Running 2021 Golf Thread

I’ll see your fishing and raise you pool and billiards, where $500 carbon fiber shafts are all the rage. The manufacturer will sell you on the shafts reducing “deflection,” which is how much the cue ball will unintentionally curve when English is applied. They’re also nick, ding and scratch proof compared to wood, which I think is a bigger selling point.

Predator Revo Carbon Fiber Cue Shaft | Carbon Fiber Cue Shafts

 

Yep. Hand-me-down driver in a hand me down Callaway set. Much younger family member drives like 275-300 yards with it. I bought the Tommy Armour Atomic 4 and 5 hybrids in the past year, now my best clubs; the matching driver is out of stock at Dick's. But I did break 100 last week.

I have been watching Moe Norman/single plane swing videos, there's much there to think about.

 

I wouldn't want to buy any club that I couldn't get the feel of first. And, as I said, I had this PGA SuperStore gift card, not suitable for eBay. I wouldn't have gone to that store if I didn't have the gift card. Golf balls come from Costco -- Callaway, not Kirkland. Costco is next door to the PGA store and Costco had a set of 3 wedges of varying degree for $159. But I did not want Kirkland Signature clubs in my bag -- I'm not a snob, but one time when I tried to buy my daughter a pair of jeans from Costco, she said, "Dad, really? Uh, no."

 

The guys in my foursome were praising the Kirkland balls.

 

Not really. He won the British Open in 2001 and contended in the PGA and Masters that year after going from Titleist to Nike. His real problems started the next year.

 

As they should. They're basically ProV1s without the hefty pricetag.

I'm still not good enough to worry about playing a $45/dozen brand of ball. I'm fine with the lower-level brand name balls. Titleist makes a ball for high handicappers that is around $22 a dozen. Works for me. I can't spin a ball anyway, so why would I need a soft, spinny expensive ball?

 

It was worth the splurge just to see the difference in balls. I played five holes before I lost one.

 

I have always tried to play a brand that WASN'T Titleist or Callaway just so it'd be easier to find and ID out on the course. Slazenger was great for that, but they've become hard to find. I play TaylorMade now. It's hardly an obscure brand, but for some reason, relatively few folks around here play them.

 

Just buy new balls and don’t use the water logged ones you can buy on the cheap.

 

I’ve enjoyed seeing balls being produced in bright colors in the last two years, making the ball easier to find and turning the joint into a big assed putt putt course. Dicks/GolfGalaxy usually has two for $30 sales on the orange or yellow Maxflis that I’ll pick up once a year.

 

I've often played in groups with 4 ProV1s, but if everyone marks there ball it's fine.