Vegaman

I actually like the look of these! A bit kitschy japanese style but somehow it still does not bother me. Cool looking clubs

I'll be back in Beijing again soon, will try to snap a few photos. Can always pretend I'm buying for a friend and take photos to show him.

I was in Beijng the other day and just outside Yashow Market there was a little "hole in the wall" golf shop, and the girl there insisted the "name" stuff was real..She had head only Epon, tourstage, Romaro a set of Yamaha tour model heads, etc etc..The scary thing is that she didn't sell ultra cheap, around 3-400 dollars per set, and the finish was just excellent..I couldn't see they were fakes at all, I looked at them from evey angle. She also had shafts, and equipment for club making.

I've seen them, they use pretty generic designs or if you'd like "classic" designs. They look a lot like Kyoei forgings but not sure. The ones I have seen look really clean and nice, the finish is spot on. So, a high quality japanese forging, with excellent finish but not with new tech or ground breaking designs.

I never understood how offset of a few milimeters ever could make a club forgiving instead of "playable for the lucky few only"..I just dont buy it, offset can't add that much in forgivness as to make it "forgiving" instead of "players only". But to me, who is just a 10 hcp, offset looks bad I just don't like to look down on a club with noticable offset. I even think clubs with very little offset is EASIER to aim and therefore also to hit than clubs with more offset.

Just "STORM" sounds good to me. In english.

Yeah..And even if we agree that the word kamikaze is about suicidal pilots during WW2, the rape of nanking took place in 1937, years before japan even entered the war. The kamikaze pilots flew at the very end of the war, in 1945. If I'm not mistaken, Kamikaze was actually just a name of a special squadron, there was more than one such suicide group, the other was one called Thunder God or God of Thunder or something like that. Just like many countries name their squadrons and groups within their military organisations, using legendary names. Would anybody be offended if Thunder God was written on a club? Wait, he is actually painted on the Kamui Ray.. The horror...!

I can understand the Japanese like it, because to them, it's not automatically about WW2 at all, but the "great wind" you wrote about. And, since pulling out the driver sometimes feel like suicide mission (scorewise if your driving is off) or at least a big gamble, what better name than Kamikaze?

Kamikaze pilots hardly have anything to do with Nanking and the japanese atrocitites there, does it? Plus, it is a while back don't you think? kamikaze and Nanking = Zero interconnection. One was an act of enormous bravery or insanity, the other was an atrocity of war. Many of those by the way, commited by various nations too by the way. Kamikaze is to most people about suicide pilots, an old cultural aspect from samurai culture taken to the extreme during WW2. I personally was never disgusted by kamikaze pilots, more intrigued by the part madness/ part bravery of it all. The samurai culture was always difficult for westerners to understand, as it probably is for many japanese living today too. But suicidal missions, that have meant certain death, have been undertaken by soldiers forever for their nations, their tribes, their people or their family..I wouldn't ever call it insanity. Others may differ of course, that's their choice of course. With your reasoning, anything that could ever be traced to japanese warriors and the japanese military by name, would make you go "read up on the rape of nanking"..Katana driver? "read up.." Yamato irons? Same..etc etc I'm also a bit weirded out about having this kind of discussion on a golf forum, over a name on a shaft.

I didn't even know there was sucha a thing as a 440 R11S v2, so no I have never hit that. Sounds interesting though

You mean the read and black T2 or the yellow and black T3?

ha ha, I must admit I thought the same thing! Seriously though, Singapore is for sure an expensive place to buy golf stuff, and Macau is probably insanely, outrageously overpriced, much like the rest of China.

The VEGA RAD-01 is 440cc. Can easily be found in the UK too.

I agree, the SP blues fit that description perfectly..I have them in my CBs and they are just great, smooth and stable. But when I went to pure blades in my current set I actually went with the NS 1150 tours, they really suit a blade for me, I also wnt with S instead of X and the extra forgviness these slightly softer and lighter shafts bring is perfect in blades. Makes me swing more correct and smoother.

Yeah, the older Fuji stuff is probably still as good most new things..

Yeah, back in the day when the Speeder series came out it was the automatic choice. They dropped the ball? Or maybe they are still very successful without us knowing, ha ha

Can the Zero really be that hard to hit? Harder than, say, the 200-250cc heads from yesteryear? Or is it just harder to hit compared to the modern 460cc heads? Reading about it makes me think it's like hitting an old school Macgregor blade 1 iron fitted to a 40 inch X100 shaft..?

Of those, I would guess the LY-01. That's lightwight and high launch by design.

I went on tourspecgolf, went to "sports and outdoor", wrote Epon and it worked. That was the quickest of the quick search.

I think he has the Pro X flex, meaning he wants to move to the softer X-flex. This is not the prototype x-flex, but the normal fire express in ProX-flex, something like XX or X+ flex.

Well, to me, It's not that unusual looking. Just compact and petty high toe. It's more traditional rather than radical shape wise.

Supo, do you find the 435 longer and better feeling than the 435II? The KP-X seems to be seiously good, I have held it on several occasions and it really looks powerful and apparently IS exactly that..Bot it looks rather compact, is it pretty forgiving for its size?

The design on the back of the club head must have some meaning performance-wise. They will probably look great in person. I like the clean unfussy look of these.

That's an excellent idea! I never thought of it, and have never heard or seen anything like that. Sandee, when you say you tape the bottom, you mean the sole? Wouldn't that interfer with the turf interaction?

I compared them a while back, and I from what I remember the TDV is smaller with a thinner topline? The Vokey forged is what I would call a medium sized head, with just a bit of offset. The TDVs, from what I remember, were less offset and smaller. Not totally sure though