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RANKING THE LATEST BUILDS ...... > DISTANCE > astro tour V3 grey ghost 10* - diamana x 60s. every time i take this out , i get a one of those moments... " sheeeeeeeeeesh, got that , thats gone MILES!" every..............time. i SHUD play htis more. ACCURACY > KAMUI tp 07 9* - diamana kaili 60x not the longest. but uneringly straight with any morphed swing i put on it. shape suits my eye So well. so much confidence with this set up, sent it back to the links to live. Very low launch , incredible sound, feel. just a wonderfull club for hiting straight drives. CARRY > astro tour v2 11* - GD pt6x High, soaring bomber. not a balloning spinny sheister, this gets up right away, loves to go straight, over trees, but not round corners. great in the wet, hard to loose it laterally. great feel. ALL ROUNDER > TIE...CALLAWAY FT 9 PROTO diamana stinger 70s / kamui pro kp-01 10* diamana stinger 70s both are great to take out on any course , distance is great , dont miss with them often, flights great. they are bag spot A+ for all conditions, wind rain, dry, they just out and out perform. ive been gravitating to these more than most for $$$$ games, when i can only game 14 clubs as opposed to my usual 20ish for muck about rounds. Favourite > tourstage p51 ai chan 701 9.5* - diamana stinger 70x. love taking this out , head shape is awosme, pear shape, small face. frames the ball well. can adjust tee height for diff shots, get out there without being short or long high nor low. feel is excepetional as ud expec with all ENDO mfg. , sound is lovely , more dull muted toing than tink, can feel the shaft thwack. + i dont lose it lateally much , it hits faiways pretty often, usually a decent way down there. looks oldschool class as well in the bag, i get questions and lookswhen i bag it BEC it dorsnt look like one of today behemouths. its a players driver and it plays awsome. can use it for consequence golf ( comp or $$$$) but id usually chose another, course dependant , def a daily driver, adn up there with the yamaha 203s for looks/class.

srixon zr-30 9.5* - matrix f6m2xs 44inch 314g mini driver that AINT mini waht so ever. this thing is foooookeeeeeeen unreal. can do anyhthing with it, see any shot > low tee , high tee, mass hooks , slice the ears off it, high soraing bombs or low punchy stingers. its all on the table with this! not being funny it CUD be close to my most complete driver. feel is exemplary, sound is superb, looks awsome. fit is right on. not THE longest over all distance club in my stable by any means but certaily NOT a slouch, it getsout there and usually down the pipes, takes some really crappy swing to muck this up but that will muck anything up. i use this on short tracks, its IDEAL for my short links back home ,where i forsee alot of play these holdiays. had it on the range VS 3 of my other shorties and i think i have to say, this might be my preferd set up. wonderfull driver and this head , IF u ike smaller comapct heads.......... is AWSOME!!!

small reality check yesterday. A mates 26yr old son came to tplay a cpl of games this wekeeend needed clubs so gave him my yamaha 2011 v203/ diamana kaili 70s build. 14 yrs old now. this thing... hes was easily averaging 270+ yards carry with it , cpl ended way past 300y all in , easily, he was flipping wedges in while we 50+ mortals were htitng 6, 7 irons. i had to check it was back in my bag at the end of the weekend. ..." hey S can u get me one of these ? , ive not hit a ball with such feel and love as this thing its miles nicer than my gamer , he plays a new c paradym at the mom. " well tis here if u need it isays....., new always better huh, seems , NOT!

next up BUCHI MT201 i added these recently and have had some teething problems with them , when they are good they are very very good....... but of late they have been sensational. finally got them wired a few times in a row to make a significant impact on my confidence playing them on top courses i went . 5-pw as im hitting my big fat old 4i form prgr so well no point with these having a knife 4. small. thin. rounded. kinda of have a slight old sckool gooseneck with out being goose neck , hard ot explain, flat sole but with bounce, hard to explain pics do it MUCH better, U know when u hear those explaianations esp on drivers.. pro level but have a ton of forgivness...... made for GI but can go miles , u knw u gotta that that with a grain of salt. so what im suggesting here or trying to imply is ALMOST the same with these , they are shaped as such they are like scalpels on hard pan , as good as ANY for those conds, but they have bounce to them that makes hitting out of rough easy and off thicker juicier grass a delight. i know........ shoot me , but its true, in fact more so than both the honmas and tourstage. when ooking at the ball at address , the head shape frames the ball bigger than it is becd they have aa higher toe and a bit shorter lenghth , with a top line that has some body to it, some weight , some power , where as the toursatge re thinner and all knife like , these have some oomph to them similarly to miuraism sb01 but rounder, sb01 are rectangular. these are rounded. impact is SO similar to both the miuraism and masda mb its impossible to tell which is which. let alone better , there is no better. workability - both ways with aplomb, favours neither a cut nor draw, Sb01 like a cut honama are neutral , ts can maybe see a draw easier. yonex DEFINITLEY DRAW LOOK. flight- is mid , they dont look so fat in the muscle that the ball will bring rain. design looks- outstanding, they font on these looks superb thye REALLY look like a top of the run club. Tabuchi san did a heck of a job with these. ill let the pics talk now......................... ive said enough

