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I know this is an old post but do you have any current 10% off promo codes? I know there are 5% ones all over the internet but can't find any for 10 right now

I've wondered that myself looking at them. there are similarities but then there are enough things that are completely different that makes me question it. I'm pretty certain that Vessel makes all of the G/fore bags those for them so it's possible they make the ghost ones but use ghost's design instead of re-badging their own bags

Congrats Testers! These look like great bags and looking forward to hear your feedback. They seem very similar to Vessel so will be interested to see if anyone has gamed one of those to compare with these.

I'm just hoping we can see anyone challenge Max. Races are so much better when the camera isn't following the only market on track and it happens to be for 11-12th position.

it shouldn't affect the strength of the shaft as it's just rubbing the paint off. Unless you're bag has sandpaper on it then there is nothing to worry about as it won't actually eat into the graphite. Surprised to hear people saying that wax actually helps with this....wax does not tend to be very abrasive resistant so if your shaft is rubbing against the divider i would bet the wax is gone within a couple of rounds. The bigger impact I think is what the dividers are covered with, a really stiff nylon ripstop type material is what i've seen do the most damage.

I tested the Precision Pro NX10 for the forum back in 2022 and it's been great for me. The extra battery isn't a huge deal. I'm not 100% certain but I think I'm on my 2nd battery now so I got well over a year on the first one and the shelf life on them is several years so easy to keep in the bag. Also, the battery indicator is pretty accurate so it won't surprise you and just stop working.

Somehow I missed the December announcement that they were scrapping the model local rule proposal from March and just rolling back the ball entirely, that makes pretty much everything I said above incorrect. Oops

Worn these G/fore drive shoes about 2 dozen times mostly just casually but they've seen maybe a half dozen 9 hole rounds. They are still basically like new, but I'm outside G/fore's ridiculous 90 day warranty period so they won't fix or replace them. They gave me a one time good will store credit of $125 which is half the price of a replacement. Needless to say I will be sticking with adidas and other brands that use genuine boa components in their laceless systems since they provide a lifetime warranty. I'm a big fan of boa and my code chaos shoes are still going strong but I'll consider this a lessons learned to avoid all the copy cats out there.

Yes but there is a huge difference between being named non-conforming and being not eligible for high level play where a model local rule is in play. I don't see those being the same at all. The fact that left dot and left dash existed in the first place without being on retail shelves kind of proves the point that they weren't playing the same ball right? They were making small runs of these balls just for those half dozen or so pros and now they make small batches just for custom orders since left dot still isn't in retail stores. No reason to think they don't have the ability to continue producing a small run of balls for the pros and others competing in these events where the model local rule is in effect. I definitely agree that this isn't going to matter to most golfers out there, but that isn't the way advertising works. One of these manufacturers is going to decide it's worth it to distinguish themselves by selling balls that don't meet the requirements of the model local rule and they are going to test that at the swing speed limits of the test and show the maximum possible distance advantage. My point was that once one company decides to do that, the rest are going to be forced to follow suit because as you point out, most golfers don't care or dig deep enough to understand the nuance / trick the mfr is playing. After seeing that TP5 is 20 yds longer than ProV1 plastered in front of their face for 12-18 months and it will start to stick with them when they are picking up a new box of balls at the store.

I still don't understand why people are getting so upset about this still. Why do people think that the balls that most amateurs are playing is going to disappear from the market just because the pros can't use them? A lot of the pros are already not playing the same balls that we can buy on the retail shelf and this would just be a continuation of that. The balls they play will continue to be the small batch "prototype" balls that manufacturers make for them and the balls rolling off the big assembly lines and ship to PGATSS will be the same. I suppose one could argue that there will be less innovation/updates for the mass market balls but I'm not sure that will really matter for most golf balls since we were already talking about very minor improvements to begin with and I'm sure some of the things they develop for tour balls will find their way into retail products. It's kind of like auto racing, car manufacturers develop new tech and it gets put on race cars and eventually some version of that ends up in production cars a decade later. When it comes down to it, I don't believe for a second that golf ball manufacturers are going to stop producing and developing balls for recreational play. How long do you think Titleist is going to let Callaway run ads in every PGA tour event and magazine that shows their ball being 25 yards longer than ProV1 with some barely legible fine print in the corner saying it can't be used in tournament event? No brand is going to be able to let that happen because retail sales make up 99.999% of the revenue for the manufacturers.

Anything abrasive should get the job done. I would start with the least abrasive option and then work your way up as needed. Simichrome paste works well on very light oxidation and other small blemishes in the finish

From my experience, second guessing what the SW scale was telling me was the driving factor in me upgrading from an old golfsmith SW scale. I would say you should get the best scale your budget allows or you might end up in a similar boat where you don't trust the numbers you are seeing

I think there is far too much correlation between results and driver skill comparisons in here. You can really only compare drivers within the same team for a given race / season since the performance levels of the car are just wildly different. Merc has had a terrible car for all of the ground effects "era" so it's probably a reach to say that Hamilton is washed up. I think it is safe to say that Russell is better at driving trash cars than Hamilton is, whatever that is worth I don't know. He certainly extracted the most of anyone recently out of what Williams had to offer and rolled right into Merc which turned out to be more of the same, albeit at a higher level. I'm really looking forward to seeing how Hamilton compares to LeClerc next season and also how Russel fares against Lewis' replacement, whomever that may be. Ideally though it would be nice to see two top teams produce cars that are similar performance so we can have a real competition. As of right now, Red Bull's car is so dominant the only real questions are A) will Max have a reliability issue and give someone else a chance or B) will Max lap cars that are in the points.

It's possible that they were both built correctly since each manufacturer measures length differently. I believe Srixon measures their clubs using the raw shaft so that the built length of the club is not affected by the butt thickness of whatever grip you choose. I believe Ping builds their clubs such that the length is measured to the line on the butt cap if you go with their standard grip, regardless of what grip you actually choose.

I think it definitely matters. For Alonso / AM in '23, AM developed the car in the wrong direction. They started out well and when they brought upgrades they made the car worse and they didn't understand why. Spent the entire rest of the season trying to figure it out. McLaren did the opposite, every upgrade they brought basically made the car better and better, by large chunks in some cases. As for LeClerc in '22, my opinion is that he just isn't that great of a driver. He's good, but he just can't perform under the most intense pressure moments, he seems to always find a way to screw it up by spinning, crashing or just making poor decisions on when to try and overtake. It will be very interesting next year when he is alongside Hamilton in the same car