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Not to threadjack, but I have a Gauge Japan GAS1 Black finish 57° wedge in 9/10 that I'd be willing to trade for a Scratch in similar loft/condition. Please give aznmrq first dibs though, as this was his request. Thx.

Well, it's official. I'm a idiot. I was killing my Hogans. Striping them. Then I switched to the Miuras. Hit them well, but they're definitely more demanding. So i switched back to the Hogans. After 3 horrible rounds and one good one with them, yesterday I hit rock bottom. 94. That's right. 94. I couldn't hit anything. I had 0 good shots. If I didn't have cigars and beer on me for our tourney, I would've thrown my clubs in the water. Worst round of the year by far. Stevie Wonder could've played better. I'm selling the Miuras and putting the Hogans into retirement. :spit:

I find that the longer my swing is, the more chance of this happening. Hit all your iron shots in practice at 3/4 backswing...maybe even do this for a round of golf. My results improved greatly.

:cool: Words can't describe how good those look. Awesome pics as usual.

:roll: My wife will watch Celebrity Poker on Bravo. The WSOP is too intense for her taste though. Not enough talking, laughing etc. When I play down in Atlantic City, there are some real freaks on those Hold'em tables, let me tell ya. Two weeks ago, we went on vacation down the NJ shore with the rest of the extended family. I was recruited to teach the family how to play Texas Hold'em. It was like teaching Steve Wonder skeet shooting. :laugh:

They have to be created via a graphics program capable of editing and exporting a "animated gif" or stolen :wink:

I'd figure he'd go more for Grizzly Beer... http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/08/18/bear...reut/index.html SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday. "We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Seattle. The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds. It turns out the bear was a bit of a beer sophisticate. He tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his drinking binge. Wildlife agents chased the bear away, but it returned the next day, said Broxson. They set a trap using as bait some doughnuts, honey and two cans of Rainier Beer. It worked, and the bear was captured for relocation.

Thanks Mike. Bald Bull used to kick my @ss!! :punch:

Awwww yeah! Koko B. in da house! Let's make a change though shall we? This one's too good.

He must have the shutterbug real bad. Either that or he went out and got married in Vegas. :wink:

That's beautiful. I assume the first 2 letters of the stamping are your initials. What do the others signify?

Good point Ethan. jonny5 hit it right on the head too, though. I prefer Game Enhancement irons, like my Hogan Apex Edge Pros, to Game Improvement, because they're forged and have less offset.

I can't believe this is real, but it is :-D http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/con...cbody_0812.html 480-pound woman dies after six years on couch By Pat Moore Thursday, August 12, 2004 She lived in filth, so large she couldn't move from her sofa, even to use the bathroom. Early Wednesday, still fused to the couch, Gayle Laverne Grinds died following a six-hour effort by rescue workers who struggled to lift the 480-pound woman and get her to a Martin County hospital. Unable to separate the skin of the 39-year-old woman from her sofa, 12 Martin County Fire-Rescue workers slid both onto a trailer and hauled her behind a pickup to Martin Memorial Hospital South. She died a short time later. Sheriff's investigators questioned how Grinds lived in such conditions without more help from family or authorities. "We're not treating her death as suspicious at this point, but we do have an investigation started because the circumstances surrounding her death are so unusual," Martin Sheriff's Sgt. Jenell Atlas said. The Treasure Coast medical examiner performed an autopsy of the 4-foot-10 woman and listed her cause of death as "morbid obesity," officials said. Results of toxicology tests will take several weeks. "I tried to take care of her the best I could," said 54-year-old Herman Thomas, who lived with Grinds in the duplex apartment in Golden Gate, south of Stuart. "I tried to get her to get up, but it wouldn't do no good." He said the woman that he called his wife hadn't been off the couch for six years. No record of their marriage could be found. "I wish I could have pulled her off the couch, but she wouldn't let me," he said, covering his face and sobbing. Inside the home, the floor and walls were matted with feces, and trash was strewn across the floors, some which were bare concrete. Furniture was toppled, and pictures were knocked off walls. Atlas said sheriff's detectives will look for potential "negligence issues" related to her care and death. "We want to know what happened to her, how she ended up this way, and is she supposed to have been receiving any care," she said. Rescue workers were called to the home at 8:44 p.m. Tuesday by Grinds' brother and his girlfriend, who reported the woman had trouble breathing and "emphysema problems." The crew initially tried to remove her from the couch, but the pain was too excruciating. Workers wore protective clothing and installed large air handling hoses to ventilate the horrendous odor emitting from the home while trying to figure out how to get the woman and her couch to the hospital. The street in front of the row of duplex apartments turned into a makeshift construction site as rescue crews used hammers and chain saws to build a large wooden stretcher with handles cut around the perimeter so firefighters could lift the woman and the couch, Martin County Fire-Rescue District Chief Jim Loffredo said. After several failed attempts, including building one plywood plank that was too small to hold her, workers removed sliding glass patio doors at the back of the home, leaving a 6-foot opening large enough to get her out. They slid the couch with her on it onto the larger wooden plank supported by 2-by-4 boards, which were slid onto a utility trailer. "We couldn't get her in the ambulance," Loffredo said. The trailer was hooked to the back of a pickup, leaving the scene sometime after 2 a.m., witnesses said. Grinds died at 3:12 a.m., still attached to the couch, officials said. Neighbors who watched the lengthy rescue effort said they had never seen Grinds out of the home. Jerry Thomas, who lives across the street for six years, said he has seen young girls at the home on occasion but never knew Grinds was inside. "All we knew was the old man lived there," Thomas said. "I had no idea a woman ever lived in that house. Apparently she'd been on that couch a long time." Unidentified relatives expressed anger at the scene. "Family members are upset.... It's a difficult position," Martin County Fire-Rescue specialist Chris Wisniewski said. Clifford Grinds, who is believed to be Gayle Grinds' brother, refused comment and slammed a door when contacted by a reporter at his Hobe Sound home Wednesday afternoon. Court records show Gayle Grinds cared for a young niece and nephew after the death of her sister in 1992. Those children are now 19 and 15, but their whereabouts were unclear Wednesday. "We are used to going to people's houses when things are at their worst... and that's fine, we're trained for it," Atlas said. "But there is no warning for something like this." Atlas said a community policing deputy who worked the neighborhood a few years ago knew of Grinds but never had any dealings with her, and no deputy had ever been called inside the home. In June 2003, 911 dispatchers received a call from the home for medical assistance, but Martin County Fire Chief Tom Billington said he could not reveal the nature of that call, citing federal medical privacy laws and the ongoing investigation. The Department of Children and Families can intervene to help adults who are unable to care for themselves, but DCF officials said Wednesday they did not know about Grinds. Christine Demetriades, agency spokeswoman for the Treasure Coast, said DCF has no record of calls to the abuse hot line or reports before she died.

