So, I demo'd some clubs over the weekend: TaylorMade RocketBladez, Callaway Razr X, Ping G25 (I think), and a Mizuno.

I think I am going to go with the TaylorMade, but the Callaway felt good as well. I was too tired by the time I got to the Mizuno, hit a few good shots then couldn't do anything... :icon17: The Ping's felt the worst, and everyone I've talked to have had nothing, but bad things to say about the Ping irons.

Anyone have the RocketBladez? Wondering what the real difference between them and the RocketBladez Max is. Doesn't seem like much when I look online.




I'm gonna head to an outdoor range and demo the clubs in more realistic conditions though, because normally I hit a six iron 170-180ish and in Golfsmith I was hitting it consistently 187-196 (a couple over 200 :eek:, but were offline). So, I'm not sure if I was just getting that much more distance going from really old TaylorMade Firesole's to the new club, graphite to steel shaft, or if the system wasn't set on the correct club. :confused:

Either way, I'm :excited: for the weather to start cooling down and playing more golf!

sooooo you tested all those irons and didnt even think to grab a set of titleist irons? :facepalm:

go grab a set of AP2's and thank me later. :tiphat:

I was too tired to hit anymore, sheesh.

I am gonna go this weekend and demo some more at an outdoor range.

Happy to see Tiger getting back on track. That round on Friday was unreal - he was 9 under through 13 :eek: I'm glad they replayed it on the Golf Channel that evening :tup:

I also wanted to test some Adam's clubs.

My Dad said that I should go with a Cleveland SW though, since they're one of, if not the best.

i got my titleist 712 AP2's last may and its a world of difference from anything else i've hit. such a awesome set of irons. i mean i also was pumped on the discount i got as well lol nice to have a friend who is sponsored by titleist as well :tiphat:

i was going nuts thursday at work when tiger went full retard lol

i have cleveland CG 14 52 degree and 60 degree. i like them but the titleist vokey wedges are nasty. i know i sound like a titleist fanboy but i've hit man different brands and they just feel the best.

I have gone through 3 sets of wedges (Mizuno, Titleist, Cleveland CG15s) and am now using Cleveland CG16s (50, 54, 58). I got smart and realized that the Mizuno irons I was playing were a bit too unforgiving for my skill level so I decided to find a new set. I tried every brand and didn't see too much to gain in switching. But then I tried the Cleveland CG16 Tour irons and immediately ordered a custom set. It has been a year and a half and they definitely have helped me improve my game. My next wedge and iron set will probably be Cleveland since they have worked best for me.

Hmm...

Maybe I'll have to test them out too then.

Guess I'd better get up early Saturday. Gonna be a long day of demoing. :tup:

So I demoed the Titleist AP2 along side a RocketBladez and they feel pretty much the same. The TM just needs a stiff shaft and it'll be perfect. It's also much, much cheaper than the Titleist.

Apparently though, Titleist is coming out with an AP2 replacement before Christmas, so that may drop the price on those as well.

sooo i buy the new ones and you can buy my 1 year old 712 AP2's? ok sounds good lol :bowrofl:

Nope. I won't buy used stuff.

i dont either sooo :tiphat:

My favorite club for a long time was a used Ping driver I picked up for $40. That and my custom Golfsmith irons (1-SW) were the clubs I missed the most for a long time after I had two full bags stolen out of storage. Although I kind of like my current $50 550cc Green Monster driver all things considered lol

:wtf: 550cc? why so big lol overcompensating? :stirthepot:

Not over compensating. Just making sure everything is similar size. You know... huge :rofl2:

no reason someone should need a 550cc driver lol i feel that my 460cc is too much.

To be honest, I bought it for the price when I was trying to put a bag together and short on cash. They have a 1000cc driver head you can buy, but it's more expensive. It's really designed to be a trophy or something like that. Just imagine pulling that bad boy out of your bag :bowrofl:

i'd be embarrassed to bring something like that to a course to be honest.

:bowrofl:

Not me. I'd Happy Gilmore that thing off every tee box LOL!

theres a video of my friend on FB hitting a ball off the deck, with a driver, happy gilmore run up, and off a one timer pass from a friend......he put it 250 yards down the middle lol

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201717857856950

Nice :tup: I can make solid contact about 90% of the time, but getting it in the fairway is barely a 50/50 chance :icon17:

I used to practice it at the driving range pretty regularly :tup:

i'm just trying to play normal i dont even attempt it.

A while back I broke the face of my Taylormade Burner TP driver, so I tested out a few new drivers and bought a Taylormade R1 with the stock TP shaft. From the start it was pretty long and straight even on mishits.

Recently I have been tweaking my swing to take some of the draw out of my iron shots, thus eliminating the occasional hook or crazy pull. While this resulted in more of a baby draw/straight flight with my irons, it was doing crazy things with my driver which took a lot of effort to hit it straight. My misses were either a short pull-draw(hook) or a crazy long straight push.

So I decided since I had this ultra-adjustable driver I would start seeing what it could do. I ended up with a really long, medium trajectory mini-fade which I repeated today every time I used the driver off the tee. That turned out to be 6/6 fairways hit at 300+ yards.

Previously being skeptical about adjustable clubs I am now a believer in the technology. My final settings for my R1 are interesting: 10 degree regular loft, 3 degrees open with the weights set up for a draw bias.

If you were skeptical like me and thinking about an R1, I highly recommend it!

Went to a demo day by TM for their Speed Blades - I'm sold on them.

A month or so ago I tested a TM RocketBladez 6 iron and it felt really good, was averaging about 189 or so yards, longest was just over 200, quite a few 190-196 (until I began getting tired). Then for the Speed Blades demo day I was given a 7 iron and was getting the same distance from the 7 that I was from a 6 in the RocketBladez.