Im going to add more to this bec as far back as a few days ago its clear, BORON IS A LONG WAY from being.. dead. i have a bunch of older 2011/2012/13 ish , Yamaha endo forged v series heads , bascaily made of the best material there was (is) , great shape 425/440/460 cc heads amazing feel i took to Mr wiard and said what do u think, he s just done the 7d yamaha for me and said why not do them all with yuor best shafts bec there is no better head..... 13 yrs on........................ , u know wht i kind of agree with him. lots of great heads out there but better than an ENDO made no expsnse spared one ?? , sorry, no so stinger 70s. diamana x 70s crazy black 80 7.4 seven dreamers 65xs all went in to the YAM heads basically the same length, specs all 9-10* lofts. i finally took them all out for a lets see sesshy, just the yams un diluted with my others to see what was the "best". -Range balls but good bridgestone balls that dont fall out of the sky after 150 yards, these are like good quality " cheap : balls so its a fair test not being able to hit them on the course like i usually do to definitively test my hoards. ihit a TON of balls in hot humid ,no wind day. after warming up i hit 10 balls with each driver session 1 then had a break . - decided to start with the Xshaft from2014 @ 10*.. (my god this is about as a good a club as ive hit , the feel is like what id call perfection. slightly higher ball flight but flat and reaching , searching for distance. it didnt like to whip about laterlly too much but its more than doable. shaping this IS possbile , i have the 2017 shaft but thats in my jbeam 435 black and prob not likey to come out anytime this century. as an aside there IS a differnce in 2014/2017 but its so minimal its almost undetectable in a driver ,in a fw wood is where i can tell. -next up was the crazy black 80 7.4............, im not 100% sure what i think about this in a driver its SO stiff and dense and LOW , if ur not on your game at the top of ur game , this thing KILLS you its just not for the light hearted. its a proper beast. i was hitting the ball well so i was getting it to ignite a bit but in all honesty i cud go down a flex in this shaft and enjoy it more. i hit it well and saw its character but id not reach for it often and not in a comp bec its such as task master. of all the shafts this was the least suited to the YAM head and i think it wud be better served in my kamui top 07 10.5* , i think thats what i wil do with it bec it was , by a ways my least fav and had the biggest legnth dispersion results. def the shortest but also he second longest on a single oomph hit. - Diamana boron stinger was next. longest single blow. tightest dispersion laterally but second biggest legnth dispersion. when i top it a bit , its a proper worm buner BUT not as bad as the crazy. miss left, right on the face and i wasnt getting punished THAT bad. wasnt great of ocurse but yea none went ob they were all on first cut. totally acceptable. flight is low mid. its hard to launch this high even with high tee it just prefers to go flat and straight, i have enormous confidence reaching for this bec. i know im just never going to get munched with it and when i get into the ball proper i get FULL reward with distance. this has been so for years with so many heads ive had on them, the jbeam 435 70x ive got and never changed is STLL my go to for the longest courses i play as much as i try all.. theres a reason thsi thing is never out of reach. granted it doesn feel that good esp in the jbeam, in the yam it livens up a lot, in the kamui its awsome.. but for this test its a great match with the ENDO head. -Last of course was the 7d its funny bec. i play this the least of all my drivers. 7d has a feel to it quite unlike others , it i was going to say the closest it wud be the matrix tp6hd. i get this to soar, its laterally moveable both ways to a NON insignificant degree nad for sure its THE most consistant build of the lot of them, i dont get the huge distance i can get with the boron but if grouping is key, this is the lock for that. they go left , right more than the other build for sure but theres never a 30 yard distance gap i can almost go and put the ball to a disntace but i never find i get a "wow" moment with it for length , the wow factor with my 7d comes by moving it in the air more easily then walking up to the ball all the time and know its in play to where i was trying to put it. i tend to pay this when i play fwd tees or when its set. the extra carry and workabilty is its defining character for me. In this company , as a daily driver id choose the 7d followed by the X . 7d gives me a tickle unlike the rest, theres an extra spice to it the others have less of bec its more moveable BUT.. id reach for the X when i want to play comp or the stinger when i play long. the crazy is going to get DFA's it jsut cant hang , it needs a diffstyle head. i have NO doubt that overall when i want to go fo he longest starighets shots, the boron is the answer. its been so long ago and as recent as a few days back it still so. it also prob helps when at release of the latest offfering came out from diamana at the trade show in 2018 the head shaft designer of MITSUB CHEM tells me to stock up on as many X and BORON as i can find coz they wont be making them again.........................................

