BostonSal

I plan to play tomorrow. Been nursing an aching shoulder, but I'm good to go now and summer is flying by. [Last year, it didn't exist at all.]

Are you familiar, sir, with UST Recoil 95 shafts? I have several of those in R flex. How are they different from your Mamiya shafts? I've seen them on Hogan clubs, but didn't approach the owner to ask about them.

I wouldn't knock the 90s for golf equipment. I've still got some great Titleist technology from that period. My set of PT fairway woods are playable right now. Nothing wrong with the DCI iron franchise, even though it was stainless, and Cleveland made some good wedges, not to give Titleist all the credit. As for my putter, I bought it as a young kid n 1978 and it's still in the bag. Yes, tech moves on, but 1994 wasn't exactly the Harry Vardon era.

I looked up the Nitro that gregarner recommended. It's like super cheap [$10.11 for a fifteen ball pack] compared to my ball [$52.99 for twelve]. Am I being kidded with? I have to assume that. I'm the newbie.

Worth a try, thanks. Who makes the Nitro?

Along my travels, I happened upon a 25º Top Flite 7-wood that matches my 21º 5-wood. Although it's not something that I'd have to buy, I am considering trying it as a replacement for my 23º utility long iron, which is the most difficult to hit club in my bag. [The 20º is only used as a driving iron, but I play the other two from the fairway]. I suppose that I should get it re-gripped [it's original grip is dry as a bone] and try hitting it first. I've had it sitting in an odd club bag, but have yet to try hitting it. Since I like the other Top Flite, it might be a good move.

I'm jealous of anybody with a game good enough to be ball affected!

Not only do I have multiple brands in the bag, but two of them--Spalding and Ram--aren't even in the business anymore. My weaker lofted fairway wood was simply given to me. A friend bought it at Sam's Club and then couldn't hit it very well. I love it, but today, a 21º metalwood would be stamped "7," not "5" as mine is. My 18º fairway wood is also considered a "5" but by today's stronger lofts. My putter cost me the then princely sum of $75 back when good pro shop putters were twenty-five or thirty bucks. And considering my age at the time, $75 was actually more than princely to me. But It was the first face balanced putter that I'd ever seen, and I liked the feel immediately. Several challengers have failed to knock it out of my bag, but it's older [1978] than some of the posters on this forum, I'm pretty sure.

I never sold or traded in a club, believe it or not. My finished basement is decorated with old golf bags going back to the beginning. I usually play a set quite a while though. I'm not the proverbial "club ho." I have slightly larger loft gaps at the short end of my set so that I can bag lofted woods and long irons at the same time. When I do configure a new set, it's usually the same set makeup as the old set. Not many surprises.

I'm pretty sure than launch monitor testing has to be on the up and up or so many people wouldn't go through the expense of doing it. I just don't have that level of commitment. Now that our club's pro shop is almost out of the club selling business altogether, I usually go to TGW, look at the specs, hold my breath, and hope for the best. I probably play as well as my remaining athletic ability would allow me to play anyway. Can't know for sure, though, obviously. If you look in my bag, you'll find thirteen mix and match R-flex graphite shafts and a putter. To my credit, however, you WILL find thirteen matching grips!

As a 9, it would probably be presumptuous of me to consider the ball to be a major factor in my quality of play. I had an awful time trying to club myself with wound balls when I started out, so I simply didn't play them. Now they don't exist; so much for that problem. How I landed on such a self-indulgently expensive ball choice when my playing it may not be absolutely necessary is also random. I got a dozen as a gift. I did reasonably well playing them. My previously played model went out of production. New regular ball. No point making things more complicated than they are already.

I'm obviously such a rookie at this! I didn't realize that before since I've been a coffee addict since the age of twelve. I settle for Dunkin Donuts K cups at home. I'm not sure what they pour at the club, but that works too.

I came THIS close to buying those! I play only four numbered irons, but choosing new ones is no picnic. For the most part, the only ones weak lofted enough to fit into the rest of my set are unforgiving pure blades. Reading the specs on TGW, I finally narrowed it down to the T100, regular lofts, or the Mizunos that I eventually bought. Launch monitor devotees would be appalled at the way I buy thing online, unseen and untouched! I know my lie angles and that's as tech as I get. The T100 set looks really good, though. I just never owned Mizunos except for a Fli Hi II driving iron and a putter, so I went for four of them this time.

How long have you been playing golf? What’s your handicap or normal score? I started golf pretty young and have played golf 1977. My home course handicap is 9 and it doesn't travel well. My index is routinely posted but I don't pay much attention to it. What do you love about golf? I love the social aspect of golf at my club. I rarely enter organized events and play mostly with my friends. I don't follow pro golf at all. What brings you to MyGolfSpy? It was recommended as the best golf forum on line. I tried Hacker's Paradise but the mods were all lackeys for their advertisers more than anything else. Not really bad, I suppose, but they annoyed me. My interest is in the social aspect of golf, and peripherally, in equipment as I'm just a bit of a gearhead with much knowledge of vintage gear especially. Where are you from? What is your home course? We'll talk specifics when we know each other a little better. I'm from the Metropolitan Boston Area and my club's course is a 1906 Donald Ross layout restored just over a decade ago. What are the best and worst things about golf in your region? The season is short, but I'm usually gassed by late October anyway. We have one of the nation's best munis right in the city; it's also a Ross layout. What do you do for a living? I recently retired. How’d you pick your user name? My real name and my beloved birthplace. ALSO, I SEEMED TO HAVE CLICKED THE WRONG REGION BY ACCIDENT. I'M OFF TO A SKETCHY START, I GUESS!