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took the 6 irons out for.a.sesshy on course with the sp red and cbi today good god really what have i done, favour one over the other??? utterly impossible. i prob get to see as many irons as anyone on the planet in JDM space and im gonna say with unbiased assuredness, there AINT nothing sweeter than these 2 shapes. be it 10yrs old or not. id LOVE both these cos, bit especially. PRGR to do a10th aniversary ltd release of.the tr500s. id take the ever so slight gooseneck out, shorten them up a cpl of. mills and fattem the sole/top line by mill or 2. give them just a hint of more ooomph. the prgrs to me are ever so slightly more dynamic ,more precision to an.exact spot in an area on the green where as the yams are more thump and cut / draw to a widern area on the green. impact goes to the yams. precision goes to the prgr. u kniw what i might ring prgr.and ask if.they can do it.. just for a laugh see what the say...

With the insane distance of the non conf. Rcoll11* and waccine gr88 mini driver i felt another Royal collection super cv 9* head built to 45 x D2 x 323g hi cor as in order i had a diamana X 70siting idle (which is akin to golf build blasphamy) and thought why not, finaly nailed down Mr wizard to get this out ASAP and i picked it up friday night for play yesterday in rainy drizzly s**tty conds, took the 11* one as insurance in case it was too bad but to my surprise i played the 9* one the whole round. There was no run out , it was an all carry day and well for 9* i gota say this shone very very brightly as expected . was not expecting to play it much just hit a buch of drives on a few altitude change holes but actually by adjusting the tee heigh i had no issues al day, realy surprised me for a 9* head The fact the head in olny 390cc and incredibly round full means i can change the flight shape at will by adjusting the tee height, this hits everything with absolute simplicity,high cuts,low raking cuts,few yard draws orwhen i got a few , some super high straights, its not as versatile as the11* but its longer and ican guarantee i will get cheat miles out of it when its dry. non conforming, US model IS, and yep it shows for sure. really good distance and workability for those daysw hen ur NOT playing for sheep sations.... or ur mates $20bux For people that dont prefer ,common or garden ...

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2011 wedges were really good. as well... IMO better than the irons of that year , which we re a bit bland... same great feel but... bland.. hit em a cpl of times but not over the prior years. Also the best design of the tour irons to me are prob the 2010s . i just love the "lack of "cavity and the blade like look, but the 09s sabre tootth cats teeth look awsome as well on a small head. dont really matter with them they were (are still) all such great bats. oh almost forgot , t THE wedges by YAM were the raw / black spin monsters. when you get those out of the middle with some head speed and a whippy shaft ala DG spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin shafts oh lordy lord , just watch the balls come hurling back at you without any skin on the impact zone !

how about these 3 ........... for oldies. yama 09 tours, 2010 prgr tr500, 09 yam inpres x forged mr wizard re built those crazies cbis i got form you nobs with the 2009 tour models a cpl ogf weeks ago had them earmakred for the prgr tr500s but the weight was an issue so the slightly longer , heavier YAMMY tours got the nod , was his decision , tried a 6 iron tester last weekend, annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd they wont be headed to anyone else anytime soon! Amazing build , bit lighter and whippier than i was expecting but in a really good way. could move the ball laterally with minimal effort compared to the NS i use. he redid the tr500s with SP red S . THEY wont be going anyhwere soon either! i gave him the choice of epon aftours, ,prgr tr500,callaway tour autehntics ( these were his second choice) ,grindworks Mb-1,honma 737m or the yams, he took the 09 yam tours. impressive build. such a nice impact. he said matter of factly............ YAMAMA tours are one of the best heads hes ever seen, the ones from 08/11 EPON are the best clubs there are end of chat, doesnt matter which model they always come up exactly to spec and he ONLY uses specs as a guide not how they play, EPON are never ,ever out of sync. but he has a thing for old yams, i mentiond nevew models and he screwed his face up stic kt o the old ones .. hahha, ok, so ill stick to the oldies. prgr yam epon honma miz he says are all pretty much spot on ,was WAY more scathing for q cpl of newer models that have come out. which i wont mention. funny not played these in 7 years and now i have 2 sets fully back in the rotation . the 09 inpres X-forged non tours are getting re done with NS modus 120X. for rainy days! My buddy said last night over a cpl of beers "if u just tuck to one set of bats u might just hit a GIR every now and again. " philistine! such is life of a ho!

