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Thanks. Necrobumping now but flop shots is important for lob wedges as it´s the club I want to use if I am close to the green but have very little space to manoveur for the pitch or ship to stay on the green. So the S is not my club, I am probably getting the C though because I developed a phobia about missed chips!

Oh I thought that was the modern chip. Ball back in the stance to deloft and duff the ball if you are not careful no matter how much weight you put on your front leg and use whatever iron that seems appropriate for the distance and clearing the fringe :D

Old school chip is just a really weak pitch? I practise way more on the modern chip but that is just more secure. Chipping is a part that frustrates me. Use pitching metod is safer as its harder to duff it but can easilly get overpowered and harder to create backspin. The new metod is more pro but frustratingly easy to fail and leave no room for error. I am so close to surrendering a wedge for a chipper. That way you can use a simplified pitching motion also known as puttning. I have played with a cheap chipper and it does work. For longer ranges it fast get i precise but then you generally can use an easy pitch where its okay to use some muscles to secure good contact. However can do way more with a wedge and better feel but so tired of loosing strikes on what bar puttning should be the easiest stroke.

The con with hybrids though is that they go even on misshits. So you are bound to get more lost balls with it if you are not striking it perfectly. I have a 22 degree after my irons and it´s ridiculously easy to get into the air and I certainly have better percentage then my old iron 3 but the misses is close to be as dangerous as misses with a 3-wood seeing the distance they go in the wrong direction. But it´s very useful. If you have a day you can´t chip you can just use it as a chipper. Trying to recover with distance from a fairway bunker or bad lie in the rough much easier then a fairway wood or iron. From a perfectly good lie the fairway wood is preferrable though but the misses using an iron versus a wood or hybrid tend to be much less punishing as the ball will go a much shorter distance and is required to hit well to get the distance. Another thing is distance control. If no wind fine but with wind and the high trajectories it would be hard to calculate. Maybe punch shot is easy with hybrid too though... I don´t know about backspin because yet to land my hybrid on a green 😛. The holes I play I hardly ever get it for the approach shot where there is any real chance. I seldom need to hit more then 160 metres to pin. I am still not 100 % sure about the distance I have with it need more time to dial that in better. On the range it appears to be a huge difference when ripping it and on a slower swing. but I do feel it replaces my old 18 degree fairway wood quite well. Goes a bit shorter but significantly longer then my i5 d7 despite its playing as a i-3 so gapping aside I think I lucked out with the right hybrid loft in between my 3wood and irons. 25 degree hybrid probably don´t go longer then the average well hit iron 3? I am very curious to try a set of cleveland hb turbos or the like but not in the market for new clubs currently but would be interesting how they play and if they can just about eliminate all duffing which do happen on occasion... But again if that short duff short is replaced by an out of bound not much gained.

Its professional golfing wear so be damned if not 🙂 very practical shorts with pockets for tees gloves etc. Well worn shirt not washingmachine friendly wool it seems but no holes yet 😛 Also have white golf pants and one black and one white t-shirt. The flexible wool on golf wear is so comfortable like wearing a pyjamas 🙂

Sweden. Others probably cares more then me but if somebody asks what clothes my coplayers use I would never remember.

Started playing at 25. It´s so annoying what natural talent some folks have 🙂

Over here its the member that own the golf clubs you pay member loan or stock and then yearly fees of all sorts. So we have a say as its we who pay the salary. Probably why really strict dress codes is rare.

hmm so it´s entirely pointless putting back grass divots on fairways? Other then it will work for a while before the grass dies? Sometimes with my lob wedge I dig deep as hell feels like I am getting the entire root system. Just about everybody puts them back. It kind of feel bad not to repair your mess.

Interesting. i3 was released in 1999. I will measure them see how they fair. Feels backwards that pitching wedges has larger surface area then long irons. Yet another reason they are hard to use I guess if so 🙂

I believe mine is before the hollow era. I haven´t weighted them but the club size etc and weights on the back do look the same. Every club do look the same bar the loft changes to my eye. So the actual club head may be the same and it´s the longer shafts that make it feel heavy. I have not tried single length yet. I just tested the stance on a cobra set but it was to short so never bothered testing it. As for graphite I did send them back and went with wilson D7 instead. When these start to feel heavy next set may be graphite 🙂

yes absolutely most sports have some sporting regulations. However golf is just like other sports there is nothing special about golf. I would never mind go to a golf course with my friends. Everybody do it here. It´s not like it´s a business meeting where everybody play in ties.

Most respectable golf courses have dressing rooms where you can change clothes, take a shower etc. Just like if you are playing football you take a shower afterwards before you go to a dinner. Eating dinner is not a sport activity where you just have to live with people exorting themself and sweating while playing 🙂

Which clubs do you have? My long irons certainly weight more then my wedges 🙂 Have the very same issue with my old ping i3. The clubheads feels heavier then any modern club I tried. I don´t have an issue with it on my short irons I actually enjoy being able to feel where the clubhead is but 3 and 4-iron the long shaft just make them feel much heavier and already in the back swing I feel I don´t have full control. Longer irons demand more speed to get airborne due to less loft but the weight of them make it tougher to generate that speed. And it feels like if I am not set up correctly I am not strong enough to correct before impact. I very seldom hit them well. I solved it by getting new irons with hotter faces that just go longer. Two clubs on average longer! some of it is stronger lofts but they still go high thanks to a lower cg and the trampoline effect they got. Its a lot easier to hit then my ping i3 i5 which I could hit decently most of the time. If I where stronger I would have an easier time coping with the i-3 of course. That would probably help more then anything if you have the time for it. I did try graphite on a set of Wilson D300 and it make a ton of a difference on swing weight. Felt ridiculous on the back swing like lifting just the shaft but I can see myself getting used to it and certain it would help my swing speed. But currently don´t feel I need it though and preferr the feel of some swing weight. D7 despite all it´s perimetre weighting still have considerably less swing weight with it´s 80g shafts.

okay baseball etc is not that popular here but if I play football or whatever sport and hire a place to do it the only requirements would be shoes that don´t leave marks on the floor and people can dress however they like. In golf we have dress codes like no spike shoes for the same reason in many places and people have all kind of different clothing not the exact same which is cool. Sandals don´t hurt the golf course so that should be just fine though yes it appears to be a noob misstake you only make once if you are actually doing 18 holes and is not just on the putting green or driving range 😛 If I would play on a course that would require specific clothing I would use it but personally really don´t care for it. Seems very 20th century and something that will be eased up on over time hopefully. Golf is the perfect everymans game if the costs could be driven down 🙂 Not in my case. But well over here wearing mask would break the dress code as nobody uses it. Social distancing is quite easy to achieve while golfing afterall as everybody swings murder weapons so it´s not really necessary I feel .

Golf is a simple sport just like baseball, skateboarding or whatever sport. You are not a better human for playing golf. It´s not a wedding or a funeral or a business lunch where you are trying to sell something or show your respect for the occasion 😛 flip flops I have yet to see on the golf course wouldn´t be very comfortable I imagine. shorts I see every day why is one shorts okay but another not?

Dress code is pure nonsense. Who cares about what other wears so strange. Short of people playing golf naked or having ridiculous slogans I don´t see any problems. People that dress like tour pros don´t appear to hit the ball any better...

I kept my old PW when buying new clubs. It´s labelled W and quite different so little chance of picking the wrong club. Whenever you can hit full shots it´s always easier don´t have to think much. Adrenaline often make my partial swings go to long.