For reference, I hit my current 7 iron about 155-165 yds. The club is almost 20yrs old (TM Firesole), so a majority of the extra distance comes from the new technology :icon17:.

I can't wait for Xmas and my new clubs. :excited:

Should be ordering the new SpeedBlades here in the next few days.

Going with the 3H, 4H, 5-PW.

Picked up a new R1 driver for $200 (normally $400+), thank you Black Friday. That's also a Christmas present. :(

Now I have to pick out a 3-Wood, putter, and bag. :tup:


Played for the first time in like two months, maybe three and played pretty well.

We usually just do 2v2 best ball when we go out, but I'm impressed with myself after my lessons - I'm starting to consistently hit the ball straight off the tee. My chipping is phenomenal for about 90% of the day, and my putting is probably the best part of my game, but it's not perfect.

Just need to get out and practice more and I'll be happier when I'm out on the course.

Short game practice is the only way to lower a score for sure. I like those Speedblades a lot andd I have a R1 TP Driver, RBZ 3HL wood and Rescue TP R2, but for some reason Cleveland Irons always test out the best for me. I just discovered the Pro V1x is an incredible ball as well (been using the TM Lethal until now).

Where are you taking lessons?

I like the Pro V1x as well.


I'm no longer taking lessons, but my friends Dad works for Ping (I forget his title other than he's a "PGA Pro") and I got lessons back in April maybe? I just made sure to write down everything he said and I look over it every time I go to golf..


I may grab my SW and do some chipping today when I get home, since there's an exec. course less than two minutes away.

You guys are killing me with golf talk and there's snow on the ground here lol

I've played prov's for about 2 years solid now and love them. I only play the prov1 x if I find them since I don't feel my swing speed is fast enough where the harder ball matters. They do sometimes fly straighter on my drives though when I'm having one of those slice days lol

Also just my 2 cents on putters is that if you golf a lot and have the money to spare go with a Scotty Cameron. I was just a average putter with good read ability. I switched to a Scotty Cameron black putter the week they came out and I cut out a bunch of typical three putts from my game. They feel of the putter helped me stay on line and smooth out my stroke. Also I think it's a mental boost holding a Scotty lol confidence in a Putting stroke does wonders when you can commit to a line and speed. Dropped me from mid/high 90s to mid/80s real quick. Now if I can just figure out how to get my driver more consistent I could easily be mid 70s haha.

I will flip between a Pro V1 and Pro V1x, though I think the lack of spin on the X helps keep my drive straighter at times, but I'd like to have the control on the green when I need to draw it back (sometimes I can do that, most of the time I'm just happy I'm on the green. :icon17:)

I haven't decided on a putter yet, though I think I want one of those fat grips on it. I've never hit with one, but it seems it would help with the feel, etc.

I'll go look at putters here soon.



I think if I played a bit more and now that I'm getting my stroke down after lessons, I could be back into mid-80's. I just have to practice more to get the consistency with the irons/short game to get myself back to low-80's or even into the 70's. Man, I'm pumped to play again. I don't know why I stopped for a couple of months! :shakes head:

I do the same if I have both types when I'm driving and approach sometimes lol although when playing for money or a pro-am I can't do that. Typically ill do that just to see if it is the spin from a bad driver swing cutting across the face that is causing my swing. So technically I can call it research lol.

I got a Scotty Cameron black 1.5 with 2 - 15g weights in the bottom. Also it's a solid bent heel shaft. Not the step down nor a straight in design. Don't like either of those styles. Also the fatter grips do feel better but I haven't used one enough to be convinced to switch over yet. Takes a lot of the wrist movement out of the equation for me at least. Not sure how it effects others.

Sadly I shot mostly high 80s and some low 90s this summer but I didn't play barely at all this year. Did like 2 outings and maybe got out once or twice a month at best. It rained on a lot of Weekends this summer here in Pittsburgh. Ruined most of my free time for golf.

Ah. I don't bend/move my wrists at all when putting.

I almost hate golfing right now with my Dad's old clubs, I wish Xmas was tomorrow so I could have my new ones. :icon17: I'm going to have to relearn distances and such, but it'll be good.

Yea when I switched to titleist ap2's last spring it took me almost all summer to get my distances down again. They added about 15 yards average. Some more some less. But I will say those irons are amazing lol

I'm slowly converting my whole bag to titleist. All I need now is driver, hybrid, and wedges. For now though my Cleveland cg14 wedges are working fine and are pretty new so those will be last. My r7 driver is next to go. Glad my buddy is sponsored by titleist and I think I'm getting some hand-me-down wedges since he just got a whole new set of 18 different clubs for his 2014 season use lol

TBH, the Titleist felt good. I really couldn't tell the difference between the TM and the Titleist, it just came down to price and the fact I've been using TM for a long time I guess.

They also had a TM rep at GolfSmith that helped me fit the club pretty well when I went to try it out.

Yea I love the feel of them over anything else I've tried. Also price wasn't a factor since I paid much less than the normal $1200 for AP2's lol so I went with what I actually wanted which was nice.

Damn, those Scotty Cameron putters are ridiculously expensive.

Well worth the money lol play a few holes with one and it'll sell you.

That's what I'm reading.

I may offer to go halfsies with my parents on one, since they're buying me the set for Xmas. Unless I can find a slightly used one for cheaper than $350. :eek:

Or do what I did and win a pro-am and get $400 pro shop credit the week the Scotty blacks released ;) best day ever lol

I'm not that good to win a pro-am yet.

I am not even certain what I can shoot now, as we usually just play 2v2 best ball when we go out.

Never said I was good enough either lol just picks the right pro ;) but on a serious note I helped us win.......somewhat lol