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Golf guys ... what clubs you playing?

Beer

Beer

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I'm a 12 handicap, down from a 4 handicap when I was playing everyday. Now my kids and wife take up my life but I'm going to start going 2 or 3 times a week again. So I'm getting some new (used) clubs. I currently play the Callaway X-20's and I like them but they are old. My driver is an OLD Titleist 909D2 and i'm also looking to upgrade that.

I've got in my shopping cart the Taylormade SLDR driver and Taylormade burner 2.0's ... just waiting to pull the trigger.

What do you guys play and do you recommend them?
 
My dad's 3rd generation hand-me-downs. But I play very very rarely.
 
Probly about a 6-7 handicap right now, was down to a 1 handicap a few years ago when I golfed most every day.

Not really an equipment nerd, I play some old TaylorMade RAC's, a King Cobra driver, and some TaylorMade hybrids (cant remember what they're called). Oddysey two ball putter.

One of the biggest things that helped me was switching balls. I played in college (small school) and we got free ProV1's so thats what I always played. A few years after graduating when I finally ran out of balls I went and got fitted at a Bridgestone thing and started using the B330-RX. Was amazed at how much it helped my game. I have a relatively low swing speed and basically wasn't compressing the ProV1 enough on my drives.

It wasn't just because of changing balls, but changing took me from being ok with shooting high 70's to shooting mid 70's almost every round and expecting to shoot Even at tons of courses.

If you are already pretty good, definitely think hard about the ball you are playing and get fitted for the right one if you can. Don't just play the ProV1 cuz the pros do.

Typing this out makes me realize I'd probly be the best golfer in teh world if I got all my equipment dialed in...
 
UGLI baby said:
Probly about a 6-7 handicap right now, was down to a 1 handicap a few years ago when I golfed most every day.

Not really an equipment nerd, I play some old TaylorMade RAC's, a King Cobra driver, and some TaylorMade hybrids (cant remember what they're called). Oddysey two ball putter.

One of the biggest things that helped me was switching balls. I played in college (small school) and we got free ProV1's so thats what I always played. A few years after graduating when I finally ran out of balls I went and got fitted at a Bridgestone thing and started using the B330-RX. Was amazed at how much it helped my game. I have a relatively low swing speed and basically wasn't compressing the ProV1 enough on my drives.

It wasn't just because of changing balls, but changing took me from being ok with shooting high 70's to shooting mid 70's almost every round and expecting to shoot Even at tons of courses.

If you are already pretty good, definitely think hard about the ball you are playing and get fitted for the right one if you can. Don't just play the ProV1 cuz the pros do.

Typing this out makes me realize I'd probly be the best golfer in teh world if I got all my equipment dialed in...
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I've never been fitted for a ball but I play the Prov1 and Prov1X obviously, I did buy a bunch of the Bridgestone balls towards the end of last season so I haven't had much time to play them to see how I feel about em.
 
Beer said:
I've never been fitted for a ball but I play the Prov1 and Prov1X obviously, I did buy a bunch of the Bridgestone balls towards the end of last season so I haven't had much time to play them to see how I feel about em.
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Ya, I got a consistent 15 yards more on my drives by switching to Bridgestone and a ball that doesn't take a Tour swing speed to compress.

Bridgestone does fittings at driving ranges all the time, you can google the schedule I'm sure
 
I always rock the Ping putter when I hit up mini with the crew. Kill them fools with there loaner plastic coated putters. Fools.
 
Golf is great because anyone can play and enjoy it without hurting your teammates if you suck like rec or ward ball. But it pissed me off I had to play every single day to be half decent. It's not a bicycle. Why can't I just go out once a month and shoot a decent round? Had to give that ish up.

WTS, I hope my next home is on a course where I can walk to the driving range daily. "Hey wife, I'm going to grab the mail" "Oh, sorry, I ran into the neighbor lady and she wanted to know about our son's birthday party. We got going."
 
I've lived on the 10th tee box at Sky Mountain for 12 full months now and haven't broken out my clubs yet. I do, however, go out all the time and look for balls along the course. My daughter and I discovered "Golf Ball Paradise" -- an elevated tee box that has a huge gorge over the Virgin River that practically begs to have you hit a few balls into -- she and I went out two days ago and brought home 214 balls in less than an hour. We have maybe three times that many piled up in buckets and bags in our garage. And spring is just getting started... The golfers don't really start showing up for another couple of weeks.
 
E.J. Wells said:
I've lived on the 10th tee box at Sky Mountain for 12 full months now and haven't broken out my clubs yet. I do, however, go out all the time and look for balls along the course. My daughter and I discovered "Golf Ball Paradise" -- an elevated tee box that has a huge gorge over the Virgin River that practically begs to have you hit a few balls into -- she and I went out two days ago and brought home 214 balls in less than an hour. We have maybe three times that many piled up in buckets and bags in our garage. And spring is just getting started... The golfers don't really start showing up for another couple of weeks.
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Sky Mountain cannot contain your 450+ yard drives.
 
E.J. Wells said:
I've lived on the 10th tee box at Sky Mountain for 12 full months now and haven't broken out my clubs yet. I do, however, go out all the time and look for balls along the course. My daughter and I discovered "Golf Ball Paradise" -- an elevated tee box that has a huge gorge over the Virgin River that practically begs to have you hit a few balls into -- she and I went out two days ago and brought home 214 balls in less than an hour. We have maybe three times that many piled up in buckets and bags in our garage. And spring is just getting started... The golfers don't really start showing up for another couple of weeks.
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Sounds like it's about time to break out those clubs for 214 times. Free range balls would be bad ***. Another reason I want to move to a course.
 
Had probably the strangest round of golf of my life today.

I played a tough mountain course I'd never played before with super tight fairways, and really small greens with tough pin placements. Really cool course. Not necessarily a long course, but one where you have to be precise with every shot.

I was not hitting it off the tee well at all (was hitting this weird low draw), I had a couple straight up duffs, and I had 3 or 4 makeable birdie putts barely baarrrrely miss.

With all of that, I shot 70. My best round evar. (Have shot 71 quite a few times. Birdied the last hole for a 70 today.)

Legit have no idea how it happened.

Guy I have been golfing with here in CA has never seen me break 80 I don't think (been playing like once a month and just been sucking). Then we go to by far the hardest course we've played together, I don't even have a crazy awesome round, and I shoot 70 wtf.

What's cool is that in golf you can get soooo much better just by breaking through and shooting low rounds. Shooting a low round while not feeling like I'm playing very well prolly just shot me to a new level of golfness tbh.

I just got bit by the golf bug again for sure.

#70

#Yasssss

#Seventy

#BraggingButDGAFcuzIshot70
 
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