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79 8/14 fir 9/18 gir 32 putts I. Finally. Did. It! I tried my hardest to choke and shoot an 80 but managed to chip in on 18 for birdie. After shooting even on the front I was pretty stoked. Double on 12 and a triple at 15 I basically was throwing it away. Squeezed it out and it feels great. Sent from my Pixel 3 using MyGolfSpy mobile app

- 43/41 = 84 (+12) - 7/15 FIR - 7/18 GIR (1 birdie) - 34 Putts (2 3-putts, 12 2-putts, 4 1-putts) Oh, the round this could have been. Struck the ball out of my mind tonight, unfortunately the score doesn't reflect it. This could have been my all-time low (82, currently) and might have even been sub-80 with just a few yards here or there. I am so unbelievably happy with my ball-striking today, and I really hope I've turned a corner with my game. I was cruising along through 12 holes with no one in front of me. Unfortunately, I got stuck behind a threesome and a foursome of two adults and two young kids. After playing the first 12 holes in under two hours, it took another 1 hour and 20 minutes or so to play the final six holes. I played 18 holes in the time it took the foursome to play nine, as they were teeing off 10 when I was walking to the first hole. Sorry for the sidetrack - moral is that I couldn't mentally stay in it while the sun was setting both literally and figuratively on my round. Hit poor drives on the last three holes and three-putted 18 from 15 feet after hitting the green in regulation. Boo. Can't wait to get back out there on Monday and keep grinding!

89 (45/44), 36% FIR, 22% GIR and 33 putts. I hit some real bad shots this round and it was frustrating playing behind so many slow groups. But views like this always are always nice!

Well, ummm, not so great cudda been better but cudda been worse... Past few practice sessions felt a little awkward so didn't bring a lot of confidence to the course, so... Not a good ball striking day .. which is disappointing as I'd been making some good progress on my swing and my game recently. Was pulling tee shots left or pushing them right .. chunking the irons .. etc etc (you guys know what I'm talking about!). Yet managed to scratch out more bogeys than "Others" .. two Triples and one Double (so I got that going for me). Had a few chances at par putts but kept grazing the right edge of the hole. Yeah it was really hot, and yeah it was really unbearably slooooow starting by the third hole .. took close to 3 hours for 9 .. but those are not good excuses for not maintaining focus while executing each shot.... More work to do!

The Ryder Cup captain at my course called me yesterday morning wanting me to fill in. We play 3 other clubs throughout the year, and yesterday was one of those days. It felt pretty good to be asked to play, then it felt bad when I told him I couldn’t play due to a wedding I had already committed to going. I give all the credit to the Cobra F9s improving my game enough to be considered for that. We’re talking 12 people out of the whole club, I guess I’m just wanting to brag a little. It is nice other members are noticing the improvement in my game. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bad day golf 'mo bettah good day work!

I DID IT! First round with the new HZRDUS Yellow (thanks, Callaway Pre-Owned!), and I smashed my personal best drive twice! On the opening hole I nearly drove the green, smashing it 280 yards (landed exactly where I wanted it to and got a great bounce. Hole No. 3 is a long par 5, and I let her rip! Couldn't believe how far I had to walk to get to my ball! View from my where my drive ended up on the first hole:

Your a better man than me, I am at the age where I don’t hold back much, speak my mind. Unfortunately even when I’m wrong. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

... You Da Man YUNGKORY Brah!!!!!! (evidently all mr hicksta is good for are pretty pictures)

Most of my rounds have been ordinary recently but I did have this bomb on Thursday night. I knew it was a good drive but all I could think of when I saw it was over 300 is that I need to make birdie so I can post it in the #CobraConnectChallenge 3 thread. Of course I then two putted for par.

Any time I get to play a round with my son, it's a happy. When he says "boy that was a lot of fun!! When are we going again?" it's an ecstatic. Wasn't too thrilled at the start when we got to the first tee and were told by the foursome in front of us that the group teeing off had a tee time 20 minutes after ours, and they had the tee time 10 minutes after us but "wouldn't hold us up too much". Um... huh? A big part of me wanted to push the issue but I decided the weather was too nice and I was there to have fun with my son so I let it go and let them tee off in front of us. Oh and we were on their butts all day long

Well I did it. I ordered 9 and PW in the Blueprints. I was going to do 8-PW but the lofts are too different going up - I can get the 9 and PW the same as the i500 but it doesn't take long before they are far apart. Man I sure hope I don't love them so much I'm getting new irons... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

LOL You've been reading too many @ole gray posts!!!

