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Ok I stand corrected- thanks for the heads up!
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If you're on a budget, pick up an Adams LP series. EEEAASY launch, straight. Distance is good but won't keep up with more modern clubs. Very cheap. Be careful in the rough.
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Try finding a left handed adapter- the upright setting should flatten it (it's reversed)- not sure what this does for loft settings.
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Cameron Champ
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On 4/9/2019 at 12:21 PM, yungkory said:
Callaway Epic Flash Review – yungkory
Intro
First and foremost, thank you to MGS and the forum staff for selecting me to review the 2019 Most Wanted driver! There’s nothing quite like the feeling of waking up and seeing one of the moderators has sent you a private message with a title like “Callaway Epic Flash Testers!”
For those who don’t know me, my name is Kory and I’m lucky to call Hawaii my home. Growing up in a family of golfers, I’ve been playing since a very young age, maybe since I was around 5. I had some clubs that an uncle of mine chopped down and slapped some grips on and would join my stepdad on the range. Living in Las Vegas at the time, when I was around the age of 10 was when I really started to understand the concepts of hitting down into the ball instead of trying to sweep it, thinking about the next shot, etc., and started to break 100 from the ladies’ tees. I played golf year-round by spending my winter breaks here in Hawaii, but never competitively, just as a means to spend time with my family. I lost my love for golf during and after college, but after some friends dragged me back onto the course 2 years ago, I’ve been fully obsessed all over again. My playing partners range from former D1 collegiate golfer and High School State Champ, to people who have been playing for only a year and shoot in the 100s, but I am not the type to really care who I’m playing with. I’m on the course to have a good time, and whether I’m playing well or not, I enjoy myself.
I’ve never joined a club, so I’ve never had an “official” handicap, but I typically shoot 80-83 and play courses around 6300-6500 yards comfortably. 18 Birdies currently has me at a 9 hdcp, but since I was selected for the test, I’ve purchased Arccos and will be using that to measure my game moving forward. One of my strengths is being able to generate a decent amount of clubhead speed for my size, but I struggle with consistency and lack of an ability to hole makeable putts. My driver swing speed averages 103-105 mph when I’m swinging well, and I’ve been told that I have a very smooth tempo. I’ve been quoted many times by my friends saying that “I play golf to hit driver.” It’s undoubtedly my favorite club, and if you put me on a course that requires me to hit irons off the tee for position, I’m not going to have a good time. I’ll look for any excuse to let the big dog eat, and that usually lands me in the soup on those courses, so I tend to avoid those courses whenever I can.
My typical ball flight is a mid-height (or what I consider to be mid-height) draw, and my miss is a block when I get stuck, or an over draw/hook when I flip to compensate. I’ve been working on moving my path a little more out-to-in since my Flash fitting (more on this later).
Current WITB:
As I mentioned, I love hitting driver and testing them for my game. I probably enjoy it a little too much if you consider the fact that I’ve changed three times in the last 2 years since I joined MGS. It’s not that any of these drivers were terrible, I just gained something over the previous one each time I tested. A list of my drivers since 2017 (all of them were fit in some capacity, either custom at my local shop, or at a range demo day):
· Callaway GBB Epic
· Ping G400 Max
· Titleist TS2
Now that we’ve gotten ME out of the way, let’s talk about the Epic Flash!
First Impressions
This year, it’s all about Flash Face, a new club face that Callaway has employed a super computer to build. It looks like a rainy day on the Doppler radar to me, but being someone who works in the tech industry, I believe in computers. To quote Callaway directly, they’ve used AI and Machine learning to “give computer systems the ability to “learn” with data without being explicitly programmed. Through Machine Learning our computers cycled through 15,000 face iterations, learning from each one, before arriving at Flash Face.” In layman’s terms, this means that they avoided having to physically build 15,000 versions of the driver to arrive at the final, most-optimal face. If you think about it, that’s actually a pretty good idea if you’re trying to find the theoretical fastest driver face.
