Dee 8ch
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More about my journey with the Bridgestone Tour BRXS. In 2021 I started playing the Chromesoft after some suggestions that the Pro-V1x's I was playing were costing me distance. I loved the ProV's for their feel off iron shots and around the green. I switched to Chromesoft and found that they were as good or better than the ProV around the green. Then I was directed to the BRXS for its 68 compression vs. 73-75 for Chromesoft.
The 2021 Bridgie seem a little more explosive on long shots for sure, but lacked a little bit of spin/feel around the greens. In the off season, I toyed with a revisit to the Chromesoft. But the next version of the BRXS seemed to have better spin around the greens, despite it's more compressible core.
As I remarked earlier, I notice a difference in dimple pattern on the 2024 Mindset BRXS but have yet to run a good ball flight/distance test between it and the 2023 Bridgie.
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I have been playing Bridgie Tour B RXS for a three seasons now. I chose them cuz of their course performance and my researched knowledge that they are the most compressible ball on the market with a spinny Surlyn® cover. I love these balls!! I can't discern the difference that the new 2024 dimple pattern makes... BUT...
I am already bought into the Mindset® concept. I have a busy mind on the course and love the 3-step focus reminder that tells my analytical mind to STFU, in the kindest, most constructive way. I would be more than happy to comply with tester regs.
Finally, I won low net in our club's Choker team tournament last weekend playing the Mindset® Tour B RXS with a net birdie on the last hole, which was one of my Choker holes, meaning my single score counted for the team....
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Thin2Win handed me a Sim 2 when we were playing together at Skagit one day. He said, "Here. You'll hit this 20 yards further than your Ping G 410".
I did. So I need to win this.
Sayin' there's a chance???
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3 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:
You need to make consistent contact with the center of the club face. It you need lessons to get there, then that's what you need to start with. Then you need to be fit to the proper shaft and loft of the driver. I am a classic example of what make no sense on paper. I play a 12 degree driver with a soft regular flex shaft on a Ping G400. My driver swing speed is in the mid 90's. This was the best combination for me during a fitting. Made no sense, but it was due to my angle of attack, tempo, and achieving the correct launch angle, ball speed, spin and carry distance. The numbers don't lie. So what was I going to lose by going with it. If it worked great if not maybe it would be a shaft swap or a head exchange. But the results on the course proved out. I hit about 230 and split almost every fairway. Also being in my 60's I'm pretty happy with this. I have realistic expectations. I know I'm never going to bomb a 300 yard drive. But you know the old saying. "The woods are full of long hitters!"
Now my fairway woods are regular flex and my irons are stiff flex. All fit to me, and that's the combination that gave me the best results. There isn't a rule that says you are this age and swing this fast you need this! But there is a rough guide line that a fitter can use to get you started. The magic is in getting the correct combination for your particulars.
Again as stated previously there isn't a straight forward answer.
Yes!! Lessons should be integrated with fitting and, moreover should not be enslaved to the launch monitor and related technology (are you listening, GolfTec?). One good metric for an effective learning/improvement experience is the commitment of your teacher to your improvement and his/her courage to intuition. Trial and error shaft/club tinkering and online tips can lead one down a primrose path of loss and abandonment.
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On 4/29/2021 at 5:31 PM, NC Golfer said:
I am a Sr golfer and thought with a slow swing speed, I needed a Sr Shaft. Well, two times, Driver and 3 wood, I went with a Sr shaft and it's been a disaster. I can hardly hit the ball. It made me think, how many lessons are given and not a thought is given to a proper shaft. It might be a bad matching shaft, not a bad swing.
At 69 yo, my swing speed is not what it once was either. I have tried Sr. shafts occasionally over the years, and have not had great results with them. The late Emeritus Pro at my club (Skagit GCC, Washington State) was a fan of everyone hitting stiff shafts even as they got older and slower! That is a bit extreme, imo. But his larger point was that distance is less important than accurate and consistent ball striking and that the latter will yield more of the former. Another comment that I recently heard from a teacher of teaching pros is as we age we lose our sense of balance as much or more than we do our strength. If the brain senses a loss of balance during the swing sequence, it will signal the body to slow down or even distort the rhythm of the golf swing. Try stiff or regular shafts while spending some time working on balance with simple exercises such as standing on one leg while brushing your teeth.
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Professional club fitting has grown in allure and mystique. Obviously it's very important to have clubs that fit you. But, as I learned at another well known national chain of lesson/fitting providers, club fitting, even in the context of an array of technology is as much art as science, once the basics are understood.
The best driver shaft fitting that I ever had was trial and error through eBay with about five different shafts on my 2010 Taylor Made RBZ head (the stock shaft for that driver sucked for me). The standout and 7 season gamer was a Project X Blue 5.0. I am a 20 handicapper who hits it about 220 in the summer. I don't struggle much with direction.
Since then, I am gaming a Ping 410, 12 deg, adjusted to 10.5 flat. Straight as a string and a bit longer than the old RBZ set-up.
Am I inclined to tweak around with another batch of aftermarket shafts? Maybe. But not feeling a great sense of urgency, as my game and swing are improving, even as my old body continues to deteriorate. #findingitinthedirt
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Great job with podcast and the extensive research leading up to it. It would interesting to know the degree to which a mid-to-high handicapper can really perceive the in-brand ranges of inconsistency that you are discerning from your data.
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Bridgestone MindSet Golf Ball Testing - (Sampling and Shot Scope Ops)
in Forum Testing Reviews
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I am happy to have received the dozen Bridgestone Mindset balls. So I guess I am part of this test.
Anyway, I already love these balls, having used an older model Tour B RXS to win the 2021 Skagit Open with an eagle on our #1 handicap long par 4.
The balls are well known as the lowest compression ball, 3-piece with a spinny Surlyn cover, so they work great for me, being a lower swing speed hitter who relies on getting max distance and consequently needs good short game precision and results to score well.
Now, onto the 2024 version. I do note that the dimples are deeper and seem of more varied diameter than the older Tour B RXS. I have not been able to discern a difference in distance, but they are certainly as long as the 2023 Tour B RXS. Ditto, spin on shots around the green, at least as good, maybe slightly better than 2023, certainly better than 2021 and 2023.
I am adapting steadily more to the Mindset visual mantra and three step process. And, why not? It does not interfere with my single swing thought du jour, indeed helps me focus more on it and my pre shot routine in general which, at current, is Jordan Speith in 2014, esp the Australian Open of that year. And I now use it, rather than the Tour B RXS logo line for lining up my ball to my intended putting line.
I did play y'day with both and 2023 and 2024 Tour B RXS and found myself gravitating to the 2024, of course. Soon I will do a comparative test round and report on it.
Cheers my fellow Spys!!
Dee8ch