After your 80 the other day, I was going to ask for strokes in September. Now I guess we are even again. My wife and I played with the service manager at my local Dodge dealer and his brother. I've been playing golf with him for 12 years, long before I bought my Charger R/T. I seem to have woken up with a new pain in my left arm... No, No, I'm not having a heart attack!! At my age it seems like I'm always getting new pains. Today it affected my swing a little bit. I must have gotten used to it by the back nine though. I shot +6 on the front nine with 2 doubles, but shot +2 on the back nine for an 80. My highlight was on #15, a par 3 playing about 180y. I hit my 6i to a foot for birdie. That par 3 plays anywhere from 150 to 190 and usually into the prevailing wind. No wind today. I always hit my 6i on this hole; I don't care where the pin is located. I've been short of the green, behind the green, left of the green, but never right of the green... huge bunker! It seems like I am always in that bunker if I hit anything else. It's mental, I know!!

I've been waiting a long time to ask for this: Can I get a broke 80 badge please?

Where ever that comment is I made about Bermuda “not being so bad...” I was wrong. Very very wrong. What is that stuff? Even on a clean pick I still get grass between the club and ball.

M41/45:86 today 8n extreme swampy conditions.....11/14 FIRs 3/18 FIRs 36 putts pop 4 hrs 11 min Sent from my iPad using MyGolfSpy

47/42 for an 89 on a par 71 course 4/13 fairways 5/18 greens 37 putts 3 pars 3 doubles 12 bogeys I tied a personal best score today after going out yesterday and wetting the bed. My chipping way on fire today and that saved my bacon on a few holes. I actually hit the flag twice and had the ball ricochet off of it, so it could have been better. I'm happy with the result, though. Sent from my SM-G955U using MyGolfSpy mobile app

First game in 3 weeks today- no practice and straight on the tee for a trophy matchplay first round. played ok with the long game and chipping ok too. putting let me down, way short on long putts, missed the 2nd putt to lose 3 holes in a row with 3 x 3 putts- lost 2 and 1 after more 3 putt bogies on 16 and 17. Spent 1hr after the match on long game and 1.5hrs on putting - I now have yet another putting style which feels more natural so we'll see how it goes with 3 comps lined up this week (1 medal, 1 open comp and 1 third round of singles matchplay)

Just a quick tease, I’m putting together a short comparison post between the GX-3i2 and the NX9 HD! Who wins the look and feel?! Who is more accurate?! Who has better optics?! Tune in later to find out! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is there really such a thing as too many?

We have something like Bermuda here, but I call it crabgrass.

And my rugged good lucks, but since those don’t help me play good golf I hardly mention them [emoji57]

We played with another couple that we play with a lot... good friends. Great weather! A little cool at 7am... 72º I normally don't play before 9am. Lots of water on the grass from irrigating all night, so no roll for the first hour. This was probably my best round of the year; not my best score of the year, but close. Score: 76 (+2 on each nine) no doubles; no birdies Fairways: 92% missed the par 4 #16 by a foot GIR: 44% Putts: 30 Sandy par on the par 3 #12 hole.

They seem to work fine when the score doesn't matter...lol

94 (47/47), 57% FIR, 17% GIR and 33 putts. Frustrated.

I haven't touched it out on the course since it arrived. I played with the neck/perimeter weight a little bit for my stage 2, but otherwise it's completely standard with the weight in the toe. I've dabbled with the idea of putting an Accra TZ6 in it, but it's hard to imagine that it'll get much better for me personally: I got 99 problems Flash ain't one

I fell off a few months ago and was picked up by the biscuit, pizza and beer wagon that was following closely behind

I'm keeping my early vote for Pavlord in place. 1. As a player with a similar handicap, recovering for birdie on a challenging hole like that is a triumph. 2. Approach shot to 2' from 170 into an island green with bunkers = Hat Tipper every day 3. Lived up to the GIF presentation with flying colors Well done Pav, and hey, we've all ruined our birdies on the next hole.

