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WiTerp50

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    Wisconsin

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  • Age
    60 and over
  • Swing Speed
    90 mph or less
  • Handicap
    19
  • Frequency of Play/Practice
    Weekly
  • Player Type
    Casual
  • Biggest Strength
    Putting
  • Biggest Weakness
    Approach
  • Fitted for Clubs
    Yes

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  1. If the goal is a scratch golfer, a commitment to a single ball is key but not the only piece. Course management to handle shots from the rough to hard pan fairways to landing on soft or firm greens either running up or away from you require controlling spin. Knowing how the ball will react is needed. This is where working with a coach and getting wedges appropriate to your swing will be needed as well. Nothing wrong with a casual commitment that is different from a goal of scratch.
  2. I choose fitters that also coach. The one difference I see is on course fitters will advise me that the new shiny object is doing the same as the old. Leaving the decision to buy to me.
  3. There is no one right answer. The disadvantage is not getting the best combo for your swing. The obvious advantage is from year to year the improvement is incremental so the cost savings is real. Just make sure the seller warranties against counterfeits. Garage resellers online don’t have great reputation. Being old and LH is a stumbling block. Just limited inventory to choose. I can justify new equipment if I amortize the purchase over 5 years.
  4. Putt for birdie, outside 2 feet for par, and something over a putter length for bogie or worse if they want the Okey-dokey.. Pace of play, etc.. At least for friendly games. Leagues with season end prizes get closer to putt them all out.
  5. Nice article on setting expectations for women. As a man, I would suggest comfortable, breathable materials - like golf specialty clothing, for women as I would for myself. There is still enough sexism out there for women to be taken seriously. Clothing that focuses on "exposure", even if comfortable, will still impact the opinion. Even LPGA events use far too many low head on views of players crouching to line up their putts. Karrie Webb with 9 inch shorts doesn't seem to get the same camera angle. Still the Jan Stephenson effect?
  6. Doesn't really matter what the crowd is using. Comes down to your game. My irons have 50 g graphite shafts. My specialty wedges use a heavier steel shaft. For finesse, I prefer the feel of the heavier wedge. I have the room, so I carry a 48 set W and a 50 degree Vokey. For full shots, the 50 degree left close to a 20 yard gap to the PW. Added the 48 and now I have the gap filled.
  7. While it doesn’t require much user testing, would like annual articles on value sets, new and used, for moderate and slow swing golfers. Note I don’t consider pastel sets with a one wood to be a value or useful. Even an 11 club set from 2 or 3 companies for a beginning slow swing golfer as a suggestion is not promoted enough. 14 is overkill.
  8. I’ve never had an issue with a set of Titleist irons over the last 12 years. If I did, I know the 1 year guarantee is ironclad. Club Champion gets heads and builds their sets on site. Might just be their technique? Not saying it is, but it is a variable.
  9. Older guy - 6-48 irons, 50-54-58 wedges, 5H, 7W, 5W, 11degree Driver. Putter. The 48 is for full shots w/graphite shaft, the 50 wedge with steel shaft is for feel shots. Have multiple wedge grinds to substitute based on course conditions. …Based on mud or soft sand bunkers.
  10. That’s an easy out. The issue is pro’s using driver - wedge at places like Marion for par 5’s as well as 4’s. Driver head speeds are around 115 today with. some in the mid 120's. In 10 years, the better players will all be over 125, even they only last 7-10 years due to the physical strain. Meanwhile, my 87 will at 80 or less. Why should I should I pay for what they can do? We only need 50 or so courses to handle the attack of the super athletes. Drop Marion and the other century old courses or just ban drivers on those courses. Drivers and balls i can access that the pro's access w/o limitations that impact 99.5% of golfers worldwide. There is a reason old ball parks for football and baseball are abandoned. We also need new courses with better grandstands for these super athletes to perform. But let me play my muni with the best equipment available today. This will all blow over like the Europeans adopting the larger US diameter ball 30 years ago, but doesn't make this choice right. What will happen in 10 years when the pro's are using driver-wedge at Marion again? Blame the ball again? Sadly, the USGA caters to the money (viewing rights) than to the average golfer.
  11. Other than Jack’s opinion, how did they settle on the ball as the only solution? As much has come from athletic training and improving driver head performance as from the ball. Especially body training. Bryson proved that. Bifurcation is really the only solution. It could be as simple as a local rule to ban drivers at top level tournaments for the old money courses favored by the elite staff of the USGA. I can still get drivers developed for pros at Erin Hills and balls not designed after the pro models or lose distance as a result. At 73, 5 yards is a big deal. 90 yards over 18 holes playing 5700 is a bigger deal than for someone driving 275 yards.
  12. One clear point is the seniors with rare exception are at one end of the bell curve. Rack models are for the majority in the center. The lightweight options can work for some, but for others, the greatest mass of a heavier head can increase ball speed more. I found the Titleist-1 drivers generated too much spin (~4000 rpms) and a lower smash value. The -2 driver was more stable with more ball speed. In the low 80’s I can get 195 and into the 210’s for distance. As a LH, XXIO was an interest but without a fitting option hardly worth the premium to guess at the best fit. As for draw biased drivers, this is more of a swing rather than age issue, IMHO. So long as I maintain tempo and take the driver straight back and swing from the inside, my drives are fairly straight. When I try to get to 110%, then I take it back inside and come down over the top. Started that way when I took up golf in my late 50’s. So, with perseverance to fight old habits ( only mortally wounded it, not killed it…) I don’t need a draw biased driver.
  13. To note, I was fit through a Titleist sponsored fitting and have bought into the mixed bag of results. Trying to do something similar off the rack can be ordered at the same price per club as a straight set. The T100-T350 irons are all the same price. What you can’t do is determine what your starting point is and where the logical point is to move down to the next head to maintain the 5 mph ball speed rather than flattening the launch and descent. Keeping the decent angle over 35 degrees. Holding greens is better than maintaining 4 degrees of loft between clubs. My set starts at the T200 GW through the 7. The 6 is a T350, and I now move to a 23 TSR-1, then the TSR-1 7W and 5W. At my tender age of 73, the gapping works through the bag. Others with more speed will have other combinations based on the starting point of their set. Also, when/if standard irons run out of gas, each will find the need to best combo of hybrids, fairways, and/or driving irons (with a choice of U-505 or a T200 built as a driving iron) to fill in between driver and irons. You just can’t know empirically what the best club is to fit the role needed for the next club. I would be surprised to ever see (even a RH) set that is the same as mine.
  14. Yup, mats are best used to perfect playing in a simulator. Even a grass range has limits as well. Somehow I never find a level spot on course. Pitching onto greens against and with the grain onto uphill and downhill greens are my practice deficiencies. Find par 3 or executive courses for practice time. Driving ranges are best to work on technique. .
  15. I’m pretty happy with my bag. My TSR-2 and Gen 3 T-Series irons are safe to stay. But my Cameron & Crown putter won’t have to worry about me sneaking behind its back with a younger model.
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