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Wow I also play a Positive putter but the blade style with the shaft in the heal. You are the first person on here that I have seem playing a Positive putter. Like you I don't need another putter I can vary speeds just by where on the face I play the putt.

I play a lot of golf with strangers on weekend because I work at the club. I can't make a morning time on weekends but can pick up. I am very pro music. I think it needs to be one sound not dueling carts. I play a combo of Motown and soft rock via pandora. I always ask first and if anyone seems put off I just pop on ear piece in and listen privately. One ear for the group and I can pause the music with a touch in my ear.

Thank You! So far so good. Started with golf and shot 68. Next up dinner and maybe sex tonight to complete the trifecta

Wow, my custom fitted Positive Putter is perfect for me. I think the best putter is the Ping putter that everyone copied. For me the KZG forged III were the best irons cavity backs ever made. I had three sets over 20 years and would still play them if I could get new sets. I think the Miura baby blades 1957 are the best irons I every hit. I don't own any game improvement irons so I don't know. Wedges: If I can only have one it would be Renegar wedges because there sole design is so versatile. The favorite wedges now illegal would be the Cleveland CG12 RTG DSG wedges with square groves were awesome. I just don't believe any one wedge is great for all wedge shots. Titleist TSR 3 driver is the best of my golf life. Fairway wood? Hybrids?

I was referring to comfortable playing range. I know that if I hit my 9 iron I am comfortable hitting it from 125 to 135 just by feel ie pace of swing. I can vary my shot distance with my swing speed and length. My yardage ranges for each club overlap. I think everyone does it but they rarely acknowledge the range for each club. People say things like I'm going to have to lean on this one or knock it down. I just keep track of those distances by tracking them. It's super helpful to know an average 9 iron stock will go 128 to 130 but if I need to hit to a front pin at 132 I have that with room to spare. Everyone I know does it but few have tracked it to know for sure what they can pull off a shot bringing anxiety into the shot.

Fozcycle, it is great to see you use a range of yardages I really don't understand the mentality of having a single yardage number for a club in their heads. I play a 7-10 yard range with each club.

I play 4 degrees of loft from the top of my bag to the bottom. It is a predictable distance gap. Having the same feel from the shafts is key as well. I do play wedge flex shafts which don't match my irons. I prefer them. I play different brands of wedges because each offers me something different when I play. For my two cents the bigger the gap the more you often you have in between yardages to hit. If you have great feel you can do anything with your wedges. If you don't, smaller gaps leave less feel shots.

I play Win DriTec wrap grips, because I can never find gloves that fit my size 20 ring fingers. They are very soft and I need to change the high usage clubs about every 25 round because my left thumb wears a whole in the surfaces. What I have found that helps on sweaty days is rosin. I get a new rosin bag every other year. The rosin dries sweat like baby powder but is taki on the grip.

The three brands I like the best are Good Good, Primo and Bill Murray. They are not cheap. That said before I switched to these most of my polos were about 10 years old. Buying high quality stuff lasts. Link Soul has the best shorts, Board Walker AC shorts are incredible!

Wow, over the years I have tried so many products based on Spy reviews. To many to list. Many were very helpful in there time. The one that is still in my bag many years later (replaced in kind several times) is my Renegar 58* wedge. It is the most versatile wedge I have found. I have had several friends try it and buy it. A few moths ago they had a half price sale and I grabbed 3 more. I also play a Taylormade MG3 in the TM grind bent to 54 instead of the Vokey 54* I played for years and I love it. My gap wedge is a Cleveland CBX and has been since I read your review on the cavity back wedges when they first came out I had to try them they still have that spot in my bag. I played KZG irons for nearly 20 years but when I read Tony's Miura 501 review I went for a fitting and fell in love. They were great until my vision issues from getting older made me mishit to many balls on those tiny faces and I gave them up. I have played many drivers over the years that I may not have tried but for the Spy reviews. Most were great and only two were pure misses for me. Now I fit or I don't buy. I have tried many different balls I read about here. Snell spent a season in my bag when you first reviewed them and they were nice but I switched to Bridgestone B330 Rx for the lower compression as I got older. I moved to Callaway Chrome soft and loved them until find it cut it made me realize sometimes there was a ball I couldn't hit straight, and when I lost it my straight ball was back. The Pro V1 went into the bag from Ball labs. I have gone back to the lower compression ball because they are longer with my irons and straighter with my driver. After lot's of testing between the Pro V1 & X, Srixon Z Star divide and because of the ball lab I tried the Tour Response too and It went in the bag in the end. (need to update my signature). I use the Rooster gloves and have purchased most of my golf shoes based on data what I have read here. Same goes for my bags over the years. I also like to look at the WITB of the writers, It is note worthy that these Lady & Gents play what they play with all the data they crunch! Lot's of Pxg & Titleist in bags and even more Srixon. In closing I had to learn that Data driven info from the Spy is just like advertising for me. I need to get fit before spending big money on gear this data is gathered from a group of golfers and I have no idea if they are influenced by young bombers while I am older. They do the best they can. I would love to see the data based on the individual testers charted like in the early days with name age handicap, swing speed and what club was best for them. I know in the old day you had a tester named Dan who had my same swing speed and I would que in on his data and I was super helpful. I know you do fast, med and slow results and that is helpful, I just miss being able to zero in on the individual data streams you have collected.

