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I typically try to get 3 new balls in my bag before a round... However, as I keep finding balls, I usually end up with north of 10 balls of various makes and states in addition to the 3 new (then 2 new and one old) that I really play with. The "found around" ones are used for provisionals or when I want to play a second or third version "to see and learn". After a while I usually unload them in some bags that end up laying down in some random corners of my garage...

I typically try to get 3 new balls in my bag before a round... However, as I keep finding balls, I usually end up with north of 10 balls of various makes and states in addition to the 3 new (then 2 new and one old) that I really play with. The "found around" ones are used for provisionals or when I want to play a second or third version "to see and learn". After a while I usually unload them in some bags that end up laying down in some random corners of my garage...

I'm currently having the KBS tour x-stiff shafts in my irons, and I must admit they've won me over. I really like them, they feel stable but lively, the ball doesn't go too high, flight is very true... and in this age of super light everything, they have some nice weight to them!

A slight pushback against people saying 4 hr. The topic specifies "when it is packed" I think 4 hr or anything less is a stretch of the imagination or perhaps I have a different perspective of "packed" living in one of the most densely populated areas of the US.
I notice any time I play with someone who is pushing my pace, or if I'm playing with my Dad and he falls behind the other 2 in our group, the guys I play with who get around fastest never fix a ball mark. Never replace a divot. Leave broken tees sticking out of the tee box. Putt in front of me out of turn while I'm lining mine up.
So playing with or in a group immediately behind those people, I will tend to fix more than just my ball mark on a green. Replace mine and their divots in the fairway. Pull their tees out of the tee box and throw them aside before I put mine in. Have to line up my putts multiple times because of a ball rolling or feet walking through my sight line. 
There is a clear reason my average round might take 20 minutes more than theirs. They are jerks.

I'm loving what the team are posting and it has me positively vibrating with excitement and anticipation to get going with mine 😁.
Unfortunately this is the update I got today...

The numbers on the stickers on the clubs are obviously the heads weights in grams. Not very useful for the buyer to know but really helpful for the guy doing the assembly to get all sticks in the set to be at about the same swingweight. So typically the heads are weighted and labelled after production to help assembly of the finished clubs (you don't have much variability in grip weight and the shafts are more or less what they are... ).

The numbers on the stickers on the clubs are obviously the heads weights in grams. Not very useful for the buyer to know but really helpful for the guy doing the assembly to get all sticks in the set to be at about the same swingweight. So typically the heads are weighted and labelled after production to help assembly of the finished clubs (you don't have much variability in grip weight and the shafts are more or less what they are... ).

The numbers on the stickers on the clubs are obviously the heads weights in grams. Not very useful for the buyer to know but really helpful for the guy doing the assembly to get all sticks in the set to be at about the same swingweight. So typically the heads are weighted and labelled after production to help assembly of the finished clubs (you don't have much variability in grip weight and the shafts are more or less what they are... ).

The numbers on the stickers on the clubs are obviously the heads weights in grams. Not very useful for the buyer to know but really helpful for the guy doing the assembly to get all sticks in the set to be at about the same swingweight. So typically the heads are weighted and labelled after production to help assembly of the finished clubs (you don't have much variability in grip weight and the shafts are more or less what they are... ).

The numbers on the stickers on the clubs are obviously the heads weights in grams. Not very useful for the buyer to know but really helpful for the guy doing the assembly to get all sticks in the set to be at about the same swingweight. So typically the heads are weighted and labelled after production to help assembly of the finished clubs (you don't have much variability in grip weight and the shafts are more or less what they are... ).

The numbers on the stickers on the clubs are obviously the heads weights in grams. Not very useful for the buyer to know but really helpful for the guy doing the assembly to get all sticks in the set to be at about the same swingweight. So typically the heads are weighted and labelled after production to help assembly of the finished clubs (you don't have much variability in grip weight and the shafts are more or less what they are... ).

Great unboxing video @frazzman80!   A quick thought on the numbers - could they be the individual weight of the heads?  Also the 7i coming in w/out the cellophane seems weird and I was going to explain maybe they, Haywood, was doing a final recheck of the loft/lie and it had maybe come off in the process…and lo and behold as I continued to read the thread they answered your question.  Speaks highly of the Mfg@haywoodgolf! 

I truly hate to just mic drop this out here, as I really wanted to share this with a bit more fanfare, but I’m late to my kids Easter brunch/egg hunt at church.
Link to full review

Alright, Geez everyone haha. I didn't think a teaser would cause so much contention hahaha. Here is a little more for you all. I will be doing a video/picture review here in my actual post. Also, I Will add more photos here in a bit. Making dinner with the wife and kids!

Tee boxes that’s aren’t flat anywhere in the teeing area 

I was a member of a country club for a while when I lived in Western New York.  The club held a membership drive to help finance some clubhouse renovations.   The next year the average round time went from 4 hours to 4 hours 15 minutes.  For the board (mostly single digit handicappers), that was unacceptable!  That winter they required all members and their spouses to attend a three-hour workshop before they were allowed to play golf in the spring.  The workshop focused on speed of play items such as stay up with the group in front of you, where to park your cart so you can efficiently move to the next tee, etc.  It also included things like how to properly enter a trap, where to leave the rakes, how to fix a ball mark and other golf fundamentals.   Turns out many of the new (and old) members had no idea!  That spring, round times were back at 4 hours or faster and the course was in much better shape!

