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It was between this TP-V NX and Tensei 1k Pro Blue in my TSR2 driver and the Tensei was a slightly better match for me. I would play the TP-V NX any day though!! 🙂

Unused Yamaha VD Tour Wedges 51 & 57 All Stock Tour Issue Dynamic Gold S200 $350 $250 + shipping for both SOLD!!

Picture says it all! I believe this was the first of the Pantaleone III in SUS316L. built to 34.5" using the same Shimada stepless shaft they use at Benock / Lie angle is pretty flat ( like 67deg, I believe ) Has the "secret" BENOCK lettering on the face. Condition is 9/10 No visible scratches or dents. Comes with a Benock head cover w Magnetic closure Priced to sell at $750 $650 + Shipping

Clearing my stash of shafts Driver shafts: ( all have Titleist Adapter ) Loop GK S 44.75" in Titleist Head - $100 $75 + Shipping Tensei AV 55 S 45" in Titleist Head - $25 + Shipping Mizuno MFusion D49 S 45.5" in Titleist Head $25 + Shipping Fire Express TP-V NX 55 SX 45.25" in Titleist Head - $100 $75 + Shipping Tour AD PT-6 High Modulus Stiff 45.25" in Titleist Head - $150 $125 + Shipping Fairway Shafts Diamana D-Limited 60 S 5W $50 + Shipping Ventus Black Velocore 6S 7W $50 + Shipping Fire Express TP-V 65 SX 5W (w/Callaway Adapter) $75 $50 + Shipping Loop FW Six TS SX 5W (w/Callaway Adapter) $75 $50 + Shipping Speeder TR 569 Stiff 5W (w/Callaway Adapter) $50 + Shipping Loop FW Seven Stiff 39.5" ( perfect for Callaway Apex UW 21 deg ) $50 + Shipping Tour AD F-75 Stiff 39.5" ( perfect for Callaway Apex UW 21 deg ) $50 + Shipping Stock Diamana for PRGR 55 SR 5W Free, you pay shipping Stock Diamana for Callaway 50 R 5W Free, you pay shipping Stock Tensei for Callaway 55 S 3W Free, you pay shipping Hybrid Shafts Diamond Speeder HB 7X .350" tip 38.5" $50 + Shipping Tour AD DI Hybrid 85 Stiff .370" tip 38.5" $75 + Shipping Tour AD DI Hybrid 95 Stiff .370" tip 37.75" $75 + Shipping Tensei CK Hybrid 70 Stiff 39.5" with Titleist Adapter $25 + Shipping

I've settled with the Stock M43 Spec II shafts in my TR500... These fine Nippon shafts need a new home. These are all .355" Taper tip shafts. Additional Pics can be provided upon request. Nippon NS Pro V90 Stiff 4-PW / Tour Velvet Plus 4 Standard 9.5/10 - $150 $120 + Shipping Modus 105 Stiff 5-PW / No name brand grips 8/10 - $150 $120 + Shipping Modus 115 Stiff 5-PW Brand New Pulls / Tour Velvet 360 Standard 9.9/10 - $200 $150 + Shipping Modus 120 Stiff 5-PW Uncut no grips 10/10 - $200 $175 + Shipping Modus 120 Stiff 4-PW / Tour Velvet Plus 4 Standard 8/10 - $150 $125 + Shipping

I'm selling off all my Yammy irons. I love how they look and feel but they just don't help my game compared to the old TR500 with the stock M-43 shafts. I'm honestly shocked that I couldn't work with these great Yamaha irons but it is what it is. 2012 Inpres X Tour Model 5-PW heads only (Condition 8/10) - SOLD!! 2020 RMX 020 5-PW heads only (Condition 9/10) - $300 $250 $200 + Shipping 2022 RMX VD Tour Model 5-PW heads only (Condition 9/10) - $350 $300 $250 + Shipping 2024 RMX VD/R 5-PW + VD/M #5 (Condition 9.5/10) - $600 $550 $400 + Shipping SOLD!! 2022 RMX VD Tour wedges 51 & 57 (Condition 6/10) - $75 $50 + Shipping for both 2022 RMX VD Tour wedges 51 & 57 (Condition 8/10) - $150 $100 + Shipping for both Each set has 1 or 2 heads that have minor nicks or rock chips. Happy to provide additional pics upon request. These extremely soft S20C heads are just too easy to damage in play at my home course. Feel free to ask questions, but low ballers will not be responded to and promptly be blocked!! 🙂

Let's get these moving. $200 + actual shipping.