31 years in the army CW-5

Never. I go commando

I played a lot at a course that has now closed. General's Ridge was a well named. They had a par five that had a drive down to the water then a long uphill carry to a severely slopped green. It was two teres. The course had a sign up on the hill behind the green when I first began playing there that said "Three Putt Max local rule!" I saw many putts struck uphill to hard that then curled around the cup and fell back to jump into the bunker. There were two good hole areas, one on the top shelf and one on the bottom right front. The way we played it was to blast it to the green and make par after 3 putts. Missing the green meant boggy.

After taking on a big task for my pro he paid me back with some new PXG Gen 6 Black irons with Accra 70i shafts. I had them bent to 4 degree gaps starting at 46* because that is what I have played for the the last 20 years. I think these me be the sexiest looking irons I have ever seen and the feel is to die for. The fitting experience from PXG was awesome. I was playing Gen 3 irons from my previous fitting at Club Champion. The 6 added yards on average is nice and the overall playability of these irons are awesome!

Depends on the pitching wedges loft. I like 4* between wedges. My pitching wedge is 46* so 50* then 54* and 58*. If I had 44* pitching wedge like many sets today come I would plat 48*, 52*, 56* and 60*.

Now that the USGA has gone to bifurcating the ball their reason for taking belly putters away is gone. Look into a belly putter if you are looking for a change. They said we couldn't have them because the pros gained to much of an advantage. So they no longer have any credibility around that rule. Just take it from the pros like the ball rollback! You should be able to find one one ebay to try or in some golf shops back room.

I got to play two different test balls last year in the Titleist blind test. I fell in love with one of the two balls. Titleist never told us what the balls were. Many people said the the one I loved was the Pro V1 Left Dot. It was the straightest ball I have ever played, it was long too. Around the greens it played like a regular Pro V1. Sadly the left dot balls are nearly impossible to get.

Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting by Elton John

These days I need an hour to get ready.

I start with a gap wedge for 3 to 5 balls then move to a p wedge for 3 balls and hit 3 with every club up to 6 iron. I hit a couple drivers to find my groove. I then move to green side for some wedge work and putts.

Good Good is my favorite. Bob Does Sports and Busta Jack are my tier 2. I love to watch them because they are funny and it helps me relax. I don't really watch them for lessons/how to. I watch reviews some times but I am looking for something specific and don't really care who it is doing the review. I have watched the Brits in the early years but they talk to much now and golf to little for me sometimes. I also like the Bryan Bros.

I worked really hard to hit the ball straight. I feel that anything that move less than 3 yards either way is straight. I like to flight the ball high or low and do on many shots. When I try to move it more than that I can hook and slice or hit a mild fade or draw. I don't keep score from November to Mid March and during that time I test equipment and how to hit draws & fades and hooks & slices. Sometimes I will play a left to right ball flight for every shot and the next day the opposite. I have also played knock down shots all day. I love to hit a big variety of wedge shots. I have been as low as plus 3 but that was many miles ago for this OG. Having ownership of the shots I choose to play a Straight Ball Flight as much as I can because it is the most reliable. The more you spin a ball left or right the more the flight is effected by the wind. My straight ball bounces once and stops 75% of the time and rarely over two bounces. I like the predictability of yardages with these shots, I would rather be pin high because I can control the distances straight than curve it closer to the hole and run off the green.

Before I was first fit, everything I hit fell right at the end of the flight. I went for the fitting and the fitter asked me after I had warmed in the interview phase. Is that your normal ball flight? Do you just fade all your irons? I said I yes. He took measurements of my hands, then from the ground to the base of my thumb. He checked other things too like the specs of my clubs, length, weights and lie angles. He gave me a club to try. Then a few few more. I had no lessons. I needed 2* upright and 1/2" longer with oversized grips. I needed I shaft with a different kick point and the same flex but a lower torc. When I got the new clubs my ball flight became dead straight and a good high trajectory. I dropped 5 strokes without any lessons. Sometimes what you are doing wrong is playing with the wrong clubs.

I have tried the Stability shaft after getting fit for a putter. It does what it is supposed to do. It keeps the putter face from deflecting to much on off center hits in the toe. It won't make you a better putter. It can't help with the read. I won't help you match the line to the pace. Keep in mind the PGA Tour average from 8 feet is less than 50% in any given week. I sold that putter to my buddy and he loves it. I went back to my putter that I've bagged for 20 years and stopped expecting to putt better than the pros. I work on 30 foot lags and 3-5 footers. There is a lot to be said for playing the same putter for a long time. You really get a feel for how it rolls.

Stay with the spikes. The 270s are not that comfortable.