Parshooter36

I buy almost all of my clubs from the previous year. In my experience when it says mint or like new most of the time it still has the plastic on the head.

2 of the 3 mallets in that picture do not have the alignment plates on them. The alignment plate completedly covers the flat part of the sole on the F-2 (the far left putter in the picture), so you could not scoop a ball with that model. I was able to scoop a ball with the F-3 (the 2nd putter in the picture), but you have to be quick with the flip because there is not a lot of surface area sticking out past the alignment plate. The 3rd putter that you referenced is the F-1. It has just a bit less surface area sticking out past the alignment plate than the F-3, but it's probably still "scoopable".

Thanks everybody! I am super pumped to be selected for this test as I have been interested in the Edel fitting philosophy for a few years now.

Introduction: Let's do this! I want to start by thanking Edel and MyGolfSpy for this amazing opportunity. This will be my 2nd review for MGS, and I could not be more pumped! My name is Andy, and I live in Southern Illinois a little over an hour east of St. Louis. I am 49 years old (for a couple of more months) and have been playing golf off and on since I was 15. I have played regularly, trying to improve my game since 2010. I have spent most of those years in the 12-15 handicap range for many years, and at this point in my life, I figured that was as good as I would get. Last year, something clicked mid-season, and I played the most consistent golf of my life. I had played that well at times, but never more than a few rounds, and then it would be back to reality. I finished the year on a heater and managed to win the men's division of my club championship, beating the 3 guys that had combined to win the last 10 championships. I consider myself a good but not great putter, and my putting stats pretty much confirm that. I don't make a ton of birdies, but I also rarely 3 putt. Most of my 1 putts are due to the fact that I only hit around 45% GIR, and most of the time I am an above-average chipper. I currently have 6 or 7 putters in the garage and have tried everything from belly putters to broomsticks over the years to try and improve my putting. I have been interested in Edel's fitting philosophy for a few years now. So much so that I put together my own laser and mirror setup in an attempt to mimic what they use in their fitting process to test my alignment on the putters I had in the stable at that time. I have been fit for putters a couple of times in the past, but I am looking forward to a completely different experience this time. I really like my current putter, but I am not married to any club in my bag. I know going in that alignment is an issue with my putting, so if the Edel system proves to consistently improve that, I will switch in a heartbeat. I have an indoor putting area in my simulator to test on, and golf season is nearly here, so there will be plenty of opportunity to put this putter to the test. The Fitting: I want to add a bonus section to this review as I feel the fitting process is key to Edel's overall landscape. I am not usually a big proponent of fittings as I have had wildly different results in my past fittings and feel like they are very dependent on the fitter you got that day. Even though I was the first fitting for the Array putters at the GolfTec I was fit at, the fitting was very scripted and structured which made me feel like you should have a similar experience wherever you get fit. In the Edel Array fitting kit they have all of the weights and alingment plates as well as the laser and mirror setup that was very telling in my fitting. They also have one of each of the four putters, each with one of the four different hosel options. Since the Array line is completely modular, they can change the hosels between the putters to put together any combination they need. We started with my height and standard wrist to floor measurement to get a ballpark for the putter length. She then had me set up over a putting mirror to see where my eye line was, which turns out was quite a bit inside the ball line. In the past I had been fit into 36" putters, but at 34" my eye line matched up perfectly with the ball line. We then moved to the part I was most excited about, and that was the laser alignment. For those that don't know, Edel uses a laser pointed at the ball. They place a mirror onto the face of the putter and have you address the ball. Once you feel like you are aimed at the puck, they remove the ball and the laser reflect back onto the wall showing if you are aimed correctly or not. My initial setup was well right of target. We tried several different alignment plates and for me the T-Bar was the clear winner. Now that setup and alignment was settled we moved on to the stroke. GolfTec uses Blast Motion to measure your putting stroke. My gamer putter is face balanced and I alway tried to use a straight back straight through motion with it. The Blast Motion sensor showed I was actually coming outside to in with my stroke which I suppose kind of balanced out my aiming to the right. We tried all four heads and found that the blade was definitely not for me. The F-1 and F-3 were the finalists and the numbers were so close that it just came down to personal preference. Even though the F-1 was more in line size wise with putters I have used in the past, I just loved the look of the F-3 and went with it. We then tried all four hosels in the F-3 head and found that the slant neck balanced my stroke out the best. The final test we did was some distance putting to dial in the weighting. My current gamer is extremely head heavy, so we started with the heaviest weights in the head and no counter-balance weight. I was lagging them up perfectly (I actually made the first putt) so we stopped there. I am usually a mid-pistol grip guy, but that wasn't one of the options so I decided to go all in on the Edel philosophy and went with the standard round Edel grip. I have never come away from a fitting with such a positive feeling. I am really excited to how much impact proper alignment can have on my game. First Impressions (20 out of 20) : My Edel Array F-3 showed up this week and it is stunning. I love the Edel script, there are multiple fonts in use here, but it doesn't bother me at all. The milling is flawless and to me everything about this putter screams quality. The face has a unique milling pattern. It is not as soft as other milled putters I have tried, but in initial testing it gets the ball rolling nicely. There are some obvious signs of the modular design, but I feel like Edel has done a good job of hiding them for the most part. At a glance, I'm not sure the average person would realise that the putter can be taken completely apart. Here is a shot of the undercairrage where the alingment plate and face plate attach. I am coming from an insert putter which definitely has a softer feel the the Edel, but this is not a negative for me. The F-3 has a very solid feel and sound. The face is made of 1025 carbon steel, so you don't get the high pitched "ting" that I have heard from aluminum faced putter I have tried in the past. The Edel putter is a bit smaller than I am use to, but I just love the look of it and it frames the ball nicely. I am also already a fan of the Edel round grip. I have never used a complety round putter grip before, but it is very comfortable in the hand and took zero time to get use to. Finally, the headcover might be the most durable looking head cover I have ever seen. It feels like it is made from some sort of canvas material that should hold up well to all of the flexing that comes removing the headcover over and over. It has a nice strong magnet closure which I much prefer over velcro. I also like the black on black Edel emblem sewn onto the flap.

