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CBS41 bag owners, can you describe in detail the features on the bag which hold the umbrella ?? Is it a nylon sheath with velcro at the top? The reason I ask is I fancy getting the Titleist umbrella seat http://www.titleist.com/elementsgear/default.asp But I'm worried that it won't fit on the bag due to the disc on the spike. Is that the case ?? Thanks!

I spotted a 3 wood on Ebay marked up FTG-L1, a ladies flex so I think that portion is right but I'm baffled as to the TM (Taylor Made)..... MM48 do you think the 51 and 62 is equiv of the 5.5 - 6.5 flex designators on rifles ??? Do you remember if the tour club has a serial # on it back then ??? Thanks for the replies guys!

Good, but not as good as ' the scotty early proto found at the bototm of a drained pond on some course' ebay auction... that topped the lot. Collect your silver medal and 2000 dollars if you're lucky (better have a mink studio headcover included in the price too) I suppose if someone throws one of the earliest scottys into a pond in a rage then the same guy might pay ten grand for a replacement :spit:

Thanks Jin, those numerous pockets sound like the business, I carry tape too for my fingers, guess I'll need the space. If someone could post some pictures of the backstraps actually on someones back that would be great, I'm interested to see how it looks (and that rain cover too) :smile1:

Thanks Jin, those numerous pockets sound like the business, I carry tape too for my fingers. If someone could post some pictures of the backstraps actually on someones back that would be great, I'm interested to see how it looks (and that rain cover too) :smile1:

Hi Chris, I ordered it on the 3rd or 4th of May but they only shipped 17th of this month, guess I have another week or two to wait if this bag goes full term. Christmas never comes early. You other guys who got theirs, give me a touchy - feely sexual report on the bag to keep me going, the reviews so far are rubbish! :smile1:

I think I ordered mines the same time as you guys but it still hasn't arrived (UK) and it's driving me bananas! Got graphites and Project X shafts in my old ping bag (non graphite friendly) and it's a pain in the ass, worried they get scratched up and the shaft bands start to wear off prematurly Come soon please!

I recently picked up a Tour Brassie Flex Twist Graphite shafted 2 wood, I think it maybe a tour issue club but not completely sure. Firstly the head has a serial number stamped on the hosel, I have another steel shafted tour brassie which doesn't have a serial number on it. Anybody know if TM was serial ,stamping retail clubs back then in the late 80's early 90's ??? Secondly it has the flex twist shaft, from my recollections at the tip was printed the flex designator in the form "FTG-R" in Graphite or " FTT-R" for the titatium shafted model and S or X for flex. The club I have has "TM-62" and appears to play very stiff. Any thoughts ?? Thanks[/img]

This has been around for a while, Taking advantage of a revolutionary class of next generation super alloys originally launched in golf clubs in 1998, Liquidmetal® Technologies is expanding its presence in the sporting goods arena. With premier PGA TOUR players, like Paul Azinger, touting the materials' performance as a major technology breakthrough, the prolific launch of Liquidmetal® Golf allowed scientists and engineers to better understand the properties of the alloys as they relate to a variety of sporting/leisure industry equipment needs. Sports and leisure industries are quick to adopt and exploit new materials, notably titanium. These industries usually also require lighter and stronger products. Some of the characteristics making Liquidmetal® alloys ideal for high-performance sporting goods are: Not sure the technology ever matched the performance on the course. I guess that reading the charts they could make even larger drivers because it's less dense but even stronger than Titanium but the elasticity wouldn't matter, COR rules means any change there couldn't push the 0.8 limit, what it could mean is hot legal driver faces with better feel and feed back than the current bean can range. Sandvik have a range of nanoflex steel alloys which can make club shafts thinner than titanium but just as strong Driver technology is about to hit the buffers like iron technology, the changes only add minute improvements, not big changes that mean club ho's don;t need to change every six months.

