[What Is Your Next Planned Golf Equipment Purchase?]

would love to try one of these reverse tapers out...

[What Have You Bought Lately? (CHA - Club Ho's Anonymous)]

moving on from my True's to these Footjoy's... I like the simplicity of them.

[What's The Biggest Equipment Debate In Golf?]

out of those you've listed I'll go with team 14 way vs. not... there seems to be no middle ground on that one.

the debate I would like to see talked about more is new vs "old" 

[Burger Talk]

any burger

any style

any where

I'm a hardcore carnivore.... 

[Newsletter Update]

1 hour ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

Took some time but we have finally released our new email newsletter! Hope everyone likes it - there could still be the odd bug here and there depending on formatting or platform (it varies from android to ios and so on) however we are thrilled to have this new newsletter that should be a lot more interesting and engaging for all!

Love it! looks great and very well thought it. Nice work.

[DO NOT BUY SKYTRAK]

the title is missing the "FROM AMAZON" section...

Skytrak has proven to be a great product and suggesting that you don't buy it is misleading. I would definitely do my research and if I'm paying that amount of money I'm going directly to the OEM or one of their trusted vendors.

[2024 Round Counter]

considering a "round" as 18 holes:

official GHIN scored round: 2

actual rounds since Jan1 2024 - 7(?)

[How'd you play?]

played the tips yesterday. a lot different when you have 5/6 iron in vs. 7/8/9... driver was misbehaving and the irons were spotty.

I was hitting a lot of shots heel-side and that's the worst miss - high spin and big fade.

stopped by the range and I realized that I was too close to the ball, by about a club length. placed the club beside the ball on the ground, then I reached out for it prior to backswing and middle every time.  I knew I was feeling jammed up but couldn't figure out why. 

hopefully next round I remember that. lol. it was a beautiful day out and it was my first round with the shotscope v5. I was really impressed. 

not quite the "chute" on the 18th at Augusta, but close! a long par 3.

I think even the clouds were happy to see the sun.

[The Good Morning Thread]

choice morning to y'all ! cornflower blue sky and illuminating yellow sunshine to greet us here today. 

I was able to make it out to the course yesterday and it was a challenge.... but, I stopped at the range after my round and discovered what I was doing wrong.

hopefully Friday is decent as I'm planning on playing. 

kid is doing well in Greece but one of the students has already been sent home for alcohol and someone threw a rock at their bus and shattered the window. Supposed to head to Turkey in a couple days.

great to see so many active and upcoming tests. amazing work by the team this year.

[Testers Announced! L.A.B. DF3 Putters]

wow  great group of guys here - congrats team! looking forward to all of the stats.

[The Masters - 2024]

Those grens are going to be rock hard and slippery as ice tomorrow

Can’t wait, going to be a great finish 

[Least favorite tour player.......and why]

Can’t say I really have a least favorite 

Most all of them are professional and respectful but I agree that T-Hat goes over the top at times 

It must be hard though. Imagine someone watching you and how you do your job and regularly criticizing you 

[Titleist T Series Irons - 2023 Forum Review]

1 minute ago, DonnieGolfs said:

I have a hard time with sim fitting too because the ball flight just isn't reinforced the same when you see it flying. The feedback isn't the same.

1000 percent agree with this 

Some people just don’t like hitting on a simulator 

[Titleist T Series Irons - 2023 Forum Review]

1 minute ago, DonnieGolfs said:

I'm sure there are plenty of options that are high enough quality it wouldn't hurt. The Titleist was great because it was on a range with Pro V1s. The fitter asked if I wanted to know the tweaks or clubs I was hitting or just go blind, I went with the blind trust route. He was measuring my old irons while I hit top, my lie angle on old clubs were all flat. After few hits he shifted me into 1up and changed shafts and it was like I was playing a new sport. We proceeded through my longer irons and seeing my 4 iron return to a high piercing flight felt great. They had different size grips for each shaft too which I hadn't seen before. All in all it was my best fitting from a leaving confident I had got them right and not the feeling of I'm going to be in the wrong clubs in a few weeks. He also recommended Pro V1x to help raise my spin numbers and I haven't gone back. 

This sounds like an awesome experience!

I love the fact that they had different sized grips. I wish more fitters did this. Such an overlooked part 

[The Masters - 2024]

Wow everyone chasing the pin on 10 and it’s claiming some victims 

Scotty with a double 

[Best 3 wood for beginners?]

If you’re a beginner I would consider a 5 wood first (as well as a 7)

Shorter shaft and more loft would be easier to use. Once you get proficient with that maybe add a 3

[Titleist T Series Irons - 2023 Forum Review]

Do you need to get a Titleist fitting in order to get the right composition or are there other options that would work ?

[The Masters - 2024]

Aberg has one of my favorite swings  Simple and powerful 

Bryson seems to be having trouble controlling his distance with his wedges again 

Tiger needs one of those ball pickup things on the top of his putter. Every time I watch him bend over and get his ball it looks like he’s not going to be able to get back up 

18 minutes ago, plstover99 said:

Homa’s been on the par train all tournament it seems…How long before he heats up and goes on a tear? 

His putter gets hot and he can really go low 

[Iron and driver re-shafting day!]

Excellent work 

I have never heard of those shafts 

Great ferrule pairing

[What Have You Built Recently?]

47 minutes ago, Thegolferdude said:

Check out my recent putter build.  I installed a BGT stability tour Colbalt shaft into this CURE RX1 putter.  Topped of with the new Golf Pride reverse taper grip. The club turned out great.

Very unique!! Nicely done 

[Painting / Wrapping Shafts]

1 hour ago, mongo312 said:

It would be cool if someone had a shrinkable vinyl wrap for golf shafts

It’s called heat shrink tubing and I recently used it on my putter shaft 

You can get it in various colors 

[The Masters - 2024]

Nice to see the wind die down. That wasn’t very fun to watch yesterday 

Tiger really laboring out there. 72 holes is going to be tough. 
 

Morikawa on fire to start 

[The Masters - 2024]

Wonder if Scotty’s putting woes will come back to haunt him? He seems to be rolling it pretty good so far 

Hoping for a playoff 

[How'd you play?]

Shot a 68 at the Old Course … in the sim with 8 foot gimmes, but still

[What/How Did You Practice Today?]

2 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Kind of says the same thing the same MGS lab test showed.   I think the key is that if your stock swing is not full out then the full out will be better.   If you are full out with stock, you will start to get out of sync/balance.    I was part of the MGS test and full out was best for me.  

It's a great experiment. I think some players are afraid to swing full out with fear of the result. I tried it at the range and as long as I keep my tempo full out was better for me as well.