mikeandersonut

Finally got out and played with these this week. I was in the second batch of testers and had the box sitting in my garage for at least a month before I finally could get out and spend some focused time testing these. Performance-wise, I thought the XS ball was pretty good. I play Maxfli Tour/Tour X most of the time and felt like the ball performed how I expected. However, my results speak for themselves. I shot 80 on back to back days at my normal track and I think part of it was just getting the swing thoughts out of my head and focusing on the dot. I did find there were a few times where I got a little too sucked into the target-shape-dot thinking and was a little lost in my head, but that was the minority of the time. Putting was one of the areas that I noticed the biggest improvement. Just letting my body handle the putting stroke while I focused on the green dot freed me up to make a lot more putts than I normally do both of those rounds, even rolling 2 in from the fringe in the second round. Verdict-wise, I'm not sure I would continue to buy these. I've found my sweet spot for price and performance with the Maxfli, but I wouldn't rule out adding some sharpie dots on my balls to simulate what the MindSet is trying to do, as I did find focusing on something like that every time just allowed me to stay out of my head a bit better. As you can see from Arccos, I did see some improvement from my last round prior to testing the Bridgestone balls (June 7), especially in the short/putting facets of my game.

Golf is year round for me as well

I have been a huge fan of the TSR line. Originally had a TSR2 16.5* with a Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 60g 6.5 shaft that I absolutely loved. Unfortunately, the airlines got the best of it. I replaced it with a TSR3 15* with 75g Tensei Black X-Stiff shaft. When I hit it well, it's great. Forgiveness in the TSR2 is much better and really loved playing that club, plus flight tended to be a bit higher. For you, it depends on how confident your ball-striking is and if you're looking for mid vs low ball flight in order to choose between these two if you're leaning Titleist

Without a doubt, #6 at Green Spring GC in Washington, UT. I don't think I've escaped with anything better than bogey...

How long have you been playing golf? What’s your handicap or normal score? I've been playing off and on for the majority of my life, probably 25 years or so. However, I largely took a break from 2017-2022 due to a young family, work, etc. After moving to Utah, I picked it back up in the summer of 2022 and have found a love for the game that I never had before. Right now my handicap is 7.7 after a few mediocre rounds at Pinehurst, but I range between 6 and 8 now. What do you love about golf? I love the ability to challenge myself and get time outside, especially in the beauty of southern Utah What brings you to MyGolfSpy? Do you already know any other Spies? I'm here because I really enjoy reading the reviews on everything golf-related Where are you from? What is your home course? I live in southern Utah, though I'm originally from the Twin Cities. My home course is Bloomington Country Club in St. George. What are the best and worst things about golf in your region? I love that golf is year-round here, and I have no issue at all playing when it's 100+ degrees. As long as I stay hydrated, the pace of play is usually great. One thing I don't love about golf here is that it tends to be fairly expensive compared to other parts of the country. I will say, most of the courses here are great and rounds do come with a cart, so it's far from being a huge negative. What do you do for a living? I am in software sales and have spent my career at B2B focused SaaS companies How’d you pick your user name? I'm usually pretty un-creative when it comes to user names, so mine is pretty self-explanatory

A friend and I were playing Sand Hollow in southern Utah a couple of years back on a twilight rate. My wife decided to tag along and ride with me, since neither of us had been to the course before (despite living 15 minutes away). First few holes were fine, but we caught up to the foursome in front of us by hole 3. They made no effort to let us play through, and while we were frustrated, we were careful to not hit into them or close to them, though I'm sure they heard us loudly complaining a few times. We make the turn and catch up to them on 10. It's a couple in their sixties or so playing with their adult sons. The dad makes a comment about it being a little while until we will be able to tee off. We didn't push the issue of playing through because that interaction wasn't that best. We take our time playing 10 and 11 and finally make it to the signature 12th hole. It's playing 370 yards uphill, and the group in front of us is probably 320 or so from our tees. My friend hits his drive so I tee up and let it rip. I hit my only draw of the day - a low bullet that skips off the cart path twice and ends up going about 330. The group in front was about on the green at that point, so really nowhere close to hitting them. As my wife and I drive down the path to the fairway, I see one of the sons walk down toward my ball and proceed to hit it back in our direction with a full swing. We proceed to drive up to the green, and all four of them walk down to us, clubs in hand and furiously start yelling at us. My friend sees the commotion and drives up behind my wife and me. The foursome claimed that we had into them once, then claimed it had happened twice, then changed it to "you've been hitting into us all day". We stayed pretty measured and let them have it about slow play and not letting the smaller group play through. The dad was making an absolute fool of himself, to the point where the wife was trying to restrain him, then the younger son was so angry with clubs in his hand, we questioned if he was going to use them on us. After a few heated minutes, the interaction was over, and my friend and I decided to hang it up for the night and drive back to the pro shop, especially since my wife was just in shock of what she had witnessed. We told the pro the story of the slow play all night, then the hitting of the ball back toward us, and finally the verbal altercation. He said he would talk to them when they came in and get their side of the story, but in the meantime, he felt bad about our experience, especially since it was my first time at the course. He ended up comping two rounds the following morning, which were $220+ tee times per player. When we showed up the next morning, we were paired with a phenomenal twosome who we really enjoyed playing with, and had an amazing experience all around. The more people I tell this story, the more I realize that nearly getting into a fight on a golf course is a pretty uncommon occurrence... At any rate, nothing like this has happened again, but it is hard to beat a free round of golf on a great course.