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I will be removing the 19* UT this week for the S12 Soft Bunker Fried Egg Wedge as its helped me find new hope in Soft Bunkers!
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Enjoy Lefties! LeForge is also a YuRuRi Left Handed Product Only!
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YuRuRi Da Vinci Wedge 1.618 w/PICS
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
Of course we are the Yururi USA distributor! -
Think of any two numbers. Make a third by adding the first and second, a fourth by adding the second and third, and so on. When you have written down about 20 numbers, calculate the ratio of the last to the second from last. The answer should be close to 1.6180339887... What's the significance of this number? It's the "golden ratio" and, arguably, it crops up in more places in art, music and so on than any number except pi. Claude Debussy used it explicitly in his music and Le Corbusier in his architecture. There are claims the number was used by Leonardo da Vinci in the painting of the Mona Lisa, by the Greeks in building the Parthenon and by ancient Egyptians in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. What makes the golden ratio special is the number of mathematical properties it possesses. The golden ratio is the only number whose square can be produced simply by adding 1 and whose reciprocal by subtracting 1. If you take a golden rectangle - one whose length-to-breadth is in the golden ratio - and snip out a square, what remains is another, smaller golden rectangle. The golden ratio is also difficult to pin down: it's the most difficult to express as any kind of fraction and its digits - 10 million of which were computed in 1996 - never repeat. It was this elusive nature that led the 15th-century Italian friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli to equate the golden ratio with the incomprehensibility of God. Although Euclid defined it around 300 BC, and the followers of Pythagoras probably knew of it two centuries earlier, it was Pacioli's three-volume treatise, The Divine Proportion, that was crucial in disseminating the golden ratio beyond the world of mathematics. Da Vinci was a friend of Pacioli's and almost certainly would have read the book, hence the claim that he painted the face of the Mona Lisa to fit inside a hypothetical golden rectangle. "Of course, it all depends on how you draw the rectangle!" says Mario Livio, who has written a book called The Golden Ratio and who is head of science at Baltimore's Space Telescope Science Institute. The appeal of the divine proportion to the human eye and brain has been scientifically tested. Dozens of psychological tests, beginning with those of Gustav Fechner in the 19th century, have shown that, when subjects are presented with a range of rectangles, they invariably pick out as most pleasing ones whose sides are in the golden ratio. But the most surprising thing is that a number deemed aesthetically pleasing by human beings also crops up in nature and science. Take the arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant. As each new leaf grows, it does so at an angle offset from that of the leaf below. The most com mon angle between successive leaves is 137.5 - the golden angle. Why? Because 137.5 = 360 - 360/G, where G is the golden ratio. Why does the golden ratio play a role in the arrangement of leaves? It's all down to the "irrationality" of the number. Irrational numbers are ones that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two whole numbers - for instance, 5/2. "The golden ratio is arguably the most irrational of all irrational numbers," says Livio. This can be said more precisely. Irrational numbers can be expressed as continued fractions - basically an infinite series of ever-diminishing terms. As each successive term is added, the continued fraction converges towards a single value. "The golden ratio is the slowest of all continued fractions to converge," says Livio. This turns out to be the key property. A new leaf must collect sunlight without throwing the leaves below it into too much shadow. A plant must arrange its leaves in such a way that the greatest number can spiral around the stem before a new leaf sprouts immediately above a lower one - that is offset at 360. "What better way to do this than to choose an angle between leaves based on a number that takes the longest to converge?" says Livio. The golden ratio also crops up in the hard sciences. Take the growth of "quasi-crystals". These have "five-fold symmetry", which means they make a pattern that looks the same when rotated by multiples of one-fifth of 360 . In the 1990s, physicists in Switzerland and the US imaged the microscopic terrain of the surface of such crystals. They found flat "terraces" punctuated by abrupt vertical steps. The steps come in two predominant sizes. The ratio of the two step heights? The golden ratio! Even pythagoreans may have known of the association of the golden ratio with five-fold symmetry. The symbol of their cult was the five-pointed star, and the ratio of the length of the side of each triangular point to its projected base is the golden ratio. Perhaps the most surprising place the golden ratio crops up is in the physics of black holes, a discovery made by Paul Davies of the University of Adelaide in 1989. Black holes and other self-gravitat ing bodies such as the sun have a "negative specific heat". This means they get hotter as they lose heat. Basically, loss of heat robs the gas of a body such as the sun of internal pressure, enabling gravity to squeeze it into a smaller volume. The gas then heats up, for the same reason that the air in a bicycle pump gets hot when it is squeezed. Things are not so simple, however, for a spinning black hole, since there is an outward "centrifugal force" acting to prevent any shrinkage of the hole. The force depends on how fast the hole is spinning. It turns out that at a critical value of the spin, a black hole flips from negative to positive specific heat - that is, from growing hotter as it loses heat to growing colder. What determines the critical value? The mass of the black hole and the golden ratio! Why is the golden ratio associated with black holes? "It's a complete enigma," Livio confesses. Shakespeare said it all: "There are more things in heaven and earth..."
