Recent content by Viper

Mr. Madandra, You are wrong. This IS golf equipment - golf equipment of the most essential kind. With 90% of golfers uninsured, and bearing in mind the high percentage of high handicap maniacs hacking there way around golf courses without a clue about danger or etiquette this is ESSENTIAL...

I have a selection of my used competition long Drivers for sale at http//:www.stores.ebay.co.uk/sanderslongdrive I only sell my own used equipment so please do not offer me yours. Thanks. E: ivan.vipervr@googlemail.com

I am only 5'9" and was advised by a master club builder that it was ridiculous to compete at Long Drive with 50" drivers as they would be far too long for me, particularly as I was then 56 years old. I LOVE advisors to tell me that things are too difficult! I went on to take three...

There is no 'optimal length' as such, it is what each player can handle. Yes, a longer shafter driver will (in the right hands) hit slightly further but most players consider that the increased difficulty factor outweighs benefits gained. Such is likely generally a sound view but it need not...

Some very good points made. Thanks for the advice on PPE. As an ex conveyancing lawyer I never got involved with such issues, and am forensically ignorant apart from knowledge of relative basic principles of law. When I last played (in the 1960s) I recall a golfer losing an eye after being hit...

Thanks Atticus_Finch, Viscount 17, and Leftie for your warm welcomes. However I have no ambitions to raise my accreditation status via multiple postings :) I spent countless hours writing articles etc. on the Virtual Golf Society site on Long Drive, drivers, shafts etc. in their forum (they...

As a seperate point, albeit vaguely related, I wonder why golf course maintenance staff do not wear hard hats with visors? Are they offered such as protective clothing? I am unaware of what "ppe" is and maybe such relates to protective clothing? Whilst loutish behaviour from golfers is...

Lovely to read this thread as it is a matter which I raised on the Virtual Golf Society forum a couple on months ago but received little response. I agree that golfing standards and behaviour are issues which require addressing but how one achieves it is not so easy. Forty years ago it would...