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Bleh to all this I-understand-the-swing-better-than-you talk in this thread that has little to do with the show... I gave it a shot, watched 3-4 episodes (however many have been shown to date) and deleted my season pass after the last episode. It's a bully pulpit for Rush - he already has one of those and I'm not interested in spending time watching another version. I enjoyed the Barkley season because he's a funny guy (mostly self-deprecating). I didn't enjoy the Romano season as much because I always found Ray Romano a bit irritating. I'm far from a Rush fan but gave this one a go. I'm sure Rush fans are loving the season, but I just can't watch it anymore.

Looks like he plays lefty only with the long clubs. Can't recall which tourney I watched this year, but he drove lefty but played most other shots righty. It didn't seem to help him tremendously...

Refurbished = repainted (stay away) Recycled = used & lost, 3-4 grades of use I don't think any of the used golf ball places box their balls - when I've ordered, they've come in a plastic bag inside a shipping box. I've used Lostgolfballs.com a few times and have been very happy with the quality of balls I received (I typically order the 5A balls). I wasn't ever charged excessive shipping - maybe I caught a deal or something?

I recorded yesterday's coverage and deleted it after about 30 minutes. It's just too painful to watch these guys take 2-3 mins to line up a 4 foot putt. I read Feinstein's Q-School book a while back - I knew the pace of play was slow and they hate to put guys on the clock, but geez... Even with a DVR the play was just too slow to watch.

Agree with the less-commentators-more-mic-conversations. They made a big deal about it at the start and then constantly talked over the players' conversations. The camera work was terrible, though - they couldn't track most of the shots. I really think Tiger pulled his putt on 17, though. There were some fantastic golf shots.

I have Golfshot for the iPhone and used it all the time. I got a range finder (Calloway) and have used the GPS sparingly since, mostly for courses with which I'm unfamiliar since it also gives an overhead satellite photo view - good for blind shots or unseen creeks. Best part of Golfshot is that it's a one-time charge (~$30 iirc) with no subscriptions. Every course I've wanted to play around the Cleveland area has been mapped.

Aside from the cost (a very modest $20), what's tough to use with GHIN? You figure out your ESC score, which you'd have to do anyway, and enter it. If the course isn't on the lookup tables, you just enter it manually.

I have a divot repair tool/brush cleaner that I carry - it's the best thing ever. I need to find a replacement but haven't been very successful. It's like the 'coming soon' model on the link above, but the bristles poke out directly from the top of the repair tool. Along the side is a groove scraper. It's also a pretty good repair tool.

I watched Day 1, but deleted Day 2 from the DVR unwatched. It's just not interesting watching the same 4 guys the entire time. Besides, after a while, I started feeling bad about rooting against Kaymer. :) Seemed like a nice course, though.

When you had several players choosing not to wear the suit at all in driving rain I don't think the story was overblown. The suits were a huge failure. We can discuss WHY they failed, but the fact that they were terrible really isn't up for debate.

I've been looking at premade ones and they're either way too expensive or a 12" wide strip which is 6' long with a cup/return on the end. They also tend to be pretty thin so it doesn't seem like they'd roll true, but be too influenced by the carpet/tile imperfections underneath. I've looked at Dick's, Golf Galaxy, and other sporting-goods type stores. I'd gladly look at any premade ones that people think would be viable.

I've been kicking the idea around for a while and was wondering if I'm considering doing something dumb. I'm not interested in building a raised platform green - just something that will lay on the shag carpeting and be relatively flat on which to putt. Keys are keeping the cost down while still making a putting green that is pretty decent. Mobilty would be nice, but not a must-have. Here's what I was thinking of doing: Taking 3/4" exercise squares ( http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...ductId=3970346 ) and essentially making a 4' x 12' runway. I'd then glue down some outdoor turf from Home Depot (I saw it and it's pretty tightly woven and tightly spaced, about 1/4" tall). All in, this would cost about $110 or so. It seems like it would give a pretty solid surface on which to putt (no chipping planned) while being large enough for a few different hole locations. It would also be flexible enough that I could make some contours on the fly pretty easily. Thoughts?

