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I have two of these, both of which I'm sure will never happen to me again (although one is good and one not so much). 1. When I was probably about 18 I thought I was John Daly and my driver swing included a shoulder somewhere in between Daly and Jaime Sadlowski. Unfortunately, unlike those guys I was just as likely to completely miss as I was to hit it anywhere near my target. Well one day I'm playing with my dad at a decent course and on hole #2 off the tee I try to swing at about 110% and pull the ball left by at least 30 degrees off my target. It hits a pine tree about 20 yards away absolutely as dead center as possible (sounded like a gun) came back and drilled me square in the chest just as I was recoiling from my follow through. If I wasn't rolling on the ground laughing I probably would've been in a bit of pain! 2. This happened 2 weeks ago. #14 is about a 400 yard downhill par 4 with a huge hill lining the right side of the fairway and green. The cart path is also on top of that hill. 2 of my buddies had hit their shots already and since they were in the other cart decided to ride down the path and towards the green as I was lining up for my approach. Well, I hit my approach and missed it right. It was headed right at them and I yelled but they didn't hear. The ball nicked a tree just above them, dropped sdown onto their moving cart, bounced off one of their bags on the back of the cart, rolled down the hill and finally stopped about 2 feet from the hole. I'm sure there are all kinds of rules that would cause that to be a penalty, but it's definitely the most memorable 3 I've ever had on a par 4

You could drop all the way down to the Hi-bore XL... lol I got one of those on ebay for $35. And a TM RCG r7 Max limited for $103, and an SQ sasquatch sumo for $73...man I'm addicted to ebay.

Yea I've got three dogs I'm concerned about thinking they're new chew toys. That plus lawnmowers that are attracted to practice balls. Plus, 1/3 the distance is just long enough for me to crank an iron into my neighbors pool! Of course if I hook it like usual it'll just hit my house so I should be good.

they sell them at Dicks sporting goods, not cheap but not overly expensive either. http://www.almostgolf.com/index.php/...or/Itemid,137/ Just type in your zip code.

Well the science makes sense. Assume a half inch increment between length of each irons, so from 4-pw it's a difference in length of 3 inches. Well, check the calculations with a driver which has more length and more CHS speed. A very simplified equation where you can assume the lengthened shaft will have the same weight and could be swung with the same rotational speed will show that adding 3 inches to a 46" driver would THEORETICALLY give a 120 mph swing, a bump up to 127.78 mph. NOw that's very simplified and assumes a ton.... but for a driver that's not an insignificant increase, but not necesarrily worth losing all control over either. Irons are dealing with lower club head speeds, but also shorter shafts, so a 3" difference from 4-pw is a higher percentage than it would be in a driver. A typical 38" 4 iron that was the same length as a PW would be 7.89% shorter, so a 90 mph swing would be roughly 82.9 mph.... which is fairly undesirable. HOWEVER, I think this system would be beneficial if you just made everything the same length as maybe a 7 iron, because then the difference in 4-7 and 7-pw would be 2" or less, so a smaller percentage lost or gained in CHS? I have trouble hitting really low clubs like SW and LW often anyways because I feel a little too squated with the short length, so this is a pretty cool idea. What this would do though is give more consistent yardage transitions from iron to iron. For instance, somebody now may have just an 8 yard distance from PW to 9....but near 20+ yard distance or so from 4-5... bringing up some challenging choices on in between distances. This would likely keep all club yardages in smooth increments, which could be good and bad, but I think mostly good, especially for golfers who aren't single handicappers.

I dont have any yet myself, but I'm pretty sure they're made of a hard enough compound that they don't bend, dent, and get out of shape like typical yellow foam backyard balls, they have dimple designs so the aerodynamics are the same, they fly the exact same as a regular ball but 1/3 the distance. So you can practice with your sand wedge in your backyard. If these balls slice, a real one would've and so on and so forth. I'd like to get some and see how accurate they are, but I've heard good things. Certainly better than any other foam or wiffle ball for backyard play or practice.

Man they can do soo much with dimple aerodynamics it's ridiculous. You know they could, and did, eliminate dimples on the sides of golf balls, leaving only a sort of stripe running around the middle? dimples are what creates the lift, but also what creates slices and fades. If you impart spin on the ball then the direction it's spinning towards is the direction it goes due to the relative velocity of the air on that side. The ball takes the path of least resistance... so looking down at a ball if you hit it with left to right spin...it's gonna slice right and visa versa. Perfect back spin results in lift which is desirable. Well some guys found out that a stripe of dimples...lined up top to bottom as the vertical axis on the tee....would virtually ELIMINATE hooks and slices but keep backspin, and thus most of the distance of a normal ball. lol but along came the buzzkill USGA and made that illegal. It's called the Polara (or the nonhooker) if you want to look it up. I swear one day I'm going to the course with a Geek non-conforming driver, some Polara balls, drawing lines for all my putts, and then framing the scorecard

haha, forget hammering dimples into your car for better fuel efficiency... just throw down like 120k and get one of these bad boys...no gas at all and 0-60 in under 4 seconds! http://www.teslamotors.com/ OH, and even more interesting, the stats of colorado for WHATEVER reason, is giving $42,000 rebates for anybody buying this car in Colorado before Dec. 1st. Why? No clue, but I saw that on aol this morning.

ha, fluid dynamics is such a weird subject. I went to GT for mechanical engineering and actually did my capstone senior project on a fuel efficiency project that involved a lot of fluid dynamics and even the 60 year old doctors at the GT research institute didn't understand all the equations associated with it. That's why all fluid dynamic stuff is just tested in water and wind tunnels and they basically guess and check designs, rather than trying to calculate then build it. Basically though the dimples change the flow or air over and around the ball to turbulent, rather than laminar (smooth), meaning the turbulent flow sticks to the ball more as it goes around...instead of separating earlier and creating a bigger wake like the smooth flow does. Fun fact, hexagon shaped dimples actually reduce drag more than circular ones.... I'd almost bet you'll see SOME company try those out before long.