HONMA TW 727 RANGE. sakata japan foged s25s. thin, small compact body but with a mid thick top line. very little off set. THE most beautiful lines on the body of any club, bar none. stock shaft DGs200.37.75 5i if u like to picture a shot then go after it with supreme confidence the ball will follow that path, as far as ive got these are the best for that. the pw which i hate in cbs as a rule on this set CUD easily be a replacement wedge for ANY otther set.its the best looking PW ive seen. 46* so stock loft these days. check these out...

tpv nx 65s 107cms +/_ 42inch 67g raw. 116g with PP grip torque 3.0% cpm 258 grip in mint cont. professionally pulled by master builder. cond , perfect. mine from new as it has been in one of my 4woods. delivery by EMS , PP only. $175

this is what is possible with the Marus, they are an absolutely magnificent finish . but.. copper is NOT to be played from the sand. take another one for that! bottom pics are not marus they are xwedge, but one session in the bunker and check the sole.... makes no odds to the play but the look..!! hit from grass only

TOURSTAGE mr23 These might just be my fave set of pure ,straight up Mb of them all. There are more revered, more precious ., more sohpisticated options out there but for THE most simple , complete players MB , they are at the top of my pile. Due in no sml part to the shape of the 8/pw , that shape puts them right at the top with the honma tw but ill get to those later. I first found them not long after they came out early 2000s and have a had a set ( or 2) in play most of that time. my latest set(s) will prob last me till i stop playing one is a stock chrome ENDO forged / DGs200 set 3/pw in fabulous nick, ive been toying with putting a set of NS super peening orange in these for years, but havnt done it bec i jsut cant fault the way they perform with the DGs200s. if anything im tlepted ot find a set in good nick ot do that, but can not find any suitable. these DG ones are my travelling set, ESP to the sand belt im Melb and south there of . they suit those cond as good as any club ive ever palyed. i take these and a set of prgr tr500s down there, i dont even bother with anything else. The other set were Mr Mruayamas 2004 US masters set in copper. they only get used on special course days to preserve them as much as i can. i swapped out the N226v X by Ns for a set of shimada 3001s constant weight and Masda slicks. ...........THAT was a good swap. these play for me JUST perfeclty , a little lower, a little flatter. but can make them do what they were made to do. fizz about with the course. def Not long , just precise , the pw is 47* A Good thing is , they are NOT the same as the retial veriosn, slightly more compact. with a bit less off set and a thinner top line wi much shorter hosel and thicker muscle. not much.. but, u can see it. they are both bsolute scimitars and about as presice as a club can get i know not how and ive discussed this with Chris yrs ago, even tho they were ENDO forged, both tourstage and yanaha DONT have that soft pillowy fluffy cusshy EPON /ENDO/ONOFF feel to them , they are noticeably denser , thicker, deeper at imapact u know where u ahve hit the ball all the time. is it better or or worse.......... thast for the observer to decide ,for me, i think it suits this head perfectly.

Always wanted to do a MB thread here as i play so many of them and i wont have to read over and over... " miura baby blades( what ever thefk they are ) are the best!!!! Mbs to me are: much harder to hit well consistantly ..., WAY more punishing on non centered miss hits.., way easier to hosel rocket and shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahnkooooooooo! into the woods..., Much more mentally intimidationg to look down at past the 6 irons .., AND............ they blow the bloody doors off EVERY other style of iron when u sweet one . i become a engineer, painter , sculpter, swordsmith for that fleeting moment when i hit one perfeclty to my pre shot minds eye view. obv. with other sticks thats perfectly do-abale but not near the same extent as with an MB. they def require more concentration diligence and confidence to game them each week in comps andi i do have a mental arguement that i do use my more muscled caviities at times in monthly comps ( PRGR tr 500 / IDBL im looking at you) but they dont give me that adrenaline surge as with a set of HONMA , tousrstage, mbs . THATS the why . SO ill get into a few sets ive gamed over the aslt 30+ yrs ( if can rememeber tthem all } and ill pop up pics and hopefully other like minded bladers will join in .........................,

