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I’m picking team Edward. Oh... maybe not the right place to say? [emoji23]

... I made a mistake I just never make when it comes to equipment. Regardless of what you read, hear or see ... NEVER buy equipment without hitting it first. I picked up a set of P760's that came with Nippon 950GH R Flex shafts. I normally play S Flex and although these worked out much better than I would have thought, they did launch a little higher than I like. I have played graphite in my irons for so long I had never considered steel but I was very pleased with the 950GH's. So instead of ordering 950GH in stiff, I found a deal on some Modus 105's in stiff flex and installed those in my P760's. With the first swing I immediately realized I might be in trouble and the rest of the round confirmed it. ... I hit my 9 iron 145yds and can dial up a little more or less when needed. I had 143 to a front pin on a par 3 and came up 10 yds short of the pin. After a few more holes I doubled back and decided to hit several iron shots to each hole starting with the par 3. I hit 4 more balls and everyone of them was short of the green and even more perplexing was when I swung faster, I hit it in the same spot just higher?!? And speaking of higher, the 105's produced a higher trajectory than the 950's. This is not supposed to be the case but it certainly was for me. I can attribute ths to the fact that the 105 felt quite a bit heavier and much stiffer tipped than the 950's and I have little doubt I adjusted my swing to try and find the feel I am used to in my iron shaft losing my lag and adding loft at impact. ... On paper and according to much of what I read the 105's and 950's should at least be similar in performance as well as feel and both get the typical "smooth" description form those that played them. So even though these 2 shafts should have been very similar, for my swing they were not, and by a wide margin. Had I hit some 105's even in a net at a golf store or better yet a range, I would have recognized this right away. But since I have not played steel in over 20 years I made the mistake of relying on specs and reviews after seeing a deal too good to pass up... sigh. I re-lerned a lesson I learned many years ago: NEVER buy equipment without hitting it first.

That is a great find Bucky! As for GB13 anything that happened in 1975 he would have no knowledge of given his age. He has never dialed a phone, rolled up a car window or written a letter.

Last two Thursdays my 9 hole league has been rained out (still played though). Current radar looks like this: Hey @GolfSpy STUDque, need any last minute Galway Bay testers?

Hey all, I just got caught up with the pr3 test chatter. Seems there is a challenge to see if anyone can Best my number of rounds played during the challenge. I seriously doubt it will be beat. As for any favorites, my blood is blue! #Team153 Sent from my iPad using MyGolfSpy

Y'all are lucky I'm not in the contest. After today, my baseline would be so high, y'all wouldn't stand a chance.

Drunk on coffee and vitamin water.

The thing is, I'm definately not cool. So maybe that isn't the team for me. Regards, Team

That score by Brooks was just amazing. No idea how good that round was. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not sure that @Edveed really cares to have a discussion, he just lobbed that one out there and hasn't returned. That seems to be a pattern with him.

Google is your friend. Statler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters known for their cantankerous opinions and shared penchant for heckling. The two elderly men first appeared in The Muppet Show in 1975, where they consistently jeered the entirety of the cast and their performances from their balcony seats. In contrast, they found themselves vastly entertaining and inevitably burst into mutual laughter at their own witticisms.

Yeah, I'll be curious to see how Bucky likes playing a club that is rated as an ultra GI. To be fair, I'm not a huge believer in the MPF, but I do think it is a very good starting point. If Cobra packed the forgiveness of a UGI into a GI looking body, they could have a home run. Regards, Team GB13

Hmm, this is a pretty big discrepancy. Old irons were considered Conventional with a MPF of 517. New F9's are Ultra Game Improvement with an 887 MPF. It will be interesting to see if that actually means anything in the grand scheme of things.

So yesterday we had beautiful weather and 66 degrees (19C), today heavy rain and 42 degrees (6C) . To quote a little known TV show.... "Winter is coming"

I also got out and played 9 after work today. I roped one left across my body trying to smash it and thought I was going to take down a pretty big tree branch. Instead, it just launched a million feet straight up and landed 125 yards lol. Aside from that, Flash was great! Most of these were into wind aside from hole 10(we played the back), and with a Snell MTB Black which honestly feels much shorter than TP5x. The first hole was down wind and I absolutely smoked it, I expected to see a 3 in front of that distance when I walked up to it. The fairways were fluffy so maybe I didn't get any roll out, but I'm guessing it was the ball. Sent from my Pixel 3 using MyGolfSpy mobile app

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Alan....go home, you're drunk.

All the cool kids are picking @Nunfa0.... Just sayin'.... I guess that means I just picked a side. Go Team Nunfa0!

It's crazy how well Koepka plays in majors. It's like he only turns it in when he's defending a title. I know that's not the case because he's a competitive guy by nature, but how does this guy not just win every tournament major or non-major? It's nice to see someone who is competitive and not trying to be homies with the rest of the tour guys though! Sent from my Pixel 3 using MyGolfSpy mobile app

Guess whose backkkkkk.... I hate work trips so much.

