TheDoctor
One of the UK Hackers
Had a few days away last week so stuck some Bridgestone Tour B RXS in the bag, along with a couple CSX and CSX LS but didn't end up playing the LS at all - plan was to see how it went playing courses I had never seen before and how many balls would be lost due to the unfamiliarity with the courses
Played the first two days with the Bridgestone and shot 82, 81 with penalties on both days due to some bad bounces that put me in bad spots - the first course was heavily sloped and is definitely a course you need to play a number of times to know where to aim on quite a few holes. The second day saw 2 lost balls, first one due to a bad tee shot pulled into some real thick stuff, and then lost a provisional tee shot straight into water after the first ball took a huge bounce towards the water but I managed to find it in the dge of the hazard and had to take a penalty drop
Off the tee the Bridgestone seems to perform quite well, but I am not convinced it gives me the same distance as the CSX I have been playing lately. It was difficult to determine if it performs as well around the green with being on an unfamiliar course, but it did seem to check up fairly well overall. It definitely feels a lot softer off the putter, but I was able to adjust to that feel
The final day, we were informed that the course had much thicker, longer rough and if you were in it, there was a good chance you might not find your ball, so on the first tee I pulled out a slightly beaten up CSX so that it wouldn't bother me if it did get lost, and despite trying to lose it on the 2nd hole I ended up playing the entire round with it
Despite being an unfamiliar course, it performed as I would expect, long off the driver, excellent on aproaches and full shots (even to the point I spun a number of wedge approaches back), and very comfortable off the putter, but that could be due to how much I have played it recently
Played the first two days with the Bridgestone and shot 82, 81 with penalties on both days due to some bad bounces that put me in bad spots - the first course was heavily sloped and is definitely a course you need to play a number of times to know where to aim on quite a few holes. The second day saw 2 lost balls, first one due to a bad tee shot pulled into some real thick stuff, and then lost a provisional tee shot straight into water after the first ball took a huge bounce towards the water but I managed to find it in the dge of the hazard and had to take a penalty drop
Off the tee the Bridgestone seems to perform quite well, but I am not convinced it gives me the same distance as the CSX I have been playing lately. It was difficult to determine if it performs as well around the green with being on an unfamiliar course, but it did seem to check up fairly well overall. It definitely feels a lot softer off the putter, but I was able to adjust to that feel
The final day, we were informed that the course had much thicker, longer rough and if you were in it, there was a good chance you might not find your ball, so on the first tee I pulled out a slightly beaten up CSX so that it wouldn't bother me if it did get lost, and despite trying to lose it on the 2nd hole I ended up playing the entire round with it
Despite being an unfamiliar course, it performed as I would expect, long off the driver, excellent on aproaches and full shots (even to the point I spun a number of wedge approaches back), and very comfortable off the putter, but that could be due to how much I have played it recently