lagpressure wrote:[quote Then if you get the standard... "but you're too tall for that"
you can reply, "well I just utilize my height to my advantage by flexing my knees a lot through impact, creating a lot more vertical ground pressures than most could handle... that's why they are going 6 down.. should I be back in about an hour? or pick them up on my way to work tomorrow?
Brilliant! Nothing better than the ruth hey. I'm going to use that line because I reckon they will be so bamboozled that they will just shut up and do what I ask.
I wasn't happy with the 3deg flat I had the Hogans bent to the other day so I rang around and found another clubfitter. I strengthened lofts and 5deg flat, he did comment about how flat they were once he had done the work but for the most part he was cool with it.
I talked to him a bit whilst he was working on them and it turns out that he loves tinkering with old gear and from time to time he re-finishes and re-whips persimmons for himself and is happy to for me to take mine to him. He also couldn't say enough about how good the old Hogans were and he actually told me (without any prompting from me) that blades are real clubs and there is no real difference in the design and maufacture of old blades and new blades. He actually said, "why would anyone spend $1000 on Mizunos when for $300 they can re-shaft and re-grip clubs like these Hogan's which will perform as good and if not better. Mind you he sells brand new Mizuno's and Titleists too, so it was refreshing to find someone tha hasn't been corrupted by the OEM's and the almight dollar. I was actually talking to him about titanium dirvers and he was saying that he he buys older small headed Titleists for himself as he can't hit the big ones....here is a pro with access to the latest and greatest and when he plays he does so with some old gear.
Needless to say that he is going to see a lot of business from me fron here on out. Not only that, he was more than happy chatting away and I reckon that I can go and see him on any day when he is not busy and even without me buying anything he would be happy to chat for hours about this stuff.
By the way, the lofts and lies that the first club fitter were supposed to have bent the to the other day were so far off what they should have been it's not funny. He printed out the specs for me and some differed by 1deg whilst other differed by 4.5deg from what they should have been. Now I don't know if there are differences in the way loft and lie machines measure....but even so the differences couldn't have been more random.
I actually emailed Pippolo about this experience earlier today what I said in my email is that finding a good club fitter is like finding a good mechanic, thankfully I have found one.
Anyway I have 9 holes on Friday and 18 holes on Sunday to give these flatter, stronger Hogans a good test run so I'll let you all know how I go.