Hey, no pics of Mizuno Domino?? What are you guys all about ??? :smile1:

Color: Black, with a little gold text on it. Weight: 97g Torque 2.0 dead Kick Point Very high Price $30 Interestingly all the colors so far are Black, no dayglo greens or purples, nobody has posted RRP!

I think a tricked up links course would always play tougher than a tricked up US course (Pebble in the wind maybe, the old course is a little too short and wide open) Remembering Troon when the fairways were 20 yds wide with waist high jungle either side, Bermuda is one thing but when the grass tangles round your grip and you can't get the club into the back of the ball, that's real punishment Carnoustie is a real bitch but in some ways it forces the pros to play more conservatively, the rub of the green can be a much bigger factor. It's more about the number of bad shots your DON'T play rather than the number of good shots you DO play. Personally I think it's more exciting because we see a part of the game that the pros never really practice, hacking it out of the heavy bundi. Yes Tiger can snap hook 4 irons off the pine needles under low hanging branches but it's good to see him trying to chop sideways out of the real bad bush. All of us amateurs can relate to that, birdie barages menas the course is playing far too easy. I don't like it but I think sponsors like it for viewing figures. Golfing purists would like to see winning scores just under the par instead of 19 unders and 59's on tour I bet the money order would look a lot different if that was the case.

Hey if I had galleries bouncing my ball back onto greens and 100,000 people tredding the long rough down just off the fairways I think I'd give that bitch Woods a real red ass on the course. The really wild (Phil M, Woods) don;t get punished as bad 30 yds offline off the tee as the guys who miss the fairway by 3 feet Your crazy idolization and placing TW on a pedestal is the reason he's dominated for the last few years. Everyone was s**t scared to make a challenge and the field always back pedalled more often than Woods actually pulling away, go and check the stats. there will be a lotof 73's and 74's for the 2nd, 3rd placers The tour has the measure of him, under pressure is swing is cracking, a stiffer challenge and he's wilting now. It's easy to win when the chasing pack are choking and falling back, the true measure of a great is winning when your back's against the wall, Duel in the Sun, Waston and Nickalus at Troon.... Pirce and Ballesteros at Lythm.... any other golf tournament Nick Pirce would have won it out the park but the golf was of the highest calibre and they went toe to toe with Seve just pipping it. Don't see much of that on tour nowadays do you, that's where the lucky breaks actually win you the big prize instead of guys choking it like last week and throwing the play off at Sergio.

Sorry to burst your bubble but Tiger isn't winning, Serigo is winning, Vijay is winning, Woods is just poo-poo! The putts just aren't dropping, he's missing fairways and his recovery shots arent' finding the green. Given he's been d**king about with his swing but I'm sure Tigers putting stroke hasn't changed much since his heyday he hasn't had any major eye surgery and still reads putts the same way, so if technically nothing has altered then it stands to reason he has ran out of luck. If his putting mechanics is a constant but the results change then you can't blame technique, equipment and so on... it's got to be luck. Variation in the remainder of Woods putting stroke is outwith his control , you can call that variation whatever you want, most people call it 'LUCK'!

Larry Mize would never be where is is today if it wasn't for luck, there are others and luck plays just the same part in the Pro game as it does for us. Luckmis a constant as it has nothing to do with skill. Woods has had more than his fair share of lucky breaks on the road to victory... when he's in the trees he never seems to be totally blocked out. The Pros also can bail out into grandstands, the crowds where rough is trampled down so to a certain respect the luck is built in for Pros, ideally the should be playing more shots from worse-off positions... people always forget that. One surefire way to success is to make sure you are so good that the others can't get near you but the lucky ones might. And no matter how good you are, you can't buy or practice luck. Until you've came up against it you can't quantify the gutting feeling extreme luck has. When you're facing up a 15ft eagle putt and your opponent cans a 150 yd fairway bunker shot.. you are shattered, it's happened to me and no matter how good you are you'll always miss that putt! YTou can factor in 'Good' and plan for that in your strategy but luck you can't... it 's what makes golf what it is. Yeah Greg Norman has choked a fair bit but I believe the outrageous luck against him early in his career shattered his self belief making him more prone to choking.

