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I was just thinking about that this morning Rob. I would gladly pay the shipping to send it to someone that could benefit from it.

Updated it, thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it.

Posted my final review today, you should be able to see it here. I had the chance to play a few rounds over the last week and had some friends that I wanted to try the club, so I included their feedback in my review. All in all: this really is a good club, well built and does what it's supposed to do. Thanks again for the opportunity to test a club, I enjoyed the process and would do it again in a heartbeat!

Good morning. Yucky day here today, and haven't played all weekend due to some other obligations. I have a round planned for Wednesday and the weather is supposed to be clear then. Hope someone is playing golf somewhere today.

Good morning, I've missed you guys. Been more than a week since I've posted in here. Finally got to play a round yesterday. I've been limited to the range and the practice green for a few days due to a lingering eye infection. Thankfully I took my grandson with me so he could help me spot my ball - more than once he had to point right at it to get me to my next stroke. But .... I get to play today and tomorrow, and then two rounds lined up for next week. I'll wrap up my testing of the Arias Chipper by the end of next week and then the week after I get fitted for a new fairway wood. So .... all in all it's all good. Hope you're playing golf today.

Hey Spies, hope you all are doing well. It's been a long weekend. The weather has cooperated but my eye has not. I picked up my 3rd eye infection in 4 months. Last Wednesday grandson and I were playing a course North of us a bit, up by Crystal River, and the course was not in good shape at all. I hit a ball from a sandy spot with a little breeze and was trying to get sand out of my eyes and my mouth for three holes. Our eye doctor says call or come in anytime, so I went in Friday and his summation was: The last few times I've gotten something in my eye on a golf course I've ended up with an infection. He asked me to call that course and see if they've treated the ground with any fertilizer, pesticides or weed killer lately. They have, all three. He believes I've been getting crud in my eyes - the left one twice and now the right one this time - from chemicals on the ground getting into my eye. I hit a couple of buckets of balls yesterday and then played a nine hole round today, but honestly it's not feeling good at all. I'll get out this week, just not sure at this point when. I have to follow up with the eye guy tomorrow, he wanted to see it after a few days of antibiotics. And the weather has been so good ...... I just want to play with my sticks.

Honestly no more or less difficult than any other club in those situations. I've hit this club from: close cropped grass, taller grass, rough, sand, bunker, I've even hit it off the cart path once. It's no different for this club than any other club I've hit in those circumstances.

I think for me at least, the jury is still out on that question. I see a lot of value in this club the closer I am to the green, but right now I can't tell you that the value is worth dropping one of my current clubs to carry this one. I carry a full 14 club bag, so something - the only logical choice being my Titleist 43 degree T400 - would have to go to accommodate carrying this club.

My single biggest issue with this club at this point is an easily correctable design concern: when I ordered the club I specifically left everything standard except the length, including the lie angle. The lie angle is different than all of my other clubs, and Arias notes that this is easily adjustable. I just forget to adjust my stance sometimes and hit heel or toe rather than in the sweet spot.

Good morning, it’s been a few days since posting for various and sundry reasons, but I did manage to get some videos yesterday. Since last Wednesday I’ve played four rounds. On two of those I never chipped once; I was hitting greens from anywhere inside of 150 and didn’t need to chip one time. I did toss around Bulldog’s idea of using the chipper on the green but I was putting so well that I just used the putter. On one of the other two rounds I used the chipper three times with a 100% success rate, success being defined as within six feet of the pin. Unfortunately I was by myself and couldn’t video capture any of those star-studded, stellar moments. Yesterday my grandson and I played a new course, and I managed to capture some work with the chipper, the videos are below. Two out of three were successful, with one of them putting the ball within a foot of the hole - even I couldn’t miss that putt. The one that didn’t get to the green was my fault. The video doesn’t really show the topography well and I misjudged getting over a dip in the course. Here’s the work from yesterday: PXL_20240228_210847456.mp4 PXL_20240228_211933718.mp4 PXL_20240228_214604684.mp4

On the course, water, water, water unless I need a Gatorade. As soon as we're done I'm cracking open a beer.

Should we be doing likes by handicap? Or have a Like handicap system? Or did I miss that .... I miss so much around here.

Good morning, time for a little update. I played a round at Brasstown Resort yesterday and had, to the point, mixed results. I do want to reiterate this: any mixed results are at my hands, not because of the club. I tried to push my use of the club a bit during this round, rather than simply settle for around the green, just to see what I could do with it. While I'm on that vein, let me answer a few questions/comments: Putting stroke or chipping stroke? Depends on your lie. Grip? Again depends on your lie. Spin? None that I've been able to appreciably duplicate, yet. I posted a few comments in the pics below, otherwise they should be fairly self-explanatory. First shot of the day, with no range to warm up on, so this one got away from me a bit. This is about 65 yards out, I thought, “why not try it?” What can I say? I couldn’t resist. This is the only time I've noticed any real spin on the ball at all, and it's obviously due to digging it out of the sand. This was my first time in a bunker in days, so I thought I'd give it a whack ..... what the heck.

Good morning ..... and I certainly hope it will be a good one for you all. I got to play yesterday, 18 holes at Brasstown, and turned in a 92 from the white tees. A little disappointing, as I shot a 91 from the teal tees last time I was out there. The frustrating thing was I was three full shots more on the back nine, which is a good bit easier than the front. But then ..... I ran into this on the back nine, so I'll use this as an excuse. I kind of wish I had known this was going on when I booked the tee time - it was scheduled with the forestry department so they knew it was coming. This is on the 13th, while standing at the tee box. PXL_20240220_185402717.mp4

I get that Rob, but Hayes does raise an interesting question and spin control is one that I've tried to work on. The quick answer: no appreciable difference between softer balls and others. In addition, no appreciable spin control that I've noticed yet. I've tried opening the club face and rolling the ball up the face, but I'm finding that the small club face doesn't seem to help me control spin. I have one documented shot - I'm going to put up a post later this morning from yesterday's round - that shows the ball came to a dead stop, but as you'll see in that post it's via odd circumstances. On a whim, I hit the ball out of a steep bunker with the chipper, and digging it out of the sand seemed to spin the heck out of the ball.