just had a peek at SWAG, ive obv. never heard of them prior but not a shock there where i live , cpl of thier putters look fine who are they exactly ?

nope ..club made in japan. hmm dont beleive that for a second. Specifications are design values, and thus are subject to chan ge. *Individual products may feature minor deviations in measurement. Suggested head speed and flex ranges: N.S.PRO RMX95 (S):43-48m/s. All irons are nickel chromium plated. Loft and lie angles can be adjusted ±1º in 0.5º increments. Adjusting loft and lie angles may resu lt in small dents in the nickel chromium plating, but the dents do not compromise performance or safety. Clubs: Made in Japan. nobs.. proper tranlsation ? https://golf.yamaha.com/products/rmx_vd_tm_iron.html

errrrrm , swag / dgap means?

says, club made in japan. hello... whats going on here..

ahh yes the winter conumdrum .

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I added the most eagerly awaited jbeam 10.5* black 435 / diamana stinger (09) 70s,45 x d1x 318g to the fray on the weekend, 2 days with it and not surprisingly im quite impressed. VERY differnt feel look to the kamui from last weekend , (as pics below show ) and a very differnt feel. FIRST thing ill say is 1* loft increase and 1 flex softer makes a HECK of a difference to a club in the same head, the carry increase was NOTICEABLE, and the shaft bend JUST that tad more manageable / enjoyable . Ive still got the 435/ 9.5* stinger x in build and i use that when its windy bec it launches low, but the 10.5* /70s is a 100% every day gamer . The jbeam/.boron build mix feel/sound wise has never been a big thing , but the results have always been excellent , essentially one needs to be a bit more robust at impact than i, to get the most of what the X build has to offer , it also favors the right side so loosing a ball left from a hook has NEVER been a thing. the 9.5* i like to play on flat courses where i can grab some run, the 10.5* i can play in the wet no probs. The new 10.5* has it covered for my swing speed, and still appreciates the best i can give more so than the least but an average swing is not punished like it is with the X , the difference from X flex to S flex is not lost at impact its simply a sweeter feel. sigh..... , its time i bit the bullet and realised that although age does not weary one it does make one conscious of ones previous state ! I played the same course i have for 6 weeks on the spin so i know this course precisely and where the ball ends up. I got a cpl of 100% ers out of the dead set screws and sent it, right up there with the kamui from last weekend but straighter the maxed out shot belongs to the kamui tho as does the average of max distance shots BUT the jbeam had its measure (then some ) for consistent straight-arrowness. if it were one over the other ( thankfully its not ) it wud be a hard pill to swallow giving the other one up.........so i wont say which one it wud be ........till i need to ! the thing is......................... the jbeam is tighter than the kamui EVEN WITH the kamuis X flex but that prob has as much to do with the build being 1/2 inch longer as it does with the torque differnces S @ 278 cpm and X @ 288 . the old model X is an easier to hit club and its longer. so i thought on it last night , BOTH of these cud and shud be gamed every match , theres no reason not to play either as a one off driver, they are both easily as good as anything ive got . i cud (but wont) oust all others and play both ,irrelevant of conditions wind. rain, typhoon, desert. u name it both these have all conds covered. the jbeam is tighter. the kaumi is softer and longer but moves more. BASICALLYwhen i want to hit str8 as possible ill take the jbeam, when i want to nail some high draw bombs its the kamui as much as there is a length differntial and its not in significant there is a tightness dispersion differential equal to it. horses for course. both are a joy.to play for different reasons

