Gee Whizz, my Driver is due for replacement, so is my hybrid and my irons are so out of date and obsolete they don't even rate a mention.I think I better rush out and drop a few thousand dollars on a Taylormade R9 Driver, Ping i15 3 wood, Adams hybrids, some Callaway X-22 irons and a set of brand new Cleveland CG 15 wedges.I won't bother demoing any of this stuff because it'll all be obsolete again in less than two years and I'll need to replace it anyway.Wow, never realized that golf technology goes out of date as quick as computers. I know.I have the May issue you are referencing, and it is baloney.Amazing how much clubs devalue, so soon; kind of like a high end Mercedes or BMW.Golf Digest has to satiate their sponsors and sell clubs, but a lot of that was a bunch of crap.I am still buying a new driver after 8-9 years, but I pulled the 8-9 year old blades out of the closet back into my bag.Think about it retards.800 bucks for a new set of irons, or 800 bucks for some lessons from a good teacher?The irony is that article helped me realize I need a new driver, and need to put blades in my bag. Small world.Do you want to play the game or play the retard?

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Get lessons or new clubs?Your choice. I tink the technology curve for drivers maxed out about 6 or 7 years ago. Everything since then is just OEMs trying to re-invent the wheel to take money off of pigeons. Older driver's like Spanks should probably be updated, but anything 460cc is as advanced as it gets. With irons it goes back even further.

Modern lofts came in about mid 90s, and IMO nothing much has changed since then. There are plenty of good players around still using old irons, and plenty more wishing they had kept their old irons.

I can understand wedges needing updating as it's only been the last couple of years that the larger square grooves came in and they made a noticeable difference to performance, same goes for balls. Another thing to take into consideration when thinking of upgrading to something new is that most new stuff these days is made in Chinese sweatshops by low paid trained monkeys, so new can actually mean lower quality than old. I'd bet my botto dollar that the last coule of models of Ping which are made in China would be inferior to their older models made in the USA.

You can still get new irons that are top quality, but they are considerably more than $800 a set. I don't know why DG runs these crap stories, you'd think Tiger and the Masters would be enough material for them. Older driver's like Spanks should probably be updated, but anything 460cc is as advanced as it gets.I hit my 2007 model driver, the HiBore XL Tour 9.5., and I think to myself how does it get better than this? Maybe there's a newer clubhead that will let you catch the fairway.007% more often when you hit a sweetspot that is.007% larger, but if I wanted a larger sweetspot I wouldn't be playing a 'tour' model head to begin with.Mostly the question is, 'is this the right shaft for me?' I tried a few and settled on this one, and it works if I don't swing it like a spazz.Really, if you test your drivers and get their numbers and hit them well, they don't get worse over the years. They just break. A coworker borrowed my trusty old Taylormade Tour Burner a few years ago and brought it back in pieces, which is how I ended up with this driver.My next driver will have slightly less shaft stiffness and perhaps slightly more loft, to compensate for my rapidly aging body.

But I'm not ready to leave this one just yet. Hey, My Callaway BB OS Cavity backs with graphite shafts are STILL 'in,' not on that list, but very very popular among smart golfers.There has been significant progress in drivers- my old R-7 is not nearly as long as my 3-year old Cobra, which cost $100 on eBay. But I won't change again, I know more distance if I get it, will come from a bigger shoulder turn and more lead differential between my hips and my shoulders. That will come when I get a little younger!LarryLOL - you're onto it Larry.This article is an insult to the intelligence of any experienced golfer. Did anybody watch any of the video clips where they actually accost players on the course, check their bags and then lay an obsolete towel over their equipment if it doesn't contain the latest clubs from the GD Hot List.

I would have told the guy where to get off, or clocked him in the nose! Callaway always receives their gold award in every equipment review. I've demoed the X-18, X-20 and X-22 and don't see how a group of people could come to a consensus that these are the best irons out there. They feel horrible and fly high and straight. Callaway may not be paying them off but I bet they throw in a bunch of free equipment at these testing sites.A guy I play golf with had a set of Ping Eye 2's but recently 'upgraded' to a set of Callaway X-22's.

I asked him what he had done with the Eye 2's and he said they were at home in his garage. I was tempted to ask him for a loan of the Eye 2's!

Callaway always receives their gold award in every equipment review. I've demoed the X-18, X-20 and X-22 and don't see how a group of people could come to a consensus that these are the best irons out there. They feel horrible and fly high and straight. Callaway may not be paying them off but I bet they throw in a bunch of free equipment at these testing sites.I wouldn't be at all surpirsed to see some of the testers playing with a bagfull of shiny new Cally clubs just after the list came out. I've noticed that Cally usually wins all 3 iron categories, including the players irons category.