Al, how do you like your Zs? What kind of shaft do you have in them? I'm thinking of trying them out -- they seem pretty similar to my Apex Edge Pros. It has been pretty dead around here.

I have a 19° (U3) w/NSPro Stiff Steel. It's anywhere between 190 and 210 for me. I hit a natural draw, but with this club, it likes to go straight. It is, however, very easy to fade the ball and beats my three iron b/c it can be played from really any lie - tight, rough, tee, sand...

Anyone know of a good Zodia website with US Spec info? Preferably in English. Mucho thanks.

Good luck Pete. I once had delusions of an engineering dancing in my head, but I feel much better now! :laugh: I understand the creative side. Even though it pays kind of crappy, I'd rather been enjoying myself building web sites and graphics any day! :cool:

4 posts, a dozen Tour R7s, another dozen Tour FWs, all in stock, no pics - smells like :bulls**t: to me... Is is ok if I have my friend from the Nigerian Counselate wire you the money? :laugh:

Many of you know I purchased a set of CB201s not too long ago. I really love the clubs. They're just beautiful and the Miura forged feel is nothing short of spectacular. Shortly after, I began to notice a trend while playing them. They all had DG S300 shafts. They all were D2 Swingweight. Sure they launched lower, but the feel was 'all wrong.' I can best descibe it as the long irons felt as though I were 'swinging the club through water." I've demoed these with Nippons before, so I called up Paul Manco down at Shreveportgolfonline.com. We talked about installing 1050s, which are a nice mid weight shaft that's easy to load. I don't like swinging harder than I have too -- hey, why should I? It's all about accuracy. I was discussing how I disliked the long irons but they were all D2. Getting a set of Nippons at D2 would help the ballflight, but not the sluggish feeling during the swing. In order to get the feeling I desired, we agreed to try progressive swingweighting. Starting at D0 for the 3 iron, Paul suggested we increment it at 0.5 to the pitching wedge. What the heck, let's go for it. Paul turned around the clubs in a day. I just got them back. The specs read (standard Miura loft/lie): Club / SW 3i / D0 4i / D0.5 5i / D1.0 6i / D1.5 7i / D2.0 8i / D2.5 9i / D3.0 PW / D3.5 Just got back from maiden voyage to the range. :nos**t: These are the best feeling clubs I ever owned. :love: Paul was incredibly patient with me and my dozen or so phone calls and was more than willing than help me out. If you have trouble handling longer irons, I suggest you try this idea out. Feel free to ask me any questions about the clubs or Shreveportgolf.

That sux Chainsaw... I hate Dye courses by the way. Too over the top. Anyway, have you contacted Ari for his opinion?

:laugh: That's awesome Jack.

Paul is a great guy. He does all my clubwork to, and I'm 1500 miles away!

Do me a favor guys. If I ever switch from a 'left hand low' putting grip to a conventional grip again, slap me. Just show up at my front door, ring the bell, then smack me in the face. :punch:

Ever use google.com to search for images and get some funky results? Post your random google image search pic here.

It does more than tips!!! :mad: :laugh: