Anyone have a callaway tipped regular flex shaft laying around they’d want to sell?

I’m building out an extra set for visitors and friends who don’t play etc and have an epic driver head.

DM me if so

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Had a putter fitting at Bettinardi at their Studio B (corporate office) in Tilley Park, IL. This was a very enjoyable experience. The staff was extremely friendly and very knowledgeable on the fitting process and explaining the data. They have you putt with your gamer and then review the data points. From here, the style of putter is recommended to suit your putting stroke ( center shaft, crescent, plumbers neck etc). Each of the 4 stock line of putters are explained and models selected based on your stroke. We started with 7 different models and narrowed it down to one. I ended up purchasing the Inovai 6.0 with a crescent neck. Putter is being built and shipping Tuesday.

Sounds pretty interesting.

I used a much less scientific process, took a couple clubs to be regripped and while I was waiting browsed the putter rack. Ended up making a number of putts in a row with a pre-owned Odyssey Stroke Lab R-Ball so I picked it up. Going to test it out on course this afternoon, we'll see if it feels as good or it is just the magic of the golf shop sales floor.

I'm convinced all putting areas at golf shops have slight funnels towards the holes. I'm a PGA level putter in those places!

I was doing the same as Booker and perusing the putter racks the other week -- not for actual purchase, I love my putter and wouldn't change it. Best club in the bag.

It is a White Hot Odyssey #9, with a Superstroke Fatso 5.0 grip. The old gold head style with the white face. Just too good.

But looking at the racks, and now at Odyssey's website -- I don't see a #9 design anywhere on it.

Guess I'm going to be rolling the same putter until I die!

"he died too young....but he never changed his putter"

Bought a tsi4 9 degree with shop credit from a member member. Hit a bunch of drivers at true spec on saturday, and discovered that I really do not like my current set up (callaway triple diamond LS with a few different shafts).

Did well with the tsi4/ping425 LS... LS was spinning a little better, but I loved the shape of the TSI4 (always been a small head guy). The Diamana DF 70tx was the best shaft I hit in terms of dispersion, gonna order one off ebay.

Good thing ur a player! Every review I have seen with the TSI4 is that it produces some absolute bombs but the misses are all over the map.

Well, we'll see. Ordered the 70 DF TX through the golf shop that helps me out... hopefully it's in kinda soon. I was squaring up the combo much better than my current set up, so we'll see if I can bring that to the course whenever it gets built. My spin numbers have been pretty high this year as my driver AOA has gotten down in the -1 to 0 range sadly. My current setups of shafts/heads really don't want to draw under any reason and I definitely have been compensating by drilling it down and left more than I want to be. I was able to get the diamana to turn over right to left on the range every time I tried, hopeful.

Got my new TSI3 13.5 3w setup today. Had a Tensei white 1k 80TX that I got converted to standard 42.5 inch play length 3w with a 1 inch tip. Thing feels pretty solid.. producing pretty good numbers.

TSI4 is for sure an improvement over TS4 from everything that I see and read. I love the Tensei White in my fairway woods.

What do you guys feel about Mobile/Portable launch monitors? Mobile/Portable being the smaller ones. Anybody use them?

Bought a Scotty X7M from Golf Galaxy used. It's pretty beat up but got it for $189. Actually have had this putter in the past. I really like the way the rails frame the ball.

MyGolfSpy did a review on them not to long ago. I have been considering the Voice Caddie SC300i & Rapsodo. Both around $500 USD.

I was listening to a podcast yesterday and apparently Garman are coming out with something that is pretty good around the similar price point so may want to see what it’s like before committing to something.

Just ordered a custom spec wedge from Sub70.

Now for the fun part, waiting a month to get it. At least their lead times are better than some of the big OEMs.

Didn't buy anything, just making a note to watch for a 19* 818H1 hybrid with the right shaft. I'd pick up a 23 or a 25 as well but the shaft of choice will be quite the unicorn in those lofts.

Incidentally 2nd Swing has really low sale prices on ladies flex 818H1s right now.

and the shaft is?
couple of 23* at callaway https://www.callawaygolfpreowned.com...brid-2018.html

Atmos TS Blue 8S, which was one of the stock options.

Now that I think of it, I can probably cannibalize a shaft from another club that's not in the bag so may just buy one with any shaft.

My current non-Titleist 3h and 5h must be aware that they're being considered for benching, I only hit one shot with each but both were excellent.

So ended up sourcing everything myself.

- Ping G425 LST 9* - Bought the head used off of WRX for $350
- Paderson Ballistic TP75 D40 (X-Flex) playing 45.75" - $299.53 shipped direct from manufacturer.
- Adapter from Golfworks - $29.98
- Grip and install from local shop - $15
TOTAL - $694.51

So saved about $320. I took it to one of the local fitters / club guys and he refused to tip prep and install. He said that he has had 3 of those shafts and the head flew off on all of em.

Doing some research on the Paderson site I read that you are not supposed to chamfer the tip. I had to look that up, basically cut the shaft. In talking to the guy he uses a razorblade to remove pain to prep the shaft, or exactly what the manufacturer says not to do. Took it to another local club guy and they did it no problem.

Was able to use it on the course today as it rained all day yesterday and wasn't able to get to a range. Everything in neutral I was cutting it way too much. Threw the 17 gram weight on the draw setting then it was going way too far the other direction. Dropped the loft to 8.25* to open up the head a bit and it worked great. Very straight flight.

Now we will see if it works the next time I go out to play.

The New Titleist irons look pretty decent, T200's I like the look of very much.

Agreed. Was kinda surprised the offset between the T100 and T200 are the same (according to TXG)

This is the problem with the golf industry these days, some fitters/builders have a clue what they are doing while others do not. I've seen so many crappy builds that we had to fix it's stupid, and most of it from big box stores.

But what I can't wrap my head around in this post is the clubhead settings. In any sort of driver fitting, all the settings are determined before the customer leaves the studio. After all, that's why you go to get fit. In my experience, if something were other than stock settings, we would note that on the build sheet. Loft 8.25*, shaft length 45.75 or whatever. With Ping drivers, we almost never moved the weight to draw, we would simply fit into the SFT model. Or test different shafts to tweak the ball flight. And of course we would never simply re-orient the shaft to a different loft in a Ping because that would screw up the SST Puring.

So I guess my question is, were clubhead settings discussed at any point during the session? Because you need to know those before fitting into a certain shaft. Were different settings tried with the Paderson shaft? If so, what happened with them during the fitting?

I just hate to see people pay good money to get properly fitted, and then that not be the case for various reasons.

So the only two ways I tested it during the fitting was the weight in neutral and in the draw setting. The loft was 9* the whole time.

When I swing drivers non-stop I can "self correct" my swing. When I get to the course my swing is my swing. I always know that in the back of my head when trying out clubs, that's why I wanted to get a moveable weight club so I can switch on the fly.

So when trying in the draw setting I was hooking them off of the planet, like 40 yards left. When in neutral setting I was mostly hitting baby fades.

I already had a plan when it arrived that it was likely going to be loft turned down and weight in draw setting. If I still wasn't able to get it to work I was going to get a lighter weight.

So tl:dr is that it's the indian and not the arrow or the chief (fitter).

if your fitter uses a trackman indoors to 'fit' you....leave.