[Jmikecpa]

I would not say that technology has gone backwards but it is not advancing at such a pace that it is making clubs that much better. In college I played a McHenry Metals Tour Pure 6.5* and a Cally Biggest Big Bertha 5.5* and I have taken them to the range and I hit them nowhere near as long and and as straight as what I have been playing the last few years. I also still have my R510TP and R7 TP that I played several years back and I hit those just about as well as my Adams or Cally FT-9. The leaps and bounds that we have seen over the last several years are in the golf ball. Go to a range and try an hit an old two piece titleist DT 100 and see how far it will go.

[JBones]

RoverRick, on 25 January 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:

I have often longed for a site that compared this years club with last years club. I started to bring that up when we were having the MyGolfSpy "Hot List" conversation but I realized that manufacturers send their clubs to be reviewed in the hopes that they will get spark sales. If it proves to be a determent to sales they will stop.

Exactly. I know it's unrealistic to get fit into something "old", but as I stated, they should be able to tell me if I'd be better off with a smaller head (which again, is a thing of the past); instead I get "here try this 460cc, well try this 460cc, now try this 460cc". I still think custom fitting has plenty of room to advance.

[finalist]

It's so hard to tell with how marketing has to hype something. I would think with the economy the OEMs have to cut costs which means corporate staff and materials. There's no Moore's Law (referring to computers doubling in power and decreasing in price every two years) in golf club design.

We need an All Time All Star list of clubs. COmpare everything to everything. I wish OEMs would bring back some models as a retro limited edition. For example Titleist's 983, 905R, 681s.

[RoverRick]

You need to add Ping Eye 2 plus no plus to your All Time All Star, especially in BeCu. I have a set of regular Eye 2 with the offset, and played them last summer and they are as fine a club today as you will find. The offset made me go hard left and I could not fade with them for any reason. If I find the plus no plus in BeCu and my specs I will have a hard time passing them up.