Archive for July, 2007

Boomer’s Bag – Updated…Again!

July 16, 2007 at 11:13 pm · Filed under What's In The Bag?

 

So, due to a slight realignment of my game, my bag contents have changed yet again.

Not playing with my DC Tour450 anymore, although that is still around. I am now carrying a PureFit ID RAW 460 with an Accuflex Creation 65 Silver Shaft. 45 1/2 inches long and around a XX stiffness. The club is handpicked to 9 degrees although it says 9.5 Also, I have backweighted it with about 30 grams in the shaft up by the grip. This club is really nice, and the shaft, at 480CAD and only for the tour, is really something special. Vijay and T. Immelman play these shafts. Also, I have a Tocare grip on this club. Logo down on all my grips.

3 Wood – Taylor Made V-Steel, S300 True Temper shaft, 15 degrees – This hasn’t and most likely won’t ever change. I hit the crap out of this club.

5 Wood – As above, but 18 degrees. I went back to my Taylor Made from the Nike club.

Hybrid – 25 degree My Escape by Purefit with an Accuflex HL shaft in X Flex, and I added a 21 degree version of this club. I hit an approach on a Par 5 this weekend with the 21 about 235 so all in all impressed with the addition.

Irons – 5-PW, Here is where I have changed. Back to my 2001 Hogan Apex Plus irons. Hogan has re-released these this year. Forged clubs that are a pleasure to play. Back to the beginning Vizzini.

Wedges – 51, 55 bent to a 56. Took the 59 out of the bag as I really wasn’t using it. Hitting the other two very nicely though!

Putter – GM2 Exchange by Never Compromise. This is made by Cleveland and has exchangable weights. Nice pure putter. Bought a Sophia by YES putter, but the BC is trying it out. Still have my Scotty, but it is the GM2 for now.

Wearing Hi-Tec and ECCO shoes depending on my outfit. Both are very comfortable. BC is wearing Hi-Tec now and loving them, and Dennis is wearing a pair of my NIKE shoes that seem to fit him very nicely.

 

I tried the new Taylor Made TP Black golf balls this past week and really loved them. I think that the Red version fits what I want to do, but we shall see.

 

As mentioned elsewhere, I am using Golf Pride New Decade Multi-Compound grips for the most part, except for my driver and a hybrid. On my 21 degree I have a Feel-Tec grip which I like as well.

Well that’s it for the update, so until my game sucks again forcing a change in equipment,

Keep it in the short grass.

Boomer

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Ok, So I couldn’t stay away…

July 14, 2007 at 10:26 pm · Filed under My Game

Alright, I’m back. Hiatus of two weeks. Good for me actually, the break was nice, and I got in some range time that let me work on a few things. In addition I re-gripped a bunch of clubs with the Golf Pride Multi-Compound grips, logo down. Click on the link and take a look. They come in several colours, pink and green included.

Anyhow, as I was saying, I am back for now. Went to the range last week and got to know my Hogan Apex Plus irons again. Re-gripped them from the 5 down to Wedge, and went to see what I could do. Had some new swing thoughts in my head that I wanted to try out. Got along with them fine as a matter of fact. Alignment was a small issue, but other than that, I was hitting the ball nicely.

However, went to the same range with the BC yesterday, to see if I could duplicate the previous weeks’ success with my Purefit MB1020 irons, and with the exception of a few, hit the ball rather poorly, thank you very much. I could blame the condition of the tee area, but no, this was all me. Ah well, off for a Starbucks.

It was at this esteemed establishment that that purveys beverages of the coffee flavour that my epiphany was had. Or rather, handed to me. I was told, in no uncertain terms ‘what I need’. Those words were repeated several times if you must know until I was told.

Apparantly I needed to get back to the mood and feeling that we had when we went to the Sticks of the Wooden. How we laughed, how we didn’t care.

Yes folks, this little nugget of philisophical wisdom came to me from the BC who uttered those famous words, “What you need…”

So, armed with those insights, I slept poorly, got up early, and made my way up to Parkview, the Upper course, for a 7:03 tee off time. I hit a few chips, did a bunch of stretching to loosen up my achy back, and hit a 3 wood up the middle of number one. Skinked my 7 iron on the second shot, but recovered with a nice bump and run to save bogey.

Shot 39 on the front and 44 on the back. Was trying to hit the ball a little harder on the back so got a little wayward with some shots, but on the whole, hit some nice crisp irons and didn’t get overly irritated with anything.

I have some time this week, so I might take a drive up to Copper Creek, or Silver Lakes to see how I can do on a real course, but then again, I might just take some more time off to do a little reading and a little revamping of my all round outlook to my game. Bought two books today, well, bought a dozen or so books today, but two directly related to golf. The first one, Fearless Golf a tome that is dedicated to the mind game and how fear affects our thought process on the course. It was recommended to me by my future golf teacher who works out of Angus Glen, and the second book, Fit to a Tee, that deals with the physical aspect of your game. Hopefully they both will help.

All in all, I had a great time today. Little things still bug me, but I can honestly say, nothing on the course, and golf related pissed me off at all today. A portent of better things to come I am hoping.

Till we meet again,

Keep it in the short grass,

Boomer

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Hawkridge with the BC, the Neighbour, and Bob…

July 2, 2007 at 2:46 pm · Filed under Golf News

Oh, and a new swing. Didn’t work that well.

Witnessed the last round for me.

Golf, as a sport, is dead to this one time ok participant of the ancient game.

It has been a slice. (pun intended)

Golf club sale to commence forthwith.

On another note, the course and the day and the company were all wonderful, and although I did not get to demonstrate my prowess at putting marshmallows en masse into my oral cavity, I had a great time around the bonfire on Canada’s birthday.

Boomer.

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