Off Map Oscar

30. The city mowed a ditch along the side of a road above a long fairway. Metric ton of balls rolled back into the fairway.

I should have been doing that. Can't wait to see your collection 

Collections or just your preferred marker. Let's see em!
Bonus points if there is a story to go with it 😀 
Here's mine to start. I need to get more so hopefully you lot add some inspiration for me. 

My favorite is the Mexican flag one. I played a round down in Baja and they had it in the pro shop. Only international round I've played so far. 
The Billy Murray buckle is neat but I frequently forget I'm wearing it. 
The alignment one is an Amazon gimic I tried and it works but it's not any quicker than lining up the actual ball so it fell out of use. 
And the other one was given to me by a friend who's sense of humor is well.... obvious 🙄😂😅
 
So let's see yours!

Today was the last day of my lessons with PGA hope. Next Monday we have a tournament for just the class. Should be fun. 
 
This afternoon I decided to play 18 with my travel set as I just finished gripping them earlier and they had dried enough to swing. 

Letting the computer decide the putts always ends up with a high score but I was happy with the results. Main reason I did this is I wanted to see how the travel set would preform at sea level for when I'm in Florida soon. 

I had good luck with puma ignite boas. They fit that bill. 

One of the reasons I love doing grips like this is I'm always tinkering. This midsize no name grip is what convinced me to get a full set of mid size. It's so easy to take them off and just swap around whatever you want. I also added 1 deg of loft to a driver and had to reposition the align again. If I had used new tape and solvent it would have taken a lot more effort to adjust it back to center. 
 
I've done 7 sets of grips now and I've never had one spin. 
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I had good luck with puma ignite boas. They fit that bill. 

Today was the last day of my lessons with PGA hope. Next Monday we have a tournament for just the class. Should be fun. 
 
This afternoon I decided to play 18 with my travel set as I just finished gripping them earlier and they had dried enough to swing. 

Letting the computer decide the putts always ends up with a high score but I was happy with the results. Main reason I did this is I wanted to see how the travel set would preform at sea level for when I'm in Florida soon. 

Gracious. Wish they were the align max but these will do until they release the max again in 25

Today was the last day of my lessons with PGA hope. Next Monday we have a tournament for just the class. Should be fun. 
 
This afternoon I decided to play 18 with my travel set as I just finished gripping them earlier and they had dried enough to swing. 

Letting the computer decide the putts always ends up with a high score but I was happy with the results. Main reason I did this is I wanted to see how the travel set would preform at sea level for when I'm in Florida soon. 

Last day of most wanted testing so I got to hit lots of 50 yard wedge shots.....336 in total.  14 wedges, 12 shots each wet and 12 shots each dry.   Really happy with my 50 yard sessions this year; the Dan Grieve approach has moved my wedge game to the next level.   Still a weak area of my game.....need to build a wedge matrix and learn rollout distances for bump and run type chip shots.   
Will get a little putting practice this week as well.   Since most wanted season is wrapping up they will be doing some labs to test equipment claims, compare playing ideas, and things heard in the golf community.    Wednesday will be comparing the performance of various types of putters and up soon will be line versus no-line.
They are also considering a suggestion I made...does layering of clothes for winter golf actually impact the golf swing.  

Today was the last day of my lessons with PGA hope. Next Monday we have a tournament for just the class. Should be fun. 
 
This afternoon I decided to play 18 with my travel set as I just finished gripping them earlier and they had dried enough to swing. 

Letting the computer decide the putts always ends up with a high score but I was happy with the results. Main reason I did this is I wanted to see how the travel set would preform at sea level for when I'm in Florida soon. 

FJ is hard. I just tried on new shoes and I tried a few different FJ some were too narrow others just right. No experience with the one your referencing. 

Shoot, Im not sure. Ive played five rounds and have gotten a total of 5 of these shots that it autosaves. Cool feature, reach out to arccos and see what they say. Theyll likely ask you to uninstall and reinstall the app to start things, knowing how IT goes. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/-nKt5Trn_FI?si=m4Qzi1IS26ww-ieP
John Daly has some points ^^^^^
MY TIP coming from a 27 handicap in Jan to a 10.8 as of yesterday is in the same range as what JD said.
Wedge card. 
You need to know exactly what a waist high, shoulder high and Full swing does with every wedge in the bag. Range the stick and the front edge of the green and use your card to know what shot is going to clear the fringe but not roll too far.  
Here is my card. I used a sim to get the numbers and the roll is on hard greens. I adjust for softer in my mind so these are worst case roll. 

I'm too dyslexic to just have loft numbers, but I do agree. My 7 iron is 28 degrees and carry is around 178 which is ridiculous. It was great when I was still developing my swing, but I would prefer more traditional lofts now. While rare without going to tour spec or blades, the ZX5s are 31 which is better. My Gap Wedge is traveling around 118 carry which leaves a 20 yard gap between it and my 54 degree sand wedge, so it gets harder on scoring irons for 100-110 yard shots and trying to not fly the green or end up short, and the top of the bag gets crowded. 

Gracious. Wish they were the align max but these will do until they release the max again in 25

So freaking close to even par on 9 it's starting to get irritating 🤣🤣🤣

https://youtube.com/shorts/-nKt5Trn_FI?si=m4Qzi1IS26ww-ieP
John Daly has some points ^^^^^
MY TIP coming from a 27 handicap in Jan to a 10.8 as of yesterday is in the same range as what JD said.
Wedge card. 
You need to know exactly what a waist high, shoulder high and Full swing does with every wedge in the bag. Range the stick and the front edge of the green and use your card to know what shot is going to clear the fringe but not roll too far.  
Here is my card. I used a sim to get the numbers and the roll is on hard greens. I adjust for softer in my mind so these are worst case roll. 

Gracious. Wish they were the align max but these will do until they release the max again in 25

Been a while since I've gotten a new club. I think two seasons? That's crazy when I think about it.
Had been keeping an eye out for a Cobra KING LTDx 3 wood. I've been getting better with my wood this year, especially off the deck. I have the Radspeed Big Tour, which is a great club but wanted something with a little shallower face that I could leave at the stamped loft instead of turning it up. I already have the shaft I want in the Radspeed, so just needed an LTDx head.
New LTDx on eBay still going for $120-$150 plus shipping, checked out Maple Hill Golf online and they had a "lite" shafted 3 wood for $79.99 with free shipping so I snapped that up.
Hopefully it gets here within the next few days, I'd love to have some time with it before the season is over!

I want the other ones too but I won't buy them yet. Have to wear out my other ones. 

Gracious. Wish they were the align max but these will do until they release the max again in 25

Dam Vice got me again. 
They are doing a free wedge with the purchase of 10 dozen. Code is FREEWEDGE. 
So I've got 10 dozen balls and a wedge to match my Iron Set on the way.