Didn't Phil start playing lefty because he was using a mirror to mimic his dad's swing?

I don't feel any looseness or 'jiggle' when I hit them, if that's what you mean - very solid, feels like a 1-piece head to me. I couldn't tell much of a difference between the Nike and the TM from a ball striking perspective. I was all set to buy a Cleveland w/o hitting anything but a course about 45-mins away had a demo days and I got to hit 4-5 different brands. Glad I did that b/c I hit the Clevelands like crap :). As for whether TM sticks with this or not, dunno, but I got sucked in with the free faceplate deal - figure I have a wedge I can use for 2-3 years w/o it getting too worn out.

I have a 56 degree TM xFT wedge. There are two types of faces available (for now) - current casual grooves (square) and the pro grooves. Like all wedges, you can't get the old grooves past January '11, so I can see a shortage of squared faceplates at some point in the near future. I like the wedge a lot - when I demoed, it was between the new Nike and the TM. Golf Galaxy was having a deal (still going on, I believe) where you buy the wedge at retail ($129) and you get an extra faceplate for free. You need the wrench from the R9 driver to change it, though GG said they'd change the face for me since I don't have the wrench. The faces are supposed to last for 1000 shots or something like that, typically a year for a recreational golfer from what I've read. Faces are interchangeable between all the diffferent wedges, so you don't need separate replacement faces for your 52/56/60/etc. I haven't changed the face at this point but I like the wedge a lot.

I hit a demo days earlier this summer when I was looking for wedges, expecting to really like the Clevelands and I ended up hating them. I liked the TM xFT and the VR Tour wedge a lot. I settled on the xFT and am very happy. Titlest wasn't there so I didn't get to hit the Vokeys.

Tiger's 2nd shot on 18 at Pebble this year was pretty sweet... (embedding disabled... )

I had a good experience with their customer service. I placed an order and immediately cancelled it as I forgot to add something else. I e-mailed them asking to cancel and included the order number. I then placed the correct order. They cancelled the order I requested but then shipped it. I sent another e-mail and they apologized, shipped the CORRECT order and included a shipping label to return the incorrect order. All handled quickly and painlessly. I wasn't hurting for golf balls, so the delay in my correct order didn't really affect me.

I got my Burner '09 irons from GolfGalaxy. I bet I spent upwards of 4 hours total in the simulator hitting different clubs before buying. I had a price point in mind and let the staff use their judgement to bring me others (above & below the price I had set). Helps that they're not on commission. Not sure if they have bonuses based on particular clubs/brands, but at no point did I ever feel I was being steered in a particular direction.

I saw something new yesterday... Yesterday the group in front of me consisted of two younger guys walking (mid-30s, prob) and two older guys riding (late 60s/early 70s). It was clear these were two twosomes that got put together. The two older guys were incredibly slow. They'd hit balls into water/woods/bushes/black holes/etc. and spend the entire 5 mins looking for them. On the last hole, it was clear one of the younger guys had had it and while one of the older guys was looking for his (again) lost golf ball, the young guy walks over to a pond, pulls out a fishing pole and fishes until the older guy stops looking for his ball. He pulled 3-4 fish out of the pond in this time. So, I guess my pet peeve here is taking too long to look for a lost ball, but I thought it was incredibly amusing that a guy in the group was fishing. Had he done this more than once and more than just the last hole, it'd probably set me off, but I thought it was funny.

I guess my point in responding was that moving from the 580 to the Burner series was a significant improvement for me. I'm not sure why the OP would buy a driver no longer being sold by TM, but there are a lot of good deals in the Burner line - 3 under $200. The Burner '07 is $129 and the '09 is $149 at Dick's right now.

I made almost this same switch - R580 to a TM Superfast Burner. Huge difference on off-center hits. The new driver gives a little more distance but the main advantage is with mis-hits. Dick's and Golf Galaxy are both running trade+$50 specials on the TM drivers (not sure how much longer, though). My 580 in good condition brought about $22 in trade, but it was an 8 year old club.