No question it's made me better. I will be 50 this year and am playing the best golf of my life. Funny side not, i read a quote in a golf magazine years ago that went somthing like "if you're better at 50 than when you were 25, then you weren't very good when you were 25". Fair enough, but that's my current situation. If I identify something in my swing I want to work on, I will watch several different people showing different drills and explanations on how to fix it. Maybe it's me, but I find if I get multiple explanations of the same swing fault then I have a better chance of one of them clicking with me and getting through my thick skull.

I have had an S21 Ultra for the past couple of years. This is my 4th Samsung phone starting with the Note 3. I have always been an Android guy going back to the old Droid days with Motorola.

I do DDPY. Any old WCW wrestling fan will remember Diamond Dallas Page. After he retired from wresting he started a yoga program that I've been doing off and on for a few years now. I mainly started doing it because of my lower back, so every morning I do stretches from his program that focus on the lower back. I made it through the whole golf season last year without my back going out, so I am a believer.

I feel like I'm starting to make some progress on the changes I've been working on through my GolfTec lessons. Unfortunately, my coach called me yesterday to let me know that she has taken a new job so I will be assigned a new coach.

The same set is back up for sale by a different seller (I presume the guy that won the original auction). I don't know if he didn't like them or just bought them to flip them. They sold the 1st time for $292 and he's got a buy it now of $450 on the current auction. I offered him $300 thinking maybe he would be happy to get his money back on them, but it got automatically rejected. https://www.ebay.com/itm/305396260549?itmmeta=01HPHF7T4H9E6RXH9JVWFH4MSE&hash=item471b091ec5:g:wzoAAOSwS2dlyk03&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4OMu6MDX%2BX9GirjF2o2QLwpzuD2%2BiiOxi40cuXZKzaoYg37CcLri%2Bnk6fhL2TRxzZljqrRUSVUuCqFsk6OA3j4akAu%2F9Z0nF4INJaEmGXAMT5%2B2UiDpbmLOpddcIOXGAwkMxIUZIC97Kzwzno2c0uU3rGKIBpjGbkxRCDBasypmn6udJc4S%2ByKu%2BVzjoYdxGsdiwz6bn82dE3JIJbRQXfyWIzQiedfGoRf9Yw6oPJFfkfOJNQPIp63VI%2BihNADr0xDcxZFnSQ%2Bfxn6%2BzBa5GYK7lMm4mffbcMTnUjK28D%2FBH|tkp%3ABk9SR7yin6-0Yw

Congrats testers, I look forward to following along.

I really need to stop clicking on this thread. Every time I do I find myself looking at TS-3 on Golfworks site.

Yes I did. I went with the 11.5, as this will only be used off the tee. My Original One Mini was 13.5 as I had dreams of hitting it off the deck, but that rarely worked out.

Due to recent bag mapping leaving an open spot in my bag and Global Golf trade in credit burning a hole in my pocket, I have ordered a blackout edition of the TM 300 Mini Driver. This will be my 5th mini driver to date, I may have a problem.

We've been watching Suits lately, very good show. I also watched the 1st episode of the new Zorro serieson Amazon Prime, but I couldn't really get into it.

I have Cleveland CBX Zipcore 50°, 54° and 58° wedges in the bag. Before that I had CBX2, so you could say I'm a fan.

I have traded in to 2nd Swing and Global Golf. I try and wait till they run a promotion where they give you a bonus percentage on your trade. Otherwise, the trade in values can be very low.

After my lesson yesterday I hit a few demo fairway woods they had outside my bay. The QI10 Max did not work for me for some reason, but the AI Smoke Max 5 wood I hit was very nice. Then I picked up a Mizuno ST-Z 230 3 wood and it was on another level, I could not believe how well I was hitting it. I will defintely give it another look when I go back for my next lesson in 2 weeks if I don't buy one betweeen now and then.

I almost always sell or trade in whatever I am replacing to help fund the new purchace.

Once league starts, I play every Tuesday and Thursday evening. On the weekends I play on most Sundays with my Dad's group and play a handful of scrambles thoughout the year on Saturdays.

I thought PXG did sue TM when the OG P790's came out.

Cobra killed it in the looks department this year! My last 2 drivers have been Cobras and I could absolutely see a Darkspeed in my bag at some point in the near future.

Every ball is short off the tee for me, I see no difference in distance between these and any other ball I've tested. It's definitely a softer ball, so I imagine at higher swing speeds there is loss of distance.

I stocked up on Srixon Q Star Tours on black friday, so it will be my gamer again this year.

Love em! I have used 14-way divider bags for at least 20 years. I wouldn't even consider a different style at this point.

I bought a 5 lesson pack. My plan is to go every other week which should take me right up to the start of my golf season. I've been wanting to do this for several years, but the nearest Golftec is 2 hours away so it's not super convenient. Fortunately I have simulator at home so I can do all of the practice/drills at home in between lessons.