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Kirke was getting in some putting practice this morning, and was absolutely on fire: I wish I would have started the camera at the very beginning. He had 13 makes in a row to begin. One day, he'll get 18 for 18. I gotta see if I can beat him to it.

My current setup is Driver, 14 degree 3 wood, and 18 degree 5 wood. I also have a 17 degree 2 iron and a 4 iron bent to 19 degrees. The 2 iron hasn't been in play since last spring and recently got a new shaft, but hasn't even been hit due to winter. The 4 iron is great for tighter holes off the tee. I am not crazy about the ball flight on the 4 iron from the fairway and on my home course, there are only one or two of the par fives that this even comes into play. I hit a fairway wood for position on par fives; with three of them being 600+ from the back tees, I'm rarely getting home in 2 anyway. I should add that hybrids are not my friend. They only go left for me. I am toying with this: Adding a 21 degree fairway wood to come in higher as opposed to the 4 iron. Our greens are big and while they hold well, not so much coming in lower. I can adjust the loft on the 3 wood to 16 degrees and since I hit it from the tee on only a couple of par 4's, I'm not giving up much. It's really too early to tell until I get on the course for the spring and see if this setup is viable. My initial thought is get a wedge in my hand on the par 5's and make 4. I do play a couple of tournaments on other courses, where the above setup could be applicable too. I'm curious to see other thoughts on setup.

Top end of my bag is pretty set; I love my titleist hybrids and have no plans on getting anything to replace them or swap with them.

The 1st 3 team trade in our league was just executed!

Top end of the bag is on lock. However, I can say in the past I've been one to flip clubs in and out depending on course conditions and what I was trying to do that day. Can't say it helped me particularly, but that's a mindset I tried.

Well, I just got a new driver and I'm replacing my 3 hybrid, but they're both the same lofts as what they're replacing, so I'd say, no, I don't swap.

I haven't used it on course yet, but I have a 3-iron now that I will mostly likely use for certain situations in place of my hybrid. There's a par 3 at a course I frequent where a stock hybrid is usually too much and 4 iron isn't quite enough, but a 3-iron would be just right.

I'm pretty set up there given my love/hate relationship with hybrids. I'll swap out the Mini Driver (ended last season with it in the bag) but for the most part I just stick with fairway woods.

With the terrible inconsistency of my driver, I have been known to swap in my old Callaway 3W in the driver slot - it is a bit longer than the Bridgestone 3W, but a bit less accurate. Once I buy @MattF's M5 and I figure out which of the two shafts works better for me, all my driving woes will be over, right?

@dlow206if you look for the bad in every swing, you’ll always find it. on the other hand, if you look for the good in every swing, you’ll always find it. try focusing on the great progress you’ve made and not the minor faults in each individual swing.

[Mod note: everyone has done well on this, but I wanted to jump in with a caution: obviously, there is going to be speculation about the cause of the accident. For everyone's sake, let's keep that to a minimum here.]

The swing has made some good progress and you can see where the practice is paying off.

It doesn’t look bad, you are being too hard on yourself

So, do I start approaching companies or just sit back and wait for the offers to come pouring in?

4 weeks to go before the new season so bought myself a new bag. Had looked at the Callaway Org 15 but settled for the Srixon Tour cart bag. Seen here in all its glory. Iron covers too much?

Thanks guys. Changing the video angle to a proper dtl angle did make me realize that i started to do some weird things (not shown in the above video). My backswing started to become too outside in the takeaway, which didn't look outside from the prior angle. Also noticed that when I lacked depth in my backswing, I started getting a bit steep. Took note of those things before making the above video, so its probably a good thing that I reviewed video from this angle.

Praying he is okay and that the crash was not caused by any sort of impairment

I swapped out a 2 iron last summer for a 5 wood and could not be happier. The 5w is so much easier to hit and a lot more forgiving. To answer your question though, I do not swap out clubs depending on the course. My 3w is the oldest club in my bag and I use it off the tee or off the turf and love it the same. Sure I have good days with it and bad days but it's not going anywhere. Same with the rest of my set. It's the old saying (not politically correct here), "it's the arrow, not the indian."

because people will pay endless amounts of money for any goofy doodad they think will make them a better golfer. then they look like this and the only numbers that got lower are in their bank account.

I have a 4i and a 23* hybrid that I exchange depending on the wind. The 4i flies lower and I can work it a little so its a good wind club. The 23*h flies high and likes going right to left all the time but can hold most any green.

To be clear, they've announced PROPOSALS for changes, these are not final yet. Mr. Beal seems to be jumping the gun, which seems pretty common in the Twitter-verse.

Yes, but it won't be my fault if it doesn't happen that way!

