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Glad to hear it! Since this post, the plastic tongue where the cord attaches broke on mine. I MacGyvered something up but it was a pain to use so I replaced it with another similar/affordable model from Amazon. However, the one in the original post worked better! Keep an eye open for this failure mode.

Following 4 awful weeks of ridiculously bad and mind-bloggling golf (including a round where I simply terminated my round short at the 15th hole), I proceeded to shoot my best round of the year... 78 with 3 birdies and many other good birdie looks. Hit a few more fairways than usual and successfully scrambled when it counted with a 1 or 2 long putts and that's that! That is golf I guess. Apprehension is now replaced by excitement looking forward to the next round!

I've had: Srixon ZU85 3-iron (20*) with UST Mamiya Recoil F4 (stiff) 95g shaft TaylorMade Stealth UDI 2-rion (18*) with Aldila Ascent Black HY 100X (x-stiff) shaft Both of these clubs were really nice! The Stealth UDI is still my favorite club off the tee by a country mile to this day even if I don't own it anymore. It wasn't the best club for me shots from the rough or even fairway so I realistically had to let it go. The Srixon was definitely more versatile but spinned more, flew higher, and went shorter than my 4-iron so I also parted ways with it. I'd say go graphite shaft for a 2- or 3-iron utility club for sure. Stealth UDI, Stealth DHY, Ping Crossover, Srixon ZX, Cobra King Tec Utility. With utilty irons, I've noticed that it's all about shaft. I'd say if you want to select a club off the rack, go for the shaft that suits you best!

Miserable day on the course yesterday. Played a round starting at noon and it was 38°c (100 F) under a scorching hot sun. To add to the challenge, there was a local club tournament a few groups in front of us. As a result, the course was backed up like I’ve never seen before. It seems like they were reading putts like Patrick Cantlay at the Masters... Proceeded to play the front-nine in just under 3 hours… Of course, I played like sh** due to the heat and lack of momentum. Played the back-nine as painfully slowly as the front but with 5 penalty strokes after 5 holes for good measure. I then hit a perfect drive on hole 15 after a 20 minutes wait for the 2 groups waiting on the tee before us to play. Result: It was too long and reached a water hazard that I rarely, if ever, reach. I did not even go to my ball. I saluted my playing partners and wished them a good end of round and left the course. It was the first time not finishing a round out of my own choosing. At this point, it had been more than 4 hours 30 minutes and we were starting hole 15: Enough is enough. Next round planned for Friday. On to the next one.

Completely agree! I’m also a former Garmin customer and never looked back since I switched to ShotScope (X5 with sensors also)!

Recently: Getting a TaylorMade Stealth UDI 2-iron Now, I don’t regret this mistake one bit, but I guess that it qualifies because I had to part ways with this clubs despite loving it. Even to this day, it is my favorite club off the tee by a country mile. However, I had to come to my senses that it wasn’t the club for me from the fairway or rough. I kept it as a 15th club for a little while but finally sold it. Mistake: Buying used wedges Yup. Bought a used set of 52-56-60 TaylorMade RAC wedges when I got back into golf after high school. They were dirt cheap and consequently, they were DONE: No groove or bite left to them whatsoever. I extended their lifetime for almost 10 years which is crazy. It’s only when I changed them for my current set of TaylorMade MG2s that it opened my eyes to the extent of the complications that I needlessy inflicted on my game by playing basically with lofted paddles all those years .

Date 06/21/2024 Course Name Parcours du Cerf - Faon Gross Score 93 Course Handicap 6 Gross Strokes over/under par 22 Net Score to Par 16 Net Score 87 Net Birdies or better Longest Drive Slope 126 / Score: 67.9 / Par 71 Nightmare of a round. 9 penalty strokes in total including 8 off-the-tee…

Date 06/16/2024 Course Name Parcours du Cerf - Brocard Gross Score 80 Course Handicap 6 Gross Strokes over/under par 8 Net Score to Par 2 Net Score 74 Net Birdies or better Longest Drive Slope: 121 / Score: 69.0 / Par 72 Net birdies or better: 3 Longest drive: 317 yds

I listened to an episode of No Putts Given (MGS's podcast series), can't remember which episode exactly, but they were talking about an event at HQ and basically said the same thing. The proportion of Ghost Golf bags in their sample was off the chart!

The Oreo grows on me! I liked the Patriot and Ronin right from the start but the Oreo is looking really good I must say!

Thanks @Rob Person, very much appreciated. You’ve been a great contributor to this review thread all along with @Preeway and @Northern Monkey and initiated a lot of interesting and thoughtful discussions! That’s what the Forum’s tests are all about.

FINAL REVIEW is up! Check it out in the main testing post! Thanks to MGS for the opportunity and to everyone who followed along during this test. I will promptly report on any updates regarding the bag as they come through.

Here’s a quick update after yestersday's twilight round. At this point, I feel like everything about Ghost Golf's Anyday Ronin bag has been said, but I really enjoy sharing "portrait" pics of this bag (even if it's weird that I have more pictures of this bag on my phone than basically anyone else's). This bag truly made me fall back in love with carrying my clubs. My local course has a nice ondulating layout, but it's not a difficult walk by any means. I'll definitely carry my clubs more often than not when playing this course, thanks to the level of comfort and stability provided by the harness. I'm planning on posting my final review in the main testing post today. Spoiler alert: The Ronin is brilliant (not perfect), but it is brilliant!

Items inside definitely felt water. Fortunately, I didn’t have anything that could truly be adversely affected by humidity in there. I indeed made sure to open the pockets and remove their content to let the bag air dry last night and hopefully avoid any bad smell. In my case, it was more damp than wet/soaked. However, if I had had a non-waterproof rangefinder in there, for example, I would have been a bit stressed out yesterday knowing that I had left it in the damp pocket for a whole day. My main hypothesis is that water permeated through the bag AFTER my round was completed as it had been subjected to quite some rain on its whole surface area and I don’t remember noticing much, if any, humidity in the valuables pocket when I went to get my wallet and car keys Sunday night after said round. When I got home, I simply put my bag away like I usually do but maybe that if I had let the bag air dry in the first place, it could have prevented that? I will definitely do that next time I experience some rain during a round that’s for sure.

Date 06/10/2024 Course Name Parcours de Cerf - Brocard Gross Score 80 Course Handicap 8 Gross Strokes over/under par 8 Net Score to Par 0 Net Score 72 Net Birdies or better Longest Drive Score: 70.4 / Slope: 129 / Par: 72 FIR: 6/14; GIR: 9/18; Putts: 33 Net birdies or better: 6 Longest drive: 286 yds