Recent content by Dr.Deuss

My driver came stock at 45.75" and I've had pretty good success with it. I know even tour average is 44.5, but I'm only thinking of taking off about 1/4". My question is the usual, how much should this affect the club and the results? SS with driver averages 120-123 mph. Of course I could just...

After seeing some paint work done by other members, I got the bug and decided to give it a try. I used an Elmer's paint pen, which is acrylic, and did my wedges and putter. The grooves on the Method look amazing, and I'm copyrighting the idea. :wink: They could still use some retouching and...

I got new irons beginning of January, and had also been making some swing changes since November. I'm just now starting to get comfortable with everything and am shooting the scores I was last summer. I feel like it's taken this long just to adjust to the new irons.Now I'm trusting the numbers I...

This was pretty cool, Spencer Levin was in Sacramento playing a public course with some friends today. That course just happened to be my local gem Ancil Hoffman. He was somewhere on the back 9 when he came in for a beer run. Walked out of the clubhouse with an arm full of Pabst tall cans. Asked...

Im preparing for the biggest tournament of my amateur career so far, the Public Links Championship on April 2-3 2012. 18 hole qualifier on March 8. With the Championship being two days of stroke play at Spyglass Hill. Today was the first day of the year that I put some real work in at the range...

Short and simple, I was very disappointed with the T.V. coverage of the tournament today. It was CBS's first PGA Tour broadcast of the year, they came on half an hour late because of college hoops, and showed only 6 players by my count. Three shots, commercial break. Three more shots, commercial...

Playing in a club tournament today, my game was clicking. Due to frost delay, we had a shotgun start which put me on the Par 3 14th. Very nice way to start the round on the easiest hole of the course. I was playing solid, bogey free -2 through my first 9 holes. I then went bogey, bogey, triple...

Today I received a brand new bag from Callaway. My last bag had recently ripped apart at the handle, and the pro at my course said he would get a hold of them about a replacement. So I dropped it off and now about a week later they sent me a new Hyperlite 3.5 Stand Bag! Very impressed with their...

By no means have I magically gotten better at putting, but over the last week I've keyed in on something that's really working for me. As well as getting my setup better aligned and more comfortable, I've started "tracing" the ball's to the hole. For quite a while previously, I was trying to go...

I've been switching between interlocking, and overlapping grip for the last several years. Not every round or shot or anything, usually only after several months of using one. Sometimes I'll start to get pain in my right wrist, and switch from that. Now I finally have fitted irons with the...

I've had my VR-Pro since mid-July, and today, I just might have figured out where I'm leaving the setting at. A little backstory: I purchased this driver off the rack, mostly out of immediate necessity, but I played a couple rounds with it before purchasing. My previous driver broke on the 9th...

Delivered this afternoon, my 7 beautiful babies named MP-69. It was a short, but tough wait, and I couldn't be more satisfied with how they turned out. I hit a few shots with some of them and am very impressed. First irons I've ever had fitted to me and of course now I feel like such an idiot...

I feel I have a solid grasp on the art of bunker play, most especially when I play in quality bunkers. By quality I mean proper bunker sand, free of rocks, and properly maintained. But give me a poorly maintained bunker, and it's anyone's guess if the ball is getting out or not. By no means am I...

I know there are a few of you out there in the Modesto and Stockton areas, but not sure how many in Sacramento. Anyone care to come out and play at Ancil Hoffman on Friday? Myself and probably uscgmk will be getting a round in.

As I'm sure some of you may already know, I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new MP-69's. Placed the order Friday morning before New Year's, and was told they put them together and shipped them that day. Now all I can think about is how excited I am to get them. It's a problem really. I'm...