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    Thanks. I'll look for the function again.
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    I don't seem to have one, and the way that I type, it's pretty obvious that I need one. Does this forum not have one, or is the edit a function one that kicks in after so many posts?
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    We'll agree to disagree, I guess. I think that the R&A and USGA Amateur titles should definitely be included in the major wins totals. Ignoring them fails to honor the Jones Grand slam. That would put Tiger one closer to Jack as he won three US Amateurs compared to Jack's two. Neither ever won a British Amateur, so we still don't have anybody who's won all six of my majors. If I would question anything, it would be the Masters. It's an invitational, for one thing, and it isn't the championship of anything. But the players revere it, even if I don't, so I'd say that it deserves major status on that basis.
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    When I started going to Fenway Park as a young boy in the 1950s, box seats were three dollars, bleacher seats were seventy-five cents, and the thirty-five cent hot dogs, although I ate them anyway, sucked. (Better hot dogs at Joe & Nemo's cost a dime each back then.) For tonight's game against the Dodgers, box seats are over a grand each, 350 for bleachers, and while I won't be there, the hot dogs, now probably ten bucks each instead of thirty-five cents, will most likely still suck. I always bought Italian sausage subs with peppers and onions from the street vendors outside, and I highly recommended that the young ones with their thousand dollar tickets do the same.. As for me, I'm getting a whole bunch of stuff at Taco Bell, some Guinness stout, and will be watching on TV. My man cave will be warmer than Fenway.
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    My son-in-law recently bought a beautiful set of eleven Mizuno irons which included a mix of Fli Hi, 919, and S18 club heads with UST Recoil 95 shafts on all of them. I'd have to say that they're the nicest new set of irons that I've seen in a long time. Callaway, Cobra, Mizuno, Ping, and Titleist all offer UST Recoil 95s on their top line irons. TaylorMade doesn't. They offer the Recoil ES 660 that Hogan and Edel use. It appears that the UST Recoil 95 is the new Aldila NV Pro 105 in being the ubiquitous high end graphite choice. I noticed that in this Mizuno oriented-thread, however, there are five likely shaft choices suggested , and all of them (I believe) are steel. Is steel still the way folks are going with high end irons? I know that I play graphite so my hands don't swell, but my son-in-law plays graphite too. It somewhat dominates at our club. But I don't get around that much away from the club, and when I do, I don't play with enough people to see a trend. I can't find the edit function, but I meant to say six, not five, suggested steel shafts.
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    Probably best having a Hall of Fame rather than a Rushmore. Too many really excellent players to start carving rocks.
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    Doesn't GPS pretty much take the subjective opinion out of it anyway?
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    Hagen won five PGA Championships, tournaments in which Jones was ineligible to play. Hagen himself was not eligible for the USGA and R&A Amateurs that Jones won, event that were then and should still .be now considered majors. That's a brutal choice to make. Hogan vs.Snead isn't much easier, and during their era, how many in a row did Byron Nelson win?, I can't argue with any of those choices, and Palmer's pop culture impact isn't easy to ignore either. Also, I still can't ignore the real early guys like Morris in the 19th Century and Vardon very early in the 20th. That's why I lean to Tiger, Jack, and start flipping coins. But remember, Mt. Rushmores are subjective. I'm sure that everybody didn't agree on those four Presidents, either.
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    Great choices all, but Hogan's first tour win was in 1938 and he had no significant amateur wins at all. There had to be some pretty important players for golf to have survived all the way to 1938, I would think.
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    Golf has rules? Wait until I tell the guys! I'll see them all at the bowling lanes now that the frost has arrived.
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    I think that Woods and Nicklaus are a lock, but it gets brutal picking the next two after that. Old Tom Morris, Harry Vardon, Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, JoAnne Gunderson Carner, Kathy Whitworth, Nancy Lopez, Annika Sorenstam, and possibly others all deserve consideration for the other two spots.
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    I'm 72 and once played to a seven. My game will at this point continue to regress as I regress physically. If it gets bad enough to not be fun anymore, I'll simply change my club status to a social membership. Nothing lasts forever.
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    Thanks.
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    It's probably best to come to terms with our own GPS estimated yardages and not be concerned with the inflated assessment others may have of their games. People don't speak under penalty of perjury in causal conversation, and what they're likely to say often illustrates that in a very obvious way. It's not worth getting upset about if they're just talking golf prowess. Our eyes will re-evaluate what our ears heard anyway.
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    18 holes made sense, possibly, when golf was a sport like yachting, fox hunting, and polo--for the very privileged. 9 holes may have made more sense when the working class adopted the game. Now, with the distribution of wealth seemingly becoming regressive again, it's really hard to say, Golf is definitely not growing, but the rate of its recession is hard to predict..
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    If you're not paying club dues, you don't have to make a decision. Play if and when you want to. If you are paying dues to a club, you have to decide if belonging to the club is still worth it, socially, without playing golf,
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    The image on my signature needs to be deleted as it's no longer accurate. Attempts to edit setting have failed. There seems to be no way to delete the loaded image.
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    OK, those were DCI O/S+ irons, either Black or Gold (depending on offset). People sometimes used the long irons in mixed sets with DCI 962s. They matched cosmetically.
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    It's totally legal. He won't be arrested for using it. I've never been arrested for bringing brand new wedges to the machine shop for a little groove work. As a matter of fact, if you don't mind going through golf balls a little faster, I highly recommend it.
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    Living people are playing brand new hickory-shafted clubs from Louisville Golf and Tad Moore. Play whatever you enjoy playing the most. Why would you do anything else?
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    Better than to wade through this stuff forever like I do, I suppose. I loved the weaker lofts on those vintage clubs. I think it made it easier to configure a bag.
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    A back corner of my man cave houses every non-broken golf club that I've owned since 1978. Old shoes with steel spikes and shoe trees still in them. Carry bags. Staff bags. Cart bags. No stand bags (never liked them). Ancient Bag Boy pull (not push) cart. Wound golf balls with yellowed balata covers. Rock hard original Top Flites. (I wish Spalding was still in the golf business.) Even some ancient 1.62" diameter balls my uncle brought me from Bermuda. How do you guys sell these things? I can't do it. When I croak, and it can't be too long now, my family will have to find a way to get rid of this stuff.
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    Until this spring, my set has been as follows for more than two decades: Titleist PT.....13, 17, 20, 23º Titleist DCI 962.....#s 2-9, PW Cleveland 588.....53º Cleveland 691.....58º Tad Moore Chicopee.....putter Now I've gone all new: Ping G400....13º Callaway Steelhead XR.....20.5º Titleist 718 CB.....#s 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Titleist 718 CB.....#8, 1º weak Titleist 718 CB.....#9, 2º weak Titleist SM7.....50-08, 56-08, 62-08 Dandy Tour Blade.....putter The Dandy has helped my putting marginally. Other than that, there's no difference in my game at all. Nothing wrong with DCI 962s.
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    Golf is an obscenely expensive pastime. Neither the R&A nor the USGA subsidizes my expenses. That being the case, I play with the clubs and the number of clubs with which I most enjoy playing.
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