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What I will say is the fitting I had was my first ever touching the Ai Smoke Max D - first used my own driver to warm up for some "before" numbers and then the first set of hits with the Smoke and being an ball striking as shown by the pressure tape on the face of the driver and even making my own slight adjustment on address seemed to find that part of the club face even when setting up a half inch to inch in the direction that should have then been a center of face contact. Mental thing I am sure but I am aware of it now so...

We do a lot of sharing in The Good Morning Thread and similar threads like the Good Evening Thread started by ErinB with many times heartfelt things said and limited responses of : so when someone posts about a health whatever and intentions of support is the obvious response, the available selection is missing. What I suggest the making the Dove icon available as it expresses hope, kindness, and any number of similar attributes. It is literally all I respond to on social media when someone announces the passing of a loved one. It is all that seems to capture the thoughts that words are inadequate for. Just saying, would be good to not LIke someone's upcoming procedure or apply any of the other currently available icons .

Good morning MGSpies from wet cool WNY on this community call eve Wednesday with coffee ready to go and work computer up on the network already on this zero commute workday had a good day in the office yesterday buzzing on the announcement for testing the Callaway Smoke Driver and finally able to tell people After work, a few dangerous-crazy drivers on the commute to the golf course had me take an alternate route and arrived safely with them forgotten before I parked the vehicle. Once season pass was in hand, headed out after a 5-some (they happen at Caz when there's few others playing) that were at least a full hole ahead of me when Justin @just52887 caught up to me after his workday and we only waited for the 5-some on the 3rd green to clear, and clear they did leaving the course under threat of rain. We got in the full 9 with rain only beginning to arrive finishing up 8 for another round in the sub-80 minute pace - today might make 3 in a row! Hope golf is a part of your day 35

Discussion in other threads have pointed out that there are a number of testers attending the 2024 MyGolfSpy Forum Meetup at Kingsmill Resort and I think it would be something to add to whatever matrix is being wrangled to keep track of all the characters members who will be attending - adding a column for what product is currently being tested or has already been tested in 2024. It would probably be overload to include all the products that each overachiever member attending has tested since joining the forum, but if the array of new equipment for this year was to just happen to appear and be showcased at one of the inevitable whole group gatherings, that would be a testament to the service and dedication put forth by the lucky fortunate members present at the meetup. Put Ryan @Berg Ryman and me down for the Callaway Smoke Driver just announced today!

As informed forum followers know , tester announcements are now done after the testing pool is committed to the test and requirements are met to start moving forward to having the product ordered. This test required a driver fitting as part of the agreement each tester accepted, as is fitting for something of this level. (see what I did there?) Details will assuredly be forthcoming but what happened at my driver fitting was ... ... just know that I cannot wait for "the unboxing," for "the initial impressions" and for "the real testing" to begin!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning MGSpies from a dark downtown parking spot by the office building for the next opportunity to be all I can be, at least that's what I did for 30 years, and will Télépopmisik's Breathe on Pandora and coffee hot in the mug just getting my mind around the announcement of the Callaway Smoke Driver testers and getting to test the Max D model Played 9 holes yesterday on the now open for the season Cazenovia GC in South Buffalo with regular Justin @just52887 in beautiful cool sunshine needing only 80 minutes to finish. Hope golf is a part of your day 36

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Good morning MGSpies from almost frosty but not! WNY on this middle Monday of April and with the outdoors sorted for springtime it looks like a good day for 9 holes after the workday ends work computer going online for the zero commute workday and the basement command post feels warmer today so that to me is proof of Spring has finally arrived in these here parts coffee soon to make its debut and then off to the salt mines, hope golf is a part of your day! 37