I need to get my irons where my driver game is: No doubt the Flash helped me shoot a new PB and my first sub-80 round.

Just got to post my 2nd stage as well. Had a great experience testing this ball, I hope you all enjoy reading about it. I'm always happy to answer any questions you might have! These testers did some great work, go check it out!

I couldn't have asked for better company to witness my first sub-80 round! We were bouta go to war with those cargo bois for picking up your ball on #9

#14 Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course

That’s the disclaimer because they know they are going to be slower than cow manure on a frozen field. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

They always say that and they are always wrong

That is a great drive and at least you didn't 3 putt

It's very quiet in here today, so here are a couple more good holes to wake you up

Today was the first time I had a bit of an issue with the NX9 locking on properly. We were on a par 4 and my son wanted to shoot his distance (he gets a kick out of using it) and he told me he had 98 yards to the flag. I told him that was way too far and to do it again. He kept saying 98 so I took over and I also shot a 98. In reality the flag was 63 yards away and the trees behind the green weren't too thick. But even with what seemed like the bulls eye right on the flag, the NX9 kept picking up the trees. Same with the flagstick itself. Every other time I used it today, it was dead on. I also had to keep switching slope mode back on because my 13yo was constantly hitting the function button by accident. It would be nice to see it take a bit longer to switch modes so if you accidentally hit the mode button by mistake, it doesn't switch out of slope right away.

I went from Chrome Soft back to Tour B XS. I liked the look of the Truvis, so I 3D printed a marker. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202714953396

Caught some deer at the local course today :)

I have been there and have recently started to turn things around. Has taken lots of practice and learning better technique.

Some struggles off the tee today and with my 3 wood. Irons and pitching/chipping were pretty good and putting got better as the round went on. 5 hour round as we got stuck behind a tournament. 42/39- 81 Scoring seems to be improving, still need to avoid the big numbers and really bad shots.

OK, so yesterday my wedges gave me issues. This morning, before the round, I went to the chipping area and hit beautiful, crisp wedges with not one bad one. Out on the course...and BAM! Just like that, I blade not one, not two, but 3 wedge shots...each leaving me screaming over the green and limping off the hole with a double bogey. Missed 2 makeable birdie putts and somehow squeezed an 84 out of the round. Sigh. After blading the wedge on #14, I chip/pitched 5 perfect shots with same said wedge. Fortunately, I didn't have to chip again the rest of the way in. I tell ya....I'm a head case!

Did a rough speed comparison with my clubs practice green using a very rough homemade stimpmeter. The mat is definitely slower than my clubs green, which was about 11. I rolled balls from reduced distance to roll the longest I could on the mat. From the same mark (about 2” short of 30” standard the practice green was about 1.5’ faster. Using the ramp on the practice green was really good, something I can definitely see myself doing moving forward Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Duddddeeee. That’s a bomb!! Awesome! My friend has a HZRDUS yellow in a cobra F8. I constantly tell him I’m going to steal it. Hahaha Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Now you understand Grasshopper [emoji33]. Bermuda grass is evil. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

This was a shot from left rough with a 6i. And here you can see my typical toeward bias.

I played OK. Shot an 86 with 30 putts. 43% FIR but GIR was poor. Hit a great drive on 15, 278 yards straight down the middle, screwed up the 9 iron hitting into the bunker but got it out and 1 putted for par. The new driver set up plus gripping down an inch had me hitting off the tee really well on the back 9. Looking forward to next week!

Thought I'd post this as I'm on the course and stuck behind a group of slow players. I haven't hit to many good shots today as my score reflects on the 8th hole. But I did set a personal best drive today. That's the positive so far out of this round. 276 is a bomb for me! Sent from my SM-G955U using MyGolfSpy mobile app

