Dont trade in your old clubs

[tannyhoban]

This is the last set of clubs I’m re-gripping this year. I’m sticking to my no backups for the rest of the year no matter what. Here’s why.

 

I want to play and stop the experiments. I’m exhausted from poring through every online review to pounce on the next greatest thing. I will no longer care witb of Justin Thomas, Tiger or any other pro. It does not equate to my game. I’m tired of the chase of playing golf club, not golf. I’m mentally and physically drained from having too many choices but not the correct one. I’m tired of buying grips. Im tired of putting them on clubs. I’m tired of trying to squeeze a few more yards out of any given club. Don’t get me wrong.

 

The yield has been a lot fun mixed in with a lot of fails and a ton of effort. I now have more space without the backups, I no longer trip over putters, wedges drivers bags in the basement rec. 

 

I am now in a state of acceptance that I myself have tendencies limitations and a certain comfort zone for what my eyes are looking down at when I address the club. For the past 15 years or so the iron that does that best is a Titleist. 
 

So the 2019 T100S 4-G (48) that have nice new .600R Tour Velvets with one wrap of Golfworks tape underneath are the irons I am sticking with. No more experiments with grips either dammit.

 

Why? Because I took them out for nine yesterday without a range session or even a few swipes and voila my iron game was back. No thick chunky sole, no indecision at setup. Just “ I’m going to draw this about 5 yards” and BAM!! I did it.  Solid swings and results. We’re they long? Nope. I’m not a long hitter. I took enough club to get me there. And I knew which one it would be.

 

I have ditched my SM8 56 and 60 for a 54/14F SM5 and a well used Mizuno S5 60/10 to round out the irons. Those too have Tour Velvets same way.

 

Why? Because out of all the hundreds of wedge trials these two work for me in any conditions. That’s why.

 

Driver for now will be the PXG 0811XF Gen4 with Yellow Smoke. I screwed myself yesterday by changing the heavy weight forward - cuz more yards maybe right? Weight has been returned to it’s proven place.

 

Hybrid is 816 H1 23 and I have a Sim2 Max D 16 3 wood ( it measures 17.5 hahaha) with the lightweight Speeder.

 

A Scotty Cameron Studio Select Newport 2 Putter (likely not authentic) has won that slot. It had a Ping shaft in it when I picked it up which I did modify by pulling and tip trimming and it has beaten out every latest Odyssey, SC, Ping that I’ve thrown at it.

 

I am throwing myself some grace by allowing some changes. For instance hybrid might need to go. 
 

But it’s one in one gone from here on out.

 

I know now definitively what works for me. Thousands of iterations proven, lol.

 

Chuck me over some old school looking irons that are upright with a smidge of tech and I’ll just deal with punching 8 irons in from 130 and hitting 4 iron head high.

 

That’s how I’m rolling from here on out.
Backups are pacifiers for me. I do not need them!  
 

There’s no room for sentimental when trying to make sound golf equipment decisions.

 

And yes golf equipment has made me slightly crazy over the years.

 

[J_Tizzle]

On 6/22/2022 at 10:38 PM, LUXOR54 said:

I have clubs that I've bought and they've never ended up seeing the course, not in my bag at least. Not yet anyways. I don't dare get rid of them just in case. 

 

New level NLU-01, bought it as a replacement for a p790 UDI that caved. Taylormade declined my original warranty claim, then changed their tune. So now I have a NLU-01 18°, and a '21 790 UDI that's still in plastic. Both haven't seen the course yet as I'm on the 7 wood kick. A 7 wood that I bought after I bought the NLU, and after the warranty UDI came in, in the middle of winter, with 3 feet of snow on the ground. 

 

Bought a 13° TS R7 TP, hasn't even been to the range. 

 

64° Cleveland wedge. Used twice on course, once hitting out of a bunker, and a second time hitting out of the same bunker when the first swing went clean under the ball. But maybe the next course I play at could benefit from it???

 

58° pm grind. Doesn't match my gapping, but maybe it will on the next set! Who knows! Shortly after I bought a 56/60 pm grind. Still have all 3. 

 

XR 3 deep, maybe one of these days I'll put a 3 wood back in the bag, might as well keep a few on hand so I have choices when that day comes. XR, R7, R7 TS, a CBX 3 wood that I bought at the end of last season, hasn't touched grass. 

 

SLDR 430, 915D3, TS3, 0811X gen 4. Bought a motore speeder 757 X for the TS3, I think that shaft has been on the sim once? 

 

A staff bag filled with about 14 miscellaneous putters, and another one with 20 or so miscellaneous clubs. 5 iron sets, 2 of which have been out this year. Of course I need 3 sets of blades, what if I stop grooving with the one I'm playing? 

 

Say it with me. I don't have a problem. 

 

That is pretty much my exact results with a 64* wedge.  But for WHATEVER reason, the 62* is just money for me.

[Lemonde]

On 6/24/2022 at 4:54 PM, forrester_fire said:

I never sell my old wedges, but I will sell iron sets.  More often than not, when I change irons it's a "lateral move".  I usually don't go into something significantly different that the preceding set, so it usually doesn't make much sense to hold on to them once I'm comfortable/confident that the new set is staying in the bag.  After that, they're sold. 

I’m in this camp.   One set of irons and usually lateral (ie JPX 921F to the 223’s). The putter is safe.  The Rife has been in the bag for a long time, I think dating back to 2014.   Wedges, fairway woods, hybrids are a revolving door.   I am committed to the Rogue ST “S” driver for now and have shaft options to play with. I think the reason there is a hybrid fairway wood revolving door is that I want them to be reliable but have written the driver off as being reliable no matter what I play lol 

[BIG STU]

2 hours ago, buckeyefl said:

I still carry two Nickent hybrids and nothing has even come close to throwing them out of the bag. One of these days I'll post a picture of them that will drive the OCD crowd crazy. Stickers still on the shafts and the shafts are different flex. I fear the day that I have to reshaft them because I have no ide what to replace them with lol.

Love it man--- Nickents have a certain cult like following in certain circles here at the beach--- Love it drive the OCD crowd bonkers. I do all the time even on here and I wear it like a badge of honor. Look closely at my signature all of my metals have different shafts. 4 different brands 4 different colors and 4 different shaft profiles so to speak. Had them all out on the range one day and a Tourist golfer asked "what the deal was with the different colored shafts?" I tried to explain that those clubs were built by me for me and they work for me. He had a Deer in the headlights look. I think he was thinking I was making some kind of Golf fashion statement.