sp0rtsfan86 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I've never seen any such disclaimer in my 40 years of playing, but if your courses have them, then you'd better leave your retreiver at home. Yeah, ditto. I doubt any course would really get that mad at you for using a retriever... unless you're holding up someone... then I think it's a totally different case. Driver: Epic Flash 12 Degree Wood: GBB 3 Wood Hybrid: Razr 4 hybriid stiff stock shaft. Irons: X2 Hot 4 iron (pro version) 5 iron - Gap Wedge (non pro version). KBS 120g Shaft stiff cut 1/2 inch bent 1°upright Wedges: 52° 56° and 60°. All grips are Golf pride grips midsized Putter (lefty): Odyssey Metal-X #8 34", stock shaft bent 2° Superstroke grip Golf Balls: 2018-9 Pro-V1x and Prov1s Shoes: Dryjoy tours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMiller Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I'm the guy fishing them out of the ponds and creeks! That's where I got the 66 to trade back in. And I do hit back on the range every brand of ball I won't play. BTW, in that same garbage can full of balls were HUNDREDS of Hex Chromes, B330's, Z-stars, 20Xi's, etc. We didn't even bother with those. I have over the years tried just about every premium ball. I use the ball that gives me the best performance. For me that happens to be the Z-Star currently. If you want to send me the Z-Star you find I'll be more then happy to take them Callaway Epic Max 12.0 (-1/N) @ 44.50" w/ Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-7 Stiff Callaway Epic Speed 18.0* @ 42.75" w/ Graphite Design Tour AD IZ-8 Stiff Callaway Mavrik Pro 23.0* @ 40.00" w/ Graphite Design Tour AD IZ 95 HYB Stiff Sub-70 639 Combo (5-P) w/ Nippon Modus 3 125 Stiff, Standard Length, Weak Lofts (27-47, 4* gaps) Callaway MD5 Raw 51-11 S-Grind w/ Nippon Modus 125 Wedge Callaway MD5 Raw 55-13 X-Grind w/ Nippon Modus 125 Wedge Callaway MD5 Raw 59-11 S-Grind w/ Nippon Modus 125 Wedge Callaway MD5 Raw 63-09 C-Grind w/ Nippon Modus 125 Wedge Golf Swing & Putting -- Bruce Rearick (Burnt Edges Consulting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozcycle Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Another way to give back is to donate the other balls to the first tee or similar program, in sure they could use them. Thanks Lefty, That is the best suggestion to date. I usually just add any found balls(found in water or hazards) to my 5 gallon bucket in the garage. The bucket is where two of my grandsons come to get extra balls. Most of them are in great shape, just not the balls that I am playing. Lefty, you got me thinking, that maybe I should give 1/2 of my garage stash to the First Tee. Driver: 0311 XF 10.5* w/Project X Cypher 40 gram Senior shaft Fairways: 0211 5W & 7W w/ Evenflo Riptide CB regular shaft and Tour Edge E521 9W w/Fubuki HD50 regular shaft Hybrid: None in bag at the moment Irons: Titleist T300 5-PW w/Fubuki MV Senior graphite shafts w/Golf Pride Tour Wedges: Titleist T300 48* GW w/Fubuki MV Senior shaft and Edison forged 53* and 57* wedges with KB PGI Senior shafts(80 grm). Putter: 33” Evnroll ER2 w/Evnroll Gravity Grip or Bellum Winmore Model 707, or Nike Method Core Drone w/Evnroll Gravity Grip Bag: Vice cart bag(Black/Lime). Ball: Maxfli Tour CG, Titleist Pro V1x or Titleist TruFeel Using Shot Scope X5 and MG4000 Rangefinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmikecpa Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Another way to give back is to donate the other balls to the first tee or similar program, in sure they could use them. Over the course of a golf season I collect a bunch of balls that I just simply won't play and keep them in a tub in my basement. Usually once or twice a season I load up the tub and take it to a local track that has a great junior program and donate them. Good way to clean out my basement and the program is really happy to have them for some of the juniors that can't really afford to buy the balls. WITB 2023 TSR3 10* Oban Kiyoshi Black 65 05 TSR2+ 14.5* Oban Devotion 75 06 TSi2 21* Graphite Design AD MT 7x TSi3 22* Graphite Design AD DI 95x 0317 ST 5 - PW KBS $ Taper 130 50*, 54*, 58* HLX 3.0 TTDG S400 Toulon Madison BGT Fire 34" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markb Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 At the two courses I play at, one likes to get its range balls sponsored by Pepsi (basically free to the course). These balls seem to be de-flighted and its amazing how fast they wear out. It's September and the 2014's are already toast. Out of a medium bucket, you have to throw out about 3 or 4 cracked goners every time. The other range is where my son works. The pro refuses to take sponsored range balls. Instead he occasionally buys paint striped found balls from a service and he accepts leftovers fished from his ponds or whoever wants to throw them in. He also has a much bigger stock of existing balls and his range overall gets much lighter use. But about 20% of his total balls are not striped donor balls. Oddly, his balls last MUCH longer because they are top flites and mojos etc. and not these new cheaper and almost disposable range balls. Has anyone encountered these new sponsored cheap balls I'm talking about. They are garbage. bag - SunMountain Synch with Ogio Synergy X4 cartdriver - Optiforce 440, Paderson Kevlar Green stiff 46.5"fwoods - Jetspeed, 3HL regularirons - Speedblades 3-8, 85g stiff steel, 2 upwedges - Scor 40, 45, 50, 54, 58putter - Ketsch 35" slight arc, SuperStroke 2.0 mid-slimball - ProV1x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG STU Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Good post all the way around. My home course we find a lot of preminum balls in the range balls in the tourist season especially. We do have two holes that border our range. When I do hit on the range if I find a ball I like I do a swap I have so many balls that if I go over there late and the pro shop is closed I will hit 20 or 30 of my shag balls out there for them to keep. Down here you can tell what balls are on sale at the time because you will find a lot of them used to be Rock Flites but now mostly Mojos. Balls are cheap and plentiful down here all these old retirees that live on the course walk in the evenings and hawk balls. Surprisingly a lot of folks live on a course and dont even play golf. I befriended a couple a few years She asked me one day if I wanted some golf balls that they did not play golf and they were in the way. They lived (they passed a year ago)on the second hole of a course and a lot of balls got sliced in their yard. I went over there figgured they had a hundred or so. OH heck they had lived there 10 years and they had 6 5gal buckets full. I tried to pay her for them but they said absolutely not just please bring the buckets back. I loaded them up and dumped them out in a old bathtub I have in the storage building. I ended up with a lot of balls the same way. I did donate quite a few last year to a service organization that sends them overseas to our troops. I also donated clubs to the same people I have been lucky and ended up with a lot of balls over the years so I do try to pass on my good fortune Driver ---- Callaway Big Bertha Alpha Speeder 565 R flex- 5W TM V-Steel Fubuki 60r--- 7W TM V-Steel UST Pro Force Gold 65R----- 9 W TM V Steel TM MAS stiff---- Irons 2015 TM TP CB Steel Fiber 95 R--- GW Callaway Mack Daddy 2 52* shaft unknown junk pile refugee. SW Callaway PM Grind 56* Modified sole grind--- KBS Tour Wedge-- LW Vokey 58* SM5 L grind--- Putter Ping B90I Broom Stick G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozcycle Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Way to go Stu.......you are most gracious. Driver: 0311 XF 10.5* w/Project X Cypher 40 gram Senior shaft Fairways: 0211 5W & 7W w/ Evenflo Riptide CB regular shaft and Tour Edge E521 9W w/Fubuki HD50 regular shaft Hybrid: None in bag at the moment Irons: Titleist T300 5-PW w/Fubuki MV Senior graphite shafts w/Golf Pride Tour Wedges: Titleist T300 48* GW w/Fubuki MV Senior shaft and Edison forged 53* and 57* wedges with KB PGI Senior shafts(80 grm). Putter: 33” Evnroll ER2 w/Evnroll Gravity Grip or Bellum Winmore Model 707, or Nike Method Core Drone w/Evnroll Gravity Grip Bag: Vice cart bag(Black/Lime). Ball: Maxfli Tour CG, Titleist Pro V1x or Titleist TruFeel Using Shot Scope X5 and MG4000 Rangefinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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