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I have the SuperFast 10 draw driver (9.5, stiff) and love it. Shaft= wasabi. I recently developed more of a hook than a draw and so I pulled my old Ping V2 Rapture(9.5 stiff) back out and hit that straight. The draw driver is effective but can slide you into a hook if you aren't careful. If I steepen my swing plane a little with the draw driver, I can usually fix the hook quickly. But as far as the sound, feel, distance and overall performance I could not be happier. I have a slow swing speed with the driver (approx100 mph) and can get the occasional 285+ out of it. Usually I hit it 250-265. If you hit it on the screws, you can't even feel the ball come off the face at impact. It is "buttttah". I have played this driver for 6 months or so every weekend + some. I still love it. I am a new gear junkie and will definitely make a play for the new model coming out in Feb 2011.

.......Natalie Gulbis. niiiiiice finish position. love it. nuff said.

Congrats, am pumped for you. I am determined to break 80 on my slope 127 ish courses around here, so I can only imagine what shooting 68 must feel like. Breaking 70! Dang. wow.

I absolutely despise the "TOO MUCH FAIRWAY" Syndrome. It's when you smoke your drive right up the middle on a Par 4 and have 50 or 60 yards left to the pin and then either skull the ball past or scoop it up short on the approach shot. This happened TWICE to my buddy today and it was painful to watch... coulda been me just as well. Yikes.

Had been struggling at my local par 72 127 ish slope rated courses (89, 92 last two rounds). So I took it upon myself to inject some swing self-esteem into my game and went out to play at the 114 slope rated par 69 Navy course. I appeared to be on fuego! I shot 8 over.... a 77! Previous best at that course for me was a 78 and a 79 so I am pretty much high as a kite right now.

It appears to focus on the hands/ grip position,... i.e. weak grip equals draw and strong grip equals slice. By rotating the hands/grip to the right side you are going to favor a draw result and if you rotate the hands/ grip to the left you will be more likely to produce a slice result. It aint that simple. It might work if your grip is the only thing affecting your slice. Try it at the range... you don't need the wristband thingy. To cure a slice, just quit casting and voila! poof. gone. I quit casting by fighting the urge to crush the ball when I am at the top of the backswing. At the top, I just chill out now. I try to create the urge to strike the ball when the hands are about waist high... then turn those hips and okay I will just shut up now because this is sounding stupid. My swing is retarded. But at least I don't slice nearly as much as I used to. That was one of my major goals this year. So yay for Noggin! Now my problem is fatting the ball outta nowhere. Pure smoooth ball striking for 6-7 strokes in a row and then fatty McFat Fat comes out. It's bewildering. Noggs Noggin

I own my own roofing company. It's easy to get away when I want to hit balls.

I putt with the Squareback #2 and love it! Love the feel, the confidence, the lines. I think I like how it looks at address so much it helps me putt better. But coming from an old PING B-60 from 1992, the transition was unbelievable. Technology rocks. At first it felt like I was putting with an anti-gravity putter... very weird. Congrats and enjoy!! ~Noggs

I bought the Adams Speedline FAST10 draw driver with that funky lime green Wasabe Adila stiff shaft. I was rolling my eyes when I demoed it... those hokey physics equations labeled on the bottom of the club almost made me overlook it. I hit it, again and again and had great results. No ballooning like with my PING 9 deg Rapture driver (fakey/aftermarket diamana stiff shaft) and it sounded great, felt great and was more accurate from the get go. I then took it out on my next round and crushed the ball nicely. Then three rounds in a row after that I could not hit it to save my life. Then I got that hokey Orange Whip trainer and took 2 lessons from my local PGA pro in 10 days, practiced and magically I could hit it again. But could also hit my old PING driver also. So.......... sigh.... I dunno. I know you might want to hear glowing reports. I am sorta able to buy new stuff when I want to so I think I was just bored when I bought it... and had just enough good results to justify it. Honestly, I like the driver. It's fine. I don't love it, but that's prob because the honeymoon is over with it now. I hit it today at Blackhorse, Monterey course and was extremely pleased with how I was hitting it. But then again I have had another lesson or two on the way. Probably the lessons and concerted concentrated studious practice sessions alone... focusing on tempo tempo tempo are more of a key here than the new driver. But hell, I am just figuring this stuff out as I go along. Good luck! ~Noggs

Bought a new golf shirt and black shorts to go with. I ripped them coming out of a sand trap the next day so now I have to go back and buy another pair. I also bought my Mizuno wedge 56/13 the same day. The time before that I bought the Adam's 15 degree hybrid, the time before that I bought the Adams 19 degree hybrid and the Speedline FAST10 draw driver. I am currently in the market for a push cart. So who knows. My local golf store greets me on a first name basis.

I just bought the MX-300's 4 months ago and have played them weekly. I am a little bummed right now to just learn (here on this forum) that they are being discontinued... but hey, if something new is brewing at Mizuno in this line (MX-300) I will be the first to demo it. I love my MX-300's. I think it was an easy sell for me, they were accurate, sexy and I was coming in from having played a set of PING G-10's for about a year. I hated the G-10's. What sold me was the FEEL of the MX-300's. Such a nice smooth "click" compared to my cast G-10's. I never hit the MX-200's as I was trying to get away from GI irons as far as I could within my own game. MP-s were tour player's type irons (I am not at that level yet) and MX-300's were touted as almost player's irons. So maybe it was an ego stroke? Maybe a factor in that was that I could actually hit the MX-300's well enough to get serious Golf Chubbage overwhelmed me and made me a fan... I don't know. It could be that I am fooling myself into thinking these aren't shovel GI irons.. they certainly do not look like shovels. And there is that factor of only hitting cast clubs (G-10's) for all that time and then having the orgasmic experience of pure buttery forged bliss. Regardless, it really is a personal preference. ABOVE ALL WHATEVER YOU DO MAKE SURE YOU GET PROFESSIONALLY FITTED BY A PRO WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Makes an enormous difference. Noggs~

81, 3 shots away from my personal best on this course. And that is because I missed two 3.5 ft putts and doubled the 18th. Otherwise I'd be... a moment from greatness again.