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Thanks!

HAH! Is that a cavity back chipper or blade? I love the testing and videos, Enderen!

There is no easy answer. If you want to listen to something on the course you can use athletic ear buds. Although you can't use them in competition, you can for a friendly match and they don't cost any more - sometimes significantly less - than Bluetooth speakers. And if blasting music while in competition, I imagine tournaments would deal with it directly. On the other hand, speakers allow more than one person to enjoy the tunes and share whatever. Music can be a tool to create a mood, to remember a shared past, to add enjoyment to the round with friends who share whatever is on the play list. As long as you don't force me to listen to your choice of music or become belligerent to the point of negatively impacting my game, I'm happy to keep my mouth shut and play. My experience has been that the majority of folks who use speakers are considerate and keep the volume low. Those who blast it tend to be quick to take offense when you ask them to turn it down. Whether personality quirk or ingestion of something that loosens inhibitions, these folks create an uncomfortable and unpleasant experience and should be dealt with by course management.

I've been looking at these pics and it looks like the ball on the left is discolored. Is that accurate?

"Some testers have written about durability issues, but I can tell you I’m not seeing the same results." Do the balls stain easily?

Love it! When you score a PB while testing a new product you at least know it isn't hindering performance! And in this case sounds like it had a positive impact on your game. Looking forward to future write ups. I'm curious about how the ball stands up to my type of.golf, which includes lots.of trees, one or two threes, and in one case a nest of bees.

What was peak height on those drives? Pretty darn good smash factor, nice job, Bonzo!

You didn't happen to wash a ball the day previously did you?

Great video and story! I love have a magician...er...engineer....in the testing group!!! MGS has shown that many brands are lopsided out of the box, but this demonstrates the effect of the off-centered core. Well done.

I use a putting gate myself, but only if my stroke is meandering. I have a bad habit....maybe inability would be a better term...of not taking the putter head back smoothly on a consistent basis. I break my putting practice down into three areas - setup [including grip, stance, direction] pace, and takeaway. I try to maintain the same setup routine on every putt since I often find myself getting bored, lazy, and careless and have to mentally rope myself back in. My putting mat at home is a birdieball 4x14' mat with one hole that is straight and one at the other end that has a break in it. Good for practicing my routine, and the occasional beer challenge, but not really translatable to the course in any meaningful way. What it does do is keep the putter in my hands and working on that setup and smooooth stroke that I can take out to the golf course. Out on the practice green I take 10 balls and drop them on the green. Pace includes several balls scattered the same distance around the hole, then different distances, then lined up in a straight line so I'm putting on the same line with every putt, but at different distances. Then I find an area on the practice green that has a good bend in it and try different speeds from the same point. Die at the hole, 18" past, and ramming speed. Takes about 30 minutes and then I go chip. I keep a small stainless putting gate in my bag in the event that my takeaway is wandering, but honestly most times I'm too lazy to use it and just poke 4 tees in the green in two parallel rows, drop a dime a few feet away, and try to hit the coin without hitting the tees. [Hey! I was a kid once and couldn't afford balls much less training aids! Putting between bird turds is a good way to learn to putt straight, lemme tellya!]

20 to 30%??? Paint is heavy! Will the wear and tear on the shaft affect its performance or just appearance?

Loft jacking is only part of the design of course. Nowadays, companies like Ping, TM, PXG, et al, jack the lofts and at the same time reposition the weight to affect launch angle, descent angle, sweet spot...add in the new high tech metals being used for the faces...getting fitted is more important than ever IMHO. All other things being the same, jacking the loft does give you more distance when looking at irons of the same composition, i.e., a Ping i530 in retro will not go as far as a i530 in power loft given the same conditions and swing. Comparing iron specs of different designs only makes for TMI for the typical weekend warrior. Get fitted. Shrug.

Very nice. Thank you for the comprehensive review. It sounds like Mr. Sinclair knows his products and fitting techniques. Good luck with the shafts, hope they work out for you.

If you had copied it to the chat box, it may be saved there. I thought I had lost a bunch on my last review but managed to get it back by looking it up in the saved pages of my browser. Hope this helps

Sure hope so. I think that could be a game changer for me.

I remember seeing Adam Scott with the DF2 in broomstick when he first started using the broomstick but I couldn't find that option on the website so I emailed them and was told they only build the broomstick with the Max. Maybe I was misinformed. How long ago did you talk to them about it?

That's a whole lotta balls, man! Large bucket at my range, and all of them driver?!?!?! Whew! Huge gains with the new guns. I was so impressed by the improvement I saw with the fitters at PXG that I decided I need to invest in lessons to solidify the gains. Now to find a good one. Waiting to spring for new irons until I recover from minor surgery, maybe another 3 months or so. Hope you enjoy the process, WP

Nice write-up. I gamed the Mezz Max until I had my right knee amputated and reattached...colloquially known as a knee replacement...and went to a broomstick so I wouldn't have to bend over so far to putt. The DF3 looks like a cool design, even has a ball picker included in the design for us lazy gimme getters, but LAB only makes the broomstick in the Mezz Max head. Shame really.

Will you be using the same ball to test durability? If not, how will you determine that. Some throw a ball in the bunker and hit it a few times. I am curious about that. Also, what kind of spin are you seeing on your driver, mids and short irons?

Nice intros, guys! And paying your own way to get fitted? Super Spy stuff there! Please include a detailed summary of the fitting process if you will. I'm always interested in those kind of details. A fitting can make or break your experience with a piece of golf equipment, good or bad.

What did you have done to your blade?

Numbers for Big D in 1993 were 288 yds. per drive average for the year. Where did MGS get these stats?

The Cube IS very bright out of the package. I dialed it down quite a bit, but have to adjust it depending on how bright the day is. The cross sight is also a bit bigger than most, but I don't find that to be a problem.

Garmin, Bushnell, Nikon, GOGOGO, Callaway, maybe a couple more. Bushnell is my favorite for precise distances and ease of capturing the pin. Nikon has great optics. GOGOGO was just cheap, ran through batteries, and optics were very so-so. Callaway grabbed the pin pretty well and was about 3 yards off on yardages consistently. All were about the same size and style, whereas the Cube is smaller and is not designed for comfort in the hand. I would say the others were easier to wield, but the Cube is right up there for optics, accuracy, and small size [though that contributes to being more difficult to use, so tradeoff there]

Congrats testers! Remember, the hosel bone is connected to the shaft bone.