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I hit a G15 on a simulator at a Golf Galaxy on vacation. I was hitting in dress shoes, so I wasn't exactly laying down all my power. I hit one drive of 315 and multiple 295-305 drives. My driving average is around 270, so take that as you will.

I don't have quite the swing speed that you do, but I have played the Taylor Made TP Red LDP and Pro V1 for the last few months. I just picked up some Tour One and Tour One D for my next few rounds. You may be best served by trying something without a ton of spin of your irons first. I know when I changed from distance balls to spin balls, my scores went up for a few rounds. It takes a little learning to get used to how the spinier balls will play around the green and on full shots. I'd try and work with the Tour One D first. They should have enough spin to hold you on greens with no problem, while not having so much spin that any side spin will be greatly magnified

Hunting Craigslist last night and found someone selling a lightly used 909 D3 for $200. Went to pick it up today and take it to the range. I was hitting it a little low on the face, but when I caught it right it was great. Nice mid ball flight with a slight fade. I just need to work on my consistency with it since I'm not used to such a deep face. I love craigslist and this is the second great deal I've gotten off there. Just wanted to share my exciting news.

Played the Taylor Made TP Red LDP today for the first time. It was a good ball overall, but I was hoping it would lower my trajectory a little more. It spun well off my irons, stopping a 5i and 6i in one hop and spinning back a foot or two on everything else I hit. Felt soft off the putter and didn't get torn up at all. I liked it a lot, especially for $25/doz. If they went back up to $45, I'd probably just be buying Pro V1x again.

I swing about 80% on my driver and 3-wood. If I swing too hard I tend to get a little sloppy and hit the worlds biggest slice. Even at 80% I am consistently 280 and with perfect contact can stretch it to almost 300. With my irons I shorten my backswing, so I'm probably hitting them at about 70%. That leaves me a lot of room to really open up on a club if I need a little extra distance or need to control a shot more. To slow my swing speed down, I just concentrate on my tempo and extension. If I take the club back slowish and with good extension, I get to the top, then drop my hands and lag the wrists a bit. Then snap the wrists through impact. It works well because a lot of the power comes from my wrists and swing arc, not necessarily the speed at which I can swing my arms. That's what does it for me.

You just need to work on your consistency. You just changed part of your swing and now you need to put it in muscle memory. Personally, if I find I'm taking too big of a divot, it tends to be from moving my head down during the swing. My old clubs were off the rack and I need a 1" longer club. I had to perform some swing gymnastics to get a decent strike on the ball. Sometimes my swing would get out of tempo and I'd start taking out massive divots. I've jammed my wrist bad doing that too. On wet courses I can be terrible with my wedge divots. I hit down on the ball hard, taking a large divot under normal circumstances. With wet ground I have taken out divots that could be confused for a small dog. Literally 2" deep and 12" long. Thankfully that hasn't happened recently.

I tossed a club at my bag during a HS match one day. It hit one of the legs and broke it. So I had to replace my bag for my little tantrum. That was the last time I threw a club. My coach laughed and said if I did it again I wouldn't be playing in another match.

Yeah, I somehow ended up getting them for $100 less, including tax, then I could have gotten them from Golfsmith for. He charged me $99 per club. I was expecting to pay $800 for them because I wasn't getting a 3 iron and was pleasently surprised when he told me the final price.

It was as US1 Golf Center in Rockledge. The whole process took about 2 hours. It could have ended earlier, but it happened that the best head for me was the last one we tried.

A local driving range that does club fitting.

A new driver, as long as I could have it fited. I just bought new irons, so I don't exactly need new ones right now.

Went to the local range to get fitted for irons this morning. This was the first time I had been fitted for clubs, my last set being right off the shelf. I had made my swing fit the clubs and it was time to change that. I was originally looking at: X-22, X-22 tour, Burners, Burner TP. I hit the Burners and we fitted the shaft and lie first on those clubs. Then I hit the others, but wasn't really impressed with any of those. Hit all of Nikes clubs and liked their blades, but I wasn't real consistent with them.Then I tried Cobras forged CB irons and that was something I liked. Then we moved to Titleist and tried the AP-2 and ZM. I didn't hit the AP-2 well and I hit the ZMs better. At that point I determined I must have forged irons. So he pulled the Titleist ZB out on a Project-X shaft and it was good, but ball flight was too high. So he switched shafts to the Nippon Pro launch and it got better. Ball flight was still a little high, but I hit the ZB better then anything else. It had just enough bad feel on mishits, but still got the ball out there. This was the only club that I didn't have any nasty hits off of. When I hit that head/shaft combo a few time, it was obvious what was best for me. He checked the lie again to make sure it had stayed the same. I ended up ordering 4-W set of the ZBs with 2 deg upright and 1" longer shaft for a 4 deg upright lie. Nippon Pro launch 100 shafts, stiff flex. To lower my ball flight a little, he decided to lower the loft by 2 deg on each club. I ordered the Tour Velvet cord grips in red +1/16" grip size. The club fitting was free if I ordered through them, so it cost $693 for the set, plus tax. They should be in when I get back from vacation next Thursday. I recommended everyone get fitted for clubs. The models I wanted, I ended up not hitting well. I didn't think I was good enough for forged clubs, but I hit them the best and they felt the best to me by far. You'll never know how easy a club can be to hit until you have it fit to your swing. I'll never buy off the rack clubs again. Can't wait to play again when I get them in.

