Well, here it is 1/28/05 and we now have been buried with 2 feet of snow since last Saturday. The high temperature yesterday here in chilly Western NY was 9 degrees!!!! On the bright side, I am beginning to get the itch to play again.
This weekend there is a golf show and convention in town. I scored a free ticket from a friend this year. I think that I should be able to get my fix by walking around the displays and talking golf with the vendors.
They have a hitting area where you can demo the newest clubs from various manufacturers. Last year I swung the new Mizuno and McGregor irons...both were very nice.
I get a kick out of people that demo clubs, or simply hit balls with their own sticks, at the local driving range. The range is full of "golfers" with grotesque swings and horrible stances swinging so hard that their shoes come untied. It seems that everyone wants to try the latest, greatest driver right out of the box. Nobody seems to realize that the driver is the hardest club to hit, period, yet they insist on grabbing the closest 550 cc , stiff shafted monster they can find and swatting balls in a gracefully high arcing slice into oblivion. They get angry when they cannot hit it straight, or get it into the air for that matter. They complain that that they don't like the club and grab another turbo-charged behemoth. Whack, slice, bitch, switch. Repeat.
Has anyone EVER seen a pro grab for the driver first at the range? I don't think so. Especially in the middle of the winter in Western NY. You must begin with a wedge or at the most a 7 iron to get some sort of groove working and work you way up to the driver. Then make some smooth swings with the driver without trying to hit it through wall or fence at the other end of the range.
My rant is over...Where is my driver? I have to go hit some balls.
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