Is it ever the club?

JohnnyDee

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Something that's always puzzled me is the phenomenon of the club that suddenly starts to 'misbehave'.

We may have had it in the bag for yonks. We've played some of our best golf with it and we used to love it like a brother or a sister.

But then suddenly something happened. It started hitting bad shots. We forgave it for a while but it started to do it all the time. Suddenly from being a go to solution for certain situations we began to dread taking it out of the bag because it had become untrustworthy. "It was no good anymore".

It's now living in our odds and sods bag in the garage and hasn't played a shot for months - maybe even years.

Occasionally we may have given it one last try but it was no good. The club was stil "at it", still being uncooperative and the love affair is now over - no way back.

Setting aside it having developed a physical defect then what's going on here?

Why can we no longer hit it well. Is it the club or the useless dollop on the other end of it?
 
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Unless then physical characteristics of the club have changed then it's the user who has changed.

Our bodies, swing characteristics and mental approach change and vary far more than the playing characteristics of a club do over time.
 
I have my favourite driver in the shed that I just couldn't hit in the end.

Oh it was the clubs fault
 
Just because you've hit one good shot with a club it doesn't automatically follow that any subsequent bad shots are operator error.
I hit Joe Miller's driver once....tried 2 shots and one went well, the other, not so....
Should I be using Joe's driver because I hit one good shot with it..?
 
Just because you've hit one good shot with a club it doesn't automatically follow that any subsequent bad shots are operator error.
I hit Joe Miller's driver once....tried 2 shots and one went well, the other, not so....
Should I be using Joe's driver because I hit one good shot with it..?

Is the question not, 'should Imurg be allowed anywhere near any driver at any time'. See you on Monday mate :one:

AAC
 
I know I can hit a good shot, and when I don't I always assume that the battery in the club is running low.
 
I have putters that I've drained loads of putts with and all seems fine with the world. Then it goes frostier than a handshake between Trump and Clinton and it gets consigned to the spare bag. Others come along, teasing and promising, and then do the same thing and the merry go round continues. I know I can putt well so it can't be me, it has to be the putter
 
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