After getting fit at Club Champion a couple of months ago, I didn’t really walk away feeling great about moving forward with the purchase. I felt like there were a couple of issues with that fitting. I felt like the club fitter put me into shafts that seemed a little expensive. I was looking at somewhere near $1700 for the new set, and he fit me into Aerotech SteelFiber shafts, which seemed okay but they were expensive and I generally wasn’t hitting the ball great that day. I just didn’t walk away feeling that impressed.

Then I got an email from a local indoor golf simulator business saying they were doing free Srixon fittings. I thought why not and booked a fitting session. I was playing Srixon Z565 irons and it had been 8 years or so since I bought them. I don’t play enough for the grooves to be worn out or anything, but I also didn’t really get a real fitting when I bought those so I wanted to see if the outcome of this fitting would be similar to the one I did at Club Champion.

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This past weekend, I had the pleasure and privilege of visiting the Bandon Dunes golf resort in Bandon, Oregon. Bandon was at the top of my bucket list, and somewhere I had only heard amazing things about. A friend and I were able to do some research and find that although it is notoriously difficult to book (there is a lottery system), there are times of the year that are less popular and thus much easier to book. Of those times, February is known as the hidden secret. For many reasons, this was the ideal time for us to go.

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After recently joining the push cart mafia (check reddit for reference), I saw something a couple of other golfers on the course were using: a motorized push cart. When I asked them about it, I found out they actually weren’t using a motorized push cart, but they were using an after-market attachment that motorizes an existing push cart. Being that the prices of a dedicated push cart seemed crazy (easily $1200+), and not really wanting to take up more garage space for another push cart, I decided to look into it.

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I recently switched my old driver out to the new Mizuno ST-230 Max and while I will talk about this new driver, it also made me wonder how much do new clubs even matter? My previous club is 5 years old now, which is a Cobra SpeedZone Extreme. I actually hit it decently well but I wanted a bit more distance and being that my miss is hitting it low on the club face, something that can still get the ball up in the air in those low misses. I did a bunch of research, watched YouTube videos, and saw that there was so much new terminology being used, but wondered, does this actually matter? I guess the big thing for 2024 was the 10k driver, which means 10,000 of some unit to measure moment of intertia. I also saw that the new Ping driver had this technology, costed over $600, and actually released a club back in 2017 that also had this technology called the G400.

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A few years ago, I sought out an instructor to help me figure out something that was plagueing my golf game: fat shots. I could not for the life of me figure out how to consistently strike the ball without hitting it fat, meaning hitting the ground before the ball. I purposely wanted to find an instructor who did not rely on launch monitors and fancy technology, but someone who had been around the game for a long time and was a career golf instructor, not an aspiring pro who teaches on the side. After much digging and reading reviews, I found my man: Lee Breckenridge. Lee actually taught from an indoor space about 20 minutes from me, so I gave him a call and booked a lesson.

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