JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
My first set of big guns when I started playing seriously 20 years ago consisted of a TM Firesole driver and TM 3 & 5 Burner woods with.... cue fanfare: buddle bur-bur bur-bur! Bubble Shafts.
Over the years I have of course changed my clubs many times but have always struggled with fairway woods. I have had Cobras, Callaways and other TMs but I could never hit them particularly well. Always straight but not always in the air, far too many topped and consequently lost all confidence in that department.
I flogged my latest on ebay (a lovely-looking blue head 3-4 Cobra F7) a while back and had been making do with a 4 rescue and a 7 wood since.
Yesterday I decided to put my Bubble Burner 5 wood in the bag, and as the kids say, O-M-G! Hit it like a pro and suddenly I was able to take on long approaches.
Three of them, one on the green and one pin high just off to the right and another in a greenside bunker in the 190-200 yard range (not Forum distances by the way as I was allowing for roll-out
)
Anyway got me thinking, we are often very keen to run out and embrace the latest technology even when we're getting good results with what we've got already and perhaps we ought not to believe so much of the manufacturer spiel.
Before the onslaught.
I'm not suggesting that things have not come a long way - particularly with drivers - but I am now putting the 5’s brother or indeed sister, the 3 wood, in the bag for Monday and really looking forward to seeing what happens.
I have even scrubbed up the original grips (a sort of rubbery silicone mix) with Fairy liquid and a nail brush and they’ve come up like new.
Over the years I have of course changed my clubs many times but have always struggled with fairway woods. I have had Cobras, Callaways and other TMs but I could never hit them particularly well. Always straight but not always in the air, far too many topped and consequently lost all confidence in that department.
I flogged my latest on ebay (a lovely-looking blue head 3-4 Cobra F7) a while back and had been making do with a 4 rescue and a 7 wood since.
Yesterday I decided to put my Bubble Burner 5 wood in the bag, and as the kids say, O-M-G! Hit it like a pro and suddenly I was able to take on long approaches.
Three of them, one on the green and one pin high just off to the right and another in a greenside bunker in the 190-200 yard range (not Forum distances by the way as I was allowing for roll-out
)Anyway got me thinking, we are often very keen to run out and embrace the latest technology even when we're getting good results with what we've got already and perhaps we ought not to believe so much of the manufacturer spiel.
Before the onslaught.
I'm not suggesting that things have not come a long way - particularly with drivers - but I am now putting the 5’s brother or indeed sister, the 3 wood, in the bag for Monday and really looking forward to seeing what happens.
I have even scrubbed up the original grips (a sort of rubbery silicone mix) with Fairy liquid and a nail brush and they’ve come up like new.
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