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Hell, where do you send your guys’ golf clubs when you need them repaired, fixed, fitted, whatever? I know a good guy. Let’s talk about that stuff next on What’s in My Drawers Golf Talk. Welcome back to What’s in My Drawers Golf Talk. Jim McClary here. And why is it what’s my drawers? Because old club makers and club fitters are tremendous packrats. I am no different. I got to turn this thing off. It’s about what’s in my drawers in the golf shop. And what we do here is we talk about golf club repairs, fittings, and reviews. All serors can go low. Now that I’m in this groove, if you look down below here on this little banner, it says, “If you know some folks, let them know about us. Invite them here. Join us. And don’t forget to like and subscribe. We are climbing.” Okay. Uh, one last shameless plug because of this one. We’re going to uh we’ll get into it and we’ll talk here. So, we’re going to review a few things here first. Uh, what we did over the weekend, we did some we actually did quite a bit of club work and that was kind of the idea of the the motto or the top subject matter for today. Where do you send your stuff? because we’ve got this set here with those set of red grips. And going on those heads, if you notice, there’s four wedges and an iron. We’ll tell you about that one here in a moment. You see how the fererals are a little bit different and they look a lot like that. So, where’d those go to? Pennsylvania. So, these went to Pennsylvania. And the deal about the the stricks on iron here is we had made that iron for them once before and we got a note saying, “Hey, we got a problem with the iron.” I’m like, “Oh no, what do we do?” And turns out that the club fell out of a bag or something along that lines and somebody was behind them ran clean over it and flattened it like a pancake. So the Nepon 8 the Nepon 850S cannot take the weight of a golf cart with some folks and bags in it. So, and not and that’s to be expected, but it didn’t snap. So, we it didn’t snap. No, it didn’t snap. It just It just got flat. All righty. So, we And the rest of them got wedges. And those wedges actually match that set uh in for another set of clubs that we made for that customer in Pennsylvania. All righty. Now, we got this one. Um, these are two PXG Black Ops brand spanking or pretty dog on close and that we reshafted. They had some MMTs in it and he wanted the C6 right there. The C6 and uh, apparently he like he tested it and he apparently liked it and then we put some OMIC grips on it. Now, this customer is in Maryland, and uh we’ve done some work for this this person before. In fact, that finishes off that set. We did one where we showed you a couple of weeks ago uh that we did probably a six through and that’s the four and the five. So, he’s ready to go with that. Now, I got to I got to give him props because that grip with that shaft right to here on this head looks pretty damn cool. It does. It’s really, really neat. So, we got it looking like it was brand spanking uh for him before. And then that one. And now this set. What? We got one more right here. What’s this? Oh, that’s just another view of that one. All right. The next set is going to Tennessee, right? And I think this is one. That’s This is Tennessee. KBS. I know. That’s what I’m doing. You’re You’re not c you’re not caught up. Okay. Peanut gallery. All right. Peanut gallery. So anyway, we got this one and as you can tell that they are finished off and if you can’t tell, I got Peanut Gallery with me today. So this could be fun or not. And so what we got here is the MCC with the lines on them. And what we put in them, this is what you call an oldie but goodie. And they were some Wan 565 uh cavity backs. And if you look, a very very very large cavity uh with the weight right behind the ball. Now, the thing about Wishon is they always have the little extra little extra piece in the bottom of the hoszle so you could put weight in there for waiting without sacrificing the depth of the hoszle insertion, which I thought was a brilliant option for them. Uh, this gentleman was in Tennessee and he wanted them uh 3/4 of an inch short and then a couple degrees up. So, we bent them for him and we put the he said the fererals are my choice. So, I gave him the extra wide double chrome and we and there’s some more of the other side of it. And then, of course, the KBS Max. And uh there we go. And and so what this one was is a uh an order for a gentleman who had this particular set before and wanted something a little softer, a little bit lighter in it. As he the swing speed gets a little bit slower and a little bit uh a little bit slower and a little bit well, we’ll say smoother. How about that? So those are the ones. And we had a set go to Louisiana. What went to Louisiana? Not there yet. You have to start the Oh, I got a set going to Louisiana. Sorry. And uh so they’re going around the we’re going all over the US with this and uh that’s a great thing. We I mean we really feel honored that you know people are trusting us to do this stuff from a distance because it’s really really hard. Um, you know, when you’re sending out your golf clubs, you’re always wondering what you’re going to get back, right? You what am I going to get back from people? And I think that’s kind of the point of this channel is, you know, showing them what you can do if you wanted to do at the house. Like regripping, right? If you want, regripping is the easiest way to make your clubs feel better. And there’s not a lot of uh not a lot of cost to get started. And if you mess up, it’s only the cost of a grip. And it’s a learning experience. So, and if you do really well off the bat, it’s a very inexpensive change. So, and to make your clubs feel better. Now, the other stuff could get a little dicey depending on your level of ability to work with tools. Some people can, some people cannot just what it is. And some people just don’t have the time. But we are I mean, again, we are just super happy that there’s a people all over the US that uh will trust us to do this kind of stuff for them. And uh right now, like I told you last week, we are working on a set of irons from a guy from Pakistan and and but he’s currently he’s currently residing in in Canada. But, uh, we have some muras that we’re going to reshaft. And, uh, that one has been a, that one’s been a task because he has very specific wants or needs that I cannot see or feel across the phone line or an email. So, we have, so he’s done some fittings and he’s describing what worked well and those kinds of things in order for me to be able to recommend some stuff and and get him to where he needs. So, I think these mirrors that we’re going to put together are going to be um are going to be a neat little test, I think, is what’s going to happen. It’s going to be a neat little test to see what’s happening. We’ll see if we can’t do that. All righty. So once I got my chores done, uh we we went we went out to distillery land and what we did is we went to Indiana first and went to Hard Truth first and made a whole entire day of it. uh started there at lunch and then went on their uh well the get lost tour and of course I’m not taking I didn’t bring any pictures because of this one but uh the get lost tour uh with you get an ATV and you go right around 300 acres and you make two or three stops three or four stops actually and and you get to t sample mixed drinks using their their vodkas and their gins and their rums and that kind of stuff in order to get a better idea of what they too, as opposed to just being a a bourbon company. Uh, I will say that they have a toasted coconut rum that is very particularly awesome. All right, so if you’re not a a brown spirits drinker like Clear and you’re looking at somebody looking for something that has just a flavor you can sip on without adding anything, this is one of those things. Now, to to give it more of a perspective, uh I had an issue with rum when I was in the Navy. if you can imagine. And uh I have not had a sip of rum since that time frame. It’s been almost 30 plus years. And uh this stuff I could drink this is very very easy to sip on. All right. So then we went into the tiki a tiki ride. Uh the tiki ride was you got on a boat and sailed around in their pond for a while and again you drank tiki like uh tiki like drinks and they had their own mixtures and those were very very good. again, we ended up with that coconut rum. So, we uh so we we got in there and uh and and ended up getting a few bottles of that for her and and a and a bunch of bottles for me. That’s for me and glass. For you and glass, whatever. It’s for you. And and so we did that. So then we went and got cleaned up and then came back for the late night where they uh had a bottle release. It was a bottle that was released in um released or was finished in mezanara cast. It’s a Japanese wood and it’s supposed to mellow it out a little bit. And so some of the things that now this I did take pictures of. And this was kind of the uh one of they did food pairings which is really neat. Never been to a food pairing before. And so that was barbecued bacon wrap shrimp with that drink. Uh, I got to say I was not impressed with any of the drinks, but the food pairing was very, very good. And then there’s the dessert. Uh, the dessert was a pecan pie and then that had watermelon in it. That one was pretty tasty. Uh, Robin liked it so much he took mine. So, there’s that one. Uh, then the following day, uh, took us down into Bargetown and we went and saw a few places, but we