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The top of my bag is the most recent change. I replaced my fairway wood to a 16.5 TSI, I also changed my hybrids to both 4 and 5 to TSI. I changed all three because I can set them to upright like my TSR driver. Now the only thing in my bag that is open to be changed is the Ball. I am playing both the Srixon z star divide and the 2023 Pro V1 Pending a month of testing.

Thanks, I thought it was primarily about the yardage books showing you the best way to play each hole. I guess I need to go and try the free trial to get a better understanding. Maybe You tube first.

I have been very interested in the Decades golf system. I play most of my golf on about 5 courses. Is Decades a system that you can just buy just one course at a time or is it an annual thing?

I have had several knee surgeries and only walk when cart path only. Walking adds about 5 strokes to my round.

I joined back in the early years when you just had a handful of testers and showed data for each of them in each test. The data was not as useful overall but for me it was great because you had a tester named Dan that had similar swing speed and age as me. I liked the way you told it like you saw it and screw the manufacture if they were full of crap. I think that many of the companies stopped sticking there subpar off year junk on the market. I have found companies I would never have found on my own. Find it cut it may have changed the ball market forever. I donate because I believe in what I get from the site.

Mizuno ST-X 220 +19.74YARDS +14.49%ACCURACY ALDILA ASCENT RED 50 STIFF The yardages and info were almost exactly what I get with my TSR 3

I work at a course in No Va. part time and received a TSR 3 driver for payment of same menu writing I did for the club. I will be very slow to pay over $500 for the minor gains that are left to be had. The TSR is well worth having because it is so forgiving and now that I have it I don't see much more gains to be had for me.

The only thing is I hit every club he taped in the order they were lined up on the wall.

He had all the clubs pre-taped and lined up for me based on our pre-fitting interview the day before. He gave me no feedback until we were done. I was giving him my feedback. We went through the clubs in the order they were on the wall he changed nothing. I had clubs in the beginning that I liked and hated same randomly all the way through. Each club had a number on the tape, if I liked it it went on the table by the fitter and if not it went back to the wall. I liked some blades and cavity backs. I had no game improvement irons in the mix. Some were forged some were cast. Was it a perfectly blind fitting? I don't know, but it was just what I needed.

I have had a pure blind iron fitting down to the fitter taped over the backs of the irons. We had it over two days about 2 hours the first and one hour the second. I ended up with the straightest irons ever and played them until the grooves wore out. I hit 3-5 five shots and said like or dislike. He had all the info on his sceen I could see none of it as I hit. If I mishit it I told him toe or heel or heavy. We got to my top 10 the first day. When I came in the next day we quickly dropped that number to 5. He bent them two degrees upright to give them all the proper lie and then I got to 3 clubs and couldn't tell them apart. He said all three had great dispersion for yardage and scatter. He pulled the tape and two were the same club with different finishes KZG ZO and the third was the MP52. At the time I had never heard of either brand so I took the KZG because it was there twice. I would highly recommend having the screen off when fitting because you will be more inclined to just make your normal stroke. The numbers coming up on the screen often just make us over hit trying to reach numbers we like to see. It's only natural to compete with yourself for the longest shots. When I went to get fit 2 years ago I had the fitter turn off the screen after just a few shot with my driver because I was overswinging and hitting it everywhere but straight and I normally hit it very straight. All discussions were kept to my norms and what I was looking for until the end. Then he revealed all the data and told me what he thought I would do the best with. My driver stayed the same but the shaft changed. I replaced that this year but kept the same shaft. He fit me to a three and five fairway but I wasn't really hitting them at my home course so the five only goes in the trunk for longer courses. The irons are still going strong. The wedges have all been replaced but that was for wear. The putter is in my friends bag and he loves it! I went back to the custom putter I should never have changed out of in the first place, but I won a full bag fitting so full bag it was. Kill the screen in front of you and you will be pleased at the end.

