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#728
Fine Vol said:
Big Bertha, best driver ever?
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No. It was the best, by far, when it was new. Even the GBB was the best for quite a while, but the new ultraforgiving jobs with funky weight distro are hard to beat. Clubs from just 5-7 years ago just don't compare any more.
 
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#729
BigPapaVol said:
No. It was the best, by far, when it was new. Even the GBB was the best for quite a while, but the new ultraforgiving jobs with funky weight distro are hard to beat. Clubs from just 5-7 years ago just don't compare any more.
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A friend has the new Nike driver and he likes it. The big yellow one.
 
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#730
Fine Vol said:
A friend has the new Nike driver and he likes it. The big yellow one.
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I hate it, but the reality is that these big ugly monsters outperform the drivers from just a few years ago. I hate most of the new stuff, but some of them appear playable.
 
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#731
BigPapaVol said:
I hate it, but the reality is that these big ugly monsters outperform the drivers from just a few years ago. I hate most of the new stuff, but some of them appear playable.
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I hear Nike clubs are not to good. How are the Dunlops, have you ever hit any?
 
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#732
Fine Vol said:
I hear Nike clubs are not to good. How are the Dunlops, have you ever hit any?
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used to play a little with a guy that was on the Dunlop Long Driving staff and they made him some nice stuff (but they were also paying him $250K / yr to play their clubs). He typically caved the faces in on the forged jobs, but I suspect he would have done that on about any forging.

Honestly, I think most modern clubs are pretty good stuff, including the Nike stuff. They are having their heads made by a third party and just assembling / painting them in a Nike plant.
 
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#733
BigPapaVol said:
where was that?

I played for the week at the Reserve in SC, and the rough was every bit as playable as the fairways. As you might imagine, I hit far more drivers than I'm accustomed to hitting.
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Pinecrest on Hilton Head. It's a new course. I went low at Old South on Sunday and then got mired in bad spot after bad spot at Pinecrest on Tuesday. It was like a different guy was swinging the clubs and I couldn't have gotten less lucky if I tried.
 
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#734
BigPapaVol said:
No. It was the best, by far, when it was new. Even the GBB was the best for quite a while, but the new ultraforgiving jobs with funky weight distro are hard to beat. Clubs from just 5-7 years ago just don't compare any more.
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The aforementioned +4 GF was playing the GBB until this year. She picked up the new Cobra and immediately got 5-10% longer with more carry and better accuracy.

Playing with her is becoming ever more embarrassing.
 
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#735
GAVol said:
Pinecrest on Hilton Head. It's a new course. I went low at Old South on Sunday and then got mired in bad spot after bad spot at Pinecrest on Tuesday. It was like a different guy was swinging the clubs and I couldn't have gotten less lucky if I tried.
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I hit it well every day, but never really made any putts to speak of. I made most of the 3-5 footers, but couldn't ever seem to get a grip on the speed. It was a mountain course so I know the slopes played tricks on me to some degree, but I just couldn't get it figured out.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
I hit it well every day, but never really made any putts to speak of. I made most of the 3-5 footers, but couldn't ever seem to get a grip on the speed. It was a mountain course so I know the slopes played tricks on me to some degree, but I just couldn't get it figured out.
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I have a tendency to over read the break when I play mountain courses; especially on bent. It's like I have a built in phobia about the ball getting away from me on the low side of the cup. I think a lot of it is that I grew up playing on fairly flat bermuda greens, so when all else failed I could just bang it to the back of the hole.
 
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GAVol said:
I have a tendency to over read the break when I play mountain courses; especially on bent. It's like I have a built in phobia about the ball getting away from me on the low side of the cup. I think a lot of it is that I grew up playing on fairly flat bermuda greens, so when all else failed I could just bang it to the back of the hole.
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I could look at some of those putts forever and swear they were sloped up or down and they'd be the opposite. Happened regularly. I know Nicklaus likes subtle greens, but these killed me. Long day when you're guessing at the speed on every putt. By the third trip, I'd gotten a bit better and played well, but never got comfortable with the flat one. Still a great experience on a phenomenal course in a beautiful setting.
 
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#738
BigPapaVol said:
I could look at some of those putts forever and swear they were sloped up or down and they'd be the opposite. Happened regularly. I know Nicklaus likes subtle greens, but these killed me. Long day when you're guessing at the speed on every putt. By the third trip, I'd gotten a bit better and played well, but never got comfortable with the flat one. Still a great experience on a phenomenal course in a beautiful setting.
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You know things are getting bad when you resort to holding your putter up to plum the line . . . and then as you stare at the shaft you realize you don't have a clue what people are looking at when they do that. :)
 
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#740
I fully expect that the next thing in putter technology will be a putter with a transparent top line and a level inside.
 
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#741
Putting is all about confidence, IMO. If you make one of the first that you have from 8 feet seems like you make 'em or come close all day. Keep the 3-putts down to one or two a round.

But if you miss a 4 footer on the first hole, you are doomed for the rest of the day.
 
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#742
lawgator1 said:
Putting is all about confidence, IMO. If you make one of the first that you have from 8 feet seems like you make 'em or come close all day. Keep the 3-putts down to one or two a round.

But if you miss a 4 footer on the first hole, you are doomed for the rest of the day.
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A 4 footer is hard.
 
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#743
Fine Vol said:
A 4 footer is hard.
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Not if you are confident. One trick I learned recently that seems to be working is that when I line up I try to block out everything but the hole, imagining that it is bigger than it really is. It seems to stop me from that last moment of doubt before pulling it back. Just seems like it should go in that huge gaping crevasse five feet away.
 
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#745
lawgator1 said:
Not if you are confident. One trick I learned recently that seems to be working is that when I line up I try to block out everything but the hole, imagining that it is bigger than it really is. It seems to stop me from that last moment of doubt before pulling it back. Just seems like it should go in that huge gaping crevasse five feet away.
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There are lots of touring professionals' bent putter shafts that would like to think it's so simple.
 
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#746
BigPapaVol said:
There are lots of touring professionals' bent putter shafts that would like to think it's so simple.
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Tiger putted like crap yesterday and in an interview said that he couldn;t get the speed down, that the greens were slower than he was used to.

Here's a trick for that.

When lining it up and practicing the speed, put the hole on the same line, but four inches further away. Works every time.
 
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#747
lawgator1 said:
Tiger putted like crap yesterday and in an interview said that he couldn;t get the speed down, that the greens were slower than he was used to.

Here's a trick for that.

When lining it up and practicing the speed, put the hole on the same line, but four inches further away. Works every time.
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I'm gonna go ahead and stay away from the "give Tiger advice on putting" line. I think I'll get in the "wish I could putt like Tiger" line.
 
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#748
lawgator1 said:
When lining it up and practicing the speed, put the hole on the same line, but four inches further away. Works every time.
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Stuff like that has never worked for me for some reason. I'm just not wired that way.
 
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#749
BigPapaVol said:
I'm gonna go ahead and stay away from the "give Tiger advice on putting" line. I think I'll get in the "wish I could putt like Tiger" line.
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No kidding . . I've never seen anybody who always looked like they were struggling with the putter that made more putts than Tiger. Then you realize that the reason it looks like he's struggling is that most of the time when he misses, he ALMOST makes it. He has more near misses than anybody.
 
#750
#750
Eh...I played today. I'm still a beginner, really, I've just in the past 2 months learned a proper swing. The year before that was just me guessing how to hit the ball.

It was at the par 3 in Knoxville...I put the first two on the green, but after that I bombed...couldn't do anything. My swing went from smooth to a jerky motion, swaying my hips. I need much much more range time to get a rhythm and some consistency.
 
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