Demo day recap

[DaveE]

Golfsmith's all vendor demo day was this Saturday in Austin. With OEMs lined up the entire length of the driving range it was like watching a herd a alcholics being turned loose in the Jack Daniels distillery.

I was able to try just about everything I had planned to hit. I was actually there to try a few shafts but of course had to try out a few clubs too.

My top 3 driver choices are.

#1 Titleist 905R. This was total surprise since I had never even demoed a Titleist driver before and wouldn't have done it this time if not for the UST rep. I wanted try the Proforce V2 and he had it in a Titleist head. I had no way to measure distance but it was forgiving and solid on every shot. I went to the Titleist tent and tried it again with the YS 6 shaft and found it just as consistent. $399, yikes.

#3 Tour Edge Exotic. With the right shaft I think I could be very happy with this driver. Impact felt great and ball flight was again very consistent. I'd like to try it with the V2 in it. $399, damn

#2 Hi Bore. This is a good driver IMO. Not sure that's any better than what I have tho. The thing that's noticable about it is you have to tee the ball down a bit or it will go very, very high. $399, I'm beginning to see a pattern.

The real discovery of the day was that my now bad back has made me a weiner swinger and I need to switch to R flex shafts. Royal Precision had a tent there and had a 6 iron the same as mine with the Rifle 5.0 in it and it felt great. My S300 days are numbered.

I escaped with little damage only buying some tees so at least I'm handling the addition for now. I can't believe how close I was to trading my Cobra in for that Titleist tho. It was close.

[SiberianDVM]

Get the Tour Edge Exotics. You won't be sorry. I hit the best drive of my life with mine this weekend. We won't talk about the 2 I hooked OB.

[Farquod]

I played with a kid on Saturday who was hitting the Titleist, Davey, and he was just killing it. Nice ballflight, probably hitting it 250 carry with just a little 3 yard draw on the end.

Weird ass sound coming off the face at impact, but you couldn't argue with the results.

And he bought it as a demo, so I'm pretty sure he got around that recurrent pricetag. Maybe he paid $395?

[DaveE]

Originally Posted by Farquod

I played with a kid on Saturday who was hitting the Titleist, Davey, and he was just killing it. Nice ballflight, probably hitting it 250 carry with just a little 3 yard draw on the end.

Weird ass sound coming off the face at impact, but you couldn't argue with the results.

And he bought it as a demo, so I'm pretty sure he got around that recurrent pricetag. Maybe he paid $395?

Thanks, I had just about talked myself out of it.

[Rockford35]

Originally Posted by DaveE

The real discovery of the day was that my now bad back has made me a weiner swinger and I need to switch to R flex shafts. Royal Precision had a tent there and had a 6 iron the same as mine with the Rifle 5.0 in it and it felt great. My S300 days are numbered.

"A" flex by October. You heard it here first.

R35

[DaveE]

Originally Posted by Rockford35

"A" flex by October. You heard it here first.

R35

That's not funny, it could happen.

While I was at the UST booth I told the guy I wanted to try something with more flex. He hands me a R flex and says "if that's not flexible enough I have this pink one you can try." Smartass.