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What I know as fact: if you read and understand what is written in this thread: I have no doubt that you will be chosen as a tester with all the testing that is going on this year. Just get yourself in a position to be one of the preferred forum members to be chosen. Testing is not just getting free equipment because you can get it. We do have people with low post counts who get chosen for testing and on occasion someone will receive the whateveritis and we never hear from them again. That behavior hurts the community and shows that disreputable "anonymous" people will volunteer to be a tester who then renege on their responsibility and violate the trust placed on them taking what was given, making their action theft of the product. I have been chosen for 5 tests, completed all requirements that were expected of being a tester for all 5 products, and with the need for testers this year can expect to be chosen again. I have a photo on my profile, I post regularly and respond to others that proves involvement in the forum community, and by writing as much as I do, it is well understood what kind of test review will be provided when the testing of the product is complete. So quick comparison: how does your presence in the forum compare to mine? Or to others who have been chosen to test more than once? Try this: Follow the guidelines and see what happens, I'm looking forward to seeing the posts you make and recommend looking at The Good Morning Thread which is perhaps the most popular thread now on the Forum. Here's a link to the just posted latest message there: Great question and thanks for the opportunity to respond. We are as diverse a community as any but you will find the forum participants are the kind of people you would want to associate with because we keep it real without getting rude or obnoxious.

Good morning MGSpies from a still chilly but the sun is threatening to break through WNY where this was what was outside just 3 years ago. Today is getting the winter critter fencing in the yard stowed for the summer and getting the first cut of the lawn as yesterday ended up not just showery but some of that white stuff was in the air too, thank goodness the surfaces were too warm for it to stick. All the concern of cold and white stuff is suddenly tempered by @Rob Person's comment about blood sucking vermin that I share the aversion of @Dead Solid Bogey and @sirchunksalot and you know what? I'm good with putting on hat, gloves and heavy jacket to do the yardwork today Hope golf is a part of your day and it's now only 38

MyGolfSpouse learned to drive stick when she fell in love with a 1982 silver and black Dodge Charger 2.2 and it only took her a few minutes to discover the joy of manual transmission. That vehicle was driven into the ground and literally died arriving at a dealership to take possession of a1995 green 4-door Suzuki Sidekick stick with 4WD manual locking front hubs. That vehicle lasted just over a year and was t-boned in a hazardous intersection but it saved my wife who was carrying our daughter born 6 months later, the Suzuki replaced by a 1997 white 2-door Ford Explorer V6 with overdrive stick and selectable low range with auto locking hubs. The Ford suffered rustbelt rot over the 10 years we had it replaced by a Ford Fusion she tolerated because it did not have a stick and neither did the leased Chevy's, Equinox and Trax that replaced it when the Fusion became my son's car. When son was looking to buy his own Ford Bronco Sport, and his sister was already liking the Chevy Trax, he easily swayed his mom to look at the Subaru Crosstrek available in a manual transmission and full time 4WD as all Subarus are. That is her current vehicle that took very little time for her to get used to the clutch pedal again. And she only forgot once to shift into gear after turning off the motor and found it in the street minutes later - claims she just doesn't have the arm strength to put the hand brake on hard enough to stop it rolling but truth is if she does pull it on that hard, she can't release it again. My bane to driving stick: I learned to drive standard transmission as it was called then, in Driver's Ed in a brand new 1978 Dodge Aspen 2-door, owned a '85 Plymouth Volare station wagon with 318 V8 with 4spd OD stick, for years drove all manner of US Army vehicles, and then there was the '97 Explorer. I had driven the Volare towing my Catalina 22 sailboat on it's trailer to Mt Desert Island, ME (before I ever met my wife) for vacation - launched and sailed out of Southwest Harbor - and on the way home got into stop and go traffic on I-95 heading towards NH clutching in and out of 1st gear. My knee was on fire with the effort and I had to get off the interstate and used the Mohawk Trail to keep from blowing my knee out. The clutch pedal range on the Explorer was so similar to the Volare's that I could only clutch about 20 times before I could no longer push the clutch to shift. It became the vehicle I could not drive for most of the years we owned it. The Crosstrek thankfully gives me no such discomfort. I have always loved the direct control of power to the drive wheels with a stick and I know it is not supposed to be done but knocking it out of gear on a downhill is an amazing way to get great gas mileage though a policeman friend of mine once observed me doing it and I got a lecture for the next many miles lol

Good morning MGSpies from the suburbs of Rochester enjoying a brunch with my son doing a drop off and pickup for things needed at his RIT apartment and our house. Had a great fitting yesterday and learned facts about my swing and ball striking that was pleasantly surprising and the only thing that would have been better was a tee at the in between "gap" height apparently that I use. Should be getting outside when I get home to start taming the grass back into the appearance of a lawn, and hope golf is a part of your day 39

I think this is an option to moving your garage door opener unit.