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i LOVE the look of that modus im, def getting one of those for my 18* ute for off the tee shots. - mch yea forgot about those, hit one before , they work well. might grab one of those for the bigger hiter i rem thinking this was quite taught. the one below was my tried and true shaft in RC bbd utes that for no particular reason i sold................. why didnt i keep the shafts! the new tour model looks ok as well. hmmm ponderage

ok im gonna grab an NS 950gh ute for my self for an old tour edege exotics 18* give that a whirl as a tester.......... i rem the grey /white GD ut was superb to play but left a bit tought that might suit one guy well. the crazy i thought was very low ,i had one in S and it was low but felt superb! hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Iz . lemme check that

Not played a ute in an eon. have to build a few for some guys. cpl want mack daddies, cpl want an option of an extra club in the bag. from what i remember it went crazy graph design quadra thump then i m drawinfg a bank NS steel i thougtt i remember went pretty well as well if u play utes pls chp in. cherrs pls add i need a cpl of these soon.

fujikura blue one of some kind. fujikura pro 2.0 maybe ?? it was a 50 weight. i never look at fujikura so i dont know it but reading some more blogs the testers had used a range of shafts. qaudra design tuning. ventus, tensei.. but the article i cant find now was prrety specific about not going with a too low spin shaft. every tester i read said this is a really low spin head.

Post April its been a build-a-thon of titanic proportions, especially fairway woods but thats another thread...,what am i up to for drivers this year now , i think this one might be no 9 or 10 maybe .........., 2 or 3 astro tours, 2 kamuis, 2 royal colls, 2 onoffs, a cpl of jbeams.... sounds about right. but it all stops by November so make hay i say ! So, Mr wizard " accidentally " made me a NEW build a cpl of weeks back, initially i wanted a retail 2010 diamana stinger 70s built with the kamui tp07 10* to test vs the Diamana X 60s and the winner or more preferd one wud stay and the other shaft was to get reassigned but when i picked it up , i got quite the shock , HE thought it might be fun to so something a little different to usual "just for a change" beceasuse the numbers he said, just looked right so here it is. kamui pro tp-07 460 10* -diamana stinger (2004) 71x 331 gram d3.5 45.6 inch thats, out of the ordinary for me to say the least ! All my drivers are between 43.5 and 45 inch - 315/325g - c9/d2.5 . none are so closely related thats theres replication, on the outside theres a cpl that may look the same but the engines in them tell a totally different story. No better example than the 3 Astro tour builds i play ,same head exactly. 10* 198g but with a Diamana X 60s... Quadra fire tp-xv 65sx and the Diamana stinger 71x , theres as much similarity for feel and flight as sushi vs mcdonalds yea i get the argument they are both food.............................well sushi is............................, but in play theres NO similarity. id no more likely take out the quadra in a blustery pre typhoon as i wud the stinger at Nishi Nasuno, both wud be equally dumbass decisions. As opposed to what i was expecting , a 45inch x 320g x d1 ish driver THAT stinger shaft it appears went to another head, My Jbeam black 10.5* that is getting picked up for this weekends game , (soooooooooooooooooo excited!) i got the behemouth and it was freaking me out.,.............. its instantly noticeable even in the shop how much longer it is at address. and its heavier and its swing weight is MUCH heavier. gulp. onto its thing...... First tee i automatically , instinctively choked down quite a bit to make it feel " normal" and hit it dead straight down the tubes to a normal distance with my lovely Bridgetone tour B xs balls. Whole front 9 was the same , i was choking down an inch and leaving the butt exposed results were primo, distance was spot on, dispersion was great flight was mid/ midlow all boxes ticekd but nothing out of the ordinary, so on the back nine i let it loose , extended to the full range and let it rip a bit more i definitely sprayed a cpl about , but none lost. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ok ill bag here agn next week Week2: same course ,same conds and i hit a TON of balls in a praccy game, i got a bit more used to the rebound flex and held it all the way to extension. its definitely a bit whippier, not as tight, but a HUGE flight difference as well. instead of punchy mid low holding it fully out gives it some extra height. wow ,what a difference it made. flight was HIGH. small bend both ways when i wanted it. not too much , just enough, nad everything seemed to sail/soar/hold..... was awsome. week 3....... i played it both ways, choked down on short par 4s and gave it the long handle on the long ones. 14/14 .. but the wow thing was where they ended up , i got one as good as ive got these days and it broke my distance record for this course by 12-15 yards with no wind assistance. 566 yard par 5, dead flat , dead centre then a 5 wood into 60 yards for chip /putt and bird dog! THIS IS A KEEPER! The 2 main attributes ive discovered are by choking down on it i can hit low stinger drives that go no more than 10-15 feet off ground , hit release and secure fairway with consistency. If the fairway opens, take full extension and wail for high HIGH soaring bombs. Im in love............ it leaves me with a giagantic quandry bec. im addicted to it, its not my A-Grade driver and wont be most prob bec its JUST that bit whippier than i prefer but for non comp days on open wide plained fairway tracks its got the spot.......... by a ways It looks awsome as well. full stealth black, "murdered out" ( never liked that term ) paint fill , black head, diamana pertol hued shaft with the flower logo and bee and black cadero grip. 3 weeks driving a TON of bridgetone B xs balls on course has made me stand up and take note, i wont make this long build a thing, it still feels a bit wrong in hand bec its so long. i MUCH prefer the safety the shorter stouter driver builds give me for a money/comp outing. But id take this out for any day not counting sheep, 10/10 for what it is!

