Recent content by timd77

As much as the PGA is very much viewed as the worst major, if you binned it off and replaced it with the players, people from our generation would struggle to view it as a major. I just don’t see how you can just decide ‘nah, we’re changing things, this is more important than that now’. Just...

My swing speed at the moment is around 90-95mph. I always just assumed I needed a regular shaft. If I hit it well I’d carry it similar distances to you, but sometimes I’d feel as though I hit it ok but it would be too high and spinny, lost loads of yards. About a year ago I bought a second hand...

It was awful this weekend. I switched it on around 10pm last night hoping to see some excitement. Instead all you get is replays, ‘and here’s so and so with a putt for birdie’ after not showing us the approach shot. Then we get 3-4 minutes watching sheffler signing autographs, more chit chat in...

30? Amateurish! Reckon we have it 52 times!

Yep, getting somewhere near the green with the 2nd shot, chip it on giving yourself a chance of par, bogey at worst. Takes the blow out out of the equation. Easy to say this. If I nob it off the tee, half the time I’m trying to make up for it on the next shot. When I’m playing well I take my...

Totally agree. For reasons I won’t go into, my weekly round of golf is my only time I get to switch off from other stuff for a few hours, I’ve come to rely on it. Going for walks, watching football on tv etc doesn’t have the same affect. We’re closed today and definitely tomorrow. I’m booked...

A used 56° vokey sm9 off eBay, £45. I’ve been playing a 50°, 54° and 58° degree for a few years now. I fancy trying to go down to 2 wedges (50 and 56), see how I get on. I find that I rarely used the 54 and 58, and I think that’s down to being unable to choose which one to just get good with...

Been said many times before, but if we ever went down the route of adding a 5th major or replacing the pga as the 4th, it really should be somewhere other than America. I’d love to see another major played in Europe, or Australia or Asia.

Definitely the former. You can strike a forgiving iron low on the face or out of the toe and it’ll still go a decent percentage of the distance and relatively online. Hit a blade the same and you’re vibrating like a tuning fork and hitting your next shot from further and wider!

My local one’s similar. Can’t remember exactly which club brands, but I’m sure they stock TM, ping and titleist, all of the lines. Clothing too. Yes they have the cheap stuff but also the more well known stuff you mention. I only buy from there when I receive the £10 birthday voucher and it’s...

It’ll be interesting to see if the yanks tone it down a bit after the fall out from the Ryder cup. I doubt it. I’ll probably watch some of it, I usually do, it just depends how noisy it gets!

Apologies for jumping on this thread… I’ve been after a decent insulated coffee mug for a while, but every one I’ve tried gets binned… they all seem to give the coffee a weird taste. Assume it’s some sort of reaction with the metal. Has anyone found one that doesn’t taint the flavour of hot drinks?

Me too, I tried the qi10 a while ago, loved how it felt and was getting an extra 10 yards versus my ping. But no way would I spend that money until these issues are sorted (they’re still having them). A few lads at my golf club have won drivers on that golfstar draw thing and some of them are...

It’s a known problem, all over social media shortly after they came out and a bit of an embarrassment for the company, and so although it’s out of warranty I’m surprised the haven’t sorted you out through goodwill and just wanting to keep it quiet. I’m sure even Peter finch had the same thing...

Padraig Harrington did a good video on this. It talked about amateurs tending to under read breaks meaning they usually missed the hole low and the ball trickled further away from the hole. Miss it high by the same amount, pace etc and the ball trickles towards the hole, giving you a chance of...