KAMUI kp -tx 14.5*- 17.5* (CRAZY FW 80 flex 7.7sx + 19.5 diamana kaili 73s added another set of thes e bec the diamana set were so good i left them im oz for links. this set is WAY mre powerfull sleek shape.. target milling on face.. sheeeeeesh.. these are something good to hit off the deck.. FLIGHT IS lower but not low low , no danger of worm burning but merecats beware! Love the flight. , distance is really good, hte harder i go at these the better h they perform and they are hard to miss with. VERY shapeable head shape but with these shafts it tales LOT of that ability out , the diamanas much easier to move about , this set is much more about accuracy and precision than zinging about laterally , they are not " ideal" from the rough ,both shape and loft wise, vs say the SYB set , but off short stuff these are frreeeeeeeken awsome. this set has been in the bag for a bit and having a tough time changing them when i pay comp tracks. ** added the 19.5* with diamana alislei 73s for a higher floatier soft landing 210-225 yard club . what a success !!!!!! amazing feel >MUCH nicer than the crazy feel mugh higher but not ballooning it goes high and roll over giving it a sembalnce of charatcer not just a hot air balloon club. magnificent for working it about abit. tops out i think at 220 ish so far. not quite the choie for off the tee. ihave 7 wood by crazy with a stinger in it that is for that. that won easliy in comparion. but for off the truf this is sesnatiunal.

Re shafting a cpl of MODARTS.. 14* , 16* i had a a diamana X 70x in the 16* but it was tipped a bit too much to be a good match for this head , the modart heads have AN extremely dense FULL feel to them and ive found prefer an airier , livelier feeling shaft to bring it to its real life. hence they are getting the diamana ilimas or alisislei . its like hitting a benock putter the fleeing cant quite be rebuilt in another head, its def a one off feel. they dont launch high either for a low rider sleek head, its very much a fairway wood / non tee option and for slicker grass fairways. the 14.5* had a crazy black 80 but that was all but impossible to get off the ground unless i flushed it 100% of my ability. after hitting some diamana ILIMA red bords , yesterday it was CLEAR, this wud be a great match for both these heads with its higher , lighter, airier launch characteristics. ive got a ton of fairway woods, but nothing i have has quite the fell of MODART. they are not as playavble as others due to the sleeknes of them esp in the wet or the rough. but on true fast short grass. nothing i have is as satifying to hit...............albeit it needs the right engine which i havnt quite got to yet with these. ilima or actually aliiseli : ponderous.............

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KAMUI KP-X 9.5* -matrix Hd6 sx. 44 inch 312 g. built almost for looks alone. My bud had a cpl of unused marix shafts sitting about non preped i bought and re shafted a cpl of older awsome heads with them. the tp6 got the srixon zr30 which is gaming as asecondary muini driver a lot and this one got the kp-x . u know... , the the older heads are just so much nicer fhan the new in my book. so this one has a very light swing weight and itds very partial to be straight pulled in to the trees!!!!! i need to think about this, its NOT for shaping its way , way too low spin to try and get funy with , its point shoot ONLY. even when i try cut it , just doesnt wann go. funny club, not sure of this yet, its in training mode. so far im getting Very very straigh,t lower flight , i need to tee the ball quite a bit higher for any kind of launch /carry, when i get this fromthe meat my gawdddddd it goeth!!!!! forget the fact its shorter so there not as long this thing fookeeeen crushes balls but so far ive not even come clsoe to any consistencey with it its very much a project in the works. This will be a short par 4 specailsit. Im tinken its gonna finally be suitable for my home course on about 6 holes so def worth working with it.. I noted vs the same build with diamana stinger, the latter is much more meaty full dense impact , both hit the balls a long way for a short build and straight. this shaft is very low spin with excellent control . imight neeed to pump up the weights in it tho........., looks, superb!

mizuno FRAME WALKER/ Kisho colab. kino sho makes the tbest fabric in japan. this is great. the smaller version. great tavel bag.!! condition is v good , AFAIK all pieces are working just fine but as its a USED bag . pls be aware there MAY be some frailties im not aware of. these sold out ages ago, $550 tracked insured , deliverd by EMS ( i think if they STILL take this size) + EXACT SHIPPING.