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[quote="shoe295" :lol: :lol: .Agent Orange indeed..there have been days when I've felt like a defoliant hitting thru so many trees... just glad they didn't decide to call us bottom feeders. there isn't much water on my course.

Yes, Bubble shafts. And Love2golf, everybody may drive a Ford automobile but it doesn't mean it's not junk or the best car on the market. You're just drinking a new flavour of Kool-Aid, hype can't survive in a niche market, that's why the masses fall for it and TM is a in everybodies bag.

I have hit the local Mizuno reps 9* MP001 with an NV 95 S at the range and it does feel good. Mizuno are back on track with this Driver. Again I'm not too keen on TM gear, since the bubble fiasco I think their clubs are just pure gimmick especially the woods but I'd like to try the R7 but I'm not sure about d**king around with weights and their gear looks really cheap and nasty, just like Nike product. Take me back to the days of pre-system2, I still own a Tour Preferred Tour Burner 7* and a Tour Brassie 12*, completely functional, looks great and no gimmicks.. .. their stuff today is overpriced junkand pure hype. Like the R5 series, this stuff will be gone out of folks bags in 18 months... my tour burner was in the bag (punctuated by a Flex twist Burner Plus) till the 975D came along. How many clubs have staying power like that now ??

St Andrews Uni, Scotland Radd ??? Played the old course yet ?? Need to hook up for a game sometime. Yes, there are guys who are swingers and hitters, handloaders and many other different player types... personally I'm a thrasher! :) J.

What about an 'Agent Orange' rating for us defoliants and herbicides that live in the rough and carry 3 or more tour scythes ?? :lol:

I don' t think scratch to 5/6/7 is any indictment of someones ability to hit stiffer shafts. If a strong ball player off an 18 handicap needs a tour spec'd Fuji then that's what he needs (and a few lessons on chipping / putting & course management!) Usually the difference is in the short game and consistency not the long game with guys from 5 to zero I agree about the head, 70% of the club is the shaft, the head just gets in the way of the ball, with heads it's more feel, loft and looks. You can make the wrong head choice and get away with it, get the shaft all wrong and you'll hit nothing. I've rejected killer distance heads on the grounds of feel.... it's the most important part of a low handicappers game is feel.... not distance, and feel goes hand in hand with dispersion. Many guys here will drop a few digits on launch monitors to go with what feels good and tight.

Anybody remember what Irons Phil played during his amateur days ??? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...3677455921&rd=1

Penley Ultron XX, I had the XXX in 6.5* 975 D, you could go after it all day and the thing wouldn't go left. I have the Ultron X in 7.5* 983E but it still feels a bit soft especially when you're gunning it. Penley don't do the XXX in standard 45" lengths anymore.... it's 50" longdriving for the 3X - 4X models not sure if you could butt trim them. Be warned, you have to crank it all the time or the thing just won't bend. All Ultrons are stamped TS (tour series) above the marking bands People complain it's a broomhandle or too boardy but it sounds like the shaft your looking for, 1.7 * of torque, high kick point and the X comes in at 90g, the XXX I think was 97g, stil pretty light for a tire wrench of a shaft! Plus it's much cheaper than the ETA and it doesn't look as nasty as that Blue/Silver paint job in fact it looks downright menacing in matt black with wasp like yellow marking bands. Check out on their web site, I think these NV's and other OTT priced shafts will be too poofy for you and a waste of your time and cash.

Ditto, doesn't sit well at address and it feels solid but the ball just doesn't fly. The guy I was playing with, I was out gunning him with a Wilson Fatshaft titanium 3 wood off the tee. That's sore when you've spend that sort of cash on a stick, I'd be expecting 300+ yds for that amount of dough.