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This will be interesting to see if it pencils out business wise. I know Oakbrook was hurting, and last time I played M Woods last summer the course was in rough shape and empty. In any case, this is a killer deal.... almost too good to be true.

I buy my stickers from a local guy that makes them for much cheaper than you can order from Taylor Made. Check them out at Tailormadestickers.com. His name is Chuck, he has a sticker machine he made out of an old lawnmower, some nerf footballs, and an old sewing machine. Says he can make about 4 dozen in a 12 hour shift. His shop smells like a meth lab but he is a nice guy and really takes his stickers seriously....(a little odd) Bought an old putter off ebay that some fool took the sticker off. One visit to Chuck who mounted the stickers($2.50 a club extra), and I wasn't taking divots on the greens anymore!

I have found the markup on high end bikes to be about 50% as well. I was sponsored by a major manufacturer 5 years or so ago, and while we got a certain allotment a year of frames, you could buy full bikes at cost. I purchased a $3500 model and it came in at under $1600 after tax.

Freecaddy works great, but is a battery hog on my G1. I just need to get an external battery so I can keep the phone charged for the full round! Just picked up a clicgear cart and am going to figure out how to make this work!

My driver is 4 months old and looks like ass! Ball marks all over the top, paint chips off the side and paint is wearing off of the bottom from grounding it during the swing. Guess that is what you get on your first driver! That being said, I am hitting it really far, got 190 yards dead straight after the roll last weekend! Guess that is why I am still hitting my hybrids off of the tee 99.985% of the time! I HATE that club so it deserves all the battle scars it can get. My instructor wanted to give it a shot at my lesson a couple weeks ago and pounded 5 in a row off of the net at the range so that made me feel a lot better about my skills.

Keep your head down and focus on the studies! It will give you the chance to play as much as you want(on better courses) later in life!

Thanks for tips. I going to go to 3 golf galxies to have the man help me talk right on forum and make people laph with funny posts for those with good sence of humor.

Rolex watches is also in big tobles. I just got a Seiko which is made of the same steelz as the rolex but keeps bettr time. had to goes to like 3 costcos to find it since they are so sold out but they had lotz of rolex. Seiko is going to stop making them cause they sels so well and can't make fast enough and are scared. The man at costco says I am luckies to get this and rolex is dead.

I started this year and for the first several months I used junker clubs from the 70's that a buddy of mine found and started working on my swing with an instructor. Once I got to the point where I could hit the irons ok most(ok some) of the time, I went out and started hitting clubs at the golf store and got a feeling for clubs and brands that felt good to me. I loved the Adams A7's and but ended up picking up a new Adams A3 hybrid set that was a couple years old on closeout for under $250. At my level I couldn't tell any difference between the newer model and the one 2 years old, and found a lot of value in this. Golfers are like clothing •••••s, they want the latest and greatest, and you can find good savings by looking at last years models and saving big $$$. I love the set I picked up and I am sure they will last me many years. As for hybrids, I love the 3 and 4 hybrids that came in my set. Do I hit them any farther than my 3 or 4 irons from my disco era set, not really, but I like the feel and look standing over them and I think they give me confidence in that department. They just feel really, really, nice when you get a hold of one, and if you don't toe it too bad they will always go pretty straight. To me, so much of this game is mental I tend to spend more time working on my swing than looking for the club to save me but I did want a decent set of clubs that I can grow into.

Just got over this myself. All I can say is don't rush it. I was off for a month before I could hit a ball, and promptly after hitting that ball, I re injured myself. Took two months after that before I could swing again. Now over 4 months later and I can hit and feel it sometimes, but it doesn't hurt. Good luck and take it slow.

I use a red pentagram on one side and 666 on the other. Was bored one day and did it, has gotten enough funny looks in the past that I have kept it!