Hard to find these in a clean condition like this anymore. Most used sets I am seeing on the market are thrashed by now. GLWS!!

My distance gaps are as follows: DR TSR2 250y 4W Mavrik Sub Zero 220y 7W Mavrik Sub Zero 200y (moving to an Apex UT 3U) 4U Apex UT 185y 5-PW TR500 170y to 120y (10y gaps) AW RTX ZIPCORE (52) 100y SW RTX ZIPCORE (58) 80y I've also tried 46 deg wedges but they seem to spin too much and don't go as far..... So I've stuck with the PW from the ironset. As for your Hybrid thing, I too dislike Hybrids. They are just a bit finicky for me and can occasionally hook like crazy. I've recently replaced my 23 deg Mavrik Pro Hybrid with a '24 APEX UT (23 deg) with a 90g Tensei 1k Hybrid and the thing hits like a dream! Feels good and goes very straight with enough height. Not a single hook from this club thus far. I am now waiting on a same club in 20 deg to replace my 7 wood. Hopefully the distances won't be so different. As my length decreased with age, I feel more than ever that straighter shots that stay in the fairway (or close vicinity) are so much more important than longer drives. I may pick up a more forgiving (fairway keeping) driver this year ... Maybe one of the 10k drivers?!

Grandista + Loop GK is an awesome combo!!

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Seven putter sold!!

Price lowered!!

Prices lowered on the remaining 2 putter heads!!

PRICES LOWERED!!

Gold Factory head is sold!!

The last 6 months, I've been using my Benock Blue Dragon II exclusively and I got fit for a MEZZ Max and my other blade putters are just not gettin play time at all. (WHAT A WASTE!!! 🙂. ) Prices are for head only with a head cover ... but I can shaft them up wth steel or carbon shafts that I have laying around for extra. BTW, the dog is not included in the sale 🙂 1. Vintage Gold's Factory T105 Prototype This was my first entry into the world JDM putter which I bought from a member on this forum. It was mostly sitting idle in my office. There is a small nick/dent on the sole but overall in great condition. 8.5/10 It had a 72 or 3 deg lie angle when I bought it , but was professionally bent back to standard 70deg by Tom Slighter a few years ago. JIS 303 has nice solid feel at impact. 355g Will include a white genuine leather head cover with velcro closure. SOLD 2. Seven VS-R Sandvik putter Custom refinish at NorCal putters. This is their matte raw finish. face milling done by NorCal putters. Sandvik steel is really soft at impact. 358g 70deg standard lie angle No course use after refinish. Looks new. Condition 10/10 Will include a red genuine leather head cover with velcro closure. LOWERED TO $350 + actual shipping costs. SOLD 3. Benock Pantaleone III SUS316L "The First One" Bought it on the used market but all the engravings indicate that this is actually the first unit posted on Benock's Instagram page. "BENOCK" secret logo on the face. SUS316L is softer than 303 at impact. I believe the lie angle is around 68deg 337g Benock smiley face magnetic head cover is included LOWERED TO $600 + actual shipping costs.

I have here for sale a real Tour Issue Prototype RS-F driver head 10.5 deg. The appearance is pretty much the same as the replacement RS-F that PRGR distributed when all of their original RS-F heads were recalled due to having too high of a COR. The slight difference is that the logo on the sole says "RS" on this one and the face has a "RS-F" laser etched. But you can see from the weight screw locations that is is indeed a RS-F model. Replacement retail models has "RS-F" on the sole and face. The other difference from the retail model is that the retail replacement model had a "conforms to R&A SLE rules.." logo on the heel of the sole. This tour issue does not. Anyway, these are minor details for simply a great (legendary) driver head that shook the JDM driver market a bit. Condition is 8.5/10 with ball marks on face and a couple of tiny unnoticeable paint chips along the leading edge of the crown. I am including 2 shaft adapters for this head as well as a used (retail) RS5 5 wood head as a bonus. No head covers are included. Price is $300 $250 $150 for the two heads + actual shipping

