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Donn lost in San Diego

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About Donn lost in San Diego

  • Birthday 11/26/1954

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    San Diego
  • Interests
    wine, investing, looking for a 90 score

Player Profile

  • Age
    60 and over
  • Swing Speed
    90 mph or less
  • Handicap
    32
  • Frequency of Play/Practice
    Multiple times per week
  • Player Type
    Competitive
  • Biggest Strength
    Putting
  • Biggest Weakness
    Driver/Off the Tee
  • Fitted for Clubs
    Yes

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  1. More seriously, does anybody besides Mizuno make a smaller than 460 driver, now or within the last 3-4 years? Mizu has a 440. When I come out of the surgery boot, I have a 2021 PXG 0211 but need a stronger shaft than the A flex Evnflo rptide CB. Til I re-shaft it, I also use a 2004 vintage Callaway 454 Ti on stock RCH 65 reg flex.
  2. I'm using an Aircast Large, (Right leg). It's the 2024 model. I can get over 80 yards, but the dispersion is in the bottom decile.
  3. Thanks, that is the first and most important answer. Comparing torque numbers within a company is useful, comparing Fujikura number to UST Mamiya is less useful? Comparing the best torque of Fujikura to the best of UST tells us a little useful info, but even then are not directly comparable.
  4. Now it is Thursday night, the cast came off Monday. I am gradually putting more weight on the front of the foot. I can walk pretty easily with the big boot, slowly, since I can't move ankle much. Four weeks of this. I can't drive, I hope to go work on my putting soon. The biggest issue is boredom, since I am single, retired. Bored with LIV v TOUR, Trump v Biden, Single malt v blend, Ford v Ferrari, Eat This Not That (A dreadful food blog). I've watched all the free episodes of Yellowstone and won't pay CBS a nickel for anything. And now that Scheffler has learned how to putt we might have a 5 or 6 time winner this year.
  5. Time for a new thread on torque questions. Do shaft makers use a static or a dynamic test? Is anybody using supercomputer tech to measure torque? And now that we are well into shafts with distinctly different sections, what part of a shaft does a torque number measure? And finally if I take a shaft to 5 different company labs, will the torque number measure the same? Are torque numbers more useful only within a company's own product line, or can I really use a Fujikura torque number and a Graphite Design number and compare them? I know that flex is subjective across companies, a given shaft might be called reg at one company and stiff at another.
  6. I didn't dream up LIV, and it sure isn't my money. But I hope they come to some kind of World Series or Super Bowl agreement. Some like the quiet crowd, some like the noisy. I'd always rather be in a sand trap but I watch TV cuz sometimes that's just entertaining. Recruiting new players versus the grueling Korn Ferry and Q school. Good luck to em all.
  7. Hi brothers and sisters. The cast came off today, stitches out, and I have a big big hi impact plastic boot with 3 inch wide straps, and I can walk. Inside, there is a metal plate across the top, sort of a figure 8 shape, 4 or 5 screws vertical holding it, and somehow a horizontal screw almost the full length of the plate. I don't need a cane, walker, or crutch. One more week and I can wash it. And gradually put more weight on the front of the foot. If I really wanted to I could already work on my putting. but I can wait til the rest of the bandage wraps come off, I am thrilled.
  8. If you come from a poor impoverished place, a $5 million deal for 1 year on LIV is a gift from god.
  9. Thats ironic. I don't feel bad for the future stars, the teens of today NCAA . I think they have a greater future. They have 3 pro tours to aim for, not just 2. And as I pointed out, our NCAA golf is the world's most advanced and competitive place to be. And the whole world is coming to the NCAA. Who will recruit the best 20 or 30 senior college players? The PGA/Korn ferry, or a Koepka or Cam Smith or Bryson in LIV?
  10. Your last sentence is why I started this topic. Time always moves on as far as the great golfers of 5 to 10 years ago. A few years ago we thought that Spieth and Thomas would run the table. Didn't happen. Now there are more young golfers getting a chance.
  11. No kids, but arthritis, and scoliosis, is a family affair.
  12. Friday night, March 8, now 9 days after surgery. Keeping the foot elevated. Learning to get around on crutches. Nuff said. No pain thankfully after 3 days, only fell once, the first time I tried going up a doorway 1 step up. I see the doc next Monday and can start putting a little weight on it, if all goes per plan. Watching the Arnold, and, first time ever, Season 1 and now Season 5 of Yellowstone. It is nice to see Wil Zalalalalatoris in good health. And watching the girls live from China in the dead of night here in Calif. A couple of long hole-outs yesterday. Huge greens with tsunami size waves.
  13. I want to thank all commenters. My view is based on expanding the pro opportunities. In 2018 and 2019 I was a volunteer at the LPGA event in San Diego, the Kia Classic, and I was amazed, I think there were 25 countries in the field both years. More recently, I was a couch potato with 3 surgeries, and watched too much TV, including some college golf. I was stunned. The better NCAA teams need a lot of translators. There are players from around the world, especially a lot of Latam. Golf is a way up and out of poor neighborhoods and violence in cities. So, LIV took 20 or 30 TOUR players. That means 20 or 30 more new opportunities for NCAA and other foreign players to make a living in golf and become heroes back home even if they never win a TOUR event. Apparently, college golf here is so good that a lot of the best Europeans come here. I donate a lot of clubs to schools in lower income neighborhoods, and I urge everybody to do the same. First Tee is nice but has corporate money, there are probably schools near you with kids without resources.
  14. Me be senior too. But I have steel shafts in my wedges. I am still reg flex on everything except 3 wood and driver. Recoil F3 70 or 60 grams in Ping I 500 irons. I did try a PXG wedge with a KBS reg flex but it was way too stiff and probably too heavy. Most wedges are made to go with a TT Dynamic Gold wedge shaft and I am fine to leave it alone. I have a 52 degree and a 60 degree Mizuno, both classic style GFF. And an ancient original Ben Hogan sand wedge, the Sure Out, 56 degree, with a bounce-sole bigger than a grapefruit, on the Hogan Apex red label wedge shaft.
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