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First off…let me rant really quickly, then you’ll get your nougat-y links goodness that you’ve all been craving, so be patient.
Service Announcement: Avoid NEW Taylor Made golf clubs.
Taylor Made does make some fantastic clubs, don’t get me wrong, especially their RAC MB irons, which are fucking fantastic, but they’re a terrible, TERRIBLE company and the price you pay is simply not worth it. As great as the RAC MB irons are, you can only get them in this gay “smoke” finish, which is basically the same finish as the originals, yet they charge you $150 more. How does that make sense? And not only that, but they release a new driver/fairway/hybrid line three times per year when Ping, Callaway, Nike, Titleist, etc all release new lines ONCE every two years.
So why are we avoiding NEW Taylor Made clubs? Two reasons…first, the new ones aren’t nearly worth the price when compared to previous models and two, you can get the older models at a discount making them cheap as fuck. Oh, and all their new offerings are butt-ass ugly, but that’s in the eye of the beholder (and this beholder says they look like a steaming pile of pony loaf).
This week, I bought a Fujikura Rombax 75X shaft, a shaft that normally runs in the $200+ range depending on weight and stiffness, for $60 shipped. How did I do this, you may ask? Easy…it was a pull from a 2008 Taylor Made Tour Burner TP (the ones they inexplicably charge twice the price for and all you get is a 1-2 degree open clubface at address) and has Taylor Made graphics on it. Does this bother me, the informed shopper who values performance over appearance? Fuck no.
But that’s not the point…the point is Taylor Made is taking other companies’ shafts and putting their graphics on it. It still has the other company’s logo and insignia on there, but the graphics, the most noticeable part of the shaft, is obviously TM unless you can see small writing from a large distance. Sergio Garcia and Sean O’Hair’s clubs have TM graphics on the shaft, but they don’t use TM shafts, they never would. How the hell is this an honorable business practice? It’s not.
So, in summary because I know I’m boring you…if you’re in the market for new golf clubs, avoid Taylor Made unless you’re buying them at a steep discount or buying their shaft pulls (/twss) or RAC MB’s. They’re ugly and they’re far too expensive considering that in three months, you can buy your now-used club brand new for half the price you paid for it. Doesn’t make sense, never will. Now onto the linky goodness.
The biggest douchebag in the NBA explained. (ESPN)
Interview with those two Indian dudes who won that Million Dollar Arm contest thingee…I’m sure you’ve heard of them by now. (Walkoff Walk)
The LPGA is looking into scaling back their wedges as well, not grooves, but lofts. God, the LPGA sucks so much ass it hurts. (Geoff Shackelford)
EDSBS is the best sports blog on the internet…this is just a tip of the genius iceberg. (EDSBS)
One of my favorite SI articles ever…and it was written by Rick Reilly. Whatever, it was good. (SI)
HI-YO SILVER!!! Another douche-tastic article? Why not? (Yahoo)
Ricky Rubio vs. Brandon Jennings…WHO YA GOT? (Ball Don’t Lie)
Damnit, Z, why’d you have to get hurt? (NBA Fanhouse)
That’s all folks…have a nice weekend.
god i love shorts like that.
I’ll take Jennings.
First!!
No better golf clubs than my Wilson’s.
Ping.
I’m partial to this set of clubs.
http://www.fisher-price.com/img/product_shots/N1096_b_1.jpg
I can really hit the shit out of the ball with these.
Motherfucker, I had the same joke and my stupid link had to await moderation?!?!?!?
Your guys filter sucks dick.
ping rocks.
cbh…tell boss man hef. we’re just peons.
Ok spencer.
Good christ. I can’t believe busloads of you people will be invading the greater PHX area next month. The streets will be filled with assholes and retards.
just what phoenix needs, more of the same.
I’ve got a set of the original RAC’s and I love them. Not that I can hit them worth a shit, but nonetheless they are some sweet clubs.
i love my burner lcg’s and can’t bring myself to move to the new calloways yet.
