Haha, the shoes are a nice touch. You would actually play better barefoot...more grip.

 

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That's my Mizuno Bag. 3 different Mizuno Putters, a Bullseye, a TP Mills and an older mallet.

The driver is a MacGregor 410cc that is awesome to hit. That 2 iron is as well.

 

Sweet bag. My wife would love that thing! I dig that tp mills too.

Is that macgreggor one of the NVG series?

 

The MacGregor driver is a Tourney V Foil 410 cc 9 degree Forged Beta Titanium High Launch R Flex 53 gram low bend profile Tourney Distance Series shaft that I picked up from one of the big Ebay stores along with a Cleveland 400 Launcher Gold and two Mizuno Drivers that match my set. They were all trade-ins on newer clubs that I paid something like 10 bucks each for with matching head covers. I have seen the head covers alone sell for more. The Cleveland and the MacGregor retailed for like 400 hundred each and the mizunos would have retailed for about 300 each when new. I got all 4 for like 50 bucks.

The Mizuno Irons are the only set I ever bought new. I was playing a poorly fitted set of Ping Zing knockoffs and saw them at Dicks Sporting goods. They were the last years models and were reduced from $1000 to $349. I put them on layaway with 50 down and paid on them every payday until I took them out the week before Christmas.

I stopped on my way home at a new driving range that had heated booths. It was snowing and I was the only customer. The clubs were still in the box with bubble wrap. The guy working there was a former Tour Pro who lost his card.

He watched me hit a few then went inside and came back out with the bag still sealed in plastic. He explained to me he played Mizunos on Tour and that was the last new bag they sent him. He said make me an offer. It had his name embroidered on it where it now has mine.

I told him the best I could do was $100. I had a crisp hundred dollar bill in that secret
spot that most men have in their wallet. He looked sad but when I pulled out that Ben Franklin, he did not hesitate to accept it.

One of my girlfriends monogrammed my name on a piece of matching marine vinyl and stitched it on over his name, so I made out well on that deal. I run into Scotty once in a while at the driving range where he gives group lessons. I just nod and smile.

With that MacGregor driver, I hit beautiful power fades that amaze people. I just nod and smile.
I recently picked up the matching 3 wood and it is sweet as well.I hit tht driver right at 300 yards with the carry, and the 3 wood Is good for 260-270.

My favorite club in that bag is the Mizuno 2 Iron. It is pure simple blade design and I can goose it 275 nicely. Really sweet hitting it from a nice fairway.

My overall favorite club is an old Callaway Heaven wood (7). It is a Memphis steel shaft with the old Callaway Warbird design soleplate like the original Big Bertha. Those clubs are a 7 wood head on a 4 wood shaft. I put a Winn Jumbo Tour Wrap grip on it to fit my big hambone hands. I get 275 out of it as well. With that small head, it is fantastic from the rough.

 

I saw that blade in there and was like, "Damn, does that crazy ***** have a 2i blade?" lol

I had a 2 when I had my titleist DCI set. Yes, it is fun to hit an iron 240, and they are great when you gotta punch out of the trees. However, there was definitely more frustration than fun with that club.

I think that heavenwood was one of the original "hybrid" style clubs.

 

I have an orignal first edition Stan Thompson "GINTY" that was the first trouble club ever made. It has a metal keel like a sailboat. Thompson was the Canadian protgege of Bobby Jones. They competed against each other in vsrious tournaments like the British Open.

He went sailing one day, came back and added a keel to a 7 wood and called it the Ginty. He also designed golf courses as well as manufactured clubs by hand in Las Vegas and Beverly Hills.

I also have a few of the original Cobra Bafflers with the brass bottoms and twin rails. Second trouble wood made. I have those in Tour Spoon, 5,&7 plus a spare 5. The Cobras are pear shaped and hard to hit. I gave them to my son and he loves them.

And a Sam Snead 4 Wood, persimmon with hand wrapped two tone original leather grip.

I hit that 2 iron at a local private club with an old 1930's course, 365 par 4 downhill dogleg right. Two members I was with dropped their jaws in amazement as I hit a high fade into the distance. I thought my ball was lost. They hit their second shots and we kept walking. My ball was about 30 yard short of the green because of the elevation drop and catching the turn just right.

They were silent as I fumbled for my lob wedge to clear a bunker.
The older guy asked me "Where the hell did you learn to do that?"

I said, "I read Sam Snead, The Game I Love" and I pretend I know how to do that.

Be One with the Ball My Son, Be One with the Ball.


A Smooth Swing is all it takes.

 

Ah, Ive seen those cobras. Yeah, those were really early ones.

And yes, most people dont understand how "hard" you should be swinging (i fight this as well). I mean, pros are swinging hard. You dont get 120mph clubhead speed without doing so. However that speed comes from a proper sequence of events on the downswing, which almost always (poulter, price are exceptions I can think of) results in a smooth, effortless looking motion.
Thats related to another thing most dont realize and that is what happens when you hit the sweet spot of a club with a modest, yet proper stroke. Hitting a bunch of 40 yard-ish pitches and seeing how the ball "explodes" off the face without you having "tried" to do so is good practice cause you can really see the difference.

Are you a natural fader?

 

Yes I do a sweet power fade when I just "Let it Flow & Watch it Go!" That is when I know I took a long smooth backswing, did not rush, just rotated and released and let the clubhead follow thru on it's own.

I picture Ernie Els or Sam Snead. Snead said he heard the Tennesee Waltz playing in his head and timed his swing to that. He loved to say you gotta dance with what brung you.

He also liked to get into his opponents heads. On the way to a crucial tee he would ask if their wife was going to be at the clubhouse for more dancing after dinner. He would say something about how much fun he had with her the night before just as they reached the tee box. Talk about getting inside somebody's head.

I have a spare TPM 2 Spaulding in new condition plus another Spaulding TPM12 with all the black buffed off and raw now. I used to play it and I polished it smooth.

I would love to do a pair for you and your wife one day if you are interested. Found a replacement Blue Mizuno headcover for my lost one and a few new (old stock) putter grips on EBAY.

I am setting up a new workshop in my outdoor backyard pavillion to redo woodwork & polish and regrip clubs with air compressor and restored work benches and loungers.

FirePit and smoker grill along with a Chipping area for 50 foot wedge shots is completed. Sound system going in.

Sandtrap and small putting green to come along with 2 story waterfall going into small pool. Zip line and climbing wall will finish it up.

 

I envy that pitching setup.

Have you seen this?

Dave Pelz Home, Dave Pelz's Golfer's Paradise Photos | GOLF.com

Talk about an, "I need to make more money" moment

 

And of course a Rover short trail and wading challenge...