ended up at Logill. Well, let’s see here. There we There we were. This was at the end of the end of the night at uh at Hard Truth. That was the folks we were sitting at the the table with. A whole cast of characters. Very very cool folks. Uh most of them have to deal with emergency. Uh they were like EMTs, paramedics, that kind of stuff. So that was very cool. Uh taking off, we went and we stopped at Starlight on the way down when we left Hard Truth the next day. And uh Starlight was releasing a 10-year-old. at 10-year-old bourbon. So, we stopped there and there there’s what it looked like as you were driving in. That was just it’s a really neat I it’s a just a really neat uh farmers market kind of place to be. Okay. And then uh we went and stopped at uh we ended up the day at Limestone. They had a thing where if we are founding members of this thing for their club that they’ve got and u they took us around. It was a really great time. We got to meet Steven Beam who is their master distiller. And yes, beam. He’s one of the many beams that are out there from the from the James Beam. And he’s a seventh generation distiller. And that’s us standing in front of one of their uh their little bitty experimental rick house. And there we go. U Oh, and here’s Mr. Beam right here. There he is right there. So, uh so that’s what we got. So, it was a great weekend. Came home with a bunch of really nice bottles. I think Mrs. McGolf came away with more this time around, but they weren’t uh they didn’t quite carry quite the price tag mine did. Uh because we did we did some strawberry wine for slushies. We did some uh blackberry whiskey from Starlight and we did the uh the coconut rum. So there it is. So that’s the uh there lies the long and the short of it. Again, again, when you when you get somebody that you you have to send your stuff to, uh, send them an email, give them a call, right? And and ask them how they would how they would do a repair or is it easy to do a repair or have them describe something that makes you feel good. It’s the same thing as going and getting a lesson. you know, they might be the best instructor on the planet, but if for some reason your communication isn’t working, it’s not going to be uh a very good experience. And so that you can get the idea that the person that you’re working with knows what they’re doing, right? And that’s kind of the ide. Okay. So, that was probably one of my shortest let’s get into it kind of thing. So, to get things started, as part of as part of the uh we stopped at Evergreen Liquors in Bargetown, which is a great little liquor store with a bar in it. And uh we met some friends there. Mrs. Mcoff met a new friend. We stayed till about 11:00. And uh I found a Elijah Craig El the new Elijah Craig B525, which is just shy of 12 years old and 126 proof. And to compare it, I now have the five or the 420 B4 B524, sorry. So, this last year’s model, and it is 11 months, 2 years at 130. So, we’re going to do a little comparison while we’re talking. All righty. So, let’s start talking up here. Right to the top we go. Okay. Matt Revlock shot rounds of 68 and 74. You go, man. I send every club issue right to make golf custom clubs. There you go. Uh, describe your favorite shot from this season so far. Oh, favorite shot. H, you know what? My favorite shot. I think you guys even saw it on camera. The hitting the drive. I hit a really, really good drive with the mini driver. I was just so happy with it. But um you know in the past I’ve been not too bad off the tea. My my shortcomings has been in the short game and when I had Mrs. McGolf with me and she was uh filming I I had to act my age and and I was get I was chipping and my chipping right then and there was putting things close, stopping them where I wanted to. And so in the last one you guys saw where I was chipping on and I was getting close. Those are my favorite shots of the day where it takes a little bit of touch. All right, Seal Team Rick. Cool. That’s a good one. Look at that. He’s got a Seal team on there. All righty. Would love to know if counterbalancing affects the deflection of the shaft. I’m considering counterbalancing my Smoke RDX Blue uh for an STX ST Max driver. The driver just feels like a sledgehammer. Oh, okay. No. So, in the So, Rick, so the here’s the idea. The idea of counterbalancing, there’s when you when you make a golf shaft and you say, “I’m going to counterbalance a club,” which in reality, I think this one might be. So you you take the tip to stern and what you do is there’s a balance point. Now it’s going to be really high because of the grip, but normally it’s about down here. And when you counterbalance, all you’re literally doing is moving the counter. You’re moving the balance point towards the butt section of that particular shaft. And when you do that, uh the idea here is to allow you to make uh longer clubs at a normal swing weight. Okay, that and a lot of that’s there. So, the tip section, the midsection, none of that truly changes. Okay, but if you already have your shaft, right, you already have your shaft and you’re just putting weight back in here and 99 times out of 100, the weight you’re going to use is only going to be that big, right? It’s going to be about an inch to an inch and a quarter. And no, it will not change the deflection. All you are doing literally is redistributing some weight or actually you’re adding weight in order to in order to make the scales tip in the favor. So all you really are doing is adjusting feel. Okay? You’re adjusting feel. Now what what tends to happen there is it’s not deflection of the shaft, it’s the deflection of you. Uh what happens is and a lot of guys that’s the reason why you see long drivers uh back weight is because they’re hitting it with a a driver loft that’s about 3 to 5° and what and you always want to be hitting this thing on an up right on that on a big up because they normally you know they got really tall T’s that they’re hitting them off of in order to get all that launch angle with hardly any spin. And so what this is going to do when it gets in the back of your hand, you’re going to come through and you’re probably going to release just a hair earlier and get a little bit more height. That’s what’s really happening. Okay? Not necessarily shaft, but the person holding the shaft. Now, if you’re an aggressive swinger, okay, if you’re an aggressive swinger, that you will absolutely love that. All right? Because when you go to swing as an aggressive swinger, this is where you feel your weight, not at the other end. All right? If you’re if you’re a smoother swinger, the the effect isn’t nearly as great because when you bring it back and you’re really slow here, this is where you feel it. Okay? And if you’re trying to lighten it up a little bit, then that could be for the good. Okay? So, hope that helps. There’s Charlie. What do you say, sir? 4 B 524 at 130 and almost well 11 years 2 months. I’ve been letting this thing set. This thing’s almost been in the open for about half an hour. First sip of the day. Hey, you can always tell Charlie did 80 79 81 81. You are right there. You are right there, Charlie. Yesterday shot my age 72 with two doubles and four birdies. You go, man. I want to grow and be like you one day, man. That’s all there is to it. Oh, I did see a uh Yeah, I know. If you remember Aloha Fridays, Charlie, but uh somewhere along the lines, apparently um Siri has been listening to me talk and we have a uh an aloha Thursday at work because that’s our Friday and the guys are wearing Hawaiian shirts. Well, yesterday on Facebook, which is always a dangerous place to do things like this, uh they had a Hawaiian shirt, but in place there was flowers, but in between all the flowers were boats. So that was cool. And uh so Mrs. McGoff is uh researching that for me. Oh, one other thing. Uh let me do this. One other thing, Charlie, the uh the guy at Hard Truth is an ex Navy helicopter pilot and you’ll love this. He flew on the Forestall and he also flew on the Independence. And there was one more in that same class that he and I couldn’t remember the last one. Maybe the older Enterprise if there was such an animal is like that but the older ones the forest doll I kind of went he goes yeah I know everybody knows about it but uh good guy really good guy there’s hello Jim and Robin is it feasible to shaft a gap wedge and a pitching wedge with a heavier shaft like what is done for other wedges? Yeah, you can. Uh there’s nothing saying you can’t. You could put a wedge shaft in there just like you did on the wedges. uh it won’t snap like it does with the regular one, but you know, if you’re not using it to, you know, try and hit uh 100 yard shots with these things and just coming out of your shoes, it probably work just the same. Sure. Awesome, Charlie. Thanks, Matt. During yesterday’s round, a feeling of being uh being clammed and re Oh, clammed. Calm. Calm and relaxed instead of clammed and relaxed. I wish I could capture that every time. Yeah. And you too, bud. I went out there with again, we were out there with Mr. McGolf and I was just like, you know, staying out of my own way and and and not trying to muscle everything and my gosh, everything was just coming to me in the zone. Yes, it was. Yes, it is. My putter was hot. I chipped one in to save birdie. It was quite a day. Now, you know, you’re just doing good there, right? That’s just like watching pros on TV. And it just a person will get themselves in a bad situation and they’ll do something, you know, it’s a mistake that ends up being good. You just know that’s