Having played the original iteration of the Epic, this is a familiar-looking design to me. It has the same shiny-black crown that fades into a carbon fiber towards the back, and I love how open and lofty it looks – it really appears like it will have zero issues launching the ball. What is missing are the small “bumps” on top that they collaborated with Boeing on to increase aerodynamics in their previous models. Interesting in their quest to be the speediest, they left those out? Maybe it was marketing hype all along? On the bottom, they’ve shortened the adjustable weight track and painted it quite possibly the ugliest color combination I have ever seen. I get it, yellow is fast, like a Lamborghini, but with that dark green? It’s not going to stop me from bagging it if it outperforms my current gamer, but I don’t know anyone outside of Wisconsin who would order this color combination if they had a whole color palette to choose from. The face has some crazy high-tech mumbo jumbo going on with the crop-circle looking sweet spot that I’m not crazy for, but once I take it back it’s out of sight, out of mind.
The shaft I was fit into was the Mitsubishi Tensei AV Blue 60 in stiff flex, tipped 1”. I liked the feeling of this shaft in previous demos/fittings (it’s also offered as a no-charge upgrade in the TS line) but I always felt like it was a little whippy, and that always scares me into thinking I’m going to spray it all over the course. My fitting was done at Aloha Golf Center here on Oahu, by a Certified Callaway Custom fitter, and he recommended we tip the shaft an inch after he frequency tested the one I had been swinging. He also helped me a little bit on my swing path, which was 8* in-to-out at the time, and was able to get me to 3* with a pretty simple swing thought (thanks Joey!). I was swinging about 1* up and not presenting much loft, so he decided that 10.5* of loft would suit me best until I work on hitting up into the ball more.
My goal for this review is to provide my fellow spies with as much practical data as I can. Launch monitors and raw data are great, but as a spy friend of mine once said – we play golf on a course, not a simulator. I plan to leverage Arccos to help me see if there’s a measurable difference over my current gamer, and to put Flash Face through the paces while I hit balls out of every part of the club face (on purpose of course
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Ok so I can't figure out how to quote- but any right thinking Minnesotan knows those are Northstars colors!
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José María Olázabal
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I eat that for breakfast...
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On 9/5/2018 at 6:25 PM, tacotollefson67 said:
2007 Taylormade Burner 460 Modified, Now time to Add the Gas! Different types, One at a time and Evaluate the Affects!
Whatever happened with this?
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I certainly love playing the classics too- I have some great thrift store funds: Walter Hagen "Forged in USA" blades 5-p + Hogan Radial 4i, ~'71 Hogan Bounce Sole 2-p and a set of beautiful Mac Muirfield blades 3-p that I got off the classifieds here. I'll combo one of these sets up with my Dad's old custom persimmons 1, 3, 5, and sometimes 7, with an old Ram sand wedge my Dad gave me as a kid and one of the various brass putters I've got. It's great fun, and nothing beats the feel of puring one. Funny thing is I can still whoop my buddy and be neck and neck with my lady- with them using their frontline stuff. When they use one of my classic sets, it can get pretty... colorful. I think everyone should give it a try- you can find a couple clubs cheap (they don't have to be wallhangers)- if for no other reason than to get a little perspective, and again, that feeling...
- deejaid and downlowkey
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Whatever happened to GSpy MBP?
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Oh wow that's saying a lot!
- cksurfdude and tommc23
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I think I may already know the answer to this, but why go with a Tour head for the 3i?
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Don't forget the 2 1/2, 3 1/2 woods!
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There definitely is a TV commercial, but I meant (snarkily) the website.
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Can you roll back the lip of the eyepiece like some binoculars? That helps when I wear my glasses.
Edit: nevermind, I was too lazy to look at pictures while on my phone- didn't realize there was no lip on the eyepiece... Doh.
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Can you roll back the lip of the eyepiece like some binoculars? That helps when I wear my glasses.
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I must be looking at the wrong website... I only saw an infomercial and the 45 when I tried to look it up...
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There are 3?
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Im a big fan of the Nicklaus Black ball. From my understanding you can only order it online through their website or get it at one of Jacks courses. Its much like a Srixon style tour ball. Think i paid like $35/dz shipping included and has an option to donate to charity too. They dont spin quite like a urethane ball but i get plenty of spin out of them and they hold up better. Played a tourney couple weeks ago on med. firmness greens running 12-13 and they were 1-2 hop n stop w/9-7i. 60-PW pretty much ended up level w/pitch mark if not back a tad which works perfect for me.
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Nicklaus Blacks are urethane.
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You mean kinda like these? Custom made for my Dad back in '83 or so.
- PlaidJacket, BIG STU and aerospace_ray
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Maxfli Tour X (2 for $50)
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It's my understanding that the true cg of the ball may not be in line with the seam, thus the dicrepancy ssen here. I could be wrong.