By far the most important thing about a driver is to play what you're comfortable with. If you've hit a regular flex your whole life and are accustomed to it, you'll probably struggle a bit at first if you switch the flex. You're sort've in the grey area where your stats would indicate either would work for you. Maybe try a shaft that's rated S but is light in weight with a lower cpm, or a R shaft that's a little heavier with a higher cpm. That way you can get something in the middle. Main thing is go with whats comfortable and works!

If I were you I'd find what your typical swing is exactly... a 6 mph range is fairly large. If you're usually in the upper 80's I'd go with regular flex. But if you're typically in the mid 90's and can bump it up to uppers when you really turn it loose, I'd go with stiff. If that 88-94 is with you swinging as hard as you can on a launch monitor though I'd stick with regular, but if it's nice and controlled stiff could work. Also depends alot on tempo. If you've got a quick tempo try stiff, if it's slow I'd stay regular for sure.

A couple things you need to know. 1, yes on this site virtually everybody's swing speed is in MPH, not KPH unless you stumble onto a foreign site where the metric system's common. 2. Golf is like fishing, where 2 lb bass are eventually 5 pounders after the story is told. 275 yard drives turn into "300 yard drives" eventually through story telling and MANY golfers have incorrect perceptions of their actual speeds and distances because of it. You'll see plenty of people claiming 300 yard drives straight down the middle but with handicaps of 22..... Believe it or not, 250 is still a distance many golfers don't reach with consistency. My dad's a single digit handicapper and his swing speed is 88-94 just like yours. I'd say this is correct, which would put you on the lower end if you're a man aged 18-30.... roughly just under average 30-40.....and right on average 40+. Above average in all for a woman unless you're talking about LPGA. 94 isn't a bad SS, but several people on here do have 120-125. Mine is 120-123, but I'm 6'0, 23 years old, fairly well put together and an ex college baseball player. I'd trade my swing right now for one that was 105 and consistently down the pipe. anyways all I'm basically trying to say is that yea the 122s you read are in MPH, not KPH..and your SS isn't as low as it seems to you because 122 is fairly high for non pro golfers I'd say. If you went to a nice golf course and clocked everybody who teed off that day, I'd say probably 5% of less have a swing speed on the course of 120+...it's just not that common. Just for the record... Tiger's average swing speed is in the mid 120's according to where I checked, and he's got one of the higher ones.

I understand maybe leaving a driver at home (ala Tiger that time he won a championship and never used it)... I've actually played several rounds before where I used my driver only on 1 par 5 per side (but luckily I have the luxury of distance and can get my 3 iron hybrid out there 250-255). I don't see a use for leaving out 6 and 8 irons though? IMO clubs that give people trouble are low irons...3, 4 sometimes 5's... woods especially driver, and super low clubs like lob wedges. In between that most people can hit 6,7,8,9 I'd say. not great, but not horrible either. Leaving a driver at home is strategic I think. Leaving a super steep lob wedge at home to keep yourself from trying and failing at those flop shots is another strategic move. But taking one club for anything from 75-145 yards seems like you're creating an unnecesarry difficulty. My personal view, and the view of most I think, is to always hit a full shot when you can. No reason to try and do a 60% swing on a 9 iron if a full SW gets you there perfectly you know? I understand completely the thought behind the idea, but seems to me you took it a little to the extreme? But hey, whatever works. If I could shoot 72 with just a 5i, PW and putter I'd do it!

I'm finally getting a driver suited to my own specs, I just recently got the irons and this is the last step for my new clubs (driver). My SS with the driver is 120-123 as of a few months ago, so I'm looking at X-stiff shafts. My current S flex shaft is just too flexible for me, it's a 60 gram S fujikura I believe. Anyways I've got some deals I'm ready to pounce on, but I notice the X-flex Taylormade Ozik Matrix shaft in the club I'm looking at is just 55 grams. Other shafts I've seen were 70, even 80 grams in X or XX flex. What difference will this lighter shaft make? Will it effect swing speend, flight trajectory, lauch angle, or maybe all of the above? Just for the record the club is the Taylormade R7 CGB Limited (8.5 loft), if anybody has any experience and would like to throw out a comment on that I'd be happy as well.

the main thing you need to know about Golf is that there are hundreds of thousands, millions even of guys who are into it enough, and rich enough that when they have a few bad rounds... those clubs must be broken, so they get new ones. My dad has a single digit handicap, but usually shoots in the low 80's and has never broken 72. He' not a long hitter and is getting older. He's not poor, but certainly not rich, right square in the middle I'd say. Either way, over the past year I've seen him go through a set of top flite irons, then titleist, then adams, then adams hybrids, currently with R7's, and looking at Callaway's new hybrid line. Not a single set of clubs he ever replaced had enough wear to mess them up in anyway. He's been through even more drivers, adams, cobra, mizuno, callaway, taylormade burner and r9, just no end. Golfers LOVE new stuff, and because of that, there's ALWAYS a great deal to be had somewhere on clubs, and unless you're shooting in the 70's every round, none of the used stuff that's in good condition will effect your play any differently than new ones. I'd get an idea what shaft flex you'd want and a club you like, and then go to eBay or a local shop and get something gently used. Golf equipment, to me at least, is like cars. Buying the newest model is a poor investment if you can't completely afford it. The models that are a season old and were used but taken care of give you the same performance in most cases, and if you don't like it, so what, you didn't invest that much anyways and can probably resell it for the same price. So find what you think you'll like, and buy it gently used. Then later on when you really know what fits your game best you can move into the newest stuff.