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    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

    Posted

    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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    The Good Morning Thread

    in The 19th Hole

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Marlin Dave said:

    Well hopefully Callaway does something for any of those affected. I destroyed a putter and a 3 wood via my neglect on wiping them down and apparently at certain times out of the year some of that stuff they put down is pretty nasty

    Hadn't really thought of reaching out to Callaway; but I did see on another site that Callaway had taken care of those others affected.  However, that was back when Mavrik was still fairly new.  I am not going to sweat over it. I posted more out of curiosity and finally remembering to throw a line out to the forum.  My very weak thought was that it could be a face material weakness due to metal fatigue, but I don't have the swing speed for that, nor do I use 3w often enough.  It didn't appear to my eye to be rust/chemical reaction, but that makes the most sense and aligns with the others.  I appreciate it!

    21 hours ago, cksurfdude said:

    It does kind look like the outline of the face to me, eg where it's welded or brazed or whatever'ed onto the body .. tho couldn't guess the cause other than environmental factors and/or chemical exposure like Marlin Dave suggested..?

    Did you try a metal cleaner or a magic eraser pad?

    The shape of the discoloration made me think it was the welded/brazed/superglued face.  I haven't tried a cleaning product, other than vigorous scrubbing with both a cotton terry and microfiber towel--which made zero difference.  I'll give a good cleaner a try and see what difference it makes.  The discoloration reminds me of the faces from the wooden-wood days.

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    The Good Morning Thread

    in The 19th Hole

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Marlin Dave said:

    Fertilizer and none of us wipe our clubs down well enough!! Really bad on putters as those little granules you see on the green are bad news!!

    I didn't know this until just now, apparently it was a problem with Mavrik fairway woods.  I am not the world's best but I do take extra care of putter and driver!

    Wilson Golf Fit AI

    in Golf Technology

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Josh Parker said:

    These may be clubs I switch to at some point this year.  I miss my original wilson staff deep red tour clubs.  

    I love my Srixons but my ole wilson clubs were great!  

    I recently moved from D7s to the previous gen Staff CB,  and I love them so far.  I know Srixons have a great and well earned reputation, you can't go wrong either way! 

    Wilson DYNAPWR

    in General Equipment Talk

    Posted · Edited by JohnSmalls

    On 3/3/2024 at 12:46 PM, DiverDown said:

    Has anyone tried the Wilson DYNAPWR.  Saw a lot of positive reviews on youtube so much so I'm adding to my try list when I get home from work mid march and before my vacation. 

    Are you asking about the woods/hybrids or irons?

    The Carbon driver has been phenomenal for me.  It kicked a long seated Ping G410+ out of my bag.  I have noticed a fairly consistent 10-15yd gain in distance; my misses seem to similar to what they were with my Ping except for bad swing slice.  It is a little worse, but that's my only real gripe.  Absolutely love the driver and glad I gave it a chance because it is firmly in my bag now. 

    Makefield Putters-We Tried It Article

    in General Equipment Talk

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Golfspy_CG2 said:

    If most of you were like me 2 months ago, I hadn't heard of Makefield Putters, until I saw a video from a YouTuber at the PGA show, I was intrigued by what they said about the putter and went to the website.   There i read all abut them, but best of all saw they had a Trial Kit that you could get for basically the cost of shipping $20 to try out different heads, shafts and weight configurations.  Sounded good to me...So here was my experience with it.   

    I since had a follow up call with the Director of Brand Development, so I'd be happy to answer any questions here or read any comments you may feel free to leave on the article page.

    We Tried It-MaKefield Putters

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    Great article Rob!  Fun seeing familiar names on the main site.  If it weren't for Pinehurst last year I wouldn't have heard of them.  McGolf had a Makefield and a LAB Mezz Max in his bag.  I could comfortably game either one based on performance.  Highly recommend anyone looking for a putter to give this home-delivery fit/putter trial a go.  It is an unconventional looking putter, but the Makefield guys have done their homework.  There is something to their wizardry weighting system.


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