PROWLER VT Never ever start a review without first giving credit where credit’s due.. A very sincere thank you to both MGS and Lynx Golf for allowing the 8 of us to take part in what could possibly be considered an historical resurgence in golf. Anybody reading this has to have some level of interest, knowledge, nostalgia, recollection, or whatever you wanna call it regarding Lynx golf clubs. When Lynx was in its prime circa early 90’s, I was a teenager. Needless to say, golf to me in my teenage years was just a game unfortunately. Even in my oblivious innocence, I still knew about Lynx Golf. Me and my game in a nutshell.. except I’m allergic to nuts.. So maybe me in a taco shell.. MMMmmm tacos I’ve been playing this game since about the age of 12. I’m completely self-taught with only the help of the University of YouTube. I’ve got a nearly savant-like obsession with all things golf. Before I got married and started a family, my attention was divided between multiple extreme sports and semi-dangerous hobbies like dirt bike racing, snowboarding, and Muay Thai (Thai Kickboxing). I’ve pretty much packed all of those things up and golf is what keeps me sane.. well sort of. If you happen to watch any YouTube instructionals, Mark Crossfield, Rick Shiels, Me and My Golf, and Chris Ryan are my personal instructors in my living room after 8 pm when the kiddos are out cold. Most days I’ll shoot mid to low 80’s on most of my par 72 home courses. I live in Chandler, AZ (PHX area) where it’s not uncommon to have a good 10 home courses in regular circulation. Just recently, I’ve been able to break through a barrier that I’ve been stuck at for a couple of years and shoot into the high 70’s. I don’t have an established handicap but I’m thinking that maybe late 2019 I’ll start holding myself to a higher standard and register. I would say that my typical ball flight is pretty high but with distance. I’ve got a decent understanding of ball compression and hip-core-shoulder rotation. @Golfspy_CG2 can attest that I’ve got no problem getting the ball up in the air. I’m not really horrible at any particular golf skill.. but I’m not particularly great at any of them either. I’m definitely not content with my game and probably never will be. It’s just how I am. My typical miss is a left pull with both my driver and irons. If I have to say that I have a strength, it would probably be my wedge play from about 120 yds on in. Additionally, I do feel that when my driver’s firing, I’m pretty OK there too. My irons are seldomly hot or cold.. they’re usually about lukewarm. I think that maintaining consistency is my biggest area for improvement. I’ve been told that my swing tempo is rather smooth. I might be what some golf commentators would call “sneaky long”. By the video, you wouldn’t think that my avg. driver swing speed is around 112 mph. All that aside, my biggest objective this year is to improve in consistency and control. My go-to club for 145-150 yds is my 9i @ a traditional 42*. I’ll pretty much golf with whoever can go. I’m a pretty easy going fella that just likes good company. For years, my dad’s probably been my most consistent golf buddy but over the past year he’s had some physical limitations rear their ugly heads. He’s recently however undergone a very successful hip replacement surgery. Tomorrow (7/27/19) in fact will mark the first golf outing in about a year for us and I’m about as excited as anyone could be to see my pops get back on the course. We’re only playing 9 holes at an exec but it’s a huge step in the right direction and I’m jazzed about it. WIMB Driver: Cobra F8+ with / UST Proforce V2 Black Cobra Amp 4 wood / UST Elements Chrome UDI: Dynacraft 18* / UST Proforce V2 Irons 4 - GW: Maltby DBM / Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH (S) Honma 48* Wedge Wedges: Bridgestone Tour B XW-1 56*, 60* Putter: Cleveland HB #11 / Superstroke Flatso 3.0 Current Irons My whole life, I’ve been somewhat of a non-traditional traditionalist.. wait.. what?? I like classic, clean, and simple things.. but I also like to wander off the beaten path to get to where I’m going. I play a set of irons designed by a guy named Ralph Maltby (no relation to Roger Maltbie). You’ll find me blubbering about how much I love the clubs all over MGS. The club model is called the DBM which is a nod to the actual process of pigmenting the steel black. It’s a very clean and basic looking cavity back soft-forged club. I would say that it falls on the “better player’s” side of the fence but doesn’t limit itself to just single digit shooters. I feel that I can play the club well even with my abundance of inconsistencies. As you can see, the heel to toe profile is maybe just a tad longer than the VT but with a much slimmer top line. The graphite black pigment is actually implanted into the steel and wears very well. Family I’m married to a wonderful woman (Amber) who only does her best to try and understand this sickness that so many of us share in this underworld of golf. We just turned over 9 years of marriage in June. We have 2 little ones. Kaylen is almost 7. She accompanies me to executive courses and enjoys putting. She hasn’t picked up the