Hey gang!!! it's been a while! I have a couple of forged iron heads for sale. 1. A Grind R1 Blade 4-PW Condition 9.5/10 Standard Loft and Lie S25C forged carbon steel. Made in Kobe Japan. Likely a Kyoei forged head but not confirmed. 3 or 4 range sessions on a mat. Used on the course only once. Tiny pin size nick on 7 iron. some faint ball marks on face and brush mark on sole. No chatter marks on back face as they were protected with head covers while in the bag. $600 + actual shipping costs. SOLD 2. 2020 Yamaha RMX 020 5-PW. Condition 8.5/10 ( !!bonus 51 and 57 wedge heads!! ) This is their "Tourmodel" for the RMX 2020 lineup. Standard Loft and Lie. S20C forged carbon steel. Likely Endo Thailand forged but not confirmed. One of the softest feeling forged irons I've had. Reviewer in Japan have said softness is comparable to Miura and I agree. Used this for 1 full season since new. Some brown spots on face. scuffs on sole from usage. smallish dent/nick on 8 iron leading sole which does not affect playability. Back face has almost no chatter marks since I always used head covers. !!BONUS!! I am including a 51 and a 57 deg RMX VD Wedge (current model) which is a bit rough 7/10 but still has lots of life left. I've moved on to using VD irons and just ordered the latest VD/R. Yamaha forged irons continue to impress!!! LOWERED TO $299 + actual shipping costs.

I think size wise, the Lab Golf Pistols are right in between the Super Stroke Pistol GT 1.0 and 2.0 . The wrist lock from Super Stroke are installed on to the shaft in a straight manner where as LAB golf grip I have are installed at 2 deg diagonally. Looks weird at address where the shaft angle is already tilted forward, but I have gotten used to it. The other thing I like about these LAB Golf pistol grip is that they only weigh 58g. I have not yet come across other similarly sized pistol grips in this light of a weight range. Most are in the 80g range or heavier.

Recently made a visit to Club Champion for a putter fitting and I ended up ordering a L.A.B. Golf Mezz Max putter. L.A.B. Golf specializes in zero torque putters and their line up includes a blade putter as well. Their mallets, "Mezz" line of putters have been tearing up the greens on tour recently between Adam Scott and Lucas Glover. Though they use broomsticks, I opted for a standard style. Leadtime is 2 months now with these putters, so In the mean time I installed one of their presse grips in my Benock putter and getting interesting results. More forward press without being deliberate. https://labgolf.com/shop/all-products/press-pistol/

Since Shimada seems to have stopped producing their 120g stepless putter shafts, I've been hunting around for other shafts to try. Lately I'm going between my Benock Blue Dragon II blade and Honma P303 mallet. While I generally putt better with the Benock, I just can't convince myself to move completely away from the Honma mallet which gives me more sense of security over a putt. One issue with the Honma is that it has a 370g head and the overall putter weight was close to 560g which just felt a bit too heavy to me. Unfortunately, the weight is not adjustable and so I wanted to try a super light shaft to reduce the overall putter weight to about 520g where my other putters sit. Couple of weeks ago, I found this new graphite shaft offering from ACCRA called SYNC and it came in 135g and 85g models. It looked cool too with the see thru carbon weave pattern!! looks on shaft matters too, you know. 🙂 Anyway, I got the shaft yesterday and so I replaced the 120g steel shaft to this new ACCRA shaft and I think the putter feels a lot more "familiar." putter weight is now down to 523g.. If I recall, the original Odyssey Stroke Lab series introduced in Japan in 2014 had gone this route in using super light steel shaft at about 80g and used a heavier head (365g or so) and a 80g grip to theoretically promote better tempo. the current Stroke Lab shafts are lighter at 70g. Provided that so many tour players use the Stroke Lab shafted putters, perhaps there is something to be said about light weight shafts in putters. I am thinking I am doing something similar with this new shaft. Anyway, so far so good on the carpet. Less effort with the takeaway and the overall stroke feels more like a natural pendulum swing. Obviously I'll have to try this on the course to see if it actually works well on grass. Will report back once I have results!!