I am assuming, since it was implied in your choice of a TRS 3, which was in released in 2022, that we may choose from any companies newest offerings. So here I go: Titleist TSR 3 10* Callaway Paradym 16.5* PXG Gen 5 4 & 5 Hybrids PXG Gen 5 311p black irons 6-P Cleveland CBX 6 full face 50 wedge Taylormade Full face High Toe 54/14 & 58/10 LA Golf Putter Srixzon Z Star Divide Ball

Fun topic! I have changed my golf life by taking a new job last year. I have been as low as a plus 2.4 handicap when I owned my restaurant. I worked primarily nights and played up to 5 days a week then. I now play only on weekends because of my work schedule and my handicap has climbed up to 2.4. I work for the school system and have summers off. During the summer I can get my handicap back down to about scratch. I know that the more I play the better I score. My confidence in my yardages goes up, my feel for wedge shots gets much better and I putt like I own the hole because my pace control is very strong when I play more.

New TSR 3 is strait and safe. Rogue 3 wood is safe. Rogue 4 & 5 hybrids are safe. 0311P gen 3 irons 6-P are safe. Rtx 50* could be updated to the newer model come mid year if the grooves get worn. Tiger grind 56* bent to 54* is safe. Renegar 58* is safe. Smart sole chipper 46* could yield back to the Rogue 3 Hybrid, both have held this spot on an off during the last season. Two years ago I went through a full bag fitting and changed from a custom putter I used for 15 years to a Scotty putter with a special shaft and paid a small fortune for it. That lasted four months. I took it back and they gave me my money back and put me in a Bettinardi putter that I played for six months. Both putters made me feel good to own but the lost me money on missed putts. I returned to the custom Positive Putter and be hold I was making money with my putter nobody ever heard of and It is never coming out of my bag again! It is like a heavy putter 380g but balanced toe up like an Edel putter and has a 303 stainless head. I am gaming the Z Star Divide and will switch to the Pro V1 left dot if I can get them because when I played it in the blind test I fell in Love but can't get them. The Z Star is a nice ball and the divide is fun to putt and easy to id.

It depends on the pin. A back pin, I would play the shorter club and cover the front of the green and take going long out of the picture. A front pin, I would take the longer club and choke down an inch taking short off the table and play to the middle. Middle pin, I would make sure I cover the front with ease with the shorter club or won't risk going off the back with the longer club, if both apply I play the shorted club because it is easier to hit flush. In all cases I play a normal swing and take the longer putt over a higher risk of mishitting.

To have fun by shooting low

This is a fun thread. I was a totally biased golfer in my early years. I had a huge change in the nineties. I was playing in an old CC that had a very active men's group. They ran weekend skins for over 80 guys. I was a hacker but also a very good athlete. I shot in the nineties some eighties. I started practicing at the chipping green when waiting to join a group because the club had no tee time on weekdays just first come first serve member play. My game improved all at once from this practice. I also started playing with a regular group and got put with the best player in the club, most didn't want to play with him because he had a quirky routine before every shot. One evening I decide to chase a few laughs and started to mimic him. I shot my best score ever that day breaking 90 with an 85. The club pro was playing in our group and suggested I should be playing forged clubs. I laughed. I continued to follow his routine and continued to score better just as the club match play tournament began. I made it to the finals against the man I mimicked and he was going to have to give me 11 strokes. My game had drastically improved but my handicap hadn't adjusted to show it yet. He was pissed about the strokes and lost more than I won. The prize was a $1000 at a local golf shop that was going out of business in 3 months. I went in to get clubs and told the fitter I was a brand hoar and that the pro told me I should be playing forged irons. He laughed and told me If I paid him $100 buck for the fitting (unheard of back then) he would make sure I got the best irons for my swing. He tapped over the back of all the iron heads. I really had my heart set on Titleist irons like all the best players at our club. I hit clubs and told him after 3 swings, keep or pitch. We got down to a top 5. He had me come back the next day so I would be fresh. I got down to the final 3 and couldn't tell them apart. Two were the same club with a different finish, the KZG ZO and the third was the MP-52. We worked on shaft next and I ended up with a graphite shaft and the KZG ZO blades, because there were two of them out of the three. I had never heard of KZG or Mizuno for that matter but the both felt awesome. Since that day I will play whatever clubs fit me the best. I improved by 5 strokes a round after the fitting. I do think the shafts in clubs matter allot not just for weight and feel but flex, kick point, torc and loading really really effect ball flight and dispersion. I think a smooth swing and temp player can hit anything and make it work but the best players in the world play the shaft and head combo that lets them flight the ball the way they want. I play 7 different brands in my bag and they all have earned their spot. (8 if you count the ball) I don't care about companies ads for good or bad feelings. For those of you that diss PXG as gimmicky I would ask why did so many club makers copy what they had done with their irons? I play mine at the same lofts as my Miura's and KZG before them and the feel just as good. I won't say just get fit and trust no matter what because my last fitter miswrote my order and I ended up with 2* flat instead of 2* upright, that brought 7 months of painful and baddd play. I got that fixed and love the clubs now.