it’s that a guy’s got to be thinking it’s his turn to win, right? All right. Awesome. Even same par from a greenside bucker. Damn, Charlie, you had it going on. How do you That’s probably how Well, yeah, that’s not too bad. That’s not He probably Don’t let him kid you. I’m sure he does that, too. Yeah, he says, “Not really figured out how I have to play in order to score.” Yeah, but don’t kid yourself. His short game is pretty damn good, too. There it was. Does the head of the driver have any weights? You could go with a lighter weight to change the headfield. That’s another one. Now that uh now by going lighter on that one, Charlie, that could change the the way that the shaft will work. As you go lighter, you could make the club stiffer. And if you’re, you know, kind of spraying a little bit, that could be a better thing as well. I was hitting the ball well for the most part, I’d say. So, shooting a 72. Nicely done, sir. My birdie chip in was on a par five. I topped a seven wood on my second shot. Flushed a six iron and chipped it in. You go, man. I limit my penalty strokes off the tea. I try not to three putt and keep doubles or worse off the card. My buddies call it boring golf hoham. Matt, I would say everybody on this live stream would take that in a second. But you got to remember what you got to remember who Matt’s golfing with are the same set of guys that are scoring that good, too. They’re just bombing. They’re bombing and gouging while he’s playing golf. There’s John. Greetings, everybody from Myrtle Beach, back from vacation in Maryland, Delaware, visiting family. Well, I hope you enjoyed it. You got to see some of the bay. maybe taken some uh some bay crab if they if it wasn’t too awfully expensive, which it probably was, and uh got to and got to enjoy the time with the family. Okay, before we get to the next one, uh another another shameless plug on my other channel called Pars and Pores, uh I released a third video on the Ryder Cup. All right. So we’ve holes one through three and there’s comparison against rise i.e. Rder Cup. We talk about Beth Page Black and we talk about some rules or history of the Ryder Cup as long as and comparing the two. So now I’m officially So what I had to do is I had three uh brackets that had to qualify to get into the main bracket and now we’re on. Okay. So, if you would, if you guys like that sort of thing, want to see something about some different rides because they’re not all from the Kentucky Trail. I guarantee it. Um, and enjoy it, to be uh, and if you got and I’m always asking if you like to see something different in there, let me know cuz you see this format and uh, basically it is a golf centric whiskey channel. So, there are golf terms and all kinds of other stuff much like there’s whiskey terms on this one. All righty, Stephen. shot of 7882. Still no AC. Oh my god, Stephen. Hopefully, did you did you try and Man, there’s all kinds of would a shoulda couldas on this one. And uh that’s horrible. I just say that’s horrible. I hope you’ve got fans running or if you’ve got one of those little room air conditioners that you can seal off and at least sleep good at night. I feel for you in this. And I’m sure down there you’re getting the you’re getting this. We had some ridiculous heat, right? Ridiculous heat here. We had ridiculous heat at uh in Kentucky and we took those cooling towels with us. Man, did they work well. I like those quite a bit. And uh we had somebody that I was talking to one of the uh one of the uh the vendor types that was at Limestone and he had a a a fan that clipped on your belt and you’re you know when you have those the shirts that go over your belt uh they call that like a beach shirt or something that just goes over top of your clothes and this fan blows up into your shirt and and keeps you cool. Oh, that now there’s a thought. So, that was a that was a neat idea. So, yep. We hope that you get your parts soon and we’ll go from there. Oh, I do want to do this is one I normally don’t mix businesses, but in this case, this is important to me. Uh, so at my other business, I am the director of emergency services. So, I have a handful of folks, probably 60 or 70 folks that report to me and we all deal in emergency response and emergency management. And this last Sunday, a a a plant shift superintendent, a person who I could call a friend uh was on a trip and got involved in a very bad accident. And the fortunate part about it is that he survived it and he is doing okay. The massively unfortunate sur uh portion of this is that his wife did not right. She passed away in the wreck and as one would might think that he’s having a rough go of it. So, we’re trying to support him as much as we can. And if you’re those folks that do things in prayers and whatnot, let’s keep this gentleman in our uh in our thoughts and our minds and our hearts. All righty. So, let’s move on. Okay, we did Stephen with the That’s just disgust. That’s just disheartening, man, when you get hot like that. Alrighty. Charlie says, “Good rounds. It sucks being without AC in this heat we’ve been having.” That’s a fact. Robin says, “Hi to Matt and Sally and to Charlie.” And Robin says, “Hi back.” There we go. There’s Mr. Dean Walker. How are you, sir? Glad to see you made it back on here. Oh, there’s Dan Dabunga. He sends his stuff to us, too, and I do appreciate it. It’s always fun to see the stuff that he sends me. It’s just it’s some cool stuff. In the past, I’ve had clubs built, fixed by many different outfits, but sending Jim and Robin never go anywhere else. Truly the best. We appreciate that, Dan. We really a lot. And uh really, we do like that a lot. It’s really fun to have folks that believe in us like that. And it’s really it’s really nice. All righty. I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been in the mid mid 90s to upper 90s for the last four or five days. And yesterday we got in from the trip and we know more than we got in. And here come the rain. Of course, the rain’s about as good. You know, after all the heat, it was okay, except for that now the humidity is about 7 million%. And you got to wait for it to boil off. Well, this morning when I got up to go, it was about 5:30 in the morning. It was 75 already at 5:00 in the morning and the humidity was just just unpalable. It was like putting on a wool coat when you walked out. Matt Revlock, McGolf Custom Clubs is the spot to send any golf related equipment issues. There’s another another advertisement for us. Thank you, Matt. Appreciate that. Robin talking to our SEAL team. So, I’m talking to figuring out if SEAL team Rick is really SEAL team member. I’ I’d hate to think that he would be taking that off and not being one, but uh that’s very cool. Stephen says that Charlie, I’ve been averaging around 87 in the house, not having a good sleeping. No. And I I told you my I told you my uh my go my AC story that when we bought our house, uh they told us the average temperature was 77. Well, until we bought it and the average temperature was in the mid to low 90s. And I just kept calling the guys until they said they could be there the next day to install it. And they did. And it was a it was worth every dime I ever paid because I was doing the same thing. I was sleeping in the basement with two or three fans blowing on me cuz I was working shift work at the time. It was just miserable. Stephen, do you have fans? That’s We were just asking that. All right. She’s saying hello. Hello, John Timmons. What do you say? Good afternoon from the gimpy old golfer. John. Huh? Oh, yeah. So, Mrs. McGolf with her with her knee that’s been repaired has been, shall we say, trying to not make it hurt so much. And because of that, her calf muscle has been cramping up because she’s been supporting it with the calf instead of the knee. And it’s been causing her. So when she gets out of the gets out of the car or anything for any long time frame, she starts this limping motion. So I called her the uh the hobble along. Well, that turned into the hobble goblin or hobble goblin to now just goblin. So that’s been it’s been fun to have that kind of fun back and forth. Yes, I think so. Maybe a window is seen the bathroom to help or in the bedroom to help you sleep. Yeah, that’s what I was kind of looking at. There’s the gring slayer. How are you, sir? Glad to see you could make it up there. And Robin saying hello. And he says he’s got ceiling fans and ground fans. All have been going on max speed since Sunday the 20th. Oh my goodness gracious. Well, Stephen, you know, you could go super old school and and you’re like, “Yeah, what was that?” You know, in the day, if you wanted to get something cool, what you did was you got yourself a block of ice and you put it in front of the fan so it would blow that cool air off. It’s kind of that is a uh convection and conduction where the old re oldtimey refrigerators, you know, when you always saw the ice guy bring it up and put a block of ice on the on the refrigerator, that was conduction. And uh I did that once. You got to get a big old pile of ice in a bowl and just let it blow over you. And you’d be surprised how cool that can get. Um, but it, you know, when the ice is small, even in a pile, it it doesn’t last as long as one would like. And finding a block of ice get to be delivered is is nearly impossible. But, uh, from a temporary relief point of view could be kind of neat to try it out. I mean, what do you got to lose to be cool for about, you know, 15 minutes before going to bed? Peter, what do you say, sir? Hello from Myrtle Beach. It’s been hot and