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I have a Callaway Sunday bag with a 6" mouth, no dividers, one pocket (for balls) and a single strap. Never seen another like it. I did add 7 tubes to keep the clubs from tangling. I added one of those snap on tee holders. If I did more than walk a par 3 nine hole course I think I would really want legs as I put the bag down on the ground for every shot. I may switch to a dual strap.

I am working on shallowing out my swing. I just want the band aid so I can have some success and less frustration while I am working on my swing.

Thanks for the response. I'm playing the cobra baffler rail fairway woods. They have a relatively shallow face. Would a taller face benefit? I am working on improving my swing but I want to have more success playing with the swing I have now.

I have a steep angle of attack when swinging my driver and fairway woods (leave irons out of the conversation for now). I want to keep playing while I work on my swing so what driver and fairway woods are better for a steep AoA? I've gone for higher lofted drivers (10.5-14*) but I've started to think that maybe the 9* driver might be better with a steep AoA.

Are the numbers being given here total yards or carry yards? I have no idea how to accurately figure out carry distance. I can guess where the ball hit and I can measure the point at which it stopped moving. It would be good to know but I don't know how to capture it.

I play in the morning starting at 7 AM. Hole 1 faces east right into the sun. The dew on the green glistens majestically in the sun. There is no way to tell if the ball is on the green until you are about 3/4 of the way up to it. Today I hit a provisional when I had no idea where my first shot went. Found both on the green waiting for me. The sun is usually high enough to be less of a problem by the time I get to the next hole that faces east, hole 6. I know if I am making good time by where the sun is on hole 6. On the other hand I had a really good round with dense fog. I had to hit to the middle of the green rather than at the pin.

Quote: Originally Posted by Valleygolfer When I was a keed I put those tubes in but they often came out with the clubs. It was a little irritating. I fastened the tubes to themselves or to the bag so they don't pull out when I take a club out. That is really aggrivating but not as aggrivating to me as tangled clubs.

Take up my friend's offer to take me out on the course and show me how to play. If I had done that I might have been able to golf with my nephew before he died instead of golfing in a annual scramble in his honor.

The name/address/phone # band to put on your clubs. Golf balls with me & my kids' names on them. Tees with me and my kids' names on them. Golf towel. Golf cigar clip thingy. Oh, wait. That is a gift list for me. Sorry.

I left my 7i on a course, probably on hole 18 where I used the 7i to chip. My clubs have the name and phone number sticker band near the grip and a fancy mongram disc in the end of the grip with the same info. These make great gift suggestions. I called the proshop and they had my club. Apparently they don't check clubs for any kind of ownership information. If I were smart I would create a gps transponder thingy to put in the shaft of each club so I could go online and find where my club is currently located. I would call it "Dude, where is my club?"

For me don't limit technology, atleast for non-pros or even certain HC levels. I'm a 25-30 HC - sell me clubs without any limits on the game improvement technology so I can hit the ball as far as possible and as accurate as possible. I will enjoy the round with my friends all that much more and maybe play more often.

This is me also.

For the past two years it has been the end of November - the 28th one year and the 29th another. I hope to make it into December this year.

Yes and I have even posted one some time ago. I intended the post to go in a completely different direction but it got away from me and became a review. Maybe I'll transfer it. Thanks.

I played Lake of the Woods GC in Mahomet IL on Monday with my son. It is a par 72 by Robert B. Harris that opened in 1951. There are a lot of mature trees on rolling hills and a forest off to the side. It is a relatively short course. The staff, proshop, and course are all top notch and the battery powered carts have plenty of zip. In the fall I suggest avoiding yellow or orange golf balls because of the leaves from the trees. The fairways that run parallel to each other are protected and segregated from each other by some of those mature trees. It is also quite something to rake your footprints from the sand and those of the deer that live in the forest. I enjoyed the company, the scenery, and the golf but did I enjoy the course? Lake of the Woods GC has rolling hills with trees and some water with the emphasis on rolling hills. After the first hole I struggle to remember a hole where the tee box and green were at the same altitude. Maybe they ski or sled on it in the winter. I do remember the hole where the GPS told me one distance and the score card distance another - 50 yards longer. I went with the wrong club and landed the ball near the tee box for the next hole. Thinking back I would have to say that once the novelty of hitting down hill and up hill hole after hole wore off it became more of the same. It was cool on the first few holes to hit a drive and watch it roll a whole lot farther down hill. It was pretty cool to hit a monster drive up hill and wonder if you managed to catch the downward slope on the other side and have a huge amount of roll out. I live in East Central Illinois where most courses are relatively flat with more flat to break up the monotony. I think it just became more of the same. My lasting memory of the greens is of landing zones on top of small hills where there was a strong chance of rolling off the back or the side. Of course some of the greens had sand to stop that problem. All in all I enjoyed the golf and the course but it became rather predictable. Not necessarily a bad thing and well worth your time.

