[Where you should play from!]

I am 79 years old and no longer have the distance (with any club) the way I used to. I was playing a red-green combo at my club and was consistently in the 96-105 range per round. Going to the green tees - a change of 1.3 on rating and 1 on slope seemed like a good idea in spite of the advice that the green tees were for folks 80+ years old. I am now posting rounds in the 80-90 range.  Even managed to have a great round and shot my age. Most importantly I am really enjoying golf again.  So, play from where you can have the most fun. The handicap system will take care of things if you are playing someone. 

[Launch Monitors]

I am pretty happy with my Mevo+. It gives me the key statistics I was looking for -  primarily face to path related data.

[How many sets of clubs have you owned in your lifetime]

I've now been playing golf (off and on) for 66 years and honestly have no idea how many sets of clubs I've owned, but I can't imagine it is less that about 30. In the past 10 years I've had about 5 different sets of Callaway, 3 different sets of Ping, and 3 different sets of PXG.  In spite of knowing full well that the clubs do NOT make the game, I keep trying to latest and greatest to see if I can play better. I only have a couple of sets currently as I have given most of them away to kids, grandkids, and veteran golf charity groups.  I do still have a full set of Pine Eye 2 (1-sand edge). In terms of individual putters, I would guess I've had a ton.  I've still got about a dozen different ones here at the house (Ping, Evenroll, Odyssey, Taylor Made, Cameron, etc.) that find themselves rolled into play as I keep searching for that magical one.  And yeah I admit I probably have a problem thinking a new set of clubs is ever going to help my game.  But I am just too old to change my approach at this point.

[Pet Pictures]

my girl Blu with her head cover doppelgänger   

[2022 Scotty Cameron Phantom X Puttter Launch]

I sprung for the new 5.5 and like it thus far.  unfortunately it did not magically make me a fantastic putter but according to my Arccos stats I'm getting better on strokes gained so it is going to stay in the bag ......  at least for a while....