BIG STU

Nothing wrong with that at all IMHO. If you look at my signature I have very few clubs made in this century. Right now I did add my old V-Steel 9 wood but I do carry and hit my old blade 5 iron. I can still hit the 4 iron but the 7 & 9 woods are more versatile, If it does get windy here since I only now carry 12 clubs I can slip in My Old Eye2 1 iron, my blade Tommy Armour 985 1 iron or a bent back Hogan Apex 2 iron. In all truth I cannot hit them like I once did but can hit a little head high cut wind cheater that will roll out to 195 or so

Up this am. took the Big Boy out to do his Puppy business and am back in. He is back in the bed curled up to his momma. No golf again today. We decided not to play the Par3 too much hassle getting there and back. The Fall Bike Rally is going on plus there are a lot of others down here. The course is right by the Southern entrance of Ocean Blvd. The Harley shop which is a bed of activity is right down the road. When you live down here as long as we have you learn certain weeks to cut your travel down and to pre plan getting supplies and stuff. I guess it is the price you pay living in a Tourist Mecca. I am planning on being at Home Depot early to get a new weed whacker since after 10 years mine died yesterday. But I will be out before the idiots get up. I guess I could have played the Saturday Shootout Drunk fest/cheat fest at my course, but I would rather not play than to play in it. I used to love it but in the last year it has turned into a S show. I can mess around here at the house and have more fun these days.

My bottom line is if it works for you then it works. We had a gentleman at my old course (now closed) who at the time was in his mid 70s. He carried like 5 hybrids, a Trusty Rusty 56*, putter and driver. Man could he utilize those Hybrids. He shot around his age or lower most rounds from the Senior tees. That course closed in 2019 and I have not seen him sense. We also have like 4 or 5 players in my league now that carry mostly hybrid sets and they are good players too.

On here late for me catching up. Had a really productive day. Got the plumbing problem fixed had the stuff in the shop to fix it. LOL turned the water on and the air in the lines blew out the valve and float assembly in the front bathroom. I had a brand new assembly anyhow because I was planning on replacing it because it had been sticking. Ended up replacing the latch assembly on the front porch door and yes I had the stuff because it was on the to do list. I said WTF? and ended up fixing the latch on the crawl space under the house. Since it was also on the list I had the stuff to do it too. Got all of that done and started cutting the front yard. Ended up burning my old weed whacker up. No big deal I bought that thing 10 years ago for like $25 on sale. Will go to Home Depot in the morning and get one just like it but now $49.95. Ate Brunch midway through all of that. Decided not to go to Home Depot today too many idiots out it being Fall Bike Week plus Snowbirds starting to arrive. Heard sirens all day. Decided about 2 to take a shower and a nap. Got back up and decided to check my rusty Scotty in the shop. One of my partners had noticed Wednesday the face seemed to be open some. I checked me first and was ok. Put it on my machine and somehow it was like 3* open. Since the Santa Fe has such a short neck it can be a PITA to bend. I did it old school locked the neck in my vice and gave it 3 whacks with a rubber mallet. Put it back on the machine mission accomplished. I did check it on my plate with my magnetic alignment aid and it seems to be ok. Overall a real productive day but no golf. Oh well I felt good knocking 3 items off my to do list

I have one of those earlier Tour Striker 5 irons. I found it in one of the bins when I worked for the Scrapyard. I use it from time to time and can hit it. Last time I had it out on the range was like last November or so. One of the Snowbirds was asking about it. I told him what it was and the purpose of it. Another one quipped that I could hit it better than he could hit his 5 iron. I do not normally mess with stuff like that but WTH? it cost me all of 5 cents employee scrap price. I also have a Medicus club and an ADAP I got the same way for the same price. OOPS wrong info the Medicus cost me 10 cents because it was so heavy. But yeas in snowbird season if I do not play the league I mess with those item some on the range for kicks and giggles

