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Bruce Nevada Ping Ketsch counterbalanced 400 fm Elevado single bend, counterbalanced if available Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce Nevada Ping Ketsch counterweight 25.7 index Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce, Nevada Foot-Joy rain gear 35 mph deluge that you couldn’t see more than 10 feet in Hendersonville, NC

Bruce, Nevada Ping counterweighted 400 gm Ketsch Odyssey EXO 7 Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce Nevada Taylormade Aeroburner w/MATRIX SPEED RUL-Z 50 R flex Not fitted Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce Nevada, United States Taylormade RBZ graphite regular flex 7 Iron 150 yards Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce from Nevada Taylormade Aeroburner 12° regular shaft 87 mph, 22.4 Index Prefer 12° loft, regular shaft Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

1. Bruce Nevada USA 2. 22.3 87 mph 3. TaylorMade Aeroburner 4. Ping G400 Max Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce Nevada USA 22.3 87mph TaylorMade Aeroburner Ping G400 Max Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce, Nevada Ping Ketsch 35" counterbalanced O 2 ball Red 35" Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

1. Bruce - Nevada 2. 22.4 3. Aeroburner - stock shaft 4. 88 mph - 200 yards 5. Phil Michelson Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce Nevada 22.4 Rocketballz One length Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

Bruce Las Vegas NV 22.4 TaylorMade Rocketballz 4-9, P, A, S, L irons Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpy

The inventions of perimeter weighted irons and perimeter weighted putters by Karsten Solheim are still the only recent club design breakthroughs (since metal shafts and the sand-wedge) that have actually made golf somewhat easier for the average player. USGA handicap records supposedly show that 18 hole scores of average players has declined less than 1 stoke since they began keeping score data in 1948. Ping discovered that varying groove depths on grooved putter faces can produce more consistent distances from off-center putter face ball contact. MGS test results indicated that Ping "might have" another technological advancement; varying groove depths in a mallet putter could benefit anyone considering a heavy mallet putter. My trusty long putter would be illegal in 2 years, requiring going back to a short putter. Each one of my 5 previous short putters demonstrated why it had been replaced, so I was looking, but not in a hurry. Previous MGS comparisons of clubs were extremely helpful to deciding on new clubs, so new MGS putter test results convinced me to consider a Ping Ketsch. Oh, oh! Ping Ketsch putters were sold out everywhere I checked. Then MGS reported that Ping had stopped taking new Ketsch putter orders, in addition to canceling over 6000 backorders, but previously accepted orders would be fulfilled. During this time I was a once-a-week Golf Galaxy non-buying regular after accepting that, for some undisclosed reason, Ping had actually stopped delivery of their new Ketsch putter, despite enormous interest and thousands of orders. MGS members speculated widely, offering two very believable and possible scenarios why Ping had made such a disruptive decision. The supposed inside story: The failure rate of carving exactingly precise grooves with variable depths for just the center grooves of a previously machined block of aluminum was too high to continue. Manufacturing this putter head in the quantities that Ping needed for consumer orders could not be done with Ping's existing equipment in Scottsdale. The Ping Ketsch putter was designed by the Ping research lab in Ketsch, Germany, without consideration of manufacturing cost limitations. How difficult could it be to cut equally spaced grooves on one side of a precisely shaped aluminum block and then precisely vary the additional depth of just the center grooves? Much more costly than Ping ever imagined. Ping thought that duplicating the precise position necessary to accurately deepen the center grooves could be done with their existing machinery. Ping refused to validate speculations that every Ketsch putter head made in Scottsdale shipped before Ping stopped production had to be hand checked because groove flaws were too common. Unverified tales of 40% rejections, 65% rejections, and even 80% failure numbers are most likely exaggerations, but Ping's cancellation of already ordered Ketsch putters had to result from some type of manufacturing problems. I tell this story about Ping and MGS because MGS tests indicated that this new Ping Ketsch putter was overwhelmingly superior to any other tested putter, in addition to being priced right in the middle. MGS tests also showed that higher priced putters were demonstrably inferior to the new Ketsch. How would you label what serendipitously happened to me when I was again in Golf Galaxy? I was repeatedly told by every Ping seller that Ping wasn't accepting any more Ketsch orders. Golf Galaxy repeatedly insisted that their monthly orders for Ping putters were not changed by Ping's Ketsch cancellation, and I could still order any other Ping putter. While I was once again testing putters in another attempt to determine which configuration would be the least harmful, I was interrupted by a Golf Galaxy salesman who understood the difficulty of changing from a long putter to a short putter. He whispered to me that his store had just received 3 Ping Ketsch putters specifically stated in the included Ping invoice that were sent to fulfill earlier guaranteed special orders accepted by Ping. The 34" and a 35" Ketsch putters were grabbed as soon as I removed my hands, but shortly afterward I was given a 35" counterbalanced model, which I immediately bought. All 3 had the same putting arc, which I knew nothing about, but I didn't care because I hadn't a clue about my putting arc and because I believed that MGS reports and member comments were more accurate and more valid than any other source. Conclusion: searching for, and obtaining my Ping Ketsch putter was 100% due to MGS, and this putter really has reduced my total putt numbers.

1. My previous clubs were 14 years old in 2011. MGS tests of new game improvement clubs convinced me to demo every brand that I could, resulting months later with new TaylorMade 1st generation Rocketballz clubs: driver, 3 wood, 4-9 irons, PW, AW, SW, and LW. 2. I purchased TaylorMade Rocketballz 3,4,5, and 6 hybrids a year later in 2012. 3. I still continue to demo different brands of new club models, but I have yet to perceive an advantage over my "obsolete" Rocketballz clubs. Compare old TaylorMade RAC irons with their "new technology" Rocketballz irons, and then compare Callaway X-16, X-20, X-24, and X-etc. irons. These models are all superficial variations. Advertisements by golf equipment manufacturers are no different than chewing gum advertisements. 4. In 2014, I replaced my long shaft Oddessy 2-Ball putter with a Ping counterweighted Ketsch putter in order to comply with the forthcoming USGA rule change in 2016. 5. In 2015, a fixed shaft TaylorMade Aeroburner driver replaced my Rocketballz adjustable driver. 6. I attribute my 2016 handicap being 5 points less than 5 years ago, despite being older and weaker, to demoing and then buying new clubs tested by MGS. 7. 40 years ago I could tell the difference between high compression and low compression wound golf balls, but today my 83 mph swing cannot discern any difference between different brands of golf balls. 8. Thanks for keeping to your original intentions of revealing verifiable facts!