sticky here. I don’t doubt that a minute. Shot 7475 the weekend. Best shot this year has been ball lying half way between my waist. Oh. Oh. Halfway at my waist and hit a four hybrid stiff for a birdie. You did that one with your son, didn’t you? I think I remember you telling us about that one. Very well done. Uh, nice rounds. Yep. Sanjont T. And there’s the sis. Where do I send my clubs? Make coffee. Yep. And she’s a little bit biased, but you know, we’ll let that slide on this one. Matt says he loves uh love the Wan love. It’s a great company. They are they do you good. They uh their designs are very very solid. Uh Mr. with Sean or Tom thinks it thinks some of those things through and uh a lot of them stand the test of time. You know, the only thing I ever told him that when he asked me what he needed to do and uh he he asked me what he what he needed to do and I said, “You need to make the loft stronger to stay in competition.” I mean, the designs were solid. They just need to, you know, distance is king when it comes to a lot of golf stuff. And you know, he really did not like that. He said, “Just get another club.” And I said, “That’s the logic talking.” And I said, “That’s not the golfer talking. The golfer always wants to hit his pitching wedge as far as everybody else’s nine iron just to show who’s boss.” And I said, “Now, do you need to do that? Maybe not, but you don’t want to be the one lagging either.” I think they’re catching up. That last driver I saw them put out was really kind of cool. All right, there’s Robin. Uh oh, Doug’s holding on Wednesday. Oh, golfing on Wednesday at Lake Geneva. Well, good for him. Lake Geneva with the with the company. I only imagine. Hello, and thanks for the dispenser. No, thanks for getting it, man. Let’s see how it tinkers out. That ought to be fun. Did you know you can buy parts afterwards? You said so after I bought the other one, but you know, I’m okay with this. I do. Okay, Peter, is there anything you can do to bring back the new look on a black iron? They look scruffy after hitting them. Unfortunately, no. Uh, that is lit. Peter, that is literally that they call it a PVD finish or there’s a black There’s a a black what do they call it? It’s another It’s other than PVD finish. It’s like an I call it like an ice coating, but uh but it’s the black finish. And that’s the unfortunate part about black is they look awesome uh while they’re new. But after a lot of play, like you do, particularly when you play down in Myrtle Beach where there’s sand, you know, sand is basically exactly that is nothing more than sand blasting the bottom of when you hit through the turf down there. uh is the turf is very aggressive when it comes to dealing with either the black coating or even the clear coat or even the the satiny finishes that go on those things. It just tears right through it, particularly after you’ve hit it a few times, right? And uh the only way you can do it is uh you got to send them back. And even then, I don’t know if those guys would do that. Uh, there is another company. It used to be called Iron Works that did recoding of clubs, but I don’t know if they’re still in business. It’s been ages. You’re welcome, says Robin. There’s Jack. Good afternoon, Lombard. Is it hotter than Hades? Oh, because why did he say that? Because he says it’s hotter than Hades. I call it the seven circle of hell, man. It’s just Oh my god. Uh this sometimes you just like why oh why oh why there we go. All right. Herman, what do you say? Hello Jim Robin. Let me tell you about the CB12 wedge. Yes, I want to hear about this. Used it on Friday. Excellent club. It saves It saves so many times. Shot an 88. Uh but not for the triple bogey. It would have been 85. But the wedge is a gamecher. Well, there you go. Right. There you go. That’s awesome. We And we knew that the CB12 is a uh it’s very forgiving, right? You get down into it with the triple sole design that you know it it the sole is wider, but you can pick it, but man oh man, be careful. Uh I think it works a lot better with the hands a little bit forward. And then the thing is a is a monster. And as I found out, as you guys saw in the video, I found out I had to do that in order to get it to play the way I wanted it to. Now, today, Mrs. McGolf just tells me, and here’s news right off the press. So, I get to tell you something about Callaway that somebody else doesn’t tell me first. And that’s normally how it works, by the way. Uh, she calls me and tells me that they’re taking all our Opus wedges back. And I’m like, what? Why? because they’re coming out with a new one. So, they’re here in the very near future, there will be a new Opus wedge coming out. I have no idea what it looks like. I have no idea where it’s going to go. I don’t even know if they’re going to add or take away loss and bounce options, but a new one’s coming. So, as soon as it does, we’ll let you know. Hello, mirrors. That’s all I heard. What are you doing with mirrors? Uh so uh the the gentleman sent us some mirrors to reshaft Efron the uh he’s uh in the in the world of Pakistan apparently he’s a top flight golfer and although swing speed’s gone down a little bit and he wanted to reshaft these things. So what it’s really it’s the conundrum of golf club building. uh he wants this he wants it to be lighter but he also wants it to be more stable and and he’s tried some different clubs and he goes well I want it to be lighter and I go okay well let’s do 105 he goes all right and then he comes back from a fitting he says no the 120s work just fine they’re great I want one of those I said well that’s not lighter that is not where you want to go how do you want to approach this and he goes back and does another one so he settled on another shaft and he was floating between graphite and this 120. And I’m like, you you got to make up your mind here pretty soon because stable and light sometimes don’t go together and we got to figure out what you want. So, we ended up going with KBS. Which one were they? The but just the regular ones. Okay. So, we went with the KBS tour and the R, but we’re going to hard step at one. Now, why is that? Because in KBS, they’re not all 120. In fact, they’re lighter and in as they get softer, they get lighter as well. So, we got him not super light like say 100 or 105, but we got them in about the 110 range and and that’s lighter still and still giving and still getting him that. So, that’s where we’re going. I think this is more of a test than it is anything else because now we’re starting to talk about drivers fairway woods and stuff. There’s Robin talking to sis. Efron says, “Hello from Arizona. How you doing? I saw that, you know, we talked about last time you brought on lab. I’m sorry, LA golf, not lab golf. Uh LA golf.” And uh I think I did you change the uh either the background changed on your logo or your logo changed, but it looks pretty cool. I like it. Yes, they do, Charlie. And not just a couple. They’ve got a bunch. Um, now there are some, we won’t call them distilleries because they don’t physically have distilling uh, operations, but there are some that will uh, go out and pick barrels and then mix it together. There are several people that are out there doing that now. Uh, the bourbon junkies are doing that. Um, you’re seeing Bruisels doing one like that. Uh, even bigger distilling companies are doing that. the the limestone minor case is they’re they’re ma they’re having it made to their recipe and then having it brought in even though they have their own distilling units. So it just depends on what model works best. Uh but there is even at hard truth right down around the corner is a place called uh Bear Swallow and I I they do have bourbon. I will say that. But most of these places in these rural areas really will concentrate on moonshine and then uh and then branch out to the other stuff. All right, rehafting. There we go. G27, will you be at the shop this Saturday? Well, yes, I will. Look at that. I even got to see that. So, this is the new stuff, Charlie. And funny enough, it smells like the old stuff. We’re going to have to let that one go for a minute. Yes, he will. A Japanese cast. Did they open it with a samurai sword? Well, I hope not. