[diverdan]

Are you scratch golfers ready for a laugh? I haven't held a club for over 25 years but I'm in great shape due to other sports. Breaking 100 wasn't even in sight back then. Okay a new club opened close to my house and work. Gotta do it. Looked at some Chinese knock off Calloways. Less than 500 bucks but the craftsmanship was absolute caca. Looked at the stuff at the pro shop, nicely made. Tried a set of Calloway big berthas with graphite. No feel, lousy shots. So I decided to try my luck at a big pro shop. Liked the Hogan Apex edge with R steel shafts, pretty good feel, not quite so lousy hits. Amongst other sets I tried was a set of Mizuno MP 67s with S300 shafts. Hook, slice. not under the ball, but when I hit it right the feel was awesome. Welll, I've got my work cut out for me and the teacher will have to earn his money. I don't know golf and I didn't know what I was trying out but those MP67s talked to me. Sure, my score would be lower with a more forgiving design, but these will tell me where I make my errors and reward me when I get it right. I hope you guys are laughing at my foolishness in buying the MP67s. But I'm going to sort it out in the next two to three months. (more chuckling)

Irons were not my problem in the old days, the old persimmon headed drivers were my nemisis and the players on adjacent fairways had to vbe aware! The 460 cc square heads that I tried gave long straight shots AWESOME. However, due to the expense , I opted for a used Taylormade r7 10.5 drive that seems to do much better than the persimmons so far as control is concerned. I'd love to have the feel and sound of the antiques, but right now they would never leave the bag and I'd be stuck at the tees with my 3 iron which used to give me 200 yards plus consistently.

diverdan