I'd guess that somewhere in every blog there is an explanation for the blog. The owner's perspective.. and so this is the 19th's explanation: When I relate to golf I relate as a caddie... pure and simple.. It's in my nature.. I was a Professional Manager who was Trained and Retrained by some of the best organizations and groups in Business (big and small).. I understand bed-side manners but it's not in my nature.. My nature is to get as many facts as possible and without too much sentimentality, come to some reasonable conclusion about what will happen and tell you that quickly. I'm a New Yorker. I don't guess. I know. Though age has tempered my confidence. I traded stocks (and other things) for a bit and the rule is: the trend is your friend until the end. It's like a beauty contest but all that matters is what the judges think. The market never lies. Things repeat themselves until they don't.. So if you hit your 5 iron 180 yards most of the time and one day hit it 200 because of light air, you still hit it 180 yards in my mind.. higher highs and higher lows means things are going up... that's the market...so as as caddie I learned very quickly (because I do that) that Ams like to fool themselves and pros do not... Better players tend to deal with reality and work on their weaknesses... If they hit a bucket of 9 irons and the blanket they land them on is 135 yards away... that's how far they hit a 9i.. no wishful thinking. ..and a club that doesn't do what they think it should do is not romanced... it's replaced... no time for fooling around. Ams will carry a cool looking hard to hit set of irons or a 3 wood and leave it in the bag for show.. entirely delusional.
I developed a theory about playing forgiving irons for Ams... it's simple. The game is tough enough... Play the easiest to hit irons you can stand to look at... we all have our limits.. If you are a 12 and play blades and think you are a good ballstriker and still reading this.. go somewhere else.. You may not like it here... . If it takes you 4 hours to play 18 holes... same.. you waste time... it's impossible to play the game like that... we watched 4 fools do it today at my club... I have decide to quit the game because of it a least twice a month... take your place in line and move up when the guy in front of you moves up...I adore Golf as the Scots play it... their caddies know what this thing is all about... a slightly hung over caddie is the best guide... he will tell you what you need to know... not much... but you need to know exactly how far you are from your target and how you are going to get there. You have to be able to "see" it.. envision it.. if the balls are not rolling onto the greens from the fringe today because it rained 5 inches last night.. that's not likely the play... so this is not that hard really. Match conditions with capabilities..
Wanna talk equipment?
Wanna talk equipment?
My answer to a question about playing forgiving irons:
lol.. the key concept here is: "stand to look at" ... but there is something else going on here as well and our fevered friend has hit it tight...I was playing a lot of tournament golf 4 years ago... mp-60's...x-tours... r7tp's.. get a new coach and the game starts to deteriorate under his advise.. seems maybe more forgiving clubs are the answer.. he advocates.. I agree..he's a PING'r and sets me up...but I keep rollin' down the hill... so I get some other advise and turn around... I play better now than I did then ... just not long enough to have any fun playing competitively but did get back to the point where a little more precision was in order and I like the balance ..my irons (mx-300) are the same size as r9tp's.. I measured 7 irons today at the store as I was contemplating what other driver I might try (again)... so the 300's have the same "reach" as the r9tp's and, as a quality forged head will do, provide distance control that I did not have with a GI/SGI/PGI type iron...going up and down the index scale recently has been interesting as I hit what for me were the break points as I was improving from a beginner... at a 14 I thought I needed better clubs to get better (not true)... at 12 I thought the same... and at 8 and 6 and 4.. I'll talk more about this but going from a competitive 2 back up and then down again has been a good experience than I hope never repeats itself!! sure learned some stuff going through this thing twice..
Driver (that's the topic right?) ...There was a mp-600 driver in the used bin today (beat up pretty good) and the shape is nice... just want a driver that doesn't cause people to say... what the heck is that?... toaster on a stick?.. like the square heads.. the Diablo is not that bad but it's bad... I will not swap it however until something performs better... I may just grow to love it...and again, it's psycho cause I don't notice it on the tee and some of the Pards I play with comment every time out that I've never hit a driver so well.. and that's fact.. nothing wrong with "you are hitting the driver well today" and another player says, "he always hits that Diablo well"..."Yup"... well not always... thankfully Mizzy and Taylor have some cool drivers on the way.. I know one of them will move the duckling into the bin... tomorrow's is a new day! .. fwiw I had dialed in the 09 burner tp and the r9-460 and was hitting it well... another former playing pro handed me a stock shafted Diablo.. Said, "just try it". It was tested and I'm thinking no way... next round played it... went back to the motore tp 460 r9... and I'm a Taylor Lover! Admire the company and their technology, products and they have the type of will to win that you rarely find in business these days!..I'm a Big Fan...so that switch was not easy at all... flipping from the burners to mizzy irons was not a big deal.. was gonna bag the r9tp's anyway and move on..same former pro gave me the word on the 300's and I'm cool either way... Petter has been reminding me for a couple of years how good nippon shafts and the combo is great... hey I may have r9tp's with nippons in the bag in a month who knows??.. But dumping the r9 460 for a Diablo? ..an Ugly Diablo? as a guy wrote me Monday.. "that driver has got to be good" and for me it is...anyway... I am way off topic and this is not my blog, but I hope someone out there will relate and get through a bad relationship because of this narrative...
Gotta find your groove. Base it on measurable performance... not wishful thinking... I'm out of breath......looking forward to the ZL I have on order and the promise of a nice normal looking driver I hit fairways with and is as long as the D (for me)....
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