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dude, you wanna try and golf next saturday? For fathers day?
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Dumb rant.
but was it worth it?
Debatable. I had to play with that buckjob guy
easy answer...rain+buckjob=NO WAY
I have a couple of rants:
1. Vacation is over. It was much needed and we had a blast, but now I'm exhaused
2. People cannot drive
3. Those Team hacker supporter tags are 1) way too late at this point, and 2) absolutely awful
That sucks, but at the same time that's pretty damn impressive!So, I sold my Adams a7's to a buddy of mine. However, I am 6'2", he is 5'8", meaning these clubs needed to be cut down pretty drastically for him. To further compound the problem, Adams made the a7's upwards to a half inch longer than standard length. So, instead of being able to cut down 1/4" off each iron, I had to take into account the added Adams length and cut according. No biggie. I am buzzing along, making my cuts, setting what I had cut up against the wall, in order, 5i, 6i, 7i, 8..................WTF?!?
I noticed the 8i was much shorter than it needed to be. I mark my cut on the 9 iron and set it up against the wall. It looked like an NBA team and Danny DeVito was playing center. The line up made a V, instead of flowing down hill WTF!?! again!?! What did I do? I walked around my basement, smoking, trying to figure out what the hell I had done. After 10 minutes, I figured it out. I had cut 1 7/8", instead of 7/8". How I did this, I have no freaking idea, but I did.
So, panic/confusion mode sets in. How am I going to fix this? I then realized I had some .370 ferrules in my supply box, the right ferrule size for these irons. I measured the remaining clubs I hadn't cut yet and found that I could simply swap the shaft out of the PW, put it into the 8i, and use my jacked up 8i shaft, put it into the PW, and have the correct measurement for his PW. All I will have to do now, is cut a QUARTER INCH off of the 8i now, and he is good to go. The pisser is, I have to wait for these other two clubs epoxy to set, before I can finish up. And I turned an hour long job today, into a two hour job, with mass hysteria sandwiched in between.
I can't believe I did that. Moral of the story. Measure twice, cut once.
my dog just puked on the bed right after it got out of the laundry
I then realized I had some .370 ferrules in my supply box, the right ferrule size for these irons. I measured the remaining clubs I hadn't cut yet and found that I could simply swap the shaft out of the PW, put it into the 8i, and use my jacked up 8i shaft, put it into the PW, and have the correct measurement for his PW. All I will have to do now, is cut a QUARTER INCH off of the 8i now, and he is good to go.
That sucks, but at the same time that's pretty damn impressive!
LOL. Dude my golf everything is soaked. Bag. Clubs. Towels. Went through almost 4 gloves. Glad I switched to the Wilson irons today because the i20's with dritacs would have been way too slick.
Innovative solution there. But aren't iron shafts tipped different lengths according to which iron they go in? I believe they are. I know when I reshaft my irons, the clubfitter and I go over the shaft manufacturer's tipping instructions for each iron.
By swapping the shaft out of the PW, which is presumably tipped more than the shaft of an 8 iron, and putting it into the 8i, your newly shafted 8 iron will now play more tip stiff than before.
Conversely, by swapping the shaft out of the 8 iron, which is presumably tipped less than the shaft of a PW, and putting it into the PW, your newly shafted PW will now play more tip flexible than before.
And so on as you swap shafts from one iron to another. Your "lucky" friend will be in for quite the surprise on the course when he plays his new irons.
This is exactly why I don't buy used "altered" golf equipment. You never know what's happened to the golf clubs "behind the scenes".
8i Tip Trip of 5.5"
PW Tip Trip of 6.25"
You are correct and we will just have to see how it turns out. Worst case scenario for us both, I will replace the shafts for him. Best case scenario, it doesn't affect my "lucky" friend that has been playing golf for all of a month and he will still qualify for the Open Championship next month, playing "altered behind the scenes" equipment.
See. I can be pompous too!
By the way, I appreciate that last edit you did to your post, insinuating that I am screwing over my friend. Classy!
Seriously? My rant is this thread now.
It is pompous, annoying, and tired.I was thinking even if that was a rant about used clubs and not towards Jeff is still would have came off as a pompous comment to me. LOL.
Apparently the tournament I'm in on Friday is not playing from 6400 yards but instead from 7000. Oh dear.