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M. Saysaya's Latest Masterpiece - GOLDS FACTORY -
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
Im pretty sure he can sir. -
Vega V Cavity by Kyoei w/PICS!
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
We can get both types and all models. These will be listed in the pro shop very soon. -
Taylormade Burner TP Fairway Woods w/PICS!
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
This FW is sold out till end of July. Last 3 are currently on ebay. -
This is a one of a kind.
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idrive has some PM him.
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the model your talking about is very old almost 5 years. The word studio means nothing as its the same as the retail.
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The golds is a modified private stock 1. GSS is possible you are aware its simply heat treated SS303 correct?
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Serial numbers are just a way the OEM tracks the head.
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M. Saysaya's Latest Masterpiece - GOLDS FACTORY -
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
Here is a pic of the insert idrive is speaking so highly of: -
GOLD's FACTORY - Blinker Private Stock w/PICS!
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
Only about 3, the rest I get rid of. -
I love the hat on the smiley face
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AMAZING SETUP! Could that be bag of the year? Shhhh.. contest hasnt started yet
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M. Saysaya's Latest Masterpiece - GOLDS FACTORY -
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
Yes this one is for sale, drop me a PM if interested. There is only one of these at this moment, we can order another but it would be 1-2 months. -
GOLD's FACTORY - Blinker Private Stock w/PICS!
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
We can ask Sasaya to custom build you one of these no problem, This particular one here is for sale but quite expensive. Also its gotta a very good chance of becoming my gamer. -
M. Saysaya's Latest Masterpiece - GOLDS FACTORY -
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
In the golf industry almost everything is gimmick, but this is customization not technology here, stamping your name on a putter doesn't mean the ball will go in the hole more often. Blinker is an alignment tool. Tungsten weights prevent head twisting and increase head weight, Brass Pin instead of site dot makes the putter feel a little softer. Floating Slit Line gives the putter a different sound or feel at impact, a higher pitch. The Premium zone style insert helps end over end roll and gives off a different feel. Black Teflon or another finish can give off a slightly different feel and look based on preference. Thing is about Sasaya is his ability to hand craft these items 100% himself, he has no staff and you can be assured when you order a custom golds putter it is done by the man himself. -
Most people will say the higher number the better, but this tool measures from the bottom of the face to the top. You will see in next years high MOI drivers coming from Japan bottom - top numbers as well as heel to toe readings, currently only Mizuno JPN is doing this. The higher the number can equal less head twist which can be good or bad depending on the type of player you are. For example in Japan pro's complained the Sumo Square was difficult to work or that they hooked it to much so Nike Japan has created the JDI SFI Sumo which is almost the same thing with a lower MOI reading. I would say higher MOI numbers are best for the average golfer or someone who simply wants to send it straight down the middle.
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Royal Collection has a few non original designs in their closet. For example the SFI Forged they purchased through EPON by ENDO because they liked the head so much, they did not design it. Now their new Black finish 6150TG wedge is the exact same thing as Sky Dream Jump wedges that both of these brands purchased from Kyoei.
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Yes sir everything is forged. Mid July the Seida ( Big Number Wedge ) will be available. For the Seida wedge its only available in 52/56/58/60.
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Vega V Cavity by Kyoei w/PICS!
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
Feel depends on : 1. Material and process 2. Sole Design 3. Loft That said the two are very different, its like hitting the KZG vs the Gauge Hand Mades both Kyoei forged but very different feel, or in the case of Endo the Callaway X-Forged vs Type J. -
GOLD's FACTORY - Blinker Private Stock w/PICS!
TourSpecGolfer replied to TourSpecGolfer's topic in Japanese Golf Clubs
There isn't enough weight int he back to make it tilt that way. As far as alignment goes its perfect. -
Years before Cameron had the D-Tour anser putter Master Sasaya was building what they call Blinker modified putters. This here is a prototype Heavy Blinker.