Koepka just went all "mic drop" on Brandel. Nobody can honestly say they saw a 63 out there this week and be believable. What a round of golf by BK!

So, just to sum the scoring up as we sit as of this post... The average score for the E12 Speed was 59. The range was 47 to 68. To basically be within 20 points total is fairly impressive and speaks to all 5 testers seeing similar results. As of this post, we only have 3 of 5 scores for the E12 Soft. The current average rating is 83 but the range is a much larger 66 to 97. It will be interesting to see where the final 2 scores come in and if we have a standard deviation greater than 3 or 6 sigma.

A Scramble Saga Well, that was fun! Yesterday I played in my 2nd old guys scramble of the year. A group of old guys started a Wednesday scramble competition twice a month. It's a blind draw, team net score. It's fun in that I get to meet new people that I have never played with before. The 3 guys I played with were in their mid 60's, slightly younger than me (I turned 72 on Tuesday). They were all walking, and I thought about getting my cart out of the trunk and walking too, but since my membership includes a cart, I got one. Good thing... I was the designated "go get that ball in the other fairway." We had a good team, and I was rather humbled. These guys were good. I know that I am not a long hitter, but I keep the ball in front of me and my short game usually keeps my score reasonable. However, i've struggled a little with that lately. There is only one rule to this scramble. The team must use 3 drives from each player... NOT counting par 3's!! My course has 5 par 3's, so that means 3 drives from everyone, and one person gets the extra one. Not much wiggle room. These guys were waaaay past me!! How far, you say?? Here's the story... (sorry to ramble). I figured that we would use my drives on the shorter holes and on the par 5's unless someone poked one out far enough that we had a reasonable chance to reach the green in 2 shots. My first driver used came on the 3rd hole, the #1 handicap hole; water all down the left and big grassy mounds on the right. One guy goes in the water and the other two block right over the mounds onto the #2 tee box trying not to go in the water. I'm down the middle; one drive out of the way. My 2nd driver used came on #6 a par 5; decent poke but not my best. Two guys over the right mounds into #5 fairway (remember, I had the cart so I had to get all these balls). The other guy HIT MY BALL in the fairway, and his ball went in the bunker; second drive out of the way. Then these guys settled down. Long drives, and we just had to pick the best one. I know I'm going to have a problem on the back nine because there are 3 par 3's that we can't count. I was hoping that they all had a bad hole like on the front nine and I could save the day. Didn't happen. When we got to #16, I told them that we had to use my drive on this hole because they wouldn't want to use my drive on the par 5 #18. They agreed. I didn't catch my best drive but I was in the fairway, 152y out. After we teed off, I went to pick up their 3 balls. They were all within 10 feet of each other in the fairway 98y from the green; 54 yards ahead of me!! I hated to pick them up. But it was a smart move because I can't get far enough down the fairway to see around the corner of the dogleg on the par 5 #18. One guy put his drive on the 200y marker, and two guys put their 2nd shots on the green (missed eagle though). Overall, we were -6 but -11 won. I made two birdie putts, but none of us putted very well. I hit decent shots on the par 3's, but we never birdied a par 3, and there are 5 of them!! Here's my conclusion. I had a great time playing with these guys, and I think they enjoyed playing with me. However, no team needs a short, straight driver of the golf ball in a scramble. While my drive was helpful on two occasions, other balls could have been played without really affecting our team score. I have a decent short game and putt well most of the time, but I am really no better than two of the other guys. What was the term used for Captain Kirk on that Star Trek episode... Captain Dunsel?? What's funny though is that my handicap is about the same as theirs.

Just ordered a Project X EvenFlow Blue 6.0 65g with the M5 adapter. A friend of one of my cousins (by marriage) works in the same building as me and I see him every morning. We were talking shafts this morning and he's going to give me a Diamana Blueboard 60S with a TaylorMade adapter to test drive as well.

It shouldn't, but this "Koepka only turns it on for majors" thing annoys me. I don't mind dominance in sports; I tend to root for Goliath. But in Tiger's prime, he wanted to win everything, all the time. The perception (whether true or not) that Koepka coasts through ordinary events, as though they are beneath his effort, isn't winning me over.

Hell, I barely remember what happened yesterday. Regards, Team... What is my name again?

Team Statler and Waldorf?

There he is!! With the support, secrets, and mental coaching I’m getting from the one and only Foz, you guys surely know by now this is gonna be a landslide!!! Blood may be thicker than water, but, blue blood is thicker than molasses on a cold winter day. Welcome Foz to Team 153. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

You being the low handicap of the group it will be interesting to see how you get along with these clubs. I don't know how much stock you can put into the MPF but I can say for myself, the higher the MPF the better the results have been.

Oh wow....Foz backing Team153 is like having Yoda on your team. Anyone have Bardle's flight schedule for today? We need to regroup after this announcement! Regards, Team Bardle

New shaft finally arrived yesterday for my 410 SFT. Apparently delayed a week because Ping had a run of bad shafts. Can't wait to try it out for the first time tonight in Men's league.