You definitely need to work on your putting. I had a good putting round last week with 26 putts on 18 holes, with only 6 GIR. I shot 3 over. It's amazing what a good putting will do for your score. What's your biggest problem? Reading the line? Speed? Consistent stroke?

In high school I used to play Titleist Professionals. They were great balls, but man did they get torn up. I was lucky to get 18 holes out of one before half the cover was missing. The balata balls were 10x worse. I used to find them occasionally and screw around with them trying to see how far I could spin them back. I had just gotten the first gen Vokeys and they would rip a section of cover off with every hit. The ball would spin back 5+ feet every time though.

You might want to. Here's what happened for me on the course today. Putter was totally awesome. My last two rounds with the TEI3 (first two rounds after 6 years not playing) had 33 and 36 putts. I had 4 one putts total for the 2 rounds. Pretty rough. I was missing everything outside of 5 ft. Today I finished with 26 puts, 9 one putts. I drained everything from 10 ft in, with two putts over 20 ft dropped. So far, this has been the best $110 I have ever spent on golf. Now if my driving would get better I'd be shooting a bit lower.

I have an older Cameron Del Mar 2 TeI3 model from when I was playing in high school. I worked hard to earn the money for that putter and I love it. It was perfect for the fast greens at the country clubs I used to play. Now that I play public courses, I'm having a hard time controlling speed because I have to hit the ball hard to get it to the hole. I've just been putting very inconsistently, leaving the ball short 90% of the time. On Monday I started looking for a new putter. I knew I had to get another Cameron because I'm spoiled by the clean lines and great feel of my old one. I decided to get a mallet so I could get a little more power behind the ball without having to putt the ball too hard. Checking Craigslist at 1am I found what I was looking for. A like new Cameron Red X3. I had never been on the course and only had been used on a practice green. Once I cleaned off a few small rust spots from being in storage for a few years, it looks brand new. No marks or signs of use anywhere. Paid only $110 for it. Took it out to the practice green at the driving range and it felt great. I was getting the ball to the hole and a foot or two past with consistency. I was draining way more putts then I had when I used my old Cameron on the same green last week. I basically made nothing with my old putter. I'm going to send the old one back to Cameron to have it refinished eventually. The $200 it costs is a little more then I want to spend right now. Photos of the best $110 putter ever.

I'm going to get fitted for new irons at a local range. They have a good reputation and have the big sets of clubs from all the major companies to find what best combo shaft/lenght/lie etc fit for you. They told me it typically takes 90 minutes to get everything worked out. It's $50 and if you buy the clubs from them, they deduct the $50 from the cost of the clubs. They also match price to major golf places like golfsmith and edwin watts.

My rounds depend on how I drive. Good driving = confidence which in turn means good scores. If I'm driving poorly I lose confidence and don't shoot as well. There's typically a 8-10 stroke difference between the two. My local course is wide open, so I don't get penalized for hitting bad drives other then being in the rough. Half the game is 90% mental.

I love to walk, but it's almost a death sentence here in Fl during the summer. I did it once and was sick for the rest of the day. I can't wait for it to drop into the low 80s so I can start walking again.

I just started again after 6 years off. I'd replace your woods first. The technology leap from 6 years to now is crazy and you've been gone twice as long. Buy last years or 2 year old models. You can save some serious money doing that.

I got my driver off craigslist for $100. It was barely used and didn't have a mark on it beyond what you would expect for a club that had been played for 2 rounds. I'd check local classifieds and such for a good deal. Hit some demo days in your area to find which ones you hit well. Then go on a hunt for a lightly used one.

You need to lay down the law. Tell them that it is unacceptable that they do not show you respect on the course when you asked nicely that they move. Golf is a game of respect and etiquette and they need to understand that or stop playing. Personally I hate people in the same line as me. I prefer them to be behind my back, but don't make a big deal of it on the green since play would be real slow. I don't mind someone being parallel to my line either. As long as they're 10-15 yds away I don't even notice them no matter where they are. On the fairways and tees I have no problem asking someone to move and no one has ever given me grief over it.

I warm up with 10 wedges, then hit 10 9i, 7i, 5i, 3i. Work on my hybrid and driver for the rest of the balls because they need the most work. I then hit 10 wedge shots to cool down. Then I head over to the chipping/putting area and bang around there for an hour or so. I alternate odd and even irons on each range trip.

I prefer to have wedges that don't match. I love my Vokey wedges and will never use anything else. I prefer the look of a traditional wedge over the matching ones.

That's one of the reasons I didn't like the X-18s. A good hit felt and sounded the same as a bad hit. With the R7s there was a nice *thwack* with good hits and a different sound if I was a little off.