I have a stash of Kurokage 2013 Proto TiNi that I have acquired time. They have been my go to shafts for the last 5 years or so. For me, they serve as a reference standard on pretty much any driver or fairway. it matches my swing I guess. Kind of like what you did with the Diamana Stinger! 🙂 For me 60 S in driver and 60 X in fairway works best. 70 S in a 5 wood is also pretty good. I have heard many people mention that the Kurokage XM is the retail version of the '13 Proto TiNi but I have a hard time believing that since the '13 Proto TiNi ( I guess now called "Kurokage Pro" ... google look up ) https://www.mca-golf.com/sites/default/files/spec-pdf/MRC KURO KAGE Pro_SPEC SHEET.pdf and the Kurokage XM https://www.mca-golf.com/sites/default/files/spec-pdf/2017 MCA-KURO KAGE XM Spec Sheets r2v20170406.pdf have very different specs. Anyway, for a fairway wood, I actually recommend the Kurokage XM because it is a more mid launch/mid spin shaft. Kurokage XT - Low Launch / Low Spin - Stout .. very much like 1st gen Diamana White Kurokage XM - Mid -High Launch / Mid Spin ...very smooth. higher launching. Kurokage XD - Low Launch / Low Spin - Milder version of the XT. Not as peaky but still low launch / low spin There have been other Kurokage models on the market but mostly for stock offerings. So the 3 models mentioned here are the "proper" after market model.

For light weight wedge shafts, I'm really happy with the Modus 105 Wedge. I've tried the Modus 105 Tour in my wedges and they seemed to be too high launch for me. 105 Wedge was lower launch with consistent spin. Another option that I don't mind is using Modus 120 Tour in wedges. Weight wise they might be slightly heavier at around 108 to 110 cut... but I feel they work well as wedge shafts. Plenty of feel to it. Interestingly, I was "so so" with the 125 Wedge and hated the 115 Wedge but somehow got along very well with the 105 Wedge.

Been playing Modus 120 Stiff in my irons the last few years and while I don't have any complaints, At 55 years old, I've started to feel that I might be better off with lighter shafts. Recently I switched my irons from Yamaha 020 Tour Forged to Ping I230s and since Ping US did not offer Modus 120 as an option at all ( not even for upcharge ) I had to order the i230s with Modus 105 S ... which just did not work out. So I pulled the 120 S out of my Yammys and into the Pings and it is night and day! I hit it so much straighter. I guess I'm a 120 Stiff guy. My i230s are set for the season. So now that I had the RMX 020 heads with no shafts, I decided to try some NS V90 I had from previous builds. As any JDMer would know, NS 950GH has been the mainstream light(er) steel shaft for JDM irons for decades, only recently getting replaced by 950GH NEO (which unfortunately I am not a big fan of). A common feedback from 950GH users has been about a sloppy feel of the midsection right as you start the down swing. I too felt some of that in the 950GH. The V90 on the other hand does not have this funny feel. Some users may characterize the V90 as a bit more stout compared to the 950GH... I don't think so..... I think they have a different load/bend profile. Anyway, I built up the RMX 020 with the V90 Stiff... and I took it out to the range last night for the first time. As a Modus 120 user, I want my forged irons to have a deep and dense feel at impact. And this new combo did not disappoint. Perhaps not as dense feeling as the Modus 120... but com' on, the V90 shaft is 20 to 25 grams lighter .... so maybe it's inevitable to have a slightly lighter impact. But it's not bad at all. A controlled (75%) swing got me the normal distance with a predictable high draw trajectory. With the 27 deg 5 iron, I struggled a bit with height using the Modus 120 but with the V90 I have no issues with height. I feel that this 5 iron with the V90 will stop even on a firm summer time green. Will be using this newly built lightweight set as a back up for now, but I have a feeling that these shaft will someday be installed in my main set. Very very very promising!!! I might need to go find another set of these shafts before they stop making them. 🙂