Good morning MGSpies from the calm before the rains start again early on this Friday in WNY where the coffee is almost ready and work computer is going onto the network from the zero commute to underground central where I'm having the same kind of start Jason @sirchunksalot had and I don't know why the delay in getting started either, but community call was awesome yesterday with holes 3 through 9 shared from my phone camera (just not so good on keeping up with all of the discussion but I manage) and today I'm going to have a new experience getting a club fitting, heard lots about them but my first so hold me down!! Hope golf is a part of your day too! 40

Oh what a feeling to be on the Community Call again from a golf course! seems like forever since I last joined a call from last year's regular course Elma Meadows GC along Buffalo Creek. Today was from my old regular course Cazenovia GC along Cazenovia Creek in South Buffalo bordering my town of West Seneca. That "stream" in the UK would be called a "river" and that ball under the tree was 2 feet from escaping like @Yellow Ball off for a swim down a 20 foot high and steep embankment. And you got it right I am trying to get back to my 20 handicap before Kingsmill AND trying to train the clubs and balls to miss the unplayable parts of the course! Thanks Jason! I'm always thinking of you when I connect in from a golf course to give you at least one vicarious round a week to be out there with me and 40 days tomorrow until we get to do it for real at Kingsmill

Good morning MGSpies on Community Call Thursday from the wet springtime April showers of WNY eagerly awaiting the announcement of whateveritis Jamie @GolfSpy_APH has whetted the appetite for, as if Matt's @GolfSpy SAM birthday isn't reason enough to be thrilled, wait that is a trifecta Looking forward to seeing many of you friends on the call later on and possibly from the "fairways" as it is still a transformation process from park to golf course where I usually play, hope golf is a part of your day! 41

Each of the 17 sections has a slightly different focus and mine is the Western NY PGA Section covering an area that stretches from Erie PA to Rochester NY and from northern PA to Lake Ontario, a rather large piece of NY State on the western end and northwestern PA. Pay attention to the threads and use the search function, there are places in the forum that do look at courses wherever MGS Forum posters live, which really is worldwide. If your Section offers something called Down Range Days, it is a follow on program to HOPE for HOPE graduates and it needs to be well used by graduates or it could be pulled back by National for lack of perceived need as it was piloted here and we could not get more than a 50% response to fill available "free golf" tees, believe it or not. Hope your area does better with retaining graduates for additional free golf experiences.

Hello @RomanG welcome into the forum and The Good Morning Thread - I have the PGA HOPE logo in my signature as I graduated the program in 2018 and keep volunteering. Are you looking to participate in the program or have you already participated?

Good morning MGSpies from 'it's already getting light out and definitely springtime' in WNY on this day before the Community Call, work computer going online and starting the workday from the zero commute to the basement command center. Got in 9 holes yesterday in sunshine, still Caz park with nice greens as the fairways are far from ready but did run into longtime friend and played 5 holes together before he had to leave. Rain in the forecast due to arrive soon today and again on Friday so might be taking everyone for a vicarious view on the call tomorrow for the first time this year. Hope golf is a part of your day 42 And welcome! Jessica @Jessica Adams to the forum and a great place to start on the Good Morning Thread too! Hope to see your good morning's more often as well as posts around the forum where I am sure you are going to find this a family kind of friendly the way we all enjoy it being as it has always been.