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t have been able to close it. But, uh, that’s the whole thing, you know. Mezzanara was one of those I don’t know if it’s just Hey, look. It was like calling it French oak. We did something in French oak and that cathedral stuff. Um, does it do anything? We’re going to find out. When I tasted it, it was pretty good. Is it a is it one of those things where you go, “Wow, I need everything in my life to be mezzanara.” No, but is a it’s a it’s a good pour. They uh they also did a collaboration with uh Johnny or John Melanchamp where he did some artistry uh for the labels and it was under the Melanchamp whiskey banner and the last two one was called Odd American and I can’t remember the last one but the odd American was the third out of the fourth that was really good. John Timmons, what is a good chef for 78-year-old Marine swing guy about 80 mile an hour. Thank you. Love your channel. All right. Hey, leatherneck. Okay. So, if you’re actually swinging like a Marine should with all the gusto that Marines have got, That’s pretty good. So 80 mph if we’re talking about uh if you’re talking about a driver now, John, uh it’s a little different. So uh swing speed does come into play, but if you truly are aggressive, there’s no problem with bumping it up, right? at 80 mph. You know, as far as speed goes, if you’re just doing speed, you would be what I would call in the amateur range or maybe even the senior flex range. However, if you have that short back swing or that aggressive pull and and you come through and you’re doing all that, uh, in order to have the consistency, you’re going to want to move up, okay, into the R flex at a minimum. Now, I’ve done this in the past with another one that was a a police officer, and you would have thought he was killing snakes. Uh, it was just just wow, wow, wow. And and never got above never got above 80, and I put him in an Xflex just to get him squared away and going straight. So, if you’re let’s So, let’s qualify this a little bit. If you’ve been using an Rflex club and you’re and the club and the ball is still going like this because and let’s say you’re very very aggressive, there is nothing wrong with going to a lightweight stiff shaft and and doing that. Now, let’s go back another one. Let’s say you are in that S or that senior or that Alex and the ball is just going everywhere and you have no idea. Bump it up to the R, get in that weight category that you like and go from there. Now, as far as good shafts go in that particular area, if you like stable, which sounds like you need, you’re probably looking at something that is a uh that might be a butt stiff type of profile. And without going to without getting, you know, exotic and say like the TZs from Acra, uh I wouldn’t necessarily go there, but I would look at stuff that was made by Fujicura. All right, that that Ventus Blue comes in a truckload of different weights and flavors and I would look at that. There’s no need to get the Velcore option. Uh it’s cool and it’s really neat, but at this point in the game, you don’t need it. All right? And you can get like a 50 g R or even a 60 g R and that thing would stay with you and you might like that one. Antonio Tanti. Okay, that’s cool. Hi, Jim. I have a carbon composite driver that cracked on the back of the crown. Is there any way to be repaired? Uh, no. All right. Even if it was a metal crown. There’s a uh cuz most the funny part is Antonio, most of the crowns are already composite. Uh, very few are still metal. Uh, Wilson’s got one in the max. And, uh, there’s one more. There’s one more. I can’t remember what it was, but they have the titanium crowns. They’re light and very, very stiff. Okay, the rest of them, it is a composite. I know the thought process is like, hey, look, I can put resin on a boat. Uh, can that work? And that’s not a bad thought process. However, um, you the boat doesn’t flex like a golf club does. That’s the best way I can describe it because I’ve been approached about this. So, if you have an entire composite uh driver, which the C4, the tailor made uh driver of that variety, um the Callaways Paradigm, those are the ones that come to mind. Uh but no, sorry. In my opinion, the answer is no. And not to change the performance or the sound or any of that stuff. Okay. But Antonio has has has has actually uh woken up a memory. I did a fitting this week and I actually busted out a Stricksson ZX or ZXI driver and I’m here to tell you it worked pretty good. Uh I was I was you know unfortunately I was staying silent on those guys because I was giving them down the road internally. Uh, and we brought in a, you know, I let him hit I let him hit the Callaway. I let him hit. Now, the Wilson came really, really close. But as we kept tweaking, we kept tweaking tweaking tweaking. Uh, that thing Oh my gosh. Worked like gang busters. Now, why why is it so much different? Well, because he had a a a little bit of a flatter. It was funny. He came up high, but came in flat in there. And all normally all the drivers were coming in like this and they were coming through and so he was placing the ball in the crux of the club because of the way that it looked when he was the way it looked when he was aligning himself. So he would think it’s being in the center but when it’s upright you you find yourself into the crux of the club. So what I did is they had a flat standard setting which is about 2° flat. So it got like this and as soon as he did that he moved it out to the center. And when you find the center of the golf club, it just goes better, right? So he went from pushes or pulls to straight and he went further all because we we flattened the driver. And it wasn’t a lie angle was the way to go kind of thing. It was a perception of the way he was addressing the ball. The other part was is he was always had this tee it high let it fly thing and he had this slightly negative angle of descent. So it was really flat flat and negative angle. And so we did this and I had him lower the tee a little bit and just started hitting bullets and uh so he got his mojo back over at the driver. All righty. Jack’s asking on adjustable clubs, fairway metals, hybrids, does changing loft or lie have an effect on swing weight? Ah, good question, Jack. To an extent. So, the rule of thumb uh for irons, we’ll say it like this. Let’s give you this idea. So, uh, the the loft angle, no, but lie angle can. So, if you wanted to change the lie angle, uh, about 3° in the up or the down, that’s about that’s about one swing weight. Okay, one swing weight. So, the further it goes flatter, the heavier it becomes. The more it goes upright, the lighter it becomes. So, if you could do the changing, and I figure if you go up, the driver’s got to be a little bit different because it’s all lighter components and whatnot. I would I would imagine a twoderee up or a two°ree down would probably give you about the same. All right. Hello, Antonio. There’s Lawrence. What do you say, sir? How you doing? There’s Robin saying back. You did say Elijah Craig, didn’t you? Did you Did you have to say larger? Yes, I did. And right now the the 24 is winning over the 25, but fresh crack versus setting for 6 months. But they smell they they’re nosing identically, dude. Lawrence, plus five on nine. Uhoh. Plus five on nine. Uhoh. Henry Tutton, what do you say? What kind of mini driver do you have? I have the Elite. I have the Elite 11 degree with the 60 g stiff flex from Denali in the gray. Everybody likes to say the color. I don’t know if it’s any different. They just paint them different ones down at the end or not, but that’s what I have. Chalk. I uh again another guy at work he was asking he was having driver wos and I wholly recommended that particular club and knowing full well that I own a golf shop he went and ordered his online and and he came back today to tell me his progress that he and he’s a good golfer and he sw he’ll shoot in the 70s easily and and uh and noodle mc and uh and he said Uh he came back, his eyes were just wide open and he could he said I can swing as hard as I want and I still find the fairway and that’s all he needed to hear and all he wanted to do. So good. So I hopefully that helped you. There’s only if memory serves Henry, there’s only three. Tyler’s got one and Tailormaid’s got one and Callaway’s got one. And if you’re a Tailor Made fan, you’ll never stray from it. Uh, the Qi35 has been actually quite the performer. I am not a tailor made person, but stats are stats. Right. Uh, I like the look of the Elite. It just suits my eye. Now, the the Titus one, if Christopher was on here, he could tell you. I think he had one. Uh, I like the shape of the Titus. I’ve just never been able to really hit one. Well, I think it’s a great I think they’re a great company. I just never have been able to hit one. Well, Dave Brzowski, what do you say? Says, “Hi, McGolf Nuts.” Hey, what do you say, buddy? Lawrence, I was plus five on nine, but haven’t played in a month. I’ll take that. I drive 263 with the old Callaway Rogue LS surprise me. I’ve been ming the mini burner. There you go. There. There’s what we were just talking about right there. He’s carrying one uh and likes it. I think it’s funny that he’s he’s carrying the Rogue LS. So that so they’re you know it’s all what works, man. All what works. Robin saying hello. Henry saying hello back. Nice drive, Lawrence. I would say that’s an awesome drive to be honest. There we go. Hi Dave. Dave is saying hi back. Thanks Charles. Here we go. Sonic, I just got my first set of blades. Hogan Apex Twos from 79. Talk about some butternut, man. What should I notice using blades as opposed to standard irons like the Edge irons or even my Epic Pros? Well, number one, Sonic, it’s going to be a different feel. All right. If you have truly a set of Apexes that have not been reshafted, they’ll have the Hogan red label shafts and it’ll either have a three or four or I even believe a five. If it has a five, it is a very it’s an Xflex shaft and they’re heavy. If it is a four, it is a stiff and they’re still heavy. And if it’s a three, it’s a regular. And guess what? They’re still heavy. Uh that’s just the way they were made, right? That’s back in the day. Uh the other part is that the balls will or the ball will not fly anywhere near what those standard irons like the edges, the edge or the epic iron is going. The epic’s going to win them all. Right. But the uh even the edge irons, which was a different different generation, a different evolution, will be slightly stronger. So, you’ll probably not hit them as far. Now, they are really good looking in the bag. I will say that everybody loves a blade. That’s the reason why these hollow bodies are so so so uh desired because they got a cool look to them. The other part is that you’ll find out that the center of gravity in these apex blades is not in the middle. Is not in the middle because it has that big it has