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NiftyNiblick

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  1. Fewer than fourteen clubs would work if the player got to design the clubs. With the OEM determining the loft gap increments, fourteen aren't always enough.
  2. I love the look of the Q fairways, and the lofts as well, but I wish that they were just a little longer. The lie angles look too upright to add more length, but might the lie be less critical with the keel sole? It's the bags that have me confounded, however. Why don't the Japanese OEMs offer bags with cart oriented pockets? I just don't get it.
  3. No shims required. Epon driving iron, domestic numbered irons, and wedges all came with .370" bore hosels. My metalwoods all have .335" hosels I have a couple of Ping hybrids with .355" bore hosels, which makes them a pain in the ass to match to other clubs so I don't play them. I finished my 2015 season on a vintage note, however.
  4. In the US, a cart bag has twin apparel pockets on the sides instead of a larger, full-width one on the back. All cart bag pockets are accessible from the front. Perhaps the Asian player doesn't find this aesthetically pleasing.
  5. Maybe before being sixty-nine years old and having spinal stenosis!
  6. Give me a no-offset, face-balanced putter with a short shaft and upright lie angle and I'm good to go. My mid-seventies Ram Zebra is as good as all of its successors. Someday, somebody will make an especially good putter, but I doubt that it will occur in my lifetime.
  7. A dog bite prematurely ended my 2015 season, this with a gorgeous New England autumn mocking me and no snow forecast on the horizon. But no driver is where I eat beginning a season, and with me playing at 6000 yards, one doesn't always find its way into my bag.
  8. My AF-901 came with a .370 shaft that I changed to match my other irons and wedges.
  9. There don't seem to be any Japanese cart bags available on these pages. I see staff bags referred to as "caddy bags," and I see stand bags, and neither of those are the style of golf bag that I buy. Where are the bags with all front-accessible pockets? It seems strange that there haven't been any comments on this. Also, wrap-style grip options don't abound either.
  10. Several years ago, probably in the early 90s, Spalding Top Flite made an excellent set of titanium fairways called the Intimidator 400 Series. While the design was very effective, the club was held back by its use of proprietary .400 tip shafts. With the option of choosing the standard .335 shaft of one's choice, I think the Intimidator would have been a very successful club. In any case, it validated the use of titanium for smaller fairway metal clubheads. I kid the JDM set about their upright lie angles, but the much flatter lie angles on my Titleist PT steel fairways are simply the standard lie angles that were used on persimmon or laminated maple clubheads for decades.
  11. God forbid on Tour Spec, I suppose, but I definitely prefer stainless steel wedges to forged carbon steel ones. I'm not a "feel" player. I'm a visualize-the-shot-and-recall-the-swing-mechanics-for-it player. My hands are a mess since youth from breakages in amateur boxing, so that must have a lot to do with it.. Additionally, the TK-15 Hogan wedges that match my irons have the Reid-Lockhart / Scor style "V-Sole" on every loft. Edel offers a choice of grinds for each loft and that works better for me. I am told that JDM wedges lean on the side of higher bounce because of soft conditions on their tracks. I have low bounce on both my 52 and my 58. The 52 has a broad, flat sole with minimal radius and camber. The 58 has a narrow sole with enough radius to create a curved leading edge. Are these characteristics available in JDM offerings?
  12. Can TSG cut cover-shredding, highly non-conforming box grooves on request? Actually, you must have the equipment to do that. The better question is, would you provide that work?
  13. Typical of JDM metalwoods, the lie angles are way too upright. They are gorgeous, though. I go vintage on fairway woods just for the lie angles alone; in addition, it ain't broke--it don't need a fix. I am convinced, however, that all Asian players are very tall with very short arms, hence the upright lie angles. Either that or they cast over the top.
  14. I've been matching my iron shafts for years. It just works best for me. Gaming ten UST MP6 R-flex .370s right now,
  15. 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58º = nine clubs / room for five more 28, 33, 38, 43, 48, 53, 58º = seven clubs / room for seven more. With my swing speed in my sixties, 4º increments were doing nothing but wasting space in my bag. I find it incredible that so few club makers are offering wider gap sets, or as in the case with the new Hogan Company, more loft choices overall. On the domestic side, choices are dwindling fast. Spalding, MacGregor, Wilson. Walter Hagen, PowerBilt, Ram, Tommy Armour, Kroydon, Lynx, Wright-Ditson, Pederson, Nickent, First Flight, and so many others are either completely gone or seriously diminished. Adams and Cleveland are rumored to be on the ropes. Cobra, TaylorMade, Callaway, Ping, and Titleist, along with Mizuno USA, have just about all of it now, and some of them appear to be shaky. That is why I was so excited to see Hogan trying a comeback with some fresh, new ideas. I hope they make it.
  16. The USGA, which I regard similarly to the silly alphabet soup sanctioning bodies in boxing save for their lack of competitors (the R&A's been a lapdog since they caved on the 1.62" ball), has yet to acquire the power of arrest. I am also unaware of any federal, state, or municipal statutes that make non-conforming golf clubs illegal. I salute Seven for making wedges that are fun to play, and as I'm bagging a 52/58 combo from another club maker right now, any kind of anecdotal evidence that these Seven wedges shred covers and make the ball cha cha could prove damaging to my wallet. My last excursion to boutique brands brought in an Epon driving iron that's almost automatic.
  17. Sometimes I get the impression that Asian golfers are all very tall with short arms; what's with the upright metalwood lie angles? I honestly don't understand it. Just for fun, check out the lie angles on original Titleist PT metals. If I recall, they range from 54 to 56°. It's just my opinion, but I believe that they were the best metalwoods ever made, and that was a quarter-century ago. I find it amazing how golf club manufacturers can come up with interesting new technology and then screw it up by getting the simple metrics wrong. Those PRGR egg fairway woods are a perfect example.
  18. I don't have specific bags for specific tracks, but I do have, decorating the perimeter of my man cave, all of my previous sets dating back to 1959. This one's probably the most useable. Titleist PT.....13, 17, 20, 23º Titleist DCI 962.....2-9, PW Cleveland 588 / 691..... 53º / 58º Tad Moore Chicopee.....putter They're probably a bit too stiff for me now.
  19. My antique Philips turntable has played Charlie Parker with Strings for the very last time, and I'm still not ready to give up my vinyl, scratchy and hissy as it may be. Has anybody bought a turntable lately, or am I the only geriatric on the board?
  20. Although I've never even seen an AF903 in person, I can't imagine beating the 901. My previous driving irons have include an Eye 2 1-iron, a Dunlop rip-off of the PRGR 200i, a Mizuno Fli-Hi, a Cleveland Halo, and a hickory shafted Louisville. The Epon AF901 hiccups noticeably fewer times than any of those. Nothing is more frustrating than flubbing a driving-iron shot. All you're looking for is an ugly line drive that ignores the cross-breeze, goes through the narrow corridor, and finds a relatively flat patch of short grass so that you can now attempt a somewhat more heroic second shot. Flub that, and you could have done that with your driver. For me, the 901 hits straight shots that land hot. It's not as good as a Heavenwood for hitting protected greens on a long par 3 because it doesn't descend vertically enough. Run-on possibilities, however, are a different story. As a senior, I don't hit long irons from the fairway, but from the tee box, with a broken tee pushed all the way down to its cup, the 901 seriously outperforms everything else that I've ever tried. The newer 903 may possibly be as good, but I can't imagine it being better.
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