You are paying for the time and money spent researching and developing the training aid. Since many are coming from small companies or in some cases a single person or a duo like with the planemate they have to pay the costs to the company actually producing the product as well as the shipping costs to the get the product back to the creator. Then there’s the time of the developer to ship or if they choose to have someone else store and ship them. The cost of materials has been on the rise for awhile as well. As for the cost one has to determine if the investment is worth the price. Let’s take the planemate as it’s one of the more popular aids out right now. It’s $163 plus shipping and taxes. It’s expensive up front but it’s a training aid that can be used everyday over to 1) learn the proper feels in the swing 2) as a warmup tool before rounds 3) as an aid to continuously train the swing and keep the feels over an extended period of time. If one uses it for a year the overall cost is pretty cheap. When compared to a golf lesson $163 dollars in lots of cases gets you 1 lesson with a coach in person, maybe 2 depending on the coach (some cases it will get 1 and you have a few dollars left over) if you do online it may get you 1-3 lessons. Those lessons may or may not make you play better and your money is gone in a very short period of time

As you can see I enjoy my custom covers. These are all from brands instead of being made by a specific custom cover group. You've got Oahu Golf Apparel, Almigos and Oak & Anchor. Sent from my SM-G950U using MyGolfSpy mobile app

Had good first initial convo with Jason, wants me to swing 6/7 iron at PGA Superstore to get my swing speed as I don’t have the number handy. He said that he would probably recommend 699 over 739 as I’ll (hopefully) continue to improve and the 699’s would be good ‘improvement’ club and would play to a potential lower handicap as well. More importantly, still trying to figure out lie angles/offset for me as we both agree that I want to be able to get the ball in the air as easily as I can. Same thing with shaft, he thinks I would be a stiff flex based off few things we discussed and would recommend heavier shaft as I’m currently playing really light, game improvement (r-flex) shaft. So I’ve still got some homework to do but just really appreciate that the owner of a reputable golf company would hop on the phone and talk/walk me through options on a new iron set that would work for my golf game. Guarantee you that’s not happening with the big dog OEM’s out there....

Catching up on my MGS reading between periods of tonight’s lightning game. I used to game two drivers when I played 90 percent of my rounds on a course in Indiana. Just subbed stuff in when I travelled to balance stuff out. Talked about this with a friend in Saturday’s round. Since I don’t currently bag a hybrid and really only use 13 clubs I’ve considered A. Putting a hybrid in the spot that I could chip with. B. Putting a chipper in. C. Putting in a dedicated big soaked sand iron. Since I have the hybrid already it’s likely to be the first man in. Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

I would have thought it would have been either Ping or Titleist after the reviews of the TSI on here.

Price has gone up as we’ve decided to go with a charter flight from a local airport. AUD450 more, but 40 minute flight after a 30 minute drive and leaving when we want rather than getting up at 4am and driving 2 hours followed by 2 hours over 2 flights sounds like value to me. Might have to sell some more stuff out of my shed to cover the difference. 4 rounds, flights, accommodation and hire car for AUD1800 still amazing value with the quality of the courses. After shoulder surgery and 4 melanomas removed in less than 2 years, I feel like I deserve to splurge a bit.

I’m in a bind with my 3W/4H/4iron i bought the 3W for realistically when I don’t hit driver well....but when will I know if I’m not hitting it well until I get to the course? my double 4s are a 19* for the hybrid and 21* for the metal.....strike both pretty well and have a decent yardage gap between (13 yards according to arccos) which is perfect. But I need a gap wedge at the bottom of the back (specifically 48*) so my conundrum is what’s got to get out? I am leaning towards the wood because if I go play a tight course I could always throw the wood in there instead of driver.....but when the driver is on it’s as good if not better. Between those 3 clubs I think I’ll be keeping them and swapping in as needed. I guess long story short I pretty much stick to my bag but the next year or two could be a toss up idk yet.

This will be the first season where I bought a club specifically for the option of "swapping out." My Sub70 4 iron (21.5° at 38.5"), Callaway Epic Flash 4 hybrid (20°-23° at 40") and a 2016 Cobra KING Utility (not built yet, but planning to do 18.5° at 39.5") will all be available as my 14th club at the top end of my bag. Most of my rounds are played on my home course and in the morning when it's wet, so I do not plan on carrying the KING Utility much, if at all, while playing there and will set the Epic Flash at 20 degrees. However, I also spend some time playing a links-style course with firmer and tighter fairways where the KING Utility will probably take the place of the 4 iron, while I'll loft the Epic Flash hybrid up to 22 or 23 degrees to take the place of the 4 iron. I'm really trying to setup my bag so that every club has a purpose this season. I used to always carry a driving iron type of club, but found I hardly used it on my home course. So by creating the opportunity to swap a club out, I'm kept that promise to myself to always set the bag up so that every club will have a defined role.

Interesting results. I am not too surprised.. I wish there was a way to do this blind and with now brand influence. I know that is not possible but I would be curious to see if not know who made a club made a difference. I bet it would..

It would take a pretty extraordinary set of circumstances in terms of course or weather for me to swap out clubs. That said, I suppose I've done a variation of this: I've kept a club in my bag that has its place almost entirely because it's useful on the tee of one of the holes of the course that I play virtually all my golf on.

@B.Boston, @cnosil I've fallen victim to the Divot Board and mine arrived today! (with a special appearance by Mercy the pug) I thought this would be a perfect compliment to my net practice, I didn't pick my username because I thought it was cool. I think on days I just hit the board I'll follow what @GolfSpy MPR did with @Kirke and work in trying to hit certain patterns, off toe, heel shot, etc.... This should be fun, although with some of the training aids I've bought this last year I'm starting to feel like Tin Cup.