the big hoszle, right? It’s a bigger, longer hoszle. And it may or may not be pinned, but uh but the bigger hoszle. So what it does is in the center of gravity being here, it’ll be more towards the heel. So be okay with a be okay with a heel strike for it to go for go longer. Now, to prove that point, if you go to the um Golf Hall of Fame, which is now in Pinehurst, if they’re still showing the lockers like they did when it was in Florida, if you go to the older clubs, you will find out they had wear marks that were much closer towards the heel because that was the best place to hit it. And uh so there’s some fun, but have some fun with it, man. There’s Teresa. What do you say, cuz? How you doing, kiddo? Rob saying hello. We have McFly in the house saying hello to Mr. and Mrs. Mcd saying hello back. There we go. Forestall. That’s an old carrier. Sure. It is decommissioned now. Oh, for sure. I mean, this guy was flying on it out. Well, we all know the if you don’t know the history of the Forestall, the Forestall caught on fire and it was a metal fire. Metal fires are virtually impossible to put out. And and basically their catastrophe set the standard and the model for how the Navy and a lot of nuclear and nuclear practices, how they respond to emergencies and fires and whatnot. It was the it was basically the flagship, as much as I hate to say that, of how to not do it and how we recovered to do it correctly. And they rebuilt the thing. And I would imagine he probably got on it from there because he didn’t appear to be that old. There we go. Great game, uh, Charles. Great game week. Oh, and no doubt he was all over it saying thank you. Oh, we got somebody that knows what’s going on. Star. Oh, dude. I’m I will. Michael, I will I’m gonna murder that freaking name. Staroots. No, I’m not even going to do it. I give. All right. Where’s Michael Michael Star? Yeah, the uh USS Saratoga. That was the other one he was talking about. Uh Independence. And then the Saratoga. That was the other one. He didn’t say the Ranger. Yeah, but those were Man, you want to talk about some ancient history right there. And he’s saying hello. Oh, and by the way, thanks for joining us, man. That’s a new name for us right here. Phil K. Hey, a little getting in a little bit a little late, but that’s okay. Hey, no problem. Oh, he’s saying aloha. We know where he’s from and now we know why he knows about it cuz he’s a Navy guy or at least worked in the yard. And with that last name, I’m going to go he’s a Navy guy or was a Navy guy. Congrats, man. That was the one place I always wanted to go and just never the duty bullets could never show up for us. No, not to go live there. Well, we could go visit maybe. Hello, Mark. Oh, Marknat. How you doing, Mark? I just went right by you. Sorry. Hi, all from Austin. A little late getting on. The afternoon naps are wonderful. Well, good to Hey, so did you get your did the temperatures ever come down so you could get out and do some good work? Uh, do you know any great fitters in Northern Virginia? Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia. Yeah, there was a guy in Richmond, Virginia that I met once. He seemed to be a pretty good fellow. Life of me, I cannot remember his name. He was just getting started. I’ve been doing it for about half my life at this point. And he was just starting to get he was getting started, but he had the right attitude to learn and do good things. Uh, wish I could remember him. And then if you’re talking, you’re in the Maryland area in the northern area. Maryland. The next set of folks would have to be either in Delaware or or uh was it New Hampshire? Oh, that’s right. Uh Matt Graboi. He’s probably goes by uh the club doctor. He’s in DC. Uh you can try him out. I’ve known Matt for a while. Uh his dad taught him and actually uh you know gave me a handful of pointers. Good guys. They’re actually from uh uh Atlanta, Georgia, or at least they were. He has since moved up. He got married and moved. It’s kind of funny that I know all this, but I couldn’t remember his name. Uh, got married and his wife works in DC and he started a a business in DC. I would look up the club doctor in DC. His name’s Matt Graboi. G R O W A B Y I think. Okay. And if you do find him and tell him I sent sent him I sent you. You’ll go, “What?” Yeah, it’s pretty fun. All righty. Uh, Charlie, and those rounds were played with my custom McGolf craft that Mrs. McGolf gripped, right? That’s what we got to throw that in there. Alrighty. Did you hear lab was purchased by a private equity firm? It was No, I did not know that. Well, look at them go. Well, that’s what happens when you get popular. They get bought out. Now, we’ll see the private equity firm. We’ll see what happens next. Mark wants to know, did I see that Excalibur is going out of business and they’re discounting there? Yeah. Uh, yes, Mark, I did see that. I’ve known Robin Arthur for well over a decade now. Um, and I do have I had experience with his previous labelings when they called them uh model fives and sevens and threes and that kind of stuff. He changed them over to uh gave them really cool paint jobs and called called them something else. Um, what I had the most success with, uh, in using them were the what they called super lights. And he had super light irons, and they were irons that were extraordinarily light, and they were absolutely stable. Massively, massively stable. I don’t know if he makes those anymore, but they translated into a driver shaft that was actually pretty good, too. The other one that I liked was the equivalent to a model 5. And what it was, it was a very butt soft, very butt soft shaft. And that was for people that I used it quite a bit. It was like a instead of a 60 g, it was a 50 g shaft. And it was butt soft. And it allowed the whole club to come back around for those people that had problems squaring up the the club. And it was kind of an anti-slice thing. And and it was very very cool. Now, he had a counterbalanced one as well, but I don’t remember the name of it. I just don’t. Uh, the other part is he had SKS that were fairway wood shafts. Uh, if you if you find one that you like like that, go to the driver with it because they will match perfectly, right? He was brilliant at that kind of stuff. Charlie’s awesome rounds. Bet you were smiling all the way home. I guarantee you he was. There we go. It’s been brutal here in uh St. Louis for the past month here too, man. Uh and it was I mean even we took off on this thing. It was we had an argument whether it was 93 or 92 or 91. So the fact that we were arguing in the ‘9s is just not is pathetic. So saying thank you. Yes, I had to call my sons to tell them. Absolutely. Absolutely. Here we go. Hi all the Golf of Fishing. Hope General Ron keeping well rested, fed and watered. Yeah, after this last weekend of fig finding all those distilleries and water was a a mustave, bud. Chad and Shondell Anderson, the my irons are with you now. Okay, very cool. Are those the We just opened a box today that they are PXGs and we’re put we’re reshafting them with a with a different type of fereral. We were just talking about that. In order to use that fereral, I’ve got to go order some of the other regular fererals and cut the shoulder off and put them in the place so that they don’t wobble and then put that other feral on top. I’ve done it several times. In fact, there’s a video on it and as soon as Mrs. McGoff gets around, I’ll know which one it is. Oh, here we go. I think it’s cute how the rest of the company complains about temps in the 90s man up and play around here in Arizona in August at 115 and 118. The the answer to that Efron would be no. When it gets out there and your clubs want to boil apart because of the damn heat, that’s that cooking egg on the freaking sidewalk stuff in Arizona. Holy cow. Chad Anderson. He says our his clubs are here. Is that the PXGS that we were talking about? Oh, yeah. Chad. Yeah. So, hey, I guessed right. So, Efron, the uh guy in uh the guy that started new level, buddy of mine started new level, he was out there and he showed me a uh his temperature on his car was 120 at one time. I was just like, “Good god, man. How do you even do that?” And if you tell me it’s a dry heat, I don’t care. 120 still 120 but uh man oh man. Yeah, that’s one of those things you have to get used to right there. 