretty nice, reasonably comfy in warm weather. They're never going to be as cool as shorts.

They are pretty similar overall. I mostly read them both for the tips (aren't we all just one solid tip away from being scratch?) and it's true after a while they recycle. GD tips are from PGA/LPGA pros, GOLF tips from "top 100" teachers. Teachers always seem to have bizarre tips as they try to outdo each other.

Some people talk about feeling like your right elbow is in front of your belt buckle.

Nine-hole scores should not be doubled. They are paired up to form 18-hole scores. So your first and second nine-hole scores get added together and so forth. You need to get the ratings/slopes for the nines you played.

Swaying on the swing can cause a mix of fat and thin (topped) shots. Hard to tell from video from behind but I'm seeing some head movement during the swing that looks like lateral motion.

I bought the Tour Striker Pro based on the long thread at golfwrx. The designer/inventor gave some good advice in that thread, one tidbit being to go with the Pro rather than the standard version. The Pro is harder to hit but the standard can be too easy to master without a big improvement in swing. On the other hand if you struggle with the Pro at first you can start out by teeing the ball slightly or fluffing the lie. I've only used it in one range session so far, and if you don't have shaft lean you will definitely hit it thin with this club. But I have been working on a better swing with more lag for a couple months and was able to hit some good shots with the TS as well.

In Stan Utley's Art of the Short Game he describes this general technique for high pitch shots: Weight left, narrow stance, clubface and stance aimed at target (not open), hit just behind the ball, early release of the hinge. A lob wedge with 10-12* bounce will work fine. Club won't dig because of the bounce. This technique and others in Utley's book have helped my short game quite a bit. For vary hard lies, you can open the clubface (it helps to have a wedge grind that gets the club closer to the ground when you open it up). Utley claims it will even work off pavement.

One more observation about high cappers and I count myself among them: the proper swing can be physically uncomfortable. Inside-out swing / inverted C is harder on the lower back than just swinging with your arms. Full turn / getting hands far from your head on the backswing also is an uncomfortable stretch.