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Iv'e just read your woeful tale, TG. Well told, and hilarious!

Nice simondo, technology does move on quickly. I can't believe how much further my woods hit the ball than my old set which were just 5 years old. Thought it was all marketing mumble jumble, get them fitted correctly and it is amazing.

My irons were second hand when I bought them over 10 years ago and my wedges must be 15 years old. I should really update them, but I love my wedges, especially my 56, but the irons should be upgraded I guess.

Putter is only a couple of years old, loved my old one but really started to struggle with it, changed the grip, tried lots of stuff. Eventually got it checked out and it had de-lofted. That may sound strange to some how a putter can de-loft? A putter face has around 3 degrees of loft, gets the ball rolling, mine had gone to zero (may have accidentally over the years abused it a few too many times - I never miss, either the hole was in the wrong place, green was poor or had an anti-gravitational field moving the ball the wrong way, or the putter was playing up )

The most important club to get right is the putter, it is your most used club. I see too many people putting with the wrong type of putter. Depending on your putting style you should use a bladed putter (i.e. Tiger, Phil) for open-square-closed technique or mallet style (Scott, Hoopie ) for people trying to keep club head square.

You can always use that to your benefit as well. If you slice the ball tee it up on the higher bit of the tee and if you are a hooker (we all need a few extra £££ ) tee it on the lower part.

I do hate none flat teeing areas, sloppy greenkeeping in my book.

Agree on the putter, played at Worsley Marriott today, I think of myself as a strong putter, these greens were enormous and very American, struggled like mad reading them and on 7 holes went from birdy putt to bogey, I stopped the hinge and hold around the green today and kept it to longer distance, chipping was decent on tough greens. I have an Odyssey chipper being delivered tomorrow to try out, not sure if I can afford it to be one of fourteen but we shall see

Crossover was great again today as well, ordering the 3 iron version tomorrow, to me a very easy club to git long and straight and have the ability to work the sho, worth a look at this club

Lessons booked with the Director of Golf at my club. First he's going to assess my game by watching me play half a dozen holes. Then he's going to write up a plan for me and get some lessons sorted. Quite excited by it!

Don't waste a club on that. Chip with your PW, 9i and 8i around the green, unless in the shaggy stuff and you need a more lofted wedge.

The only time a chipper would be useful is when you are up against the collar. How often does that happen? If it does you could always use a wedge and blade it, if not comfortable with that use a rescue (I am rubbish at that, but many including pros do it) or use a steeper putting action and bounce the ball along. All of which you can try out at any decent short range area.

Entirely agree, Hoopie. I like a hybrid for chip shots when the lie is very close, but the ground is a bit too rough for using a putter.

14 clubs is a very random number, a Brit and an American played a match, the Brit turned up with 13 clubs and the American 15, so 14 was the allocated number allowed.

What is in your bag?

- Driver (TM M2)
- 3W (TM M2)
- Rescue (TM M2 - 3i equiv)
- 4-PW (Mizuno MP57)
- 52, 56, 60 wedges (Nike)
- Putter (Odyssey)

- golf ball TM Tour Preferred X (much prefer it to ProV1 round the greens, don't like the sound of them)

I just can't control the distance with the hybrid, I go right down the shaft but it just pings off at all sorts of random speeds and angles, clearly doing something wrong as lots of pros do use it.

I've never heard that story, Hoopie - are you pulling our legs? I thought the 14-club rule was to do with caddies getting paid by club manufacturers according to the number of clubs they carried.

Driver - Great Big Bertha 8.5
Strong 3 (13) or Strong 4 (16) wood - Adams Tight Lies
Hybrid 3 (19) - Adams Tight lies
4 to 9 Tommy Armour 845s
PW (48), GW (52), SW (56), LW (60) - choose between GW and LW
Ping Zing 2i putter

I do like Pro VI balls.

I use it like a putter, even with a putting grip, and that seems to help. It's almost like my first putter, which was a hickory shafted one from a junk shop! So lofted, that it might have really been a jigger.

I wasn't there but that is what I have heard. Is it true? I don't know.

Don't think it helped when some guy turned up to a major with 30 odd clubs, he had a full set of left and right handed clubs in case he was up against a tree etc.

Doubt his caddie was too chuffed

Driver
3w
4 crossover
5,6,7,8,9 irons
SW, GW, PW, LW
Chipper
Putter

Chipper I may drop out but depends, if it can save me 3 or 4 shots a hole it may stay, I want the 3 crossover so something has to give

3 or 4 shots a hole and I am getting one

Wow - you'd be round in about 12 if you did that! You'd play even better than Kim Jong-il.

Can you play 18 holes in 12 shots?

You're into Chuck Norris territory there...

- Driver (Callaway X hot)
- 3W (Callaway X hot)
- Hybrid ((Callaway X hot 3 & 4)
- 5-SW (Callaway X hot)
- Putter (Old thing i won about 20 years ago)

Room for 2 more clubs i guess

Ha ha ha

Putter from 20 years ago might be an option to replace as well?