i might be in the minority these days but i dont like adjustable drivers as a rule OR especially drivers with more pieces cut out of them then extra bits added to them BUT this is an amazing looking piece.. that carbon looks great. You cud almost guarantee ur the only one with this driver on any course on any day................... anywrere. read the blurb they reccoemnd fitting with only the fujikura shaft they had designed for this head, low spin shafts wont work, too much dead ball interestigng words , distance on course will out perform ball speed............................ id def give it a whirl tho. looks too good not to

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the clovers are limited to 400 drivers hmmm might see if i can pop in to aksaka and have a hit with one for you at the PRGR station.

Nobs , about time...........................................,! Im keen to hear ur thoughts on these, (not that i need another driver) but im always keen to see PRgR s stuff, these days PrGr is the only OEM i bother to look at any more , i was close to getting an RSF a cpl of yrs back, gave it a proper whirl but there wasnt any gain i saw over both the EGG1 and EGG 7 i have so i didnt end up getting one. In fact for big heads both the older eggs were easier to hit and hit consistently i thought. i wud say the RSF had a very nice long ball that was pure off the middle but it was a huge head to my eye and not worth the sticker price over the old EGGS. I also thought it launched really low as well, ( diamana B blue in it which surprised me ) but the head size was too much for my eye , esp with that triangle shape. The fws look good...... all prgr fw look good .!

agreed , this is a SUPERB combo. i have the matching 17.5* head , amazing feel on tnis.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh yes, THAT EPON , the 380, thats that tiny black ion plated head they released a few of and we all tried but pretty much everyone moved it on quickly bec it was so darn hard hit consistently , right ? I had mine with a 60s on release and was so stoked to play it but i was either, this is the best driver ever, or the worst, nothing else , it was all or nothing, i took it to the mountains for a solo game with no one on course and hit a thousand balls with it , after every drive i was either saying wow this is insane good, or wow that ball backspun so far right over the OB trees it actually came back and hit me in the right asssss cheek ! i cudnt stomach it any more and moved it on. It was an interesting time back then as around the same time i was hitting the . t388 in the direct opposite direction to the epon due to savage swing changes and THOSE misses went so far left and so far down at such an extreme pace , that on the short par 4 16th at Country club Japan one day i tore a hole in the space time continuum and the ball melted an open wound in the ground on a collision path to the earths core! some locals that saw those heady days (AND MADE BUZILLIONS OFF ME playing Nassua) are still heard to mutter under their breath thats just about when a firm measure of an increase in global warming really started to accelerate prob due to the Earths balance shifting a degree to the north . coincidence ?? i think not !