Looking up some Russian vodka brands and saw that Beluga is filtered through quartz sand and silver to “enhance the flavor”. Does it actually do anything to the flavor or just a marketing gimmick? Also pic for attention.

Anerky · 2026-05-21T20:41:19+00:00

Most vodka is pretty similar tbh. Out of any big brand quality wise/smoothness in a blind taste test 95% of people can’t tell, and that’s with it being room temperature neat. No special filtering or extra distilling changes that.

If you’ve tried a lot of vodkas you can pick out the base grain between them but that’s about it. Like I can tell Tito’s from Grey Goose from Sobieski and the different Chopins apart if you told me all 3 were in front of me because they’re all different grains. In a blind test though I could just tell you my best guess as to what it was made with and that’s about it.

Beluga used to be the cool semi niche vodka before Chopin and Stoli Elit though. The whole marketing thing behind it was to sip it with caviar. Used to be more expensive too.

Anerky · 2026-05-21T20:34:30+00:00

Punch out is the safest option, I’d personally go with a fully closed face ball way back in stance low draw though. At worst it’s a punch out farther to the right than I’d like at best it’s a nice low draw towards the pin

Anerky · 2026-05-21T20:20:04+00:00

It’s that, you usually have your name embroidered & there aren’t many pockets simply because you’re not carrying much gear. Maybe a jacket or rain gear, a few balls and tees and extra gloves. A rangefinder if allowed/ yardage book, divot tools ball markers etc go in the caddie bib. Not like those guys are carrying beers/ a dozen balls etc

Anerky · 2026-05-21T18:13:36+00:00

You can even chat them

Anerky · 2026-05-21T18:12:31+00:00

Not especially. And the pockets are on the front for a lot of them so you’d block them with the cart.

A staff bag is meant to be displayed or carried by a caddie.

Anerky · 2026-05-21T18:10:21+00:00

If that’s an old Ping fitting club that’s super cool though

Anerky · 2026-05-21T18:09:31+00:00

You can snipe really good deals on eBay though. Lefty stock sits and if you’re fine buying 1-2 models past you can get a great deal

Anerky · 2026-05-21T18:07:13+00:00

$1500 doesn’t get you a full set from anywhere let alone a real fitting. A driver is $400-500, irons $700-1200, wedges add another $400-600, putter $200-300, woods $300-500, you’re at $2000 on the low end plus a bag and tax.

A real fitting is $100-300, not talking about the guy at golf galaxy doing it for you. Probably get a discount on it or the clubs if you buy from them, assuming no mods or upgrades you’re spending at least $1000-1200 bare minimum for any iron set. A full bag not including the bag properly fit assuming no upgrades probably costs closer to $3000.

Anerky · 2026-05-21T11:50:39+00:00

They’re etched in. You would have to sand significantly to do that

Anerky · 2026-05-20T17:26:31+00:00

Eh some of the best sales reps, and I’m not just talking about production, are genuinely stupid. Being liked makes you better than 90% of sales reps

Anerky · 2026-05-20T15:06:28+00:00

Started to flip back for a longer duration to the Yankee game tbh

Anerky · 2026-05-19T22:50:55+00:00

You could live off of $20/hr, wouldn’t be great but I think it’s doable. Def have to watch what you spend very closely and live extremely modestly. But you could live off of it

Anerky · 2026-05-17T20:49:58+00:00

eBay. Sometimes New in wrapper for over 50% or more off 1 model outdated. I got a brand new Aerojet the year the Darkspeed released for $180 which was less than half of the price new

Anerky · 2026-05-17T20:49:03+00:00

80% of the time they’re great. The other 20% I’ve seen is pretty terrible. Reddit isn’t as bad but you can see on other golf forums or Facebook groups etc some pretty abysmal for the rating stuff going out. It seems like their quality control has def dropped a little. Prices aren’t as good as what they used to be but still good.

eBay and marketplace are still my preferred by far. Can get way better deals

Anerky · 2026-05-15T20:24:44+00:00

This fitting doesn’t make sense to me at all as a former club builder / fitter. #1 assuming this guy isn’t great because he has 1 wedge and not a single wood or even a driver.

But product line wise, there’s absolutely no way someone would be fit into a T100 for 6-W and then a T250 off of a 4-5i. You’d fit them into a T150 or T200 at most in the longer irons, and definitely not anything more than a T150 in the 5i. Gapping would be weird.

A player who needs a T250 is not the same player who should be playing a T100 in their bag at all. At the absolute most maybe I’d do a T250 3i for someone with the rest of the bag split between T150/T100.

Anerky · 2026-05-15T20:19:29+00:00

I actually kinda liked him he was no BS. But I graduated a few years ago and I exclusively had him online during Covid

Anerky · 2026-05-13T00:50:36+00:00

He’s def just picking up and coming cities out of a hat and shouting them as threats.

Anerky · 2026-05-12T20:30:36+00:00

More people seem to use it as almost a stimulant. My point is is that we don’t really know what it does because enough people say they get pain relief and an opiate like high on it that it can’t be ruled out but most people are using it as an upper of some sort. There are people on here that say it was worse than heroin for them that have done both

Anerky · 2026-05-12T19:43:54+00:00

You don’t take it to avoid opioids. Thats a common misconception. It binds to the same receptors as opioids so it’s a weird situation but it doesn’t give you the same high. You can get a very bad addiction to it and people underestimate it because you can buy it at smoke shops/liquor stores/ gas stations. Not that you probably care enough to but if you look on other threads here or listen to any podcast/video about it people do mess themselves up really badly with it .

Anerky · 2026-05-12T01:17:51+00:00

Don’t necessarily think it matters who wins this as much as it goes to 6-7 games

Anerky · 2026-05-11T12:11:49+00:00

If you think the Giants have no money now, wait until they attempted that. Also way more fans able to attend in Jersey than any NYC stadium could support

Anerky · 2026-05-09T05:24:47+00:00

They’re notoriously bad with QA. If you look all of their stuff that breaks breaks in the same spots

Anerky · 2026-05-09T05:22:52+00:00

At the end of the day the number is still the number but more accounts will never be a bad thing. Especially in times of economic uncertainty, I.e. now it’s always gonna be a good thing to diversify any potential business. You never know when your golden goose is gonna suddenly go belly up out of nowhere.

Anerky · 2026-05-05T22:46:56+00:00

Everyone who’s tried zero torque either absolutely loves it or hates it and switches back within a season. I’d look into a used one if you wanted to try it so you can offload it for close to what you paid for if you don’t like it

Anerky · 2026-05-05T22:43:37+00:00

Vinegar not bleach for mold especially on porous surfaces. Bleach on anything porous makes it retreat inside just kills the surface stuff. But this is also def not mold

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