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Zivl3

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  1. LAB Golf Link1 with the Accra shaft. I've gone through a number of putters... including a couple of Scotty's, an Evnroll, a handful of Spiders, etc. I was gaming a Scotty when I started my LAB Golf experience with a DF2.1. The DF2.1 transformed my putting from "meh" to pretty decent. A few years later, the Mezz1 came out. I liked the more compact look of the Mezz1 and ordered one with an Accra shaft. My putting got even better with Mezz1... like so good that my playing partners were gob-smacked. When the Mezz Max came out, I ordered one of those with the LA Golf shaft. More is better, right? Uh, no... not for me. I putted pretty well with the Max, but I still like the Mezz1 better. And the extra cost for the shaft was so "not-worth-it". I was reluctant to try the Link1. But I was aware that after grounding the Mezz behind the ball, there was a hitch in the motion of picking up the putter before I started my stroke. Plus, I actually prefer the look of a blade. I made the mistake of giving the Link1 a test drive at the local PGA Superstore. It's lighter than the Mezz and that little hitch was gone. Direction control and pace control seemed really good too. And... it was my birthday. I'm still torn between the Link1 and the Mezz1. I like them both. Every once in a while, I'll pull out the Scotty and do some practice putts with it. 90% of the time, it works as well as the LAB putters. But then the bad putt sneaks in, where the putter head just does its own thing and the putt doesn't quite go where I wanted it to go. It is a pretty putter and it feels good when I putt with it. But when it comes down to playing a round of golf, I'll use the LAB putter every time. I posted my Shotscope putter data here, so you can see how the LAB Mezz putters compared to the Scotty, for me:
  2. I just noticed that my ShotScope data includes a tool to compare putter performance. FWIW, here are my putting stats for the last 3 putters I've used. There's about 400 putts on each. The SG number is based on a scratch golfer (which I am most definitely not... my index is about 16) I was never a fan of center shafted putters, but I've gotten used to it. Can't really argue with the data.
  3. I've only played Pasatiempo (Santa Cruz, CA) once. That was about 15 years ago. The round was memorable for how much that course screwed with my head. By the time I got to the last green my mind was beat into a quivering lump of sludge. But, I remember thinking that there wasn't anywhere on the 18th green that would have been a straightforward putt. Any putt that didn't hole out would run off the front of the green. As I get older, my memory of that green just gets more and more severe. I'm emotionally crippled...
  4. Good question. I didn't change it from the factory setting, so I assumed it's in auto because there were instructions on how to set it to manual. Plus, some holes it does record the approximately correct locations of the putts.
  5. I assumed that the tee box question was more for determining course rating/slope for strokes gained calculations. There's no way the program could know where the tees are set on a day-to-day basis. I was hoping that the X5 would have had a better GPS location accuracy than the V3, but it seems to be the same. The V3 seemed to be better about discriminating about the location of putts on the green. With the X5 I get a notable amount of holes where it looks like all my putts are with a foot from the hole. I'll be the first to admit that I can, and have, missed from 2 feet. However, I also know for a fact, that I rarely hit an approach shot to within 2 feet of the hole.
  6. The skin on my hands can get dried and chapped and can split and tear. I spent several seasons reinforcing the wear points on my right hand with band-aids until I realized that I should just wear gloves on both hands. So I'm a 2 glove guy. I will use the gloves until they wear a hole in them or until they get too gross and slick from use and sweat. I have a hitting bay set up in my garage. Every day, I'm either playing a round of golf, or I'm hitting balls in the garage (or both if I have an unsatisfactory round). I use newer gloves when I'm on the course and "experienced" gloves for the garage. Since I'll hit 100-ish balls a day in the garage, I go through gloves faster there than the ones I use during a round. I get Kirkland gloves to make up the difference. The Kirklands are cheap, but I've found they wear and tear faster than a typical "premium" glove. There is a lot of variation in size too. My right hand glove will last 3 times longer than the left. I prefer a more flexible glove, like the Red Rooster Cape, for my left hand. It wraps around the grip more. The left glove usually get replaced for wear. The right glove usually gets replaced because of grossness or it's become too loose. At the end of a round, I put the gloves on the velcro glove tab on my bag so they can air dry. In the garage I lay them out on a shelf.
  7. I use Western Birch wood tees. I push them into the ground deeper than they need to be and then pull them up to the proper height. If the ground is really hard, I'll wiggle them around a bit to loosen the hole. They tend to pull out instead of breaking when I do that. Tees will last several rounds. Usually I stop using them because the head is beat. I rarely snap the shank.
  8. I never start a round with a new ball. If I do, I will lose it on the first tee shot. This is especially true if it's an expensive ball and my preferred ball is pricey. Off the first tee, I need a ball that has experience finding the fairway. I'll put a new ball into play after the 2nd or 3rd hole, when my driver has calmed down and can help a new ball stay in play. That being said, I will play a ball until it is scuffed or dead. So as long as I don't pull a new ball on the first tee, a ball will last for 4 to 6 rounds before I pass it on to my kids. They are 10 and 11 years old and are experts at releasing balls into the wild (thank God for Kirkland balls...).
  9. Zivl3