Funny how I never see any of their crapmin the bags of players in top flight amatuer tourneys. You see more Ping irons than Cally. Titty is probably the most represented clubs in those events, just shading Mizuno. I wouldn't be at all surpirsed to see some of the testers playing with a bagfull of shiny new Cally clubs just after the list came out.

I've noticed that Cally usually wins all 3 iron categories, including the players irons category. Funny how I never see any of their crapmin the bags of players in top flight amatuer tourneys. You see more Ping irons than Cally. Titty is probably the most represented clubs in those events, just shading Mizuno.I don't know why, but Mizuno just doesn't seem to do a lot of promotion in our part of the world. There are 'demo days' quite often around the OKC area, especially this time of the year, but it always the same old OEMS - Callaway, Taylormade, PING and Titleist.

I haven't been to many of these events because they are always too crowded and I don't like fighting the crowds to get the rep's attention, but I have never seen a Mizuno rep at any of them.I really think Mizuno does bigger business in other countries. I could be wrong though, but it just seems peculiar to me that I don't see them do a lot of promotion of their products.

I don't know why, but Mizuno just doesn't seem to do a lot of promotion in our part of the world. There are 'demo days' quite often around the OKC area, especially this time of the year, but it always the same old OEMS - Callaway, Taylormade, PING and Titleist. I haven't been to many of these events because they are always too crowded and I don't like fighting the crowds to get the rep's attention, but I have never seen a Mizuno rep at any of them.I really think Mizuno does bigger business in other countries.

I could be wrong though, but it just seems peculiar to me that I don't see them do a lot of promotion of their products.Golfers come to Mizuno, Mizuno doesn't go to golfers. They obviously only wish to deal with real golfers serious enough about the game to seek them out. They don't want to cheapen their brand by letting any old hacker hit them at a demo day. That article is an obvious shill to their advertisers, so they can waste even more pages in the magazine with profitable advertising, while leaving less and less reason for us consumers to be interested in subscribing.I canceled my subscription to GD five years ago and haven't even missed it, except for extended sessions on the throne.It's like a security blanket in case you run out of TP.FONMy cupboard space in the throneroom filled up years ago so I just read outdated stuff over and over. Maybe explains my outdated opinions.

My cupboard space in the throneroom filled up years ago so I just read outdated stuff over and over. Maybe explains my outdated opinions.DittoIt's great re reading old stuff that you have forgotten.

Honestly I have forgotten more about the golf swing than I currently know. Some old mags I bought years ago when I was just getting into the game had some great tips that helped me out. Now I pick up modern mags and they just seem to be full of BS. I think twats like Peltz, Harmen & Haney run out of standard tips and just start making shite up which is 99% bollocks and utterly useless to the average golfer. DittoIt's great re reading old stuff that you have forgotten. Honestly I have forgotten more about the golf swing than I currently know. Some old mags I bought years ago when I was just getting into the game had some great tips that helped me out.

Now I pick up modern mags and they just seem to be full of BS. I think twats like Peltz, Harmen & Haney run out of standard tips and just start making shite up which is 99% bollocks and utterly useless to the average golfer.All the best instruction articles I've ever read is in the older mags, back when real golf pros who could cut it on tour would give tips, not the never was leeches like Maron and Haney you get these days. Divan e shams e tabrizi pdf files. I used to like the vibe of the mags better back then too. They used ot more interviews and rviews of equipment.

Now you get the BS hot list once a year. I get Golf Week, which is more of an industry mag.

I think I get it because I'm in the Par Club for the Evan's Scholars and the subscription is free. They don't even bother with instruction, just a really detailed look at the previous week's golf on every level (junior, amateurs, college, Euro, pro).The biggest problem with the Golf Digests and Golf Magazines of the world is that they are trying to sell quick fixes with regards to their instruction. Each instructional article is half a page long.

They are selling quick tips instead of substance. Stuff you can read quickly that won't confuse you. I'm not suggesting a Pingman level of confusion, but Golf Digest should at least know that some of their audience can handle more than dumbed down tips. I wouldn't be at all surpirsed to see some of the testers playing with a bagfull of shiny new Cally clubs just after the list came out. I've noticed that Cally usually wins all 3 iron categories, including the players irons category. Funny how I never see any of their crapmin the bags of players in top flight amatuer tourneys.

You see more Ping irons than Cally. Titty is probably the most represented clubs in those events, just shading Mizuno.I've played in some of the amateur events in Long Beach, CA and it is amazing to see how many of these players play with Titleist clubs.

This was especially true several years ago when the Titleist 962 was so popular. I remember seeing that iron in so many bags. Same with the 975D. Titleist has come a long way in the last 15 years. Prior to the 962 and 975D they were rarely thought of as a brand for irons and drivers. Titleist surged while Ping came out with a bunch of ugly looking clubs.

The Zing was a huge failure.