Slow play is annoying but I also expect it these days which is sad. My #1 pet peeve is ball marks on the green. It’s just disrespectful to everyone else to not even try to repair them. I was taught when I first began playing to fix yours and at least one more. #2 is definitely bunkers with low sand or poorly maintained sand and are now hard and firm. I imagine they are expensive to maintain but if you are going to have them, then keep them in good condition. 

I should have mentioned he had an iron in his hand waiting for the green to clear 300 yards away. 

# 1 SLOW PLAY. 
Sunday, I pulled into the parking lot, and I could see the first tee was empty. I got out my MotoCaddy, put my bag on, put my golf shoes on. Still, nobody on the first tee. I checked in at the Pro shop. He said I was good to go. There was a twosome riding that went off a little while ago and they should be on #4 by now. I get to the tee box in which the elevation is lower than the fairway. I walked up to where I could see if the fairway was clear. Not the case the twosome was not even on the green yet and it was only a 368-yard straight hole. At that rate it was going to be a 7-hour round. I waited for them to clear the green and tee off on the par three 150-yard 2nd hole before I hit my tee shot on hole 1. I finished the hole, and they were still on the green on 2. I headed over to Hole 4 to get in front of them. Never saw them the rest of the day. Heck I was probably home before they made it to the back 9. 🤣
#2. Courses need to put sand in the bunkers not a 1/4" dusting of sand and small pebbles. If you get in one rake it when you're done. 
#3. Fix your ball marks on the green.     

My peeve (in addition to the slower than dirt play)....
Trash - pick up your water bottles, wrappers, ball sleeves, etc. when you are on the course. If you see something pick it up and dispose of it in a trash can!

As many others have said, slow play/not playing ready golf is one…along these lines is the group that takes their sweet time clearing a green for the follow group to play up.
The next are those that don’t repair ball marks on the greens.  Not only does it ruin it for those behind you, but also damages the greens long term.  Please take care of the course.

That was then this is now. This is regressive. It is stopping innovation. Golf may have been fine then, but now is a whole different ball game. 
 
 

Less skill isn’t needed. If that was the case the fastest swing speed golfers on tour would be winning more. But when you look at the top 25 most haven’t won or have rarely won. Its guys like Scheffler, Mcilroy, hovland and those who are near the top in other strokes gained categories are winning.
And if you pay attention to golf on tv even with the technology in drivers the pros including the top ranked ones hit bad shots all the time and some so bad they end up deep in the woods or on another fairway.
there is still plenty of skill needed in the game and distance is one of them. If it was just technology then everyone would be hitting it 320. 

Depends on if you look at it as a sport, or if you look at it as a game. Sport should be hard. The PGA Tour players consider it a sport and it should be hard for them.
A game, played for fun, should only be as hard as one wants to make it. Otherwise we would go back to featheries and hickory shafts. Most "sports" don't really have a massive ability to be affected by technology. Hard to change a soccer ball significantly. In baseball, limited change for the ball and bats. Cricket, football, track and field, even biking, etc, aren't significantly affected by technology. The human element, training and skill, largely determine the winner. Sometimes luck.
Unless it's NFL football when the referees determine the winner.
But in golf, changes to the ball, woods, irons, hybrids, wedges, putters, all affect how one plays the game. There isn't any other sport or game that allows 14 implements and a different ball depending on preference. There are thousands of permutations to fill out ones bag. You don't usually currently see thirty handicappers playing mid sized drivers, blades, 1-PW irons, one wedge, and a bullseye putter. You can, but why would you?
If the Tour and the ruling bodies really want change, they would have one ball, one set of standard clubs, and everybody would play with the same equipment. All players would mold their game through their own athleticism and it would truly be a sport.
The players and the golf industry as a whole aren't interested in that solution.
The road for golf as a game and an industry has been one of innovation so we all can enjoy it. Taking 4 yards off a drive is somewhat insignificant, if that ends up being the actual cost of this rule for average golfers. We won't know for some time the reality of this change.
My guess is golf as a sport will lose players over the next 6 years anyway. The Covid bloom will die out as many of the folks who converted to golf will, over the next 6 years, even with technology, realize it is too hard, too expensive, and takes too much time. They will also realize that the "ruling bodies" don't have their best interests at heart because they want to keep golf a "sport" when it reality for a lot of us it is a game.
We have to continually keep in mind the original rules for golf were only created because money was involved. Prior to that, it was just a fun way to while away time. Some or maybe many of us want to go back to that.
Or as the King would say, I want all you loafing golfers to take up archery.

Bad idea to make the game shorter and take the fun out of hitting the occasional 300+ yard drive when you really nut it. It appears that the vast majority of golfers are against it. Who’s for it and what’s their rationale?