    Bucket Hats

    I have a Shelta hat. They are made with wind in mind. They come in a number of brim sizes so you can get as much or as little coverage as you want. They have a stiff insert at the front of the brim so it doesn't flap around in the wind. The strap has a clip and there is a loop at the back of the hat so you can clip it out of the way when you don't need it. Or, the strap is also removable so you can take it off completely and reattach it when you need it. It also has a draw-string adjustment, so you can make it fit perfectly.
  10. Watching my kids (11 and 8 years old) I noticed that they were swinging "at" the ball. Now, as I help them set up to the ball, the last thing I say to them is "don't swing at the ball, swing through the ball". That thought really smooths their swing and gets them thinking about sending it toward their target.
  11. I bought a Sync earlier this year because I'm playing with my kids (9 and 11 years old) a lot and wanted extra storage to haul extra stuff for them too. It's big, but not tour bag big. We go through a lot of balls now (thank God for Kirkland balls), but still that ball pocket is excessively huge. It would be nice to trade off some of that space for more cooler pocket size. It's hard to get 3 drink bottles in there. I agree with the comment about the sharp bottom edge of the putter pocket. The bottom of my putter grip is also sharp edge and, even if I'm careful, it always catches on the frame when I pull out my putter. I use Golf Pride CPX mid-size grips and they still fit into the small-ish corner club pockets. I use the velour lined valuables pocket for my phone. It's perfect for that. I wish there was a handle at the bottom of the front of the bag. It would help with loading it onto my cart or into the trunk of my car. Also, as others have mentioned, the strap slots do not line up with the straps on the back of a golf cart. They are perfect for my push cart, which I use 95% of the time anyway. Overall, I'm happy with the bag and have no regrets buying it. I wish I could say the same about the Ping Hoofer I bought recently.
  12. I never gave top line appearance much thought until I demo'd a Hogan PTx PRO. Everytime I looked down at the club at address the top of the club looked really chunky and industrial. That was not what I was expecting at all. I ended up not really getting along with the club and sent it back. I'm not saying the top line influenced my opinion of the performance of the club, but that heavy-looking top line is all that I remember about it. Similarly, I'm not a fan of how SGI clubs look at address either. They look like hockey sticks and they have a big top line. A friend plays Miura baby blades. Those are intimidating but that's due to the toe-heel length.
  13. Putting mats are good for working on your stroke. Put a line on your ball and try to hit it straight. They don't help you with speed or the ability to read a green. I have yet to find a putting mat that plays at the same speed as a real green. I have a birdie ball put up mat and that is better at simulating a real green because it has that wedge that slows the putt. Plus, how often do you get a flat putt? I have 3 launch monitors: a PRGR, a SC200 and a Skytrak. The Skytrak was heinously expensive, relatively speaking, but it's awesome. The other two are ok, especially if you are hitting on a range. But if you are hitting into a net, you won't get feedback on how far offline you are hitting. I have a net and mat set up in my garage. With the Skytrak, I can pop out to the garage for an hour and work on my swing. It would take me that long just to drive back and forth to the nearest driving range. Lessons are great, but a couple hundred dollars isn't going to get a lot of instruction. For the cost of the Skytrak, you could get some meaningful instruction but you still need to put in the time outside the lesson to make anything learned stick. Spending the money on more golf would be fun and would make a great birthday present, especially if you play at a bucket-list course. My 60th b-day is in a couple of weeks and that's what I'm going to do. Anyway, my vote went to the launch monitor.
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