Andrew75

My experience with them has been odd feels at contact, and inability to consistently flight the ball down. I hit a lot of low half shots and work it mostly right to lect, and the hollow irons for the most part just kind of send it up like a rainbow arc.

Long ago, around 1981-82 TaylorMade had a hollow iron that wasn't too bad. I really know nothing about the p790 except it's hollow. I'm currently gaming Mizuno Pro 225s, having previously tried hollow Honma irons. The Mizunos are quite different from the Honmas. I've played a lot of Honma previously, but moving away. Don't know what debt Mizuno owes TM. Mizuno 225s aren't really about getting it airborne. Now even Miura is coming out with hollow irons.

TaylorMade is a brand I would refuse unless it was given to me. I don't like them for various reasons. Too many gimmicks, too much and too aggressive advertising, poor performance when I have tried them, poor stock offerings for shafts, too many models- the brand tries to be everything at once without doing anything well. Players muscle backs are the only offering I'd look at.

Both are great weapons. Currently and for some time using Honma tw 737c 5 wood, 18*, 55S Vizard butt cut 1/4inch for 178-192 yards, and Mizuno clk 22* set to 21*, with swapped out Titleist Bassara 65gm Stiff, for 160-178. The Mizuno is money in the bank, but don't and can't work it much. The Honma is great for working draws and cuts and coming out of deep lies in rough with no real distance loss. I adore that Honma. For a while it was my only fairway--3 wood has long been my weakest club.

Which tour pro? Jim Thorpe? Adam Scott? Russell Henley? Ed Fiori?

These are carry numbers.

Never remotely had this problem with them, but I have a much slower swing speed. If my PW "jumped" from a fairway it would go 108 instead of 105. That's a short PW, granted and I've wondered if my loft really isn't 45 rather than the advertised 44*. I normally hit 44* about 112. However the other clubs have proper distance gaps and are very stable and predictable in terms of distance control. My whole game is built around distance control. I wish they would spin just a bit more for me. PW 95-107 9 105-117 8 115-128 7 125-140 6 138-150 5 150-162

From tap ins out to 20 feet it's been always amazing. Over 30 feet you've got to be super precise on the contact. But looking down at address it's so beautiful.

Japanese MacGregor putter. All other putters released in past 20 years look plain bad to me. Japanese MacGregor putter. All other putters released in past 20 years look plain bad to me.

Not enough

Two shots left of target and two shots right of target with every iron.

This Tour Ad shaft was attached to a Ryoma driver. Tour Ad made the shaft specifically for Ryoma. There's no Tour Ad shaft you can buy that has this low of torque at that weight. It's 5 yards further than my previous gamer Oban Revenge 5/04 and a yard or two straighter. It's a pleasure to swing and absolutely has that Tour Ad stability.

After a number of fittings that were decidedly poor, I've become a self-fitter. Ideally there's a fitter out there for me, but finding them is like a needle in a haystack. Been playing low swing speed golf for 50 years. If I can get a fitter past the idea that someone with 83 mph driver swing speed doesn't hit it in the screws just about every shot (average drive is 215, hitting 93% of fairways, and coming into greens designed for 9 irons with 5 woods and still, as an average putter, making enough birdies to keep it interesting) they still tend to know very little about equipment in this range--they tend not to treat the precision I'm after very seriously. So I've just gone my own way, reading tons of reviews and trying to cull from all the reviews by people who don't have a game like mine what kind of equipment to play. My golf spy doesn't get into a lot of specifics about individual testers or when they do the tester seldom fits my profile. The questions these fitters ask up front are inane to me... What's your greatest strength or weakness, driving or irons, etc. With my driver I can typically rely on being no more than 3 to 5 yards off my intended target line. But I can't hit a lick from even light rough.

After a number of fittings that were decidedly poor, I've become a self-fitter. Ideally there's a fitter out there for me, but finding them is like a needle in a haystack. Been playing low swing speed golf for 50 years. If I can get a fitter past the idea that someone with 83 mph driver swing speed doesn't hit it in the screws just about every shot (average drive is 215, hitting 93% of fairways, and coming into greens designed for 9 irons with 5 woods and still, as an average putter, making enough birdies to keep it interesting) they still tend to know very little about equipment in this range--they tend not to treat the precision I'm after very seriously. So I've just gone my own way, reading tons of reviews and trying to cull from all the reviews by people who don't have a game like mine what kind of equipment to play. My golf spy doesn't get into a lot of specifics about individual testers or when they do the tester seldom fits my profile. The questions these fitters ask up front are inane to me... What's your greatest strength or weakness, driving or irons, etc. With my driver I can typically rely on being no more than 3 to 5 yards off my intended target line. But I can't hit a lick from even light rough.

Hats are central to packing if you are a golf minimalist. If it's not sunny or raining I don't wear one, but I sure need them handy when the weather shifts. It's my style to be this way. I may take the hat off several times during a round and stow it. There's not a lot of space for extra stuff in my golf bag, and the hat needs to fill a small space, for me, when not in use. It also needs to be waterproof.