We all love golf and love golf clubs...that's a given. Most people seem to stick with a single set of irons...at least for a while. Some people have one or more "backup" putters that get swapped in/out based upon how their current putter is behaving. A majority of us find a driver and stick with it. That leaves the top end.... How many of you swap out a long iron, hybrid, 5 wood, etc. based on strategy/course being played/current weather conditions, etc.? Do you stick with what you've got through thick-and-thin or do you have any 'spare' clubs at the same/similar lofts in the top end of your bag that you will switch in and out on occasion?

I've made the decision with my wife that I'll be joining the local semi-private golf club which is 5 minutes from our house. Slope is 140 and 141 from the member tee and the tips., maxing at at 7k yards Last year was a terror making tee times each week, but also finding a quality course to play without dealing with too many yahoos and 5 hour rounds. Looking forward to playing a fantastic course week in and week out, allowing my golf game to grow at a wonderful facility.

Personally I see no reason what so ever to hit a flop shot in a round of golf - I don't have the time it takes to hit it well enough to use it successfully - I used to work on it some but honestly the best I can ever remember doing is 10 feet - it was an impressive ten feet because I made a big swing and the ball landed dead but I could just have easily left 10 feet hitting a normal shot with my 60. That would have been the smarter play, for me. If I'm in a position that calls for a flop shot I've hit a poor approach and am looking to get away with no worse than bogey anyway - choosing the flop brings all sorts of n umbers in - I'll just hit the 60 to 15 feet past and take my chances from there, no muss no fuss. Better to use the time working on normal chips, pitches, putting, driving, bunker shots, drinking a beer, things that are very useful out on the course. That's my take. But again some people enjoy the challenge of hitting a fun looking shot, if that's you by all means go for it. I can't quite figure out why you'd want to do it with a less lofted wedge unless your lob wedge were a high bounce 60 that you use for sand play and your 56 was the low bounce one. That would make sense and might actually be easier to execute. Good luck regardless of what you do.

Yes, others have said why training aids are so expensive but there is also a compounding factor to costs. People often seek the quick fix to improve their game and choose the training aid of the day and keep buying them when it doesn’t work. The best bet is to get recommendations from your instructor to help you fix the problems that you are having in your stroke. If you don’t want to go that route do some DIY things to see if the actual aid would provide some benefit.

Like some others, when I tee up my driver I use the face height to determine ball position/tee height. No more than half the ball over the face. When I've tried to tee higher to promote a more positive AoA, I've wrecked the top of more than a few drivers

I have to make sure I'm making adjustments more often. Keep losing track of time and Thursday rolls around and I'm stuck. Most of your are probably saying no sh*t - but I am not too familiar fantasy play. If that wasn't already apparent by my standing in the league thus far.

Sounds like you need to get the TSi2’s then Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Here’s a couple. Ladybug on the driver is for my daughter who’s our ladybug. The Buck Club fairway and Top Gun Goose for the putter.

Global pandemic and subsequent lock downs has pushed up the prices a lot in the UK. A net i bought before the pandemic cost me £50, I look online now and they are selling for £160. Demand is up so prices have gone up. Most of these companies are relatively small so with their limited production runs and low economies of scale they can afford to push their prices up as their will always be someone willing to pay over the odds to ensure they get the thing they want. Its the same for the used club market as well. Since more people are playing the game, there is more demand and higher prices. Most used equipment in the UK sells for 25-50% more than they did pre covid.

Yup. They completely redefine "scrambling" as we know and play it. The Molinari worm burner gives me the biggest chuckle... except that he still had a higher ball speed than my forged drives .

I can relate to Rev since we live in similar climates and have access to golf year round, but for me golf is a break from everything else going on so I've never really found myself wanting to reset. Maybe I need new/more hobbies? Maybe I should get back in the water, might help me gain some MPH's -- but will likely just further mess my back up haha.

I swapped out a 2h, 3h and 5h. Put in a 5wood and 7 wood and kept a 4 h.

I never posted here but I had my session with Drew earlier this month - kept me in the Pro VI x - I've received the samples and tried them out in two rounds - one was great the other not so hot - can't understand how that ball allowed itself to get topped, hooked, push sliced and shanked - awful, just awful. I would say that it just have a bit soft feel off the club - still need to really test them around the green - in round is a bit more difficult to tell because I'm not comparing them and I'm worried a bit about score. Haven't lost one so that's a good thing.

I hate that itch. ...but boy does it feel good to scratch...

Having just bought a G410 LST last october I was most pleased with this section: 2020 Most Wanted vs 2021 - PING G410 LST This year, we put our previous year's winner in the field. The PING G410 LST did not disappoint. It finished 7th in Strokes Gained, 7th in Forgiveness, and 6th in Total Distance. We continually see examples of "newer isn't alway better" and the PING G410 LST is another testament to this observation. --- Looks like no need to upgrade, especially considering if the USGA and R&A start to reduce head size or weight to "combat the distance problem!"

Who would ever think that someone would say best value and PXG in the same sentence.