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If they show the tape of him going into the stands during the appeal then I doubt it. If he does get it reduced then I'll find something else to watch on TV besides the NBA. They won't get any airtime at my home for many years to come, if ever.

I just got done shortening my driver down to a 44.5 inch length and have found the accuracy has gotten even better. It's a Cleveland L460 so I don't stray too far off the fairway but I decided to give it a shot just for fun. You might want to stick with making changes at 1/2 inch intervals. I remember reading that shortening a shaft won't really make it stiffer if you are trimming it from the butt end. You are shortening the shaft but there's another characteristic that changes and it evens out. I think it was on Swingweight.com. I could be totally off base, though. Edit: I'm 5'9" also and have felt that the 45" driver might have been a bit long. For the past two months I've choked down on the driver. I wanted to change the grip so while I was doing it I got out the Dremel and took a little off.

Seen the puzzle before and had it figured out by cutting out the paper it was on. Basically, neither of the figures is a triangle. The hypoteneuse of the green and red triangles are on different angles. Look closely and you'll see that the upper "triangle" has a slight concavity while the lower is slightly convex. Pretty cool optical illusion, though.

what kind of boost to you have to use to get it to work over that distance? and if I stood in the middle could I steal your service? not that I would but it's just a thought...hope that works for you..I hated dial up Mike...congrats on the new service...one can only do one's nails so many times while waiting for a web site to upload.. :surprize: :wink: :whistle: We've done several wireless installations around southeast Arizona so it won't be like the first time we've tried it. Over that distance we won't really need a signal amplifier. We are using ultra-low loss cable, good access points, directional antennas and should still get about 15-18 dB out of the signal. We could amplify it but you can't go over 26dB without getting a FCC license. We have line of site that is slightly blocked in what is call the fresnel zone by some trees but should still manage a minimum of 2-3 Mbps. If you were in the middle of us you could possible get a signal but with the security setup we have you probably wouldn't be able to do anything. The fact of the matter is, if a computer is up and running online then it can be hacked. We can block rogue access points by using several methods so we arent' really too worried about it.

I'm in dial-up hell in rural Arizona and max out at 28.8. Only a mile down the road they have DSL!! The good news is that I'm working with another guy on sharing his DSL through a wireless network hookup that will run 1.7 miles. We should be up and running in a week or so.

So what would you compare then to of the irons you have played? and how do you like them? there are a lot of choices out there for $1000+, still content? thanks Josh The MP27's are my favorites. The Z's are second. The others I didn't like. Closest ones are the Z's. I really didn't need to read that last bit. Not really, though. I've done a lot of customization to my Z's that it would be almost impossible for me to switch to another iron. I put the PX shafts in with the dowels, searched and finally found some grips that I really like (Lamkin Crossline) and now have started on counterbalancing them. This past weekend I made a great comeback with them after a three week layoff due to an injury. The big kicker was holing a shot from 165 yards out on Sunday for an eagle. The Z's are just going to have to stay for awhile.

I just recently bought a gram weight scale and measured the dowels I inserted in my Z101s. The dowels weigh 1.2 grams after I drill out the hole. They were 1 1/2 inches long and 5/16 of an inch in diameter.

The 975f is a .335 tip and you can, as far as I know, put a graphite shaft into it. YS-6 comes in a .335 tip. Not sure about the bore type but you can find out by following the information here: http://www.swingweight.com/bore_types.htm I have a 14.5, 18.5 and 20.5 975f's that I reshafted with Rifle 6.0 shafts some time ago. I find the steel shafts to be very stable in these heads. Never was a big fan of graphite in a fairway wood until I got the Cleveland.

Yep i have to agree with you there, but the amount was never in doubt, it was a marker that Phil finally decided to pay off. As of july, that marker was paid in full, it was about 6.7 million dollars ! Sweet fancy Moses!!!! That's a serious problem and he needs some serious help if it's true.

Here's a drill I learned that solved the problem for me: Start with a 9 iron and take your normal setup. Once you are in position, move your left foot four inches away from the line and then go ahead and hit the ball. While it may seem unconventional it works by causing you to swing outside the line and you cannot come over the top and are forced to swing inside the path that you took the club back on. You'll find, if you have a fairly sound setup, that you will at first start hitting balls left of your target. After you get the hang of things with the 9 iron, try other clubs in the bag and see if it help.

They look absolutely awesome. I hope the feel as good as they look. As far as color fill goes, I would have gone with a hot neon pink and the heck with the Srixon bag, I'm thinking one of the Winnie the Pooh bags would be great. I've spent enough time being the conformist that I think it's time to have a little fun with the stereotypes that people have.

Jerry, Would love to have footage to post but I taped right over it when I went back to the old traditional style. If you want to see videos of a swing that goes brutally inside and comes bsck around on an outside path, I've got that ugly looking thing :surprize: Then I have a look at where I've fixed it and gotten something that looks more like the pro in "Swing Like a Pro." Digital camcorders are awesome and I wish I had started using one ages ago. I looked around on the internet last night and found out a bit more about Austin and Shauger. There's an interesting story here: http://www.travelandleisure.com/tlgolf/inv...5A978DBD626B0B3 I hadn't really gotten into the whole Austin background when I bought the books but it sure seems like he was an interesting guy. Looks like he had putting woes worse than Hogan. After the 515 yard drive he three putted for a bogey.

