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Golf bros, what's in your bag for 2025??
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Date: March 11th, 2025 12:48 PM Author: cowgolf Just did a pro fitting for the first time and got fit into G440 irons and wedges. Was in hard denial at first, as I couldn't wrap my mind around the G440's bizarre back aesthetic, but already had g440 max driver and FW
Couldn't sleep for 2 nights thinking about how smooth the Pings felt, so I ordered them to my fitter's specs (retro spec loft, .25" +.5 lie, 65g)
2025 bag: G440 max 9* driver, 4W, 5H, 6i-P, 47, 52, 56, 60.06 Vokey LW, Bettinardi SB1
Still have a slot open for 1 more club. Will probably add the Chipper or a second (mini) driver
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Date: March 11th, 2025 3:08 PM Author: Mike Piazza taking cuts on the beach do not buy this - just fix your swing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48737470) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 4:08 PM Author: cowgolf I traded in a full combo set of 2023 Callaways, Odyssey AI putter and a couple '23 drivers on Ping's website
Final order netted out to like $50 |
Date: March 11th, 2025 12:51 PM Author: Polisci SHITHEAD I am 37, father of 3 boys, and where I live is surrounded by beautiful golf courses, both public and private. Is it too late for me to learn how to play golf? I want my boys to play it and I've kind of resigned myself to never playing it. Not unlike skiing, I have accepted that I won't ever do that. Unlike skiing, however, I feel like I'd really love to play golf. Thoughts? How to get started? My oldest (5) loves mini golf and I was thinking about enrolling him in a PGA junior clinic when he turns 6 next summer (the youngest age you can join)
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Date: March 11th, 2025 12:53 PM Author: cowgolf You and your kids are the perfect age to start playing together
The reason I started playing in my 40s was to have a future activity with my kid
Enroll your kids in First Tee and get them a preowned kids set from USA Golf based on their height
I just woke up at 630am today to enroll my kid in First Tee because golf is insane where I live
For yourself just get Callaway Costco or Kirkland beginner set. It'll be more fun getting fitted for new clubs once you can hit the ball consistently |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 12:57 PM Author: Polisci SHITHEAD There is a First Tee 20 min. from my house. Very cool. So I go to Costco and buy a Kirkland beginner set - then what? Do I take 1 on 1 lessons? Go to the range? |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: cowgolf IMHO:
1) read Ben Hogan's Five Lessons, but ignore the part on ball placement at setup (Hogan had a weird setup with the ball always positioned on his left heel to battle a nasty hook--no modern tour player or instructor follows this). Everything else he wrote (grip, take back, swing, wrists, weight shift, sequencing) is 100% still applicable
2) watch this video and internalize it:
https://youtu.be/ASH06DwHaRw?si=XI3-rPubmoG_YEdf
IMPORTANT: don't watch any other videos
3) go to driving range a few times for fun and have 0 expectations
If you still think golf is fun, then
4) take indoor lessons somewhere they use film replay and simulator data (Golf Tec and Golf Code in SoCal) and get a rapsodo mobile launch monitor to practice
5) after 1-3 months play on a real course
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Date: March 12th, 2025 12:10 PM Author: Judas Jones That video looks like a really good feel for the takeaway. I tend to let my upper body rotation take the arms back too much inside and get my right arm stuck behind. Haven't seen it explained like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48740228) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 2:32 PM Author: ....,.,.;;;,.,,:,.,.,::,...,..,:,..,.. why do you piss away so much $ on equipment but not join a club? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48737375) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 3:07 PM Author: Mike Piazza taking cuts on the beach good question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48737466) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: cowgolf I'm a "member" of semi-private course that's 5 mins away, and have unlimited monthly pass to an indoor sim
There's a 9-month waiting list for a CC in another city that opened during COVID with $40k initiation fee
The nearest country club has $225k initiation fee / $50k annual, even longer waiting list, and you have to be sponsored by 2 existing members to apply |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 12:57 PM Author: Judas Jones Have one open spot I'm not sure what to do with:
Driver: G430 Max 10.5 (9.5 flat) or 430 10k 10.5 (9.5 flat) (picked up a G430 10k 9.0 but am going to flip it. picked up a G430 10k 10.5 and am testing it with some different shafts to see if it can knock out the 430 Max) 5w (4w): Cobra LTDX 18.5 @ 17.0 4h: cobra king tec 21.0 5-GW: I have 2 sets: Ping i230 standard spec on DG 105s, Srixon Zx4/Zx5 MkII mixed set on KBS C Taper Lite 110s SW: Callaway Mack Daddy 2 56/14 bent to 55/13 LW: Callway Jaws Raw 60/10
Top end of the bag needs to be figured out: Have a LTDX 3w, LTDX 7w, Srixon utility 4 iron, and the regular ZX4 and i230 4 irons sitting around. Might go with 2 drivers for the time being and configure one more draw bias and one fade bias...or maybe pick up a mini driver |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 4:10 PM Author: cowgolf I always find it comforting to hear other guys have multiple iron sets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48737714) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 12:59 PM Author: ....,.,.;;;,.,,:,.,.,::,...,..,:,..,.. Same as last year:
titleist 915 D3 46" fujikura fuel shaft
Titleist 910 15* Mitsubishi diamana s flex
Titleist TSR 18* fujikura whatever the fuck it's called. the white thing.
