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RichL85

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  • Birthday 12/10/1985

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  • Location
    Visalia, CA
  • Interests
    Coffee snob, cooking, tennis

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  • Age
    30-39
  • Swing Speed
    101-110 mph
  • Handicap
    11.2
  • Frequency of Play/Practice
    Multiple times per week
  • Player Type
    Casual
  • Biggest Strength
    Putting
  • Biggest Weakness
    Driver/Off the Tee
  • Fitted for Clubs
    Yes

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  1. Currently still the PXG Gen 4 XF 10.5 head turned down to 9.5 with the Motore X F3 shaft. Not going to lie though, it's on the chopping block this year if it doesn't shape up. Possibly a low spin head is in the future for me if things keep going the way they are.
  2. Tough one. Despite playing almost a full PXG bag, the driver is definitely the weak spot there for me. Wedges were replaced with the Indi test but it was a marginal victory. I think I would probably go Taylormade or Ping personally. Aside from the Stealth, I've always hit the woods from both companies pretty well, and something like the P790/P770 irons would work. Wedges are solid for both, and I absolutely love the Spider putter. Cobra I can't seem to get on board with the putter and wedges, Mizuno tends to be weaker with the long game clubs, etc. I will probably one of the only people to ever say this, but I would vote Titleist out purely because I just don't get along with Vokey wedges. No explanation for it, just the way I am. Srixon/Cleveland would be another high option for me if I could find the right driver and putter. The original ZX5 driver didn't do it for me and I can't say I know enough about the putter options there to say anything would appeal. Fairway, hybrid, irons, and wedges would be set though.
  3. "I apologize in advance for making you guys all listen to me speak for the next two hours." I think I will begin all presentations in the future this way. I'm absolutely exhausted and only halfway through this day. I think it's safe to say that public speaking is not my thing.
  4. Working on the driver right now. I've been struggling with the driver recently, mostly either pushing it to the right or big hooks. Found out my club path is around 8-10 degrees in to out with driver, which would explain a lot of that. Shorter clubs I'm somewhere between 1 degree in to out to maybe 0.5 degree out to in depending on the club and shot. So that is going to be my big thing to work on for awhile.
  5. Another one of those days with the clients. I legitimately question why they request training for the operators, when the management staff is the primary problem with how things are run. The operators by now know how the equipment should be run, but obviously they are going to do what their boss says to do. Also, after four different downtime events at a single plant adding up to around 20 hours of downtime, I want to slap this sticker onto every single surface I can find around the plant. Maybe on the inside of safety glasses as well just to make sure they don't miss it. This is mainly due to the frustration of a client that refused to wait the 45 minutes for the repair to cool and set properly, so they started up the equipment and immediately not only ripped the original repair, but broke the belt in a second place. Not just once, but twice. What's the quote? Do it right or do it twice? In this case, let's make it thrice? I'm not making bitter grumble sounds at all over here.
  6. Sounds about where my comfort zone is. I'm not a fan of 210+ yard par 3s, and if the course is tight I would rather play shorter tees. My typical course is 6000-6200 depending on which of the 9s you get put on from the middle tees. It can get up to around 6800 from the back but that doesn't really change the course much in terms of approach to the greens. So many of the holes limit the tee shot with some sharp dog legs so the only big difference is what club am I hitting to the corner. I'm left with a mid-short iron to the green either way depending on the hole. Most of the par 3s become long enough to no longer be any fun for me though. If I'm paired up with other people and they want to play shorter tees, I'll generally join them, and if they want to play tees further than my comfort zone, I'll play up and not feel guilty about it.
  7. Correct. Standard setting is the most upright PXG adapter can get. Any adjustment away from the standard is going to flatten the lie angle.
  8. Also remember on the PXG adapter, depending on which way it turns, it also affects the lie angle by either 0.5 or 2.5 degrees. So an 8 degree turned to 9 degree will have different lie angle and different face angle compared to a straight 9 degree head. Add in some movable weights and the fitters have all kinds of options.
  9. Looking at drivers again/still. Killed some time thanks to my delayed flight hitting some drivers and goodness my PXG spins like crazy sometimes. Even without a super high swing speed, I look like a candidate for low spin driver heads. Everything else in the bag is staying for the foreseeable future with nothing drastically outperforming what I already have.
  10. Last day of work in Florida today. Trying to power through finalizing some reports before I head back. Looking forward to going home, but it's nice to actually see a few of my co-workers instead of sitting in Teams meetings with them all the time. Also, at least this time no one asked if I actually work here. Yes, that has happened the last three trips I've been here at least one person has asked me I'm new or even an employee. Apparently I look like the type of guy that would randomly walk into a break room and get coffee from a place I don't work at? News to me.
  11. Interesting. I can think of a few reasons that they would swingweight out that close and one would feel lighter, but no one wants to hear me soapbox my complaints about golf's definition of swingweight and how it's wrong to use a static measurement for this.
  12. The golf gods were not kind today. Walked off with an 87 and felt like I went a few rounds with a boxer. The course layout did not feel like it was particularly tough, but it seems the greenskeeper woke up in a bad mood because the pin placements were absolutely ridiculous on a few holes. The greens were crazy fast with large breaks, and nothing was a straight putt. I missed a couple 1 and 2 foot putts because I'm not used to playing 6 inches of break for an 18 inch putt. I struggled from the 80-100 yard range today. For some reason the full swing wedges just weren't hitting the distances I'm used to. The guys I were paired up with play the course often and they were saying the pin placements were just mean today. Side note, we didn't get on the course until 45 minutes past our tee time because they were backed up due to a lack of carts. All the while the staff is making jokes about the graveyard of carts that need to be repaired hanging out in the building. Even if Florida didn't have a ton of other courses to choose from, I can't say I'd go back to that one. The guys I was paired up with were awesome though.
  13. All I can say, is that I am very glad I had my tee time at 1:20 instead of later. I say this because I got my round finished right at 5:00pm. There was a group coming off at the same time packing up their vehicle that went out at 2:00pm. Three hours for them to play 9! I would have absolutely lost my mind. Apparently the course was letting groups of 5 go out there and let's just say those groups were not moving things along. Having said that, new course to me and I'm not quite sure how to take it. I honestly felt pretty frustrated while on the course. More of a links style and it was windy, so I was having a tough time getting my distances right, especially into the wind. Getting that out of the way, when I finished the round and tallied the score, I legitimately shouldn't complain at all. Finished out with a 78 for my second best score ever, and had my first eagle thanks to a 22 yard pitch that found the cup. As expected, the 50 degree Indi wedge came to the rescue. It wasn't a pretty round, but I guess at the end of the day the scorecard doesn't care what the trip looked like.
  14. Realized I didn't set my bag up with the right golf balls for the weekend in Florida so went to the golf shop this morning that was a few minute walk from my hotel and grabbed a dozen TM TP5x to try out. They also had a black Nike shirt on clearance that I grabbed.
  15. The time difference from home is starting to wear on me. Staying up later so that I can talk to the family and then waking up earlier to start work early is drastically reducing my usual amount of sleep. On the positive, the weather is good and I've got rounds scheduled for both days this weekend.
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