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Awesome! I'm down to try a few, Every year we go to "The Crane". You know it's a safe place when he has a Gold's Factory wedge hanging on the wall.

Any idea what the head weight was? Any tipping done to the shaft?

How about food, expensive scotch bars, luxury items? If we did get to interview some big names what sort of questions would you like answered? My pet peeve is when I hear cookie cutter answers that sound like they came straight from the website...

That was just a weight example from the 13*. The one I have is the 15* F3.

Hopefully this is my new gamer to replace the EGG HD. Taking the leap up in flex from 6.9 to 7.4 to tighten dispersion but also shorten the distance a bit. I never thought I would have the issue of too much distance in 3 wood. Like the driver Ryoma is able to fit a 60g Power Booster weight on the back of all the FW models. Not only that but they also add an additional 60g weight on the front sole called the Spin Control Unit. Considering the 13* weighs 209g, and uses 120g worth of weights, it means the 0.4mm walled body is a mere 89g in weight. The only way they could accomplish that is with a monocoque body with ultra thin walls like the driver.

It's my most favorite time of the year again, The Japan Golf Fair at Tokyo Big Site begins in just a little over a week from now. We are preparing and scheduling our coverage this year and I was wondering what you guys wanted to see more or less of. we're thinking about trying some new things this year like Interviewing the big names in the Japan golf industry... Interviews ( Maybe Master Sasaya-san or Kobayashi-san ) Lifestyle video & pics? ( luxury, food, lifestyle, autos ) As usual our photos will rock harder than any previous year and for sure the Video production will be kicked up a notch as well. Tatsuro will be testing all the clubs, we're trying to get stew to Join him if he can get off that am. Tario is on photos, I'm on video & photos, TSGirl is busy building relationships, and we have a couple of assistants as well. All of us will be live blogging to the TSG Facebook page from our mobile phones. Lots of dinners, Lots of meetings, Lots of Fun! Let us know what you want to see this year!

Not so pretty me thinks.

I notice the people who love them have had the shaft installed properly. Usually you take a driver shaft and stick it into the drivers head without any tipping. With Roddio based on the head weight of the driver you would trimthe shaft tip in milimeters to reach a desired CPM.

The new Crazy covers are pretty sweet

Your actually correct! Silly part is in March we have a meeting in Beijing with Direct Link which is the company that owns S-Yard & Honma. I never put the two together but now it makes perfect sense.

It's fully Japanese, President, designers , HQ, Staff that's an interesting rumor.

That matte S-Yard head looks fantastic in shape & finish! Still waiting for mine....

Shall we add that rule fellas?

I've been having FW issues, In fact any wood issues. Changed to a stronger grip on the driver and its helped get rid of my big mistakes but the positive effect hasn't trickled into my FW or UT's. I'm playing the Egg HD, I have a new Ryoma F3 w/ Crazy FW80 in the air now to help eliminate my fade/pull issues. Ha! forget fixing the swing just by new gear right? nah Tats is helping me out with the mechanics. I'm thinking about putting a Tour AD SF-7 X into my Egg HD to straighten her out. with my UT's I just recieved my new 13 Yammy's and they sure are purdy. I went with NS Steel hybrid shafts to keep it in play. After a few range sessions I really like them, actually the steel is saving me a couple strokes per round as I used to toss the FW's into the rubbish at least 1-2 times per round. Any takers on steel?

The new 2013 Studio Stock Putters by Bettinardi should be in the shop by the end of the week. Very nice stuff! Here's pics of a customers putter, it's the #12.

were asking Globeride aka Daiwa JPN about these Roddio irons. I'd personally like to see them stay up to date on their shafts before moving into irons but the more new product the merrier especially when they are using quality makers like Zodia & Miura. more info to come! Thx for posting montana!

Nice Stix! Would be too cool to see someone on the course with that bag.

This community has been much larger in the past and thankfully it isn't that way anymore. It started with BSG, then came TSG and all the "tour" guys came here. Then they were like wtf this dudes only focused on JDM product, that left a gap in the market. thus WRX was born. I'm very thankful for WRX, it's a good place and the best part is they now house the many people I prefer not to have around here. No offense to anyone. We have been around for a long time and pride ourselves in keeping it compact with serious enthusiasts only. When the num nuts come around I usually scare them off or get rid of them all together and that really isn't a secret. The price I pay is that they go to another forum and bad mouth us, the pay off we get is the TSG community stays civil, informative and very awesome. We also have a huge lurker base, If you could only see the web statistics. It's international, we have people who never post that frequently visit and have been doing so for over a decade. I want to thank them too! In regards to the BST. Well we do have rules and if you notice anything suspicious let us know. The rules are in place for a reason. Seriously thanks for caring guys! There is a new version of TSG in the works, lots of new stuff coming. Our team is very passionate about improving the site. There is also a lot of stuff we do that everyone isn't aware of. Something goods coming up!

If you enjoyed the AF101 you will really like the feel of the 103. I've been playing that the last handful of rounds. I'm eagerly waiting for the next batch of T.388 drivers to ship.

Was that the Z70/ Zero combo you got from me? I have tried that one and the Fiamma in a couple of heads and even on the track man with a few others. Decent shaft but the money is in the graphics imo. Tario's been to their HQ, that finish is very expensive but doesn't hold up so well imo. Nice feel though, dispersion wasn't the best and distance was average.

This is interesting, this putter was made by David Whitlam while he worked for George Takei at Gauge Design Japan. So where does the GF come from? Well that was over a decade ago when Gold's was just starting out and Sasaya had something to do with the concept of it. Was this the putter played by Shingo? unfortunately no it wasnt. The "Staff Only" was sort of like a prototype. It was a test sample pre production. Shingo's had much less stamping on it.

I'll ask GT if that was Shingo's actual putter and let you know. I like the GF Gold's Factory stamping on the Aluinser back when Sasaya-san was with GD JPN. Wouldn't it be cool to restore that sucker? They were very expensive back in the day.

I think it was you who mentioned you like it on faster greens, I agree and they are fantastic putters.

For me several stand out, the best imo is the Ryoma Special TUNING. I have a few non conforming clubs and the Ryoma is longer by 10yds, its as if it's hotter or something. I hear the Epon EHR is long and it is gorgeous in person but I'm not sure if your feeling that look. Ryoma ST + Crazy CB-46 SR tipped 45.5" is what I play now and it's a forgiving smooth swinging beast.

That's a plated finish isn't it? It's so sexy! Im a Toyoshima player myself and would love to see how these workout for you.