I have been blown away at how easy it is to use, how accurate it is and how easy it is to understand the statistics. This is a system that I can really see having an effect on my handicap

... Yup, I don't second guess anyones equipment snobbery if they can play the game at a decent level of consistency. And if they can't really play the game but are equipment snobs, that really isn't any of my business either.

I got out after work and was able to get nine holes in. My entire game was a raging dumpster fire with the exception of the driver. I ended up shooting a 53, but had the lowest driving handicap I've had for a round yet. Plus, I averaged 229 off the tee on a day where we had enough rain to make the fairways soft. My round highlight was my tee shot on three, while it wasn't my longest it was the most significant to me. When I started the SuperSpeed training I had two goals, be able to reach the green on 12 off the tee and hit one over the creek that crosses 3. I was finally able to clear it today. I'm still amazed at the forgiveness that Callaway was able to pack into this driver, I hit one a bit on the toe and still got decent yardage due to a left to right slope on the eighth. I'm really not happy with the overall state of my game today, but I'm ecstatic with how the Epic Flash Sub Zero just keeps performing. Sent from my SM-G955U using MyGolfSpy mobile app

As someone who was not a fan of the dropped shots problem during my review in the fall of 2018, I have been blown away this spring with the new update to Arccos. I’ve played two rounds down here in Virginia Beach with only looking to Arccos for distances. At the end of both rounds, Arccos had only missed one full swing and four tap in putts. 36 holes and only 5 “missed” shots with 4 of those being tap ins. I am blown away with how much better the system is compared to the fall. The data has also become more defined as I have played more rounds. This was something I felt would happen, but it is great to see it in action. The handicap dashboards not only show you the Arccos handicap, but then your true trends can be drilled down even further. For example: When I have a GIR, my average is 2.2 putts. That means I’m taking birdie opportunities and turning them into bogies. Something I need to address. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

I’m definitely in the likes BK crowd. Guy had some serious game. When he switched to Nike and they had that that bullpen of superstars is when I became a fan. Too bad he isn’t a little more well liked, it’s odd... he has potential to be the modern day Arnie. I don’t know why he doesn’t have the “Athletic Kids” following him around. By that I mean the multi sport athletes. Him and Gary Woodland are becoming two of my favorites. Plus he plays that wonderous fade... pretty much on every shot. Like me some faders....

Try it again soon - good days and bad days you know. I didn’t use any swing speed devices today because I just wanted to hit a few shots with every club - haven’t swung a club for a week and wanted to remember what the clubs looked like. Warmed up, hit wedge, 9,,8 got to 7 and started to reach the flag that I was aiming aid so I grabbed my range finder expecting to see 165 or so pop up - 172! Grabbed 6 iron and started knocking it past. I was waving good by to the 185 flag with the 4 hybrid and way past the farther flag that was 230 with driver. Very pleased and I hit it solidly too - my poorest shots were a bit thin but playable! Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Was at Macy’s to get my youngest some jewelry for her communion on Saturday and the wife used a $75 coupon to get me a new pair of Oakley shades. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did.... ‘ok’... on the test. Going to be a nail biter.

How am I possibly supposed to not work and watch golf out of the corner of my eye with the stream behaving so poorly...?

It makes perfect sense to me but I'm a little warped! He isn't engaged when playing tournaments where -24 is the winning score. In tournaments where par is a quality score, he is more engaged and knows he doesn't have to birdie every other hole to compete. It frees him up to play his game if that makes sense. Koepka reminds me a bit of Raymond Floyd. Indifferent at times during birdie-fest tournaments but always showed up on the toughest tracks.

If only! Maybe I'll pick sides... maybe I won't. Maybe I'll just heckle all of you. Regards, Team TBD

I think, just from my initial practice with it, that we may just give you boys a run for your money

They haven't updated the leader board, but you were in first place. I hope you took the putter to bed last night and gave it a cuddle to get back on its good side.

Personally I would avoid a hard case at all cost. Insurance be damned. They are a royal pain in the A$$ in rental cars unless you have a Chevy Suburban like SUV. Also they take up a lot more storage room at home ALL YEAR. The others fold up nicely for storage. Really any of the quality club glove or sun mountain bags will protect them fine. Almost 20 years traveling with them and not one issue. For added piece of mind take your driver and three wood heads off and store them wrapped in a towel in the bag pocket. Pro tip: take a picture of the hosel settings before you do so you'll remember what you had it set on. Just my personal thoughts. But to me there is one reason to ever have to get a hard case.

It was a great thread. There were many different opinions and viewpoints expressed/discussed calmly and respectfully.

Someone on a radio show I was listening to earlier today said Tiger was at another course on Long Island practicing in private. Not sure if it’s true but wouldn’t surprise me if it were. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

I am going for a few hours tomorrow. Got tickets in one of the pavilions and a parking pass onsite. Going to spend my weekend playing golf rather than watching golf. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I will die on this hill. Ketchup on hot dogs is the only way. Sent from my Pixel 2 using MyGolfSpy mobile app