I am a high handi-capper. I play a lot on a 9 hole par 3 course (70+ rounds a year). I am in my 3rd year of doing so. I'm a bogie player on the par 3. I play ~5 rounds of big boy golf a year including scrambles. I've taken enough lessons that I thought it would be worth checking out the equipment I use rather than keeping on buying and trying experimentation (I said that with a straight face). I made an appointment at one of those golf stores that offers a bag analysis session. I am a strong believer in having the right tools for the job and tools that fit. I would swing a brick on a pink stick if it helped my game. My bag - I play Cleveland HiBore XLI irons 5-SW with a mashie M4 23* hybrid, Cobra Rail F 3W & 5W, and a Callaway Diablo Edge driver 10.5*. All are regular flex graphite. I switched to reg flex mid season after gaming light flex graphite. The golf I play barely requires the 5W or even the Mashie M4 so usually not all clubs are in the bag. Had my appointment for the bag check at 2 PM today at the new golf store in Champaign. Dragged my bag in and got signed in. Immediately began hitting 5 balls for each club working up from lob wedge to driver. No putter work. I was a bit more nervous than anticipated. The results - the driver and 3 wood were not the regular flex as advertised. One was senior and the other was stiff. I feel betrayed :) even though these aren't clubs I reach for all that often. the 6 iron was off on weight. Not a club I hit often anyway, mostly because I never saw much difference between it and my 7i. irons would benefit from being spined. Sounds cool and predictable. new grips. I knew that was coming. The clubs were used when I bought them and I used them nearly daily for half this season when I got them. they will check the club lofts and adjust them while they have the clubs. The Cleveland HiBore XLI irons have the loft on the clubhead. This is one feature I really like for those clubs. I try to refer to the loft and not the club name. I suspect something is wonky between my 7i and 8i based on the actual distances I measure with gps on the course. the regular flex was a good fit for my swing. the standard length iron was a good fit for me. the driver results suggested a 1/4" shorter shaft, though this is my least used club because of the golf I play. I left the clubs so they could check the loft of each one and do this work. I had them skip working on the 3W and Driver. I don't hit them alot and when I start doing so I will get the work done on them... I almost said that with a straight face. This will eat at me and I will have them adjusted soon even though I don't use them all that often or even carry them. I also have a hole in my soul because the clubs aren't in my car trunk. I think the session would have gone better if I had warmed up. I think I was holding back on each swing. I felt I had a really slow and steady swing for the session with only achieving a good swing one or two times out of 5. That is the power of calculating averages from multiple swings. This is the same problem I have playing golf in the simulators. Trying to crush the ball never seems to yield propotioinal distance results. I think my mind can't get beyond the fact that the wall/screen/net is pretty close and I don't need to swing a real swing even though the screen shows a target down the fairway. I did a better job swinging the ball into the net which was just a net at the other golf store for the visual appraisal/golf fitting. I respect the technical analysis. It was good to know that the swing fit the flex of my clubs. I think the overall benefit for me would be to take the results and see what can be done to fit the kind of golf I play which is mostly 9 hole par 3 golf. This can easily be improved by spending some time asking me about the golf I play - where, how often, scores, holes that own me, typical shot results, clubs I use, etc. Then take that and apply it to the technical information obtained. Being a new store they weren't familiar with the 9 hole par 3 course I consider my "home" course. That would have helped. I also think the shot result info should be hidden from view during the assessment. I found myself trying to smash the ball harder with a faster swing and even getting frustrated because the swing results didn't fit what I expected. All in all I got the main thing I wanted - more than a visual assessment of the shaft flex being in the range for me. Checking the actual loft vs advertised loft is another thing I want to be sure of just as checking the length was good to do too. As a high handi-capper I am not sure that much else is going to benefit me now besides more lessons. I didn't get and will have to ask for a printout of the club by club results and conclusions. I hope I get the chance to swing the clubs on the machine again once everything is adjusted. That plus the relief of knowing what the session is like may produce more true (better?) results.

I have an older ogio edge. I use the tubes to keep the clubs separate. Now I need to anchor the tubes down so they don't start to come up when taking a club out. Even my putter grip grabs on a fold of cloth about 8" down. I'll keep modding the bag until it is perfect. Do I need to work on a smooth(er) club withdraw motion?

Birdieball is cool though you need every bit of that 40 yards even when hitting a wedge.

If you don't make the putt in 2 tries count a 3rd stroke and move on.

thanks. let me take a look.

its an Odyssey Rossie II 34". This isn't every time so I assume I flub some portion. But often enough to be something I want to correct.

I know my putt is in trouble when I see it bounce or hop or skip excessively as opposed to rolling. Is the excessive hop/skip/bounce from hitting the ball too high/low or what? I can't tell from my vantage point.

Actually no it wasn't. Etiquette is a two way street. I think the single should never put the group ahead in the position of feeling they need to let someone through. You can hang back and entertain yourself enough (fix some ball marks or something) to stay off their radar.

I play as a single 99% of the time. To me it is poor etiquette to play through (even when invited) as long as the group ahead of me is keeping a good pace. Why should I interrupt their pace of play and rhythm? I go around if I want to keep going and there are open holes.

I hit my Mashie M4 out of the rough better than off the fairway. Nice easy swing. No need for me to try to crush it.