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@Double Mocha Man too smoky IMO

I've seen the video referenced in quite a few articles, and they all wrote the story as if it were an organic interaction. My distrust of AI written articles exceeds your distrust of all humans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/inner-harbor-van-body-missing-investigation-taxi-waldorf/ Correction - 2014 - 11 years missing. Stay classy Baltimore!

Fixed it! you're allowed to swim in the harbor now. Visitors welcome! Don't mind the taxi we pulled out of there with a missing person from 2018 🙂 TRUE STORY

Different state - but this morning I-70 was shutdown because a truck carrying 40,000lbs of watermelon caught on fire.

@ScooterMcTavish The mad tinkerer is back at it again! Good luck with your testing, I do find your golf ball testing to be quite detailed. I too am considering moving on from the Srixon XV. It was a great ball for me in the beginning of the year, but since adding about 10mph to my 7 iron speed I'm getting a lot of weird ball flights downwind. There was a very gentle breeze on Wednesday, which translated to my gap wedge flying 25 yards farther than anticipated, and a 200 yard 7 iron that was supposed to fly 180. Into the wind, the XV can't be touched though. Thinking about trying the standard Z-star or diamond. I do like the Srixon covers. They last a long time, but when they go the seam shows.

does he play left dot or left dash?

Indoors!? That's probably 8,000 of grass...

Did you hit a 200 yard thai spinnner off your back foot and ask where the Project X 7.0's are?

SHHHHHHH...what are you doing broadcasting Solomon's Island to the world!? We let the visitors explore Baltimore/DC/Annapolis/OCMD. We save the gems for ourselves!!! Not going to mention any of the others by name 🙂

I'm sure they'll grow out of it (your sons)

I interpret this as you sent them on a couple's retreat to re-kindle their relationship. Am I close?

assuming someone has the physical strength and coordination to manage that shaft length then yes. Most people see a point of diminished returns. is that a safe assumption? Shaft length/lie angle changes will affect setup and swing mechanics. Have you ever tried to swing a sand wedge as fast as your driver (without hurting yourself 🙂 ) are you referring to orbital angular velocity, or are you assuming angular velocity via a fixed point? A lot of bad assumptions have been made in golf instruction assuming the swing has a fixed center of the arc. Homer Kelley wrote a whole book on it. I think that's the problem with trying to isolate a single factor in the golf swing.

I haven't measured/calc'd golf club MOI in over a decade so others may chime in as well. IIRC the biggest driver of MOI about the grip was clubhead mass and club length. MOI generally increases throughout the set as the clubs get longer, unless they are intentionally MOI matched.

I think it's course dependent, but I mostly agree. Unless a public course has enough land to make a 7000+ yard track tipped (most don't) they tend to resort to alternative methods to make a course challenging. After reading the thread I'm pretty convinced that there aren't really significant 'errors' in course ratings. The way I'm reading the surveyor/course rater's description is that ratings are mostly quantitatively driven, so even if one course were to play 'easier' than it's rating, there's probably other courses that play 'harder' and it all offsets. Yep. The issue, at least anecdotally, seems to be certain courses seem inclined to "pinch" landing areas to negate the courses lack of length. Combined with standard men's tees that almost always seem to be up, you've got a combo that forces decent players to lay up excessively. Courses with much more consistent fairway widths seem much less sensitive to where the tee markers get placed that day. One absurd example - there was a 240 yard par 4. It's 'drive-able' per se, if you're tee shot holds the green. If not, hazards left/right/behind green. Creek @ ~130 because tees were up. The choices were (1) lay up with gap wedge or (2) attempt to drive the green, or put an iron near the front apron...but also it's not a straight shot to the green. I hit a 2 yard draw into the junk off the tee 🙂 the course map shows rough where there is actually just overgrown brush.

I bet NJ is equally as humid if not more. When I take my clubs from my air conditioned house & car outside the steel gets a layer of dew 🤣

I resemble that remark 🤣 No way to tell for sure because I don't currently have access to force plates. But just the act of gaining an understanding of where pressure needs to go and when has improved my golf swing. But your comment rings true, even doing it somewhat poorly I still hit better shots now. Results may vary, I have/had a really bad case of 'swing in a barrel'

My condolences go out to you 🤣 it was 97 and humid here in central MD. Like playing golf in a steam room!

We are gonna get dumped on here all afternoon into the morning. Looking at this picture will be the closest I get to playing golf today 🙂

thanks! I think it's going to work pretty well.

I ordered it with the closest available shaft that Taylormade has. Driver is Tensei AV white 65x, mini will ba Kai'li 70x. Weights are actually 69/77 on the spec sheets I believe.

Oh I still plan on hitting driver a good bit, I've worked on my swing and driving accuracy has improved. The problem I'm having is I play a lot of courses where the landing areas at 225-250 are much more forgiving than 275. I actually had to take (2) unplayables yesterday because I blew it through the landing area into hazards. Hit both shots exactly as intended. I don't want to always play the tips to avoid this from happening, when I'm playing rounds with my buddies we all tee off from the same boxes. I've got the Apex UW 19 and T150 4 iron that do 215-240 (total) pretty well. But my 3 wood is killing me off the tee. So I'm forced to drop back too far to avoid the 3 wood.

I appreciate the detailed response. I definitely would be glad to see the carry # stay about the same, but just a more dedicated tee shot club. 3 wood off the turf isn't a shot that I have much use for. If I need it, I can always throw the g430 max 3 wood in the bag - but it's not much of a tee club 🙂

We shall see soon! ETA to ship is a week - longest week ever.

My experience has been similar. Improving shift and sequencing with my driver has made my long game exponentially better. Some distance, but wayy more accurate and more efficient delivery with the driver. The downside is that I can accidentally step on short irons now - something that I used to never have to worry about. I've now resorted to lots of 3/4 follow throughs on the short irons to control distance better. Seems to be working, until I randomly nuke one again.