Miuramaniac

As a new father at 27 and a new father at 54, I can suggest to you first-hand to slow down and take it all in and enjoy it. When I was 27, I was so focused on the world out there and everything in it that I did not stop and smell the coffee as it were. Now, things have slowed down and I can relax a little bit (a lot!) more and enjoy and appreciate the little things. I missed out on some things when I was younger, won't make the same mistake now. Congrats and good luck!

Ahh, you followed my sage advice. LOVE Mauna Kea, but haven't been in 20+ years and won't be going anytime soon.

That's great to hear, T! Enjoy your family while you can. There's never enough time. Last week, I was in Marrakech at my oldest daughter's wedding. Last month I was enrolling my 2 middle daughters at Southern Methodist Univ. and high school, and 7 months ago was with my wife as she birthed our twins. Enjoy every minute of it and I'm glad you're around. I was afraid something bad had happened, either professionally or personally.

Yoro's aren't in the same class as Miura custom grinds. Not even close. And Bradley Hughes knows more about the golf swing than all of us combined.

IMO Mauna Kea is the best course on the Big Island. And I think it's recently been "freshened up" as the hotel was. Way better than the Waikaloa's. Four Seasons course is supposed to be good too, haven't played it.

I like a firmer grip with maybe some cord on it with irons and wedges where I'm hitting with a steeper AoA and hitting the ground pretty hard. With driver, where I don't need as secure of a grip, I like a little softer grip for feel.

Beautiful looking place. And Jamal Al-fayeed loves it as well...

Close, but still a bit too busy for my taste. Perhaps my age is drawing me to something a little less understated:

If you're considering graphite, I would strongly suggest the money you would use on those and get a lesson or 2. You'll be happier long-term IMO. That much spin with DG shafts only really happen if the shaft is too soft for you or you're coming in awfully steep. IDK if anything will be, or even SHOULD be, THAT much lower-spinning than DG.

Yeah, it's a Road ID wristband. Cyclists wear them to notify drivers or EMS as to who we are and how to contact our families and what medical conditions we may have if we get injured badly. My wife won't let me leave the house on my bike w/o it on. She doesn't ask if I'm wearing my helmet, only if I have my RoadID on. lol

Did Gold's rip off Ping?

That's a good-looking driver at set-up. Reminds of a Yamaha Tour at address.

Shiny and curved is never a good mix for irons. Not liking that at the moment.

I used to wear this: Then my wife bought me this:

These do look great indeed. Isn't 46* pretty much std now for PW's in cavity players's clubs? I know Miura uses 47 on almost all of their sets but it seems like TS, Yam, etc all are using 46 mostly.

I may have to go Srixon everything now. They just showed up from the brink in a big way.

The head performed pretty well but I could not for the life of me get past the sound and feel. Just put the Messenger shaft on a RomaRo LX 455 head and waiting to give it a rip.

Hope I'll see them in the pro shop this fall cuz they've got some great-looking irons coming out for next year. Saw McDowell testing them somewhere in another site and looked up their website and they really look good. Kinda Tourstage-ish with the diamond-shaped muscle on the back. Three models getting progressively more forgiving, but all look very good. Whatsayyou, Chris?

Graphite Design MD7 is better than any shaft listed on here IMO. More money and later year does not mean better. Best FW shaft period.

Face progression is the distance from shaft mid-point to leading edge of head. Offset is distance from left edge of hosel to leading edge. They're counter numbers, one increases as the other decreases, assuming normal shaft sizes. FP is more accurate and a better way to measure, even though both are useful. I don't read Japanese, but it looks like Epon is using offset. More going from 3-iron to PW, which is normal. And they usually call it "FP", even on the Japanese spec pages, so I assume this is offset.

Hey, Craig, how does the feel compare at impact? And playability such as forgiveness and workability? And, hell, while we're at it, leading edge diffs?

I'm not sure. I know several of the MG irons can be custom done, but IDK about the Miuraisms. But their FP is already 5.5 for the PW to 4.5 for the 3-iron, which is virtually nil offset. Those Buchi's look awful damn nice. But I've never hit anything as solid as the SB-01/Baby Blades.

Miuraism SB-01. All customed-out. Leading edge grind. /thread

Wedge is fugly. Back of that iron looks like the Miura wedges in may bag. What happened to the vagina Epon used to put on the back of those Personals?

It'll still probably be great stuff, I just have a hard time separating "Bridgestone" from tires. I much prefer the Tourstage name, sounds like it's more serious as opposed to an offshoot of their tire business.