Like my wife says a Million does not go as far anymore

Here it is the Snowbirds poking around and some of the resident idiots driving like you said 10 to 20 over the speed limit. And yes most of them will run over their own Mother to get to a bar. On the insurance when we moved here for good some 24 years ago now we had the same problem on rates. The lady did explain it to me. We came from Gaffney SC even though I-85 runs slap through it is considered rural. It has a lot lower rating and percentages for accidents versus here. Here of course is considered a high volume area with tourism etc. so of course the chances of an accident are greater and thus higher rates. The first 6 months or so we were here my wife drove a small S-10 pick up delivering parts for a auto parts place. She was involved in 3 accidents in 6 months none of them her fault. All of those involved were tourists. I have been lucky have not been involved in any so far (knock on wood).

That was part of the deal I was talking about. My Driver is a Callaway Bertha Alpha Gravity Core and is 10 years old. I did some checking and the new ones are not compatible. I was thinking I hit that driver too darn well to mess with it. My bud ordered his Newton shaft direct off the website. His came with the adaptor for his QI-10 plus a grip. For some reason he did not like that grip so he put one on like is on the rest of his clubs. I never saw the grip it came with so I do not know what was on it. I am trying to think what he had put on it.

Ok cool I sorta put in for it but the main thing for me was the adaptor on my old Callaway driver. I did not really want to buy a head to test the shaft. I will read yours and other reviews and decide. I have hit the shaft on a friend's QI-10 and was fairly impressed because it hit so smooth. If I decide to buy one maybe they will ship it with no adaptor and I know how to pull adaptors

Up and kicking on the right side of the dirt as the old timers say (LOL guess now I am considered an old timer) Had golf planned but will have to call off. Developed a water leak luckily outside the house on the yard spigot. Got up noticed no water pressure and got to looking. I did manage to cut the water off for now. Will have to wait until daylight to fix it. Oh well no league today but I have other stuff I can do around here. Not really in the mood to pound balls but may chip and putt some. Not sure yet on the Par3 tomorrow. We have the fall motorcycle rally going and the course is right by the Harley shop and the beginning of the South Strand of Dirty Myrtle. Do not know if we want to deal with the traffic and hassle of being there

The 4 I have the furthest point from me came from the UK. One of my buds on WRX from Morecambe UK sent me 4 small sized balata balls a couple of years back. I have them in my cabinet along with the carton they came in. Per his request I did play one of them in the wind at the little Par3 course with my Hickory clubs

Did you end up getting the test for MGS on the Newton shafts???

Yeah we are starting to get the arrogant entitled ones too. Actually, at my course we have "seasonal memberships", and the older more sedate ones show up. Most of the same ones return year after year and on the most part ok but slow as heck. We have standing tee times in the Members League, so we are done time they show up. What most of the hassle around here is they cannot properly operate a motor vehicle on a public road.

I absolutely hate dealing with half arssed people especially those that I cannot communicate with. Actually I hate dealing with those types that jackleg people even if there is no language barrier. My work ethic was do it right the first time. I am not really a carpenter, but I think I could hit more than 2/3 of the studs. I equal that to changing the timing chain on an engine and not changing the oil and filter.

The Grand Strand area of SC was basically an island for like 2 weeks. They did manage to dam up part of 501 at the Lake Busbee bridge but you had one lane in and one lane out. Traffic is bad there normally with 4 lanes. We did try one run to Darlington hauling scrap to the steel mill. Was ok going out at 4AM but took us like 2 hours to get from the edge of Conway back to Myrtle. The other way we could have went was like 100 miles out of route. Boss said naah and the drivers went home. Besides we got paid by the hour and were on a guarantee of 30 hours. Since I also was a mechanic and a welder I worked on the yard reconditioning a step deck trailer. Got like 50 hours in each week for 2 weeks. Since we stay prepared especially in hurricane season we had plenty of supplies. In Hurricane season we keep both vehicles full of gas. My wife worked at Kroger across the street so gas was no issue. My boss gave some of us gas since we had a big tank on the yard. My little Dakota I had at the time I could drive like 2 weeks to work and back on a tank of gas but the boss insisted I fill up those 2 weeks