Paul Casey recently hit some range shots with an old style persimmon driver. His results were surprising. Improved ball technology is probably the biggest difference today in distance.
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Forgive me in advance if I’m wrong, but I thought handicap used best 8 of 20 scores.
I'm going off memory, but think it's 10, or at least was 20 years ago when I would calculate it for me and my friends before our annual Myrtle Beach golf trip every year. I could be wrong, you should be able to look it up though.
So in other words the PGA is doing exactly what it is I said they should have done from the beginning. It reminds me of what Churchill said about Americans: "The Americans will always do the right thing... after they have exhausted all the alternatives."
Interesting. Maybe you would see a bigger drop w/ the irons. I know When I switched from my 1998 irons to 2017 irons, I saw at least a full club distance change (i.e. hitting a 7 as far as I used to a 6), and I think the ones used in the 70's were much worse than the late 90's.Paul Casey recently hit some range shots with an old style persimmon driver. His results were surprising. Improved ball technology is probably the biggest difference today in distance.
Paul Casey's numbers with a persimmon driver are mind-blowingly good
What happens when you give a tour pro a persimmon driver and modern golf ball to test? The numbers will definitely surprise you.
And that’s probably fools gold, new clubs just lofted different. Old 6 is new 7 loft.
Actually I think I knew that, although I hit them just as high. But heck I hit all my irons high (a "picker", not a "trapper").
The iron lofts now are 4-6 degrees stronger than they were back then.
I love watching those guys win their first PGA tournament.
Actually not terrible when not having hardly any lower body turn through the ball. Did not chicken wing it. Has some release.
It is the best 8. It either used to be 10, or 10 was the number of rounds used to calculate the "trending" number.
Had been playing with Mizuno MP14's for a few years and they are a more traditional loft of 36° for the 7 iron. I now play Mizuno Pro225's and the 7 iron is 30°. One club different.
It’s one club plus two degrees. My7 iron is also 36 and my clubs are four degrees apart making my 6 iron 32 degrees. I took my lofts from the 90’s and now depending on the brand, they vary 4-6 degrees. To each his own but I don’t like all the strong loft stuff. If I have to I will just back down a club. Can’t afford new clubs and don’t want to mess with bending mine.
Friend of mine is a member there. Have played it several times. Fun track. Will likely see some pretty low scores though. He is a +1 player and shoots in the 60's rather often. Field will be rather "meh" though since it coincides with the Wells tournament. Regardless, he/they are really excited about getting the event.
That could be entirely accountable to newer irons having stronger lofts. In other words your 7 is the same loft as your old 6 iron.
Or he could have made the smart decision and have 5x what he just made and be set for life?
I previously mentioned we won't get the event back unless they get a new sponsor
Would he have made that much? He said in an interview that everyone has a number and he was not offered anywhere close to it. He, also, was not eligible for the Masters, no PGA last year, so he would not have been a lock for future majors.
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