Do You thrive on a Challange or not..?

What shape shot do you predominately have?

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Cernunnos

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Leading on from the hybrid thread...

Hark back to when you started playing golf, or did any sport or pastime for that matter. Do you thrive on the challanges set before you.

Or can you get easily discoraged unless you have had a helping hand in what you do.

Essentially the question is would you have thrived on the challenge of trying to play with difficult to use equipment from yesteryear & perservere, or not.

Yes, for some its nice to have a challange & the opertunity for the helping hand too, but we have to choose black or white for this one...

So.....:
 

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If all that was available to me and I knew no better then blades it is. In fact, I stared with a set of borrowed blades 20 odd years ago. I got one or two sweet shots with them, but it was useless. I did actually give up for 10 years. So as much as I like a challenge. If it's too difficult, and this is supposed to be enjoyable, why bother.
 

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I'm sorry, but i'd have given up!

I dont have the time to go to the range and practice every night of the week and play every weekend (my wife & 2 kids put paid to that) so using old fashioned blades, i dont see any point in even trying as i wont get any better in any hurry.

However, i think you're being a bit tight on the options Cernunnos as i'm leaving myself no option but to sound like a quitter, and i'm no quitter. A middle of the road option would've been nice :(
 

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Its a challenge sometimes for me to get out of bed and do anything, so if all that was available were an old set of blades I'd be up for it!
 

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Considered offering a middle option Keef, but as I'm getting at, if push comes to shove, would we just carry on playing no matter how hard it became or not.


We all feel discoraged at times, but it does need a certain pig headedness to stick with things sometimes even when something starts to get us down.

If we were given the option of a middle ground this would be a fudge question.

Sorry Keef to put such a cruel one.
 

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I played blades up until last year anyway. I learnt with blades, that was what there was. I used to drive with a 2i, because I couldn't hit a driver or 3w, they were too unforgiving.

It would't worry me to go back to that tomorrow, just that everyone else would need to too.
 

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When I started there was very little other than blades. Ping were viewed as a better player club and there weren't that many true cavity backs. The first set of clubs I bought as a 10 year old were Petron Impalas and they were blade like. I knew no different so persevered.
 

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I think it would be difficult to go back knowing what we know now. But if you were starting afresh with old stuff I don't think you'd mind at all - you'd just get on with it.
 

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Having started out with blades in the 70's i love the challenge.

They are still in my garage and the faces are soo small compared to modern clubs i still cant fathom how a young starter ever hit them.

Must bring a club to the range some time and see can i hit a ball with them.
 

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Like most others of my generation it was either blades or a cavity back woodchopper made from granite!!

The blades are still in the garage, but I'm not sure that I could fit a ball on the face never mind find the sweet spot
 

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If there was no choice then I'd work on the blades and get better - that's how I learnt to play. Keep trying until it works.
Mind you, looking at the 3 iron from the new Nike V blades today just made me think of toast and butter!!
 

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I still look back with great fondness on the days of yesteryear when I owned a Wilson persimmon driver and a set of Maxfli Australian blades. The sweetspot on that driver was invisible to naked eye but when you caught it properly in went like a missle (remember that pure strikers of the ball such as Watson, Nicklaus, Norman and even Faldo* could hit their persimmon drivers in excess of 300yds, now anyone on tour can). As for the irons, you could have a close shave with that 3-iron (it was only bum-fluff in those days anyway). Hitting a proper golf shot with these was the best feeling ever. I've now played Ping cavity-backs for 10 years. I own a large headed driver and a TM Raylor, which of course is the forerunner of today's hybrids (just as the Raylor is a based on a old-fashioned baffy or spoon). I personally would never use a hybrid but I've got no problem with others using them - it's progress. However, when you see pros using them it looks like an admission of defeat (just as a belly putter does). One of the most depressing sights I've ever witnessed in the Open was Todd Hamilton using his rescue as glorified Bronte Chipmaster to beat Ernie Els on the 18th at Troon. It was a shot of precious little skill but of good judgement: the judgement being I'm not good enough to pitch this shot. For a cultured player like Els, this must have hard to take. Good luck to Hamilton, but is he a great champion? This incident is the main reason I have a dislike of hybrids/rescues. If golf ceases to be a challenge (and I'm not saying we're near that yet) it will not longer be a sport, merely recreation. That will be a sad day, IMHO. *I am of course not comparing myself to these players!
 
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