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    The Masters - 2024

    in Tour Talk

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    2 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

    Yea, I liked him when he was with Oklahoma State but not when he jumped ship to Duck-land.  Heck of a player though and will be a contender more often than not.

    A big hill to climb for him for sure, but I wouldn't count him out.

    So who is everyone's biggest surprise after today's ending?  Mine is both Spieth and Thomas, with DJ a close third.  That all three missed the cut is very surprising.

    Harman dropping as hard as he did.  Sure didn't expect that.  Not to mention the surprise that par was so hard to come by after yesterday.  

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    The Good Morning Thread

    in The 19th Hole

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    Top of the morning fellas!  Another week flying by; I hope this week has been a good one for you.

    @Fongle very sorry to hear the news.  Prayers up for your uncle and for your family. 

    @sirchunksalot hope it's nothing serious and all brought on by the tasty yellow pollen.  Prayers up also for your sister's surgery!

    @Dead Solid Bogey the fellas here have said it all.  But hang in there; it's the beginning of a long road but it will all pass!  There's some great guys here to lean on.

    Wilson Dynapower Forged Irons!

    in Golf Clubs

    Posted

    1 hour ago, HikingMike said:

    It looks like their Dynapower irons have always been shiny chrome, going back to 1954. So that's staying with their heritage there I guess. Even the red trim is there. Hard to beat that heritage in a product line, haha.

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    https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/golf/dynapower

     

    And it will be fun to see how they do in the 2024 MGS iron testing. They have at least the 3 new iron lines, right? 

    • Players distance: Dynapower Forged
    • Players: Staff Model cavity back & Staff Model blades

    I think those would be their categories for MGS tests. Does that sound right? Though I don't think they actually had any blades or musclebacks in the 2023 players iron test. So probably take the blades out, and we'll see how the other two do.

    I was looking back for the other Dynapower line and came across the 2022 players distance test and the Staff D9 Forged actually came up there as the runner up in that test. Nice finish. I think the Dynapower set was released in 2023 and it doesn't show up in the players distance test, so maybe Wilson did not submit those. 

    Dynapwr line falls under game improvement irons.  It was included in that respective 2023 Most Wanted test.  Results were hot or cold.  It was the longest iron tested but was at the bottom for forgiveness and accuracy.

    Best Blade Putters of 2024!

    in Golf Clubs

    Posted · Edited by JohnSmalls

    2 hours ago, StrokerAce said:

    look at Zebra jumping back in the game !!

    love to see T squared up there .... really cool backstory on that company

    can't say enough how much I love the new format of the "best of" articles. really well done. very readable and easy to digest. 👏 Kudos to Phillip and team

    2 hours ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

    @StrokerAce completely agree! 

    It is so easy to go through and find what you need. 

    Equally agree with the T Squared. Super clean looking and lead me to go to their site immediately after!

    I echo the sentiment with T Squared.  What shocked me the most is their putters are available for lefties!  That is the worst part of MW testing (putters especially) is that it seems a large percentage of top performers aren't available on both sides of the ball.  

    ER2 taking top honors seems like it's rightful place.  But isn't it ironic that Sweet Face tech performed so poorly at 20' compared to the others?

    MPR: The Single Digit Project

    in Virtual Tour and Competition

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    43 minutes ago, GolfSpy MPR said:

    Um, I did it. Ish.

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    This was my Arccos handicap at the end of last year. I've posed this before as a Twitter poll: there are disagreements as to how high your handicap can be to count as single figure. Some allow 9.9, others insist 9.4, and still others nothing higher than 9.

    So I'm at least lurking. There is a small asterisk: the Michigan State Police Chaplains held our conference last fall at TreeTops resort in Gaylord, MI. I took the opportunity to play the well-regarded ThreeTops par 3 course and played it very well (by my standards):

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    Where do we stand right now? First, I'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to have a long golf season up here. For reference: last winter, we had well over 250 inches of snow. This winter: so far, not even 40. That is a shockingly scant amount of snow for our area. It should mean that our course opens as early as it has since I've lived here (now 12 years).

    The other big news: this past winter, my dad came over and altered a single truss of my garage. Why does this matter? I can swing a driver. Anyone following this thread has seen that one of the things I've struggled with most is driver, and the chief reason is that I (almost literally) never, ever practice it. We have no range within an hour, and my garage ceilings were always too low to swing driver.

    So on that front, I'm making progress. The big work right now is turning my physical speed into practical driver speed. On Stack, I can swing the 195g still upwards of 110mph, which would translate to a 120mph, Tour-speed driver swing. Put a ball on a tee, and my swing can easily drop south of 100mph.

    Now that I can swing driver, when I do Stack sessions, I'll then do swings on my Mevo+ with my own driver and no ball. So far, I've seen those getting up into the upper 110s. Then I'll put a ball down and work on swing speed and ball speed. I'm not up comfortably over 105mph swing speed with ball. My goal for this year: 110 swing speed with ball, and 160+ ball speed. Overall, one of my goals for the year is to get my ball speed to be a higher number than my weight.

    Awesome news!  Congrats on breaking into the single digits---with any good thing keep up the grind!


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