2009 callaway offering = hot dogshit on a plate except for the FT-iq
Have you guys ever try to tear the course up with these?
spencer, what do you usually shoot for 18?
phat…mid 80’s. i can’t putt for shit.
spence, i really like the callaway x-22s. great feel, enough game improvement for my lack of recent practice, and the view from up top is that more in line with a blade and not some massive cavity-back.
i know i won’t be able to get rid of my lcg’s though. i love them. hit them ridiculous distances, can rock a great knock-down, or hit them high as a kite for a soft landing every time.
that spaz can’t putt, there’s a shocker.
do you play perfect rules?
the few people I’ve golfed with throughout my life haven’t played PGA rules. “Oh that was a bad slice, I’ll rehit” hahaha yeah, you shot an 85 alright. f’n jerks.
I usually shoot high 90s… makes me cry at night
Golfing with sticks and knickers and visors is ultrafantastighey. Give me disc golf any day.
phat…honestly, i do try to play USGA rules. don’t take mulligans or improve a lie, things of that nature. my one glaring ignorance of the rules tho is if m within a foot, i’ll pick it up more often than not. even tho i can’t putt, im pretty sure im not missing that 6 incher and i love doing the putter-pickup.
thanks, sparty.
rexy…the x-22’s might be the best clubs in the entire world, but i just can’t get over how ugly they are even tho they look good at address. gimme a blade any day.
this certainly qualifies as EF.
EF?
then enjoy being stuck in the 80’s, spence.
/waving from 70’s land, via my time-travelling into the future device thing
it’s not the arrow, it’s the indian, my son.
spencer- no worries. i shoot in the 80s at putt putt.
eminently fixable.
/nick p., i thought you were to copy everyone on the MLJ Meme o’ the Week Memo?
putting is gay anyways.
Sorry Rex.
Short shorts and the shirt riding up….yum.
“putting is gay anyways.”
chicks dig the long ball.
how far do you drive on average?
280ish
you a big golfer phat?
I’ve felt for a long time that I’m at a big disadvantage because I’m left handed. I started golfing late because I couldn’t find clubs… truth is, I didn’t want a buy a set before I actually golfed so I was trying to find a lefty to borrow clubs off of for a round or two.
Also, its hard to be taught by a right handed person to swing left handed.
/making excuses for my poor golf game.
Who’s the fat chick? Golfing’s not a sport.
phat: you should’ve learned to play rightie.
The left arm is the most important part of the swing for a rightie (it pulls through), so you could’ve been PWN as a rightie.
I golf a lot. doesn’t mean I’m a “big golfer”
I go to shitty local courses and have a good time. Usually in the summer I go once or twice a week.
I wish I could drive 280 consistently. Thats why the game gets to me so much. I’ve smoked a ball a straight 315ish before (probably my longest drive ever), yet my very next drive will be a nasty f’ing 220 slice.
I guess once or twice a week is a lot for me… maybe not for some of you guys.
Nick, I didn’t know that. Do you know how hard it is to go against 18 years (when I started golfing) of swinging a baseball bat or hockey stick lefty? It would’ve never worked.
I know it sounds weird, phat. But I took lessons as a kid, and my instructor wrote left, played hoops left, etc., but golfed as a righty.
yea, mickeltits does everything right-handed, except swing a golf club.
you and your lessons can go f yo’self.
That is weird, I tried and it felt horribly awkward so I found lefty. Plus it gives me somethin to gripe about when i suck. hahaha
so what you’re saying is I should try and golf right handed. I might as well try it huh…
might as well…finding lefty clubs can be a pain in the ass.
My brother was a left-handed pitcher and QB but learned to golf right-handed since there weren’t any lefty clubs when he was little. He’s a sweet righty batter. Writes right-handed. He’s a strange one.
Phat~ I’m with you…I think I’ll get myself a right-handed set of clubs and try righty. My drives can’t get any worse.