I worked completely through the Dan Shauger book and did the best I could. Video'd everything, sat down and analyzed it and still didn't see any appreciable improvement, even with "throwing from the top" or using the counter rotation from the bottom so my left palm was skyward at the top. One thing that bothered me about the DVD was they never really show Bowden hitting full driver shots (or I must have missed something in there). How much difference is there between a pure Mike Austin style of swinging and Dan Shauger's methods are there? When I look through the Dan S. book the one thing that strikes me is that his illustrations and descriptions seem to work only in two dimensions. When you consider that there is so much more occuring I think that maybe his interpretation of the levering concept is being oversimplified when the body can move in multiple directions. For example, I can move the base of my spine from left to right and back and forth at the same time. The only other thing I wonder about is why don't we hear more about this method? It's almost at a cult status but nothing in the mainstream of succsessful touring pros is attributed to the Austin style. Personally, I've had better success working with "Tour Tempo" and "Swing Like a Pro." I wonder if maybe a different club design might fit this swing style better.

Gave it a try for about three weeks using the Dan Shauger book and DVD. I went in for the full deal and trained about one to two hours a day using all of the drills and examples. I didn't get any appreciable increase in distance or accuracy, scores went up about 4 strokes a round, wrists were getting sore as hell from flipping the club through impact, and have since gone back to traditional style golf. The pitching method is neat and might help someone who struggles with accuracy but it didn't do anything for me as I've been very successful with my traditional chip/pitch shot. It may work for others but it speaks volumes to me that Austin never won any tournaments and nobody on tour (that I know if) is using this type of method. If they are and have success, then that's good for them, but this method isn't for me. There are several other reasons why I left this behind but a major thing for me to consider was that no other teaching pro in my area uses this. If I need help and go to a pro for a lesson and they see me using this method then I'm not going to get much out of it. Three weeks might not have been enough time to get settled in it. If there are any positive stories on this, I'd really like to hear them.

Jim, Thanks. That's pretty much what everyone else is telling me to do and I'll have to go with it. My orthopedic surgeon has a membership at the same course I do so I know I won't be able to try too soon. I can still do some weights and a little putting so I'll just improve those and wait for the healing process to finish.

I am a right handed golfer and have managed to break the bone at the tip of my left ring finger and managed to remove the fingernail in the process (thank goodness for percocet and pardon my typing). Orthopedic surgeon says I'll be out for at least three weeks. I can barely grip the club in the left hand (of course I've tried and it hurts...a lot). Does anyone have any drills they would recommend that I can do to at least keep from going completely cold turkey? I can putt and will do that but I'm thinking maybe I can do something with shoulders and hips to keep the groove that has gotten me to the 4.1 differential when I get back into the full swing again. Thanks, -Chrism

Congratulations! Sounds like a great time.

Rifle FCM stepped wedge shafts are, IMHO, the best shaft for what you are looking for. They stand up well to a full wedge swing and have great feeling for those half or quarter shots. They also feel great around the green for 15 yard and under pitches and chips.

My only problems over the past three rounds using Tour Tempo principles has come when I've hit those "anyways" shots. I get up over the ball and get out of synch for the temp and hit it anyways. Disastrous when I do this. Today I was staring down a 50 yard wedge for my second shot on 18 and hit one of these. Took a double when I would normally be putting from inside 10 feet for birdie. Swing....set,through

Tempo. This has become critical to me. I had read about the book "Tour Tempo" on a couple of forums and thought it might be hype but I was feeling that if my time was off I wasn't going to have a good day. I picked up the book and have worked with it and have had two rounds of 77 in a row. I find the research to be fairly sound and it's already worked for me.

My favorite now is Arrogant Bastard Ale or Ruination Ale from Stone Brewery. I like most of the brews from Stone Brewery because of the flavor. When I was in Germany I liked the Helles type beers from the Bavaria. My favorite was Andechs which I still think of as the best beer ever made.

Cleveland Launcher 460. Straight and long for me. The sweet spot seems to be as big as most drivers.

The easiest 2 iron I've ever hit was a Ping I3 black dot. For quite some time I carried that club instead of a 3 wood because I felt very confident I could hit it from anywhere. See if you can demo one.

I like the Lamkin Crosslines. They have a good, solid feel to me. Somewhat hard. I don't like the softer grips that "give" some as you grip them. I would really like cords, but don't play enough anymore to build-up the callouses needed for cords. Have Lamkin Crosslines on all of my clubs now. To me, they give the best feedback off of the three different versions of rifle shafts I use and the driver shaft.

When I went through my last dozen with the ProV1x I was noticing the same thing about feel. It seemed like every ball would feel great off of the club but the results weren't what they felt like. Some shots really nice while others were really off. With all of the new balls out now I've found a lot of balls that have the performance and durability of the ProV's and a much better cost.