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I voted yes and I really don't care to watch any one team or athlete dominate anything. I turn to something else or go do my art work. Much more exciting to me. Thats just me tho and I respect others opinion of wanting to watch him dominate the field.

I never did and never have been against Tiger. He is a great golfer and maybe the best ever, time will tell but I find one person dominating the tour rather boring and I turn to something else, the western channel or the news. But being called an idiot or stupid is disturbing to me and shouldn't be allowed on this forum. I don't know where the moderator is on this. It should NOT be allowed!

Calling people debasing names should never be allowed on a talk forum. I won't do it, wasn't raised that way and my church comdems those that do! Don't know how you folks were brought up or what your taught in your church but this shouldn't be done, nor should a moderator allow it here! Personally, I find one person or one team winning all the time boring and I don't care if its tiddle-de-winks or NASCAR, I don't care for it, history or no history!

To swing hard you have to tighten the grip and tighten up the muscles in your arms and back. When you do that you cannot react thru the ball with power. The tightened muscles rob you of clubhead speed. Slow down and feel the big muscles drive thru the ball with power. It works!

I didn't watch it...the PGA is a one man show and like Jim Rhome said....BORING!

The larger head is suppose to have a larger sweet spot but I don't think it's the club so much as the one that is swinging it. My son hits the ball out of sight and he hits a Great Big Bertha with the small head. I like my Cubic Balance and the head is a little larger than his. The big heads bother me mentally wise. I have the feeling it costs me clubhead speed. Probably nonsense but this game is mostly mental.

Just watched the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played" and it was a super fine show. Didn't realize what that kid did for golf in this country. He jump-started the game here in America like no other. Beating Varden and Ray was one of the biggest upsets of all time. Super flick!

Watch closely....Ernie Els and Ian Woosnan. They look like they aren't even trying! So easy and the ball just explodes off the club face. Tiger looks like he is killing it with his swing and in reality he is killing it.

Yep, center at the crown. Works for me most of the time. I think thats what the pros recommend!

So true and I wish I had learned it many years ago. Well, I did know it back in my 20s and I played scratch golf back then but somehow it eluded me over the years. I think the slower tempo thing will help me physically also. Easier on my back and hip. It amazes me how far I hit my irons also. I think it is the one thing that results in accuracy and clubhead control!

Allin is right about being relaxed and the worm burners are a product of trying to lift the ball on the uphill shots. Let the club head do the work and stay with the shot a little longer. You are coming out of it too quick with the left shoulder. Hang in there and relax.

I remember going to the Houston Open and Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite were still hitting wood....woods! They just didn't want to give up on the clubs that they had confidence in. I think tech finally got to them however when they saw the distances that others were getting. I think they would fare very well with the old clubs. Heck they could take a coke bottle and beat most of us!

I have to go with what brung me on that particular day. Like yesterday, I had a draw off the tee all day and I just had to live with it. Some days I hit it straight and I'm fine with that. Seldom do I fight a slice. I can make it slice when I want to but generally I don't have to worry about the dreaded banana!

What you just felt and related is what the pros do consistantly. They look like they are swinging real easy and the ball goes 20 to 50 yds farther than when we hit the same club. They have the timing down and the breaking wrist thing with the delayed hit, all part of their repartoir!

It's amazing how far you can hit the ball by swinging within yourself. Seems like I can control the clubface better wien I swing with an easy tempo. I hit several shots yesterday futher than usual and I swung real easy like! Have you ever hit a bad shot, say a pop up with a fairway wood that went 50 yds and you could have taken a 7 iron and hit it 150? I think we often try too hard to hit it as far as we can and we should let the club head do the work!

The only difference I can see is the irons are to be struck with a downward blow and the divot is in front of the ball. The woods and long irons are pretty much swept off the ground and tee. If you hit down on the woods you could pop it up and hit them fat. If you, at the top of the back swing, start the downward motion driving the butt of the irons at the ball, you will achieve the late hit that is so important. The late uncocking of the wrists is the ideal part of the golf swing that you want!

I'd love to have one cause it would help me in archery as well as golf. Does Radio Shack have a decent one?

Thanks, I had given up on ever playing golf again. That was about 8 years ago and now I'm back out there trying to get my handicap back down around 8 to 10 where it should be. Not easy and I may not ever make it but I'm giving it a go. My son is getting me on the right track with slowing down my swing. I've slowed down everthing from the driver to the putter. Makes a lot of difference!

For some reason, yesterday, I was drawing my driver big time almost to a dreaded hook. I was really coming from the inside and I was pull hooking it to some degree. I just lived with it all day and allowed for the draw but I was consistantly on the left side of the fairway. I tried to take the driver a little outside away from the ball but it still went down the middle and drew to the left. I think if I had opened my stance some, I might have corrected it but I was afraid of hooking it into the trees and OB. Anyway, I did well the first nine with it but played poorly on the back side. It got me into trouble a few times that cost me a couple of doubles!

I also had 12 putts on the front. Not too bad for a rank duffer at this point. My son has slowed down my swing and it is beginning to pay off. Not easy to do but it is slowly taking hold.

I can hit a fade or slice alot easier than a draw and it sure does help at times. Yesterday, I had a big pine about 20 yds in front of me and I needed to go around it and up a hill to an elevated green about 150 yds away. Down the left side was another row of pines. Instead of drawing it around the pine and up the fairway in the middle, I chose to go left of the pine and fade it away from the row of pines. I missed the pine in front of me by about three feet and it faded down the side of the row of pines and bounced up the hill and landed on the fringe. Chipped to about 4 ft. and made par. To draw the ball I have to strengthen my grip, hood the club and keep my right elbow tucked in and swing from the inside. Alot tougher for me to do!

Yesterday I shot a 39 on the front, the first since my surgery last Nov. My card looked like this.....bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey, birdie, par, par, par, par. I think I wore down some on the back side and shot a 45 for a total 84. I had it going for a while however. I made some great shots out there to make par and chipped one in for a bogey. I hit a 7 iron 140 up a hill to a hidden green to within 3 ft. Made that for my second birdie of the day. Just kinda got tired and lost my concentration on the last 4 or 5 holes.

Never heard of that mixture but it sounds refreshing. I like a cold Gatorade or a Big Gulp of DP.

I use to Ranger at TALL CHIEF in Fall City. My wife and I stayed at the park and I worked for the Pro there as a Ranger. It's right down the road a mile or two from Snoqualmie Falls. I painted the totem pole to the intrance to the RV Park. Took me a month to get it done but it was fun.

That is out of sight! Must have cost you a small fortune to collect all those. I've own about that number but no where near the value of yours.