Good morning MGSpies from the downtown parking spot by the office building with Rameses B's Footprints (one of the best 2:43 songs IMHO) on Pandora and coffee in the mug enjoying the first light of day, thinking about Jason's @sirchunksalot low pressure and lower stress to remain calm with his day. Played Caz park again yesterday and this time they had been working at changing the parkland back to golf course cutting fairways on the far side of the creek but still just a good short rough length, good exercise with golf and a starting point for 2024 and getting ready for Kingsmill. Hope to do it again today. Hope golf is a part of your day too 44

Good morning MGSpies from 'it's finally springtime in WNY to stay' on this third Monday of April (hope the US spies have their taxes done!) and the day my municipal course is supposed to open but from all accounts they will be busy with the mowers turning parkland grass into fairways, manicuring the first and second cuts around greens, putting in tee box fixtures etc. Tee time temps this afternoon if they happen will be mid 50s and tomorrow low 60s before wet weather settles in for the rest of the week. Work computer just going onto the online network, coffee should be ready upstairs on this zero commute workday, and the dehumidifier is running constantly for white noise that's singing a duet with the sound always ringing in my head - should be an awesome day Hope your favorites did well in the Masters, my pool pics did not but I did my usual random pick so... the weekend was still awesome with last Veteran curling day for this season and curled some awesome stones to move my team from tied bottom of C Flight to winning B Flight , and inlaws treated us to dinner for wife's b-day later this week - and got my son's first USAJobs application submitted - all in one day! Hope golf is a part of your day 44

Good morning MGSpies from 'the rains have moved past with thunder an hour ago' WNY with sunshine (hello sun!) filling in now the front has passed on this Masters final day Sunday The Resurgence/OnCore kickoff yesterday was amazing as always Today's Veteran event is the last of the season for the Veteran Rockers at Buffalo Curling Club to finish day 2 of 2 for the tournament that should see my team dead last (just like my MGS Masters Pools - yes both of them lol) but like with golf it doesn't matter at all because it is the doing and being included that means more than anything else. Hope golf is part of your day 45 And I noticed a new forum member also in the Buffalo area, welcome in and maybe I will see you at Caz/South Park/Delaware or any number of other courses around the area! (those three as I will have the Olmstead Conservatory Parks season pass again this year) Derek

Good morning MGSpies from an it's the Masters on masters.com and I can't get up to post on the forum (until now) Saturday morning in WNY - and commiserate with Jamie as my MGS Masters Pool bid is like the time writing this, 1042 and how many are in the pool? I think I can dispense with the acceptance speech that was going to be so perfect Noontime today is the co-sponsored fundraising for Veteran Golf in WNY re-release of the Smash Factor IPA by Resurgence Brewery and OnCore Golf downtown - will be representing as a HOPE Graduate and persistent volunteer. Would love to have MGS forum friends join me for watching Masters on the big screens and all the fun that is the annual kickoff that includes presentation of the collected proceeds from the past year. Break in the rain is only a tease as it is forecast to continue until tomorrow evening and it is 40 with gusty winds outside right now. Hope golf is a part of your day 46

Good morning MGSpies from a soggy rain for the rest of the weekend but springtime WNY on this last day of the workweek. Coffee is hitting the spot on the zero commute in basement command center where the dehumidifier has been running nearly constantly since yesterday and the sump sounds like Niagara Falls' little buddy. Conference call was great as usual and glad to see so many on interacting, also glad to hear Chuck @cksurfdude got his thermostat repaired (and that friend is one to keep!). Great looking profile pic @MattF and love the Aussi twist Tomorrow if anyone is in the WNY and Buffalo area, not intended as a plug for the brand but for the fundraising for Veteran golf it is, Resurgence Brewery on Chicago Street is again releasing for the 2024 summer season their Smash Factor IPA in partnership with OnCore Golf with a portion of the purchase price going to PGA HOPE program of the Western NY PGA section as shown on each can label. This is the 3rd year of the event and dedicated support to local Veteran golf I volunteer for that really does make a difference in Veteran's lives, kicks off at noon and if anyone does venture in, I will be glad to spend the time with you! Hope golf is a part of your day 47