Titleist 585 21* adila NV shaft that I bought drunk on ebay in like 2007
Ping i500 5-PW. Project X 6.5
Vokey SM9 50*, 54*, 60*
Cameron studio squareback putter
Ping Hoofer 3 I've had since 2004
shoes: Footjoy Tour Alpha (new pair), FJ Myjoys, FJ Fury (comfy but the white mesh in the front gets stained and looks like it's covered in cat piss), plus like 5 random pairs of old dryjoys I can still sort of wear.
Stasof gloves, ProV1x balls, Bushnell Phantom GPS, French Francs for ballmarkers, white towel with blue stripe down the middle that I steal from courtyard marriott indoor pools whenever I want a new one |
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Date: March 12th, 2025 11:29 AM Author: ....,.,.;;;,.,,:,.,.,::,...,..,:,..,.. already got an eagle on my first 9 this year. slingshot hook the 910 on a sharp dogleg par 5 + TSR hybrid to 20 feet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48740091) |
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Date: March 12th, 2025 11:34 AM Author: Judas Jones I almost had a trackman albatross last week on the Par 5 6th at Pebble. 280 driver, 220 4h, rolled right over the edge of the hole, finished 12 feet long. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48740109) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 2:59 PM Author: He flexed his right muscle. Current: Driver: Titleist TSi3 w/ Ventus TR Blue (this will continue to stay in the bag for awhile, hit it too good to change) 3W: TM Sim 2, with Graphite Design AD IZ (not super happy with this and will probably be making a change) 3i/hybrid: Alternate b/w a Callaway Apex UW 21* or Titleist T200 3i w/ hybrid shaft depending on course/conditions (I like these fine, but looking into changing shafts on both—they’re too light compared to the rest of my set) 4-PW: Titleist T100 w/DG x100 (work great, no changes needed) Wedges: Vokey 52, 55 & 60. These are a couple years old, so probably time to upgrade. Putter: LAB Mezz1 Broomstick (had some good moments with it last year without a lot of practice. Will probably stick it out)
Main focus will be on fixing the top of my bag. I think I’m going to look at getting a mini driver and 4w and swapping based on course. I could use the mini on my home course, which has a few holes where driver is too much and I don’t have long approaches into the Par 5s. 4w would be nice for some of the longer courses I play where I need it for second shots into par 5s. |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 4:20 PM Author: cowgolf Why uw21 over u500 when everything else is titleist?
Edit: nm thought that was an iron |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 4:42 PM Author: He flexed his right muscle. Also lame to have everything as 1 brand (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48737808) |
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Date: March 11th, 2025 3:02 PM Author: Paralegal Mohammad 2nd year golfing so pretty much the same as last year.
D: Callaway Big Bertha
3W, 5H, 6-PW, SW: Callaway Edge
50, 58: Vokey SM9
Putter: Odyssey White Hot |
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Date: March 12th, 2025 11:48 AM Author: cowgolf How do you like the SM9s? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48740179) |
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Date: March 12th, 2025 11:50 AM Author: ....,.,.;;;,.,,:,.,.,::,...,..,:,..,.. original chrome 200 series still are the potus vokeys imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5692495&forum_id=2:#48740182) |