I play a big variety: Titleist driver Callaway 3 wood and hybridss PXG irons Cleveland gap wedge Taylormade sand wedge Renegar lob wedge Positive Putter P2 custom putter Srixon z star divide

I would jump on this if it were two weeks later when school gets out.

I love mine for those shot five feet to the fringe that I can just put with it. It is unreal how many I make with the chipper. I play 58*, 54* and 50* plus the chipper. I have p-6 irons, 4 & 5 hybrids and am deciding between 3, 4 or 5 wood to gap to my driver. I like all three woods and may just keep them all in my car and bag the one that suits the shots I may need for the courses I am playing. The 5 wood will get the nod at my home course for two tee shots.

What loft smart sole do you play? I play the 46* and love it around the green. I also use it for escaping trees and shiit lies but trust my wedges for most shots.

Wow, I play better when I am focused on the process of each shot. Sometimes that happens when I am playing for fun and working on my game or more often when I am helping a friend with their game. Talking through the thought process of each shot before hitting it. If someone asks me to help them with their game I will normally talk them through my decision process of each of my shots and ask them about theirs. When I do this I play my best golf. I have set all my best scores in this situation to include a 62 at Kingsmill (River course from the Blues). I knew I was playing well but my friend was keeping the score and didn't tell me until we were done. When I play for big money, $500-$1000 a side, which is rare I basically go through the same process. I only attack pins if I'm on my number with a short club. I play aggressively to the part of the green with the least risk. I trust my ability to get up and down aggressively with a wedge and I trust my lag putting to keep making pars until a scoring chance presents itself. Most importantly I strategize the hole from the green back to the tee before hitting the tee shot. Example: At Kingsmill I played both the 9th and 15th holes by laying up to about 80 yards with the best angle to attack the pin and stuck it to 3 and 6 feet. The nineth hole plays about 470 yards and zig zags into a kidney shaped green with lots of bunkers on the right side. The pin was on the right near the back. I decided to play it in three shots to the green making the tee shot a relaxed swing. Played it about 250 in the fairway leaving 218 to the pin I hit a smooth 9 iron to the left side of the fairway to give myself a straight shot back to the pin over nothing but fairway and green to look at from 82 yards. I explained to my friend that by deciding on the tee to lay up and then attack I could take the pressure off all the shots and attack with my favorite shot a feel sand wedge while removing anything worse than bogy. Hitting driver three wood trying to fade it so as not to go to far would bring all the bunkers and heavy rough around the green into play and a potential short sided wedge into a very fast green or a mishit driver trying to get close enough to smoke a hybrid to the back of the green with all the same issues waiting. All my best golf is played when I am thinking and planning every hole from the green to the tee and I really only do that on competition rounds. I love match play but hate skins because it lends itself to taking the risk on every hole and score be damned. That said I play skins far to often and have shot even par and not won a penny and shot 9 over and cleaned up with birdies on all the par 3s. Skins is to random... any idiot can hit a lucky shot to win.

I used the Titleist Pro V1 left dot from the ball test last year for 27 holes before the damage became to much. I have played a Srixon Z-star divide for 57 holes just to see how durable it was. Normally I will take a ball out of play after scuffing it with a full swing wedge. I have played Pro V1's for the last couple years and rarely get more than 9 holes before a major scuff mark from a wedge takes it out of play for me. That is why I have been testing the Srixon Z-star divide it seems to be more scuff resistant and play in the same windows I like.

Today we got temps up in the sixties and I got to really get a response from the ball. We were the first group out after a frost warning and by the back nine we were three holes ahead of the group behind us. I started to hit two shots on everything from 100 yards and in one with my Z Star Divide and the other with the Pro V1 I have played for he the last few years. I alternated the order and the results were very nearly the same. Neither ball stood out as better on any shot where I hit both. The money will be the decider if the results stay the same the next chance I get to play both against one an other.