game completely yet but by her own request, we’ll be getting her started in the junior league this year. My little guy Logan is not quite 2. He’s definitely my dude. He somehow has an acute understanding that daddy’s golf clubs may as well be his younger sibling and my 3rd child. Whenever the clubs are out, he can’t help but try to snatch one, and in the event that he gets ahold of one, take cover!. I look forward to the day when I can get both of my kids out on the golf course. My wife Amber looks forward to that day as well. Enough about me I was chosen to review the Lynx Prowler VT. This has been a rather interesting group to be a part of up to this point. The interesting part is that we’re reviewing sets of clubs that come from a company that hasn’t really been a presence in golf for quite some time. Research material has been slim to almost non-existent to say the least. The only opinions that any of us can have up to this point is based on what we see in the few pictures available on the web. The Lynx web site has been about 50% functional and the amount of detailed marketing on these clubs has been.. well let’s just say scarce. From my understanding, Lynx’s intent over the next couple of years is to creep slowly back into the industry and eventually settle themselves back amongst the giants in due time. This is why this particular opportunity to me is so interesting and unique. As a testing group, we’re not just simply reviewing another version of a club that already existed from a familiar company that has an established presence. Were reviewing clubs that have no predecessors and from essentially a brand new company. Sure, past Lynx models have shared the same names (Black Cat/Prowler), but this is still new territory for Lynx with these particular tech-infused designs, and in a space that that they haven’t been a part of for so long. Will their claimed technical features be ahead, on par, or behind what today’s OEM’s are doing? it’s presumed that these reviews should have some very important and influential eyes tuning in. Delivery/Unboxing Unlike my counterparts, I was lucky to have the box show up relatively unscathed. The packaging left a bit to be desired. Being that the sticks were shipped from across the pond, I might have expected some foam separation or something just a bit more robust as I've seen in so many other reviews. Instead, the clubs were simply protected with crumpled up packing paper. The individual heads were shrink-wrapped in plastic so there didn't really appear to be any issues with shipping wear. Looks The Prowler VT’s define “classic” appearance. As you can see, they are clean, simplistic, and just everything that hundreds of years of golf history and present-day tech can put into 1 single club. The heel to toe profile is actually a tad more compact than I was expecting and I absolutely love that! Top line is a bit thicker than what I’m used to but with the compact profile, it doesn’t put me off in the slightest. Offset is next to nothing and uniform throughout the set (another plus). 8-PW are a little more rounded in shape which does make the clubs look slightly bigger but not out of place with the rest of the set. 3-7 are just perfect in every way. Tech & Stuff The Lynx VT is a hollow design similar to the Ping i5 and Titleist T-MB. As the name suggests, the face is a “Variable Thickness” construction. Both the leading edge and top sections of the face are thicker than the center to help add extra support on off-center hits and for better positioning of MOI (moment of intertia) therefore adding an extra element of forgiveness. The club is a 2-piece construction with what is rumored to be a 1020 soft forged face combined with a cast body. As you can see in the pictures, the face also has a bit of texture. It will be interesting to see how that texture interacts with the ball. From the tech specs that I could find, the lofts are about 3* stronger than what I’m used to playing so distance and gapping will definitely be talking points. The clubs come standard with some nice KBS Tour 90 Shafts. In waiting for the clubs to arrive, I had a chance to demo the shaft in a Titleist T-MB. The shaft itself feels very smooth and seemed to be very consistent. Height was maybe even a bit more than I’m used to but time will tell how these clubs perform with this shaft. Testing Objective I’m really not interested getting any more distance out of these clubs. My hopes throughout this testing are that I’ll be able to improve my consistency by possibly slowing things down just a little. If I’m able to maintain my current distance per club while finding the center of the face more often, I’ll be a very happy man. Ultimately the questions to be answered through this entire segment will be: Is the Cat really back? Is it ready to be a fierce predator again? Or is it merely a domesticated house cat with only bits and pieces of its original DNA? Teaser At this point we’ve had the clubs for about a week. Would anybody guess that most or each of us at minimum have had the clubs to the range and/or played a round or 2.. Bet your boots we have.. There’s something special to be said for the top end of the set..