Snowman
Well-Known Member
I'm waiting right now on parts.
But these are golf club components, and not MRR parts. I hope I will soon see three separate wood shafts (not just three wood shafts--these three are all driver shafts, so I will tip trim them as needed) pretty soon at my back door. Original retail (plus tax) ~$500 each. I snagged all three for just bit under $100 apiece. Kuro Kage X-stiff 60 TiNi full length Limited Edition, all three.
Think of them as Scale Trains "Extra Special" <insert your favorite unit here> locomotives, and you will get the idea. They are rare, highly thought of, and are spectacular from even the first swing of the club.
I have been struggling right around a hundred since I took up the game again, although I feel I could go out on any given morning and shoot 75. I'm serious. I know how to manage a round, and I know how to score...but I can't anymore. Or not yet (once again).
I used to play to a low 3 handicap. FAST tempo up and back and long off the tee, although I also sprayed my drives even with a one-iron. Average to slightly sub-average irons, a pretty poor shortgame, excellent putter (I was told so more than once, and by people who knew the game for years). The difference between my low three (3.1) and the legitimate one (1.0) which would qualify you even enter qualifying for the US Open was an ocean wide gulf* I eventually realized I could never cross.
[* as in Pacific Ocean (not just the Atlantic Ocean)]
Then, and about thirty years back now, I knew that if I played much more basketball I was going to suffer an injury which might prevent me from playing golf. And I was really growing more and more in love with golf. So I quit playing basketball...and then wrecked my left shoulder on a driving range mat one day. I hit one fat. Too fat, and I couldn't lift my left arm above waist height for almost a year. It hurt EVERY night.
Yadda, yadda, yadda <insert sob story here>. End result: I gave up not only basketball, but golf too.
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So my nephew took up the game in 2014 and he says: "Uncle X, grab some clubs and come out and play."
"Oh no, I can't. It hurts every night"...and only then did I realize it actually didn't. It hadn't hurt for quite a few years, in fact. But I had never noticed.
Long story short I tried to get back into the game, and had a bag full of thirteen clubs, all of which I could out-put with my putter. Progressive glasses can seem to make the ball seem to rise up and then drop down, depending on how far you turn your head...and the game is hard enough as it is when the ball seems to be stationary.
So I went back to contact lenses, a year ago, and if only for golf.
I also built myself a set of clubs last year which I thought would better fit my age and rapidly aging body (I no longer have a left achilles tendon), so it's hard to have faith in a landing zone which is rather random. The whole set was...is...just waaayyyy too soft, as it turns out. Just way too slow, and taking way too much time up to the top and back. Particularly where the woods are concerned.
No confidence from day one with the new (I thought last) set, and feeling like a very old man almost every time I swung them.
Until I got the (same Titleist 9.5 head/ same loft) driver as with the first set, but with a different shaft (KK S-50 LE) just the other day. From the very first shot--"solid" barely describes it--I was in love. I went home and just a few hours later had bought up all three KK X-60's off Ebay.
So now I need to speed up again to much stiffer iron shafts. Maybe from a Project X 6.0 to a 7.0....
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It's just so much fun to HIT the little white (yellow, orange...pink) orb again. Even if I have no distance.....................yet. I will get most of it back, I'm sure.
THIS GUY is my gold standard. The longest driver in the world at the time (Greg Norman said so too, and he was the longest driver on the PGA Tour at the time), but with a purely conventional swing:
But these are golf club components, and not MRR parts. I hope I will soon see three separate wood shafts (not just three wood shafts--these three are all driver shafts, so I will tip trim them as needed) pretty soon at my back door. Original retail (plus tax) ~$500 each. I snagged all three for just bit under $100 apiece. Kuro Kage X-stiff 60 TiNi full length Limited Edition, all three.
Think of them as Scale Trains "Extra Special" <insert your favorite unit here> locomotives, and you will get the idea. They are rare, highly thought of, and are spectacular from even the first swing of the club.
I have been struggling right around a hundred since I took up the game again, although I feel I could go out on any given morning and shoot 75. I'm serious. I know how to manage a round, and I know how to score...but I can't anymore. Or not yet (once again).
I used to play to a low 3 handicap. FAST tempo up and back and long off the tee, although I also sprayed my drives even with a one-iron. Average to slightly sub-average irons, a pretty poor shortgame, excellent putter (I was told so more than once, and by people who knew the game for years). The difference between my low three (3.1) and the legitimate one (1.0) which would qualify you even enter qualifying for the US Open was an ocean wide gulf* I eventually realized I could never cross.
[* as in Pacific Ocean (not just the Atlantic Ocean)]
Then, and about thirty years back now, I knew that if I played much more basketball I was going to suffer an injury which might prevent me from playing golf. And I was really growing more and more in love with golf. So I quit playing basketball...and then wrecked my left shoulder on a driving range mat one day. I hit one fat. Too fat, and I couldn't lift my left arm above waist height for almost a year. It hurt EVERY night.
Yadda, yadda, yadda <insert sob story here>. End result: I gave up not only basketball, but golf too.
-------------
So my nephew took up the game in 2014 and he says: "Uncle X, grab some clubs and come out and play."
"Oh no, I can't. It hurts every night"...and only then did I realize it actually didn't. It hadn't hurt for quite a few years, in fact. But I had never noticed.
Long story short I tried to get back into the game, and had a bag full of thirteen clubs, all of which I could out-put with my putter. Progressive glasses can seem to make the ball seem to rise up and then drop down, depending on how far you turn your head...and the game is hard enough as it is when the ball seems to be stationary.
So I went back to contact lenses, a year ago, and if only for golf.
I also built myself a set of clubs last year which I thought would better fit my age and rapidly aging body (I no longer have a left achilles tendon), so it's hard to have faith in a landing zone which is rather random. The whole set was...is...just waaayyyy too soft, as it turns out. Just way too slow, and taking way too much time up to the top and back. Particularly where the woods are concerned.
No confidence from day one with the new (I thought last) set, and feeling like a very old man almost every time I swung them.
Until I got the (same Titleist 9.5 head/ same loft) driver as with the first set, but with a different shaft (KK S-50 LE) just the other day. From the very first shot--"solid" barely describes it--I was in love. I went home and just a few hours later had bought up all three KK X-60's off Ebay.
So now I need to speed up again to much stiffer iron shafts. Maybe from a Project X 6.0 to a 7.0....
===========
It's just so much fun to HIT the little white (yellow, orange...pink) orb again. Even if I have no distance.....................yet. I will get most of it back, I'm sure.
THIS GUY is my gold standard. The longest driver in the world at the time (Greg Norman said so too, and he was the longest driver on the PGA Tour at the time), but with a purely conventional swing:
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