101 with 8 118. Gee, many Christmas fellas. That’s normally the dry heat quite a bit different than the humid heat, dude. 118 is still 118. I don’t care how you slice that. I hate to see our buddy that’s in Tennessee have Could you imagine be without air conditioning in that? That would be lethal. Stephen, if you can find a fan that has a water mister attached and you are not in a high humid area, probably cool down your bedroom. Not too many dollars. See, I was kind of talking about that with the ice cubes. Yes, the lab golf putter company is recently acquired by L. Catateron Caterton a private equity firm backed by I don’t know who who LVMH is but okay link Timcoat I don’t know 200 million equally wow well if I’m the owner of the guy if I’m that guy that owns it and they’re handing me 200 million to do and say here’s Lab golf I’d like yeah see you I’m out of here and uh I could live I could live off of that for a Oh, I’ve actually tried the ice trick. Doesn’t work like I remember from when it did when I was a kid. Okay. 115 August in Arizona, but it’s a dry heat. Yeah, here we go. We’ve heard all that one. Awesome shot. He’s saying thank you. John says, “Stephen, turn your fan on slow if you want the air to contact you with as long as possible. It still cools mine that way. I fixed many ice makers with them.” There you go. What you thought of KZG clothes? You talked to Jennifer and she wants me to start selling for them again. Customer service isn’t her strong suit. Yeah. Uh, well, I can tell you this. I do like I do I do like the designs from KZG. Are there anything that because uh Clay um his last name is Clay uh was a a designer that helped design those golf clubs. It just wasn’t some house brand. And they were very there I mean there were some there was a couple of them that were very nice. There’s some that were not like anything else. And the one thing I thought was unique that when they did it is they had a uh a cast version and an identical forged version. And we used to hand them off and say which one’s cast and which one’s forged. And it was about a 50/50 split and they could do it. Now their drivers their drivers were I was going to say were were average. Now again it’s been it’s been over a generation easily. It’s been over a generation and uh you know and that was and what happened was Jennifer was uh using guys like me and the club makers to uh get the name out and as soon as they felt the name was out we were we were put on the we were put on hold or put on notice that we had to sell more something like that. And I’m like, “Yeah, you you got some serious backbone there to be telling people they got to sell more of your stuff if you want to keep carrying them.” And the response was overwhelming of come get your stuff. And uh so I’m not sure. I’ve just lost touch with them. Uh but that was what it was. So uh they tried calling us a couple of times way way way back when and we just told them we weren’t interested in that anymore. So, uh, you’re you’re doing a good enough you’re doing a big enough bangup job out there, Ephine, I would, uh, honestly, if I was you, the way that you’re working it right now is I would approach the folks like we did and try and get some OEM components and see how that works. Uh, because I don’t recall them being any less expensive. So, if you’re, you know, go with something that’s got a name that’s that people will recognize. That’s really what I would look at. It’s a bis. It’s a becomes a business proposition. The Cerakote. That’s what I was looking for. DLC or Cerakote. That’s it. There’s the other company. Liquid Golf Designs can refinish any of the clubs. Jim at Iron Works retired. Ah, okay. There we go. That’s the one. That is the one right there. Okay. Anybody buy the Odyssey yet? You know, I think that would be very cool as an heirloom, but as far as putters go, they got to make a lefty version first before I’ll buy it. Yeah, we were just talking about that, Efron. There’s guys talking about being sold. I wonder how that’s going to affect everything. Heard rumblings about Opus SP wedges replacing the current ones. Looks like I will be sending you some new wedges to build. We’ll be ready, man. We will be ready. Now, see, you’re the one that normally tells me about these things, about these new wedge stuff. So, I’m kind of glad we got out there just before you. Looking for a good graphite shaft wedge shaft for my a wedge 95 to 105. I like softer tips as I play a lot of quarter swing suggestions. Graphite wedge shafts. Well, honestly, John, since you’re you are actually in uh since you’re in Canada, go over to Kingston or call the folks in Kingston and get yourself an Ieries 95 g wedge shaft. This is specific wedge shaft. Exactly what you’re asking for right there. And if you wanted to go crazy with it, you could get it painted in your own colors. Pardon me. You get it painted in your own colors and they’ll show you the different ones. Uh but I would, you know, again, in Canada, you won’t, all you have to do is pay for the shipping and uh as opposed to tariffs or any of that other stuff and and go from there. But that one comes to mind directly as far as graphite, lightweight, softer. that would be a way to go. Now, the only other one that comes to mind and I’d have to check on the weight though. Uh I think Catalyst makes one and that’s their upper end. And again, we’re trying to stay soft tip because I know Recoil makes one, but it’s not that way. Uh trying to think if anybody else out there would have one. So either the catalyst shaft and you have to make sure the highest I’ve ever seen them make one was 85 but the Acra Ieries and again in fact they’re in Kingston you might you might get a hookup for being in the same country. There’s Dan. Hello John Efine. Wh I missed him. You know Eric from O Yeah. Yeah. I do. I’ve known Eric for I’ve known Eric when he was living in Illinois. Efron, the guy’s always The guy is always just he’s he’s like a golf nerd and uh and learned how he learned how to metal lathe on his own. The guy’s pretty smart and he’s a stick. Uh I bet he plays to a I bet he plays to a one or a zero. Uh that’s just that’s where I’m at with him. Yeah, but good guy. Yep. In fact, we’ve got us he made he said when he made a set of left he knew that I was sticking with him, but he he promised me that he would make a set of left-handed irons and he did. And the re the he didn’t make them for me. He made them for his dad. His dad’s left-handed. And we got the second set. And uh I’ve had a hard time, you know, I’m trying to wait for this left-handed a left-handed high schooler to show up and then I probably sell them to him. Looking at putting a ping fivewood in the bag. Do you feel that the 440 is worth the extra money over the 430? Uh I have to think about that one. in talking with I actually got to talk with the ping rep that is from Nebraska and we went in detail uh the differences in those clubs and it appears that the 440 is a design leap meaning that they added enough stuff to make it worthy to make the jump. Uh and I’ve not seen one. I’ve not hit one but based on what I Well, that’s a lie. I did see one. I saw one at the PGA show. I have not hit one. And based on that, I would say yes. All righty. Look at that. You sure you didn’t jump anything? I’m pretty sure. Did you? Oh, wait. Here’s one. I missed one. We How did I jump all these guys? What did you do? I should just You did, man. I missed. Okay. How did I get to the bottom? I did not. All right, I got to go to the top here. Let’s start with thumbs up, man. All the Jesus. All right. Uh All right. So, John says, “Tend agree on customer service. It’s a It’s a go. It’s good goaround.” Yeah. Okay, we got that one. Consistent from one batch to the next. That’s one thing good about Elijah Craig. Yeah, that they are. It is that you just got to let them breathe a little bit. I do have regular shafts. Uh I do have regular shafts. Marine also tried uh also retired LA cop. Oh my gosh. Well, you got you dude, you’ve got my sympathies or no, you’ve got my respect. Let’s put it that way. Let’s go with that one. So, if you like that and they feel a little floppy to you, don’t be afraid to go lightweight stiff. All right. If you’re not getting the thing up in the air, then go the other way. How about that? RSG. Hello. Jim and Rob was talking with a club fitter and he said he said he went the no pay for fitting route. Said he could fit you into a better driver or you get a sleeve of balls. And he said his sales are up. Well, it would depend on how the person is fitting. If they’re fitting out of a golf cart or off of a fitting cart, I could see that being a thing. Uh, but uh here that’s not that’s I’m sure people would come for a free fitting. Uh but unfortunately RS that’s my uh he’s literally giving away he’s giving away his services and after doing this for so long when we do this for three three and 1/2 hours for a fitting uh that’s not going to be for free and this is the way it is and and not only am I not doing fitting or I’m doing fittings but we’re also doing swing analysis and things like that. So mine goes a little bit above and beyond the normal what would be the normal fitting, but if it’s working for him, hey, have at it. So it sounds like what he’s doing is he’s he’s pumping out a lot of stuff that he’s ordering and that’s where he goes from there. But if it works for him and that’s his model, then very cool. The only I only see two thumbs up and 40’s watching. Yeah, hit that thumbs up, guys and gals. And again, now that you brought it up, go to my other channel, too, and watch that other video I put out. Pars and pores. We need to get you away from Callaway. Just saying. Maybe. So, Efron, maybe. So, uh I’ve always been able to hit those. Well, the the Apex has been a really good club for me and and almost all the models. I don’t know what it is about that thing. The the standard stuff like the Elites and all that. Yeah, I can hit them, but I just tend to hit these better. I think it’s the longer blade length, to be honest with you. Uh, up until now, the driver was the thing, but uh, it’s just me. I’ve got to get my turn back better and we go from there. Thank you, Charlie. I see 27. Refresh. Now I see 26. Not in our not in our Hello. Oh, not in our part of the country. Yep. Wonder why you only see two. sometimes X out and come back. Ah, he said he was getting more people and started selling more clubs. Well, good for him. Depends on where your shop is, I would imagine. If I fly to Columbus this Friday from Fort Worth and we’ll be driving a car I be driving a car I have up there Saturday morning, would you be able to stop by and say hello? Very cool. That would be nice. Stop by. What size is the KBS Pro Ultralight in regular and how many grams? Uh, Pro Ultralight? I don’t know. We’d have to look that one up ourselves. Robin’s looking it up even as we speak. So, we’ll let you know here in a moment because you’re too nosy not to. Nick Mazuno. Nick Brunyard. Hi, I have a tensi red AB shaft for irons that need to be uh do tensai red shafts for irons need to be tip trim for Tylus 350? Uh that’s a good question. So, a couple of things, Nick. Uh, if you’re buying them standard and you’re buying them and they are a 355 tip, my first inclination is no. If you’re buying them and they’re 370 tip and they’re all the same length, like a 41 in, the answer would be yes. And then the other part is is you got to wonder whether or not the Titus 350 is a 370 or a 355 shaft. I’ve got the feeling that it’s probably a 370 and it would need to and if they’re again if they’re all the same shaft then yes you would have to trim them. Standard industry practice is about a half an inch per club starting with about a half of an inch at the four iron. That’s great. I’m not sure if Jim will have fittings or not given the date. Two people. Okay. Yeah. Stop by and say hi. We can always stop for a moment. Huh? For what? That KBS tour that we just asked. Okay. What was the weight? 