New Driver and putter grip
Well I bought a 905 with a graffolly blue shaft on ebay last week
and boy is it nice. that blue shaft feels great..nice and firm..not like my other shafts..i always felt i could whip right through my Graphite Design ys6 and ys7s...big relief to feel like ive finally found a graphite shaft i can take a good hard swing at...i was ready to go back to steel!
People were saying online that it feels too stiff or like a baseball bat but i guess they dont have the swing speed you need to use it..cause it IS stiff but that sorta seems like the point.
Its stays with you without feeling "whippy"..i felt like everything just had to be "perfect" as far as my hands, shoulders weight etc to keep control of the other shafts ...boy has the game ever changed in 19 years!
It was all steel shafts "back in the day"...i even still have my first or second generation taylor made driver kicking around somewhere!
So my driver is now the 905s 8.5 with Graffolly Blue shaft. Ill try and post an equipment list at some point.
I also took a tip from ben crenshaw on a DVD dave stokcton put out (really good if youre looking for putting approaches..not just tips!). I got my right thumb pointing down the shaft on my putter grip..wow feels soo solid.
I was having problems with one hand "taking over" especialy on short putts...and getting both thumbs onto the top of the putter grip has really helped...thanks Ben! (and Harvey Pennick i guess!)
I would really suggest a solid review of your own fundimentals is anything is inconsistent in your own game...its amazing how they work so well. My right hand was only slightly over to the left but it was enought to make it inconsistent in both my take away and follow through on my putting swing.
Along with my slight adjustments on my full swing set up, its amazing how doing some easy little fixes can get stuff falling into place..or alteast giving us more control over things so that when things go bad, we can isolate problems more easily.
Ive always been a big believer in fundimentals and feel if people focused on them properly (rather than just "thinking" theyre doing them right!) theyd see such an improvement in their ball striking.
Again we all have to take these things out to the course (the hard part!), but the benefits of good solid fundimentals out-weight the work involved in incorporating other larger "swing changes" into our games. sometimes needlessly too..if our set up and main fundimentals are solid.
Also bought a new putter today so ill putt with it at home this week and report back if it keeps working (atleast on my little practice station in my room)
its nice an light and i like the way it sets up to the ball.
ok some more soon!
and boy is it nice. that blue shaft feels great..nice and firm..not like my other shafts..i always felt i could whip right through my Graphite Design ys6 and ys7s...big relief to feel like ive finally found a graphite shaft i can take a good hard swing at...i was ready to go back to steel!
People were saying online that it feels too stiff or like a baseball bat but i guess they dont have the swing speed you need to use it..cause it IS stiff but that sorta seems like the point.
Its stays with you without feeling "whippy"..i felt like everything just had to be "perfect" as far as my hands, shoulders weight etc to keep control of the other shafts ...boy has the game ever changed in 19 years!
It was all steel shafts "back in the day"...i even still have my first or second generation taylor made driver kicking around somewhere!
So my driver is now the 905s 8.5 with Graffolly Blue shaft. Ill try and post an equipment list at some point.
I also took a tip from ben crenshaw on a DVD dave stokcton put out (really good if youre looking for putting approaches..not just tips!). I got my right thumb pointing down the shaft on my putter grip..wow feels soo solid.
I was having problems with one hand "taking over" especialy on short putts...and getting both thumbs onto the top of the putter grip has really helped...thanks Ben! (and Harvey Pennick i guess!)
I would really suggest a solid review of your own fundimentals is anything is inconsistent in your own game...its amazing how they work so well. My right hand was only slightly over to the left but it was enought to make it inconsistent in both my take away and follow through on my putting swing.
Along with my slight adjustments on my full swing set up, its amazing how doing some easy little fixes can get stuff falling into place..or alteast giving us more control over things so that when things go bad, we can isolate problems more easily.
Ive always been a big believer in fundimentals and feel if people focused on them properly (rather than just "thinking" theyre doing them right!) theyd see such an improvement in their ball striking.
Again we all have to take these things out to the course (the hard part!), but the benefits of good solid fundimentals out-weight the work involved in incorporating other larger "swing changes" into our games. sometimes needlessly too..if our set up and main fundimentals are solid.
Also bought a new putter today so ill putt with it at home this week and report back if it keeps working (atleast on my little practice station in my room)
its nice an light and i like the way it sets up to the ball.
ok some more soon!
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