95. Oh, 95 grams for the ultral light. And it comes in a taper tip. Yeah. Parallel is 105, but it’s RS. Oh, so parallel is 105. But it sounds like you’re going to be uh tipping a lot of tip section and maybe a lot of butt section cuz it’s a combo flex and R or S. There you go. One of my Navy buddies served on the Ranger. There you go. Tour light. Yeah, the tour light. Yeah. So, what we found was if it’s a tapered tip, it’s 95 gram. If it’s a 370 tip, it’s 105, but it’s an RS combo. And that’s the re. So there’s an extra tip section on the the tour lights in the in the parallel tip in order so that you can trim up to a a stiff shaft. I think the independence was in that class as well. I’m going with what he served on and they were all old. Michael 20 years of fast attacks, long retired. Ooh, me too, bud. And so, same thing with Charlie, except for I didn’t retire. Uh, West Coast and West Coast in the shipyard and east coast on the doing the ops. Very cool. Well, if you’ve been long retired, you’re probably Were you in sturgeon class? Ah, that last one was better. See, there we go. Me as well. There we go. One par shooter. Here we go. Some more stuff. Jim and Robin just sitting outside with Miss Miss Pat Shooter. Pat Shooter up here in upper state New York. The temperature is overnighting and we have the fans blasting. Good for you. Upper State. There you go. I live we did upper state there in Boston Spa and uh for a few months and I got to experience the winters up there. Man oh man. Sturgeon class boats. Look, we’re on the same path here, Charlie. The Narwhal. Yeah, the Narwhal. The guy on my boat was off the Narwhal. And uh is that the one that was all turban? I think that was the one that was all turban boat 56. Looking at the set, any improvements the over the old 560s that you know about? So, the uh over the the 565s um just a hair bigger, right? Just a hair bigger. And the soles were a little bit more convex. I’m going to go with convex. Uh a little bit more that. And uh and quite possibly just a hair stronger, but not a not a great departure. No. USS Gennard 68 and the drum. I know this drum. Look at you guys go. I’ll throw mine in there. The whale, the 638, the narwhal experimental scoop cooling boat. There you go. Yeah. Do you have any golf repair shops to recommend in gig in south? Oh, in Seattle to reshaft my clubs from 7.0 hard step to regulars. Holy cow. Uh, there used to be a guy up there that I knew. His name was Eddie Smith. He deals a lot with um Mazuno stuff. I don’t know if he’s still doing repairs. He had a bit of a health scare and I don’t know if he left that or not. There was a guy in California that I knew and he’s probably not doing it anymore either. I’m trying to think if there’s another fella in in the Washington State area. Remember in Washington state? No, I told him. Yeah. Unfortunately, the uh what is that? Finish the wedge when you’re done. I’ll go upstairs. What do you mean finish the wedge when I’m done? The uh I’m really trying to think. Eddie Smith is the one that comes to mind. I knew he was good. I just don’t know who else is over there anymore. I’m trying to go through my head. There might have been a guy in Was there a guy in Breton or Tacoma? Probably a guy in Tacoma, but for the life of me, I can’t remember his name. Uh, but those are the ones that I know right off the top of my head. R.J. saying, “Thanks, Henry. have been fitted for Shrixon i4 and the and the Cobra Dark Speed. The Shrixons have the KBS graphite 60 PGIs. They have the 75 already. Any difference in the 60 to 75 graphite? Uh that’s kind of different. I would have thought it would have been the other way around. So, personally, I if you’re looking at Henry, if you’re looking at an opinion, I like the Shrix on eyes because it’s a forged product. I don’t know a lot about the Cobra Dark Speed. I have a feeling that it is not forged, but it is very strong, much like the i4 is. That to say that’s not uh but the the Shrixon has a very wide sole in the bottom. The Dark Speed may not. The KBS PGIs are one of my favorite allaround just decent good shafts. Okay. And the 75s and the 60s, the difference between them, the profiles are virtually the same. They’re just going to the 60 is going to be softer. Okay, the 60 is going to be softer. They do, if you notice, they don’t do a lot of flexing. And so the the flex on the 60 is going to be softer. Okay. And it’s kind of funny that you’re that one worked for the other one, the other one did not. Oh, and it probably why is Cobra is notorious for having a short insertion depth in in their hoszles. And when you do that, you need something a little bit more stout for it to stay stable. That would be a pure guess, but this is going based on history. Uh, most go about an inch and a quarter. They like going short and with the idea that it gives you a little bit more of that and so they can go a little heavier and get the same result. Uh, and if that truly is the case, then I would certainly go with the Shrix on just from a breakage point of view. Make sure that’s not a blood clot. Yeah, we talked about that. And he’s been bad. They She’s had it checked on it and she should be all right. It happened to you. All right. Well, maybe she I imagine she’s going to go upstairs and check her right now. Sorry, Miss Juice. Says Rumfield’s going to have it checked again. Pain doesn’t go away. Hello. Hello. R. Played in New Mexico. August University of Mexico course 1995. No thermometer in view. Uh oh. View away from Albuquerque City. Guess it was about 110 based on my experience playing golf in America and Samoa. Holy cow. Woo. Wow. All right. Now we’re back to it. Got I can’t believe I missed all that stuff before. Sorry, guys. We did all that one and we did that one and now we’re going down here. How did I get to the bottom one sip at a time? By God. You know, that’s how they uh uh you know, you can’t start drink. You can’t drink all day unless you get started in the morning, right? That’s just how it works. Uh so the last sip is going to be right here when we get down to the end. I met Eric when he developed Club Connects. Oh yeah. Uh when he made the very first one, uh he and I talked quite a bit about failures and what would work and what didn’t. Yeah. We we talked long and hard about that one. Uh and that and he was in Illinois when he did that. The funny part was is that the reason why we had this commonality is that I helped build a metal building in the town in Illinois that he was from. There was it. Yep. PCS days. Thumbs up for more. Okay. So, if the 350 If Now, here we go back. If now you have 350s, the T350s are a 355. So, you’re going to need a 355 tip. In almost every single case, they will come in discrete lengths. So, no, you do not need to tip there. Hopefully, that helped. All right, guys and gals, because thank you to Robin from uh telling me that I missed some stuff. It allowed us to go an extra 15 minutes. Uh so, we got down to the bottom. Again, a couple of things. Again, thank you guys for sending me your stuff. It it it just is absolutely the greatest thing that people from around the United States and actually had one fella from Israel send me something once before uh in order to fix your stuff. I mean, it’s really kind of cool. Each one’s always a challenge. Uh each one’s unique and a build and uh so each one is one at a time. That’s the that’s the coolest part about it. Uh the second thing is if you’re doing the if you’re a person that believes in the hearts and prayers for my friend who lost his wife in a tragic accident, I thank you very much for doing that. And two, if you do me an extremely big favor and go over to pars and pores and check out the Ryder Cup and leave me a note and tell me what you think I could do better because it is just getting started. I don’t have a room open like I have here that I would like to do it with. Uh but we’re we’re getting there and getting started. It’s just a lot of I’m just having fun with it. We’ll just see what happens. And again, guys, uh, as always, I appreciate you guys staying around and asking me the questions. It’s always fun. It keeps my brain working. And, uh, I think what we’re going to do is I have a uh I have a Cleveland wedge I have to test and and maybe we’ll do a boxes to builds on one of these sets of clubs. That would be kind of fun. So, watch us for the rest of the week. And as always, let’s see your scores go low.
