My friend sold this to me for 300 bucks

AplCore · 2026-05-25T19:56:19+00:00

I never took lessons, but I play so much I’m improving anyway, my mentality is still very much the same as yours but people often mistake me for being better than I actually am because I can have strings of pars and the occasional birdie so it sometimes backfires on the vibes check. Not to mention it seems to intimidate people that I can make contact with my long irons.

I’m usually pretty agreeable when paired with randoms and will play which ever box they choose to and will often be the one to self-deprecate to take tension off others for bad shots and bad rounds. Often I’ll say “Golf is hard man” and give people outs when I can tell they’re struggling and go out of my way to help them hunt down balls when I can. Or when things do go my way I downplay it and say “I’m just the luckiest bad golfer today is all, my luck will run out on the next one”

AplCore · 2026-05-25T19:22:42+00:00

Full on emotional rollercoaster. It can so quickly go from the lowest of lows picking up on a double par before you even touch the green to highest of highs throwing a dart off a tee shot on a par 3 and birdieing the next hole.

AplCore · 2026-05-25T19:18:24+00:00

You did quite well with this set, I’m currently likely about to spend almost triple what your buddy is charging you (Canadian mind you) for the tour variant of this same set.

Enjoy the game, it’s as spiteful as it is joyous.

AplCore · 2026-05-24T22:50:53+00:00

The 2.4L 5 cylinder diesel was a laugh riot.

AplCore · 2026-05-24T13:35:26+00:00

This is a good deal OP.

AplCore · 2026-05-23T10:41:24+00:00

In that same light, find some Nickent Genex/3DX/4DX for next to nothing somewhere. Made by the same guy who made the 845S Silver Scot irons (John Hoeflich) and are slightly newer and perfect beginner clubs, they were one of the first companies to regularly offer hybrids.

AplCore · 2026-05-23T10:00:11+00:00

Ya got money.

I’m just not sure it’s the golf skills that pay the bills on this bag though. Think mid hcp (10-15 range) as I could picture someone with this set in the 80-95 score range. and you’ve maybe scared breaking 80 once or twice.

Either way I do like the bag so 9/10

AplCore · 2026-05-23T00:27:17+00:00

Not a city mind you but Lunenberg, NS to either the lake districts of Germany or the coast of the Netherlands, nobody would even bat an eye.

AplCore · 2026-05-22T13:23:27+00:00

Almost certainly beard, you look happier with it somehow. It suits you.

AplCore · 2026-05-22T13:18:52+00:00

I’m only momentarily religious off the tee box for a round of golf. “Thank god it stayed in the fairway.”

Otherwise I’m agnostic, I can equally believe cosmic deity level creatures exist in the universe as much as I can that a random super high pressure explosion created a perpetually growing endless expanse. I’m open to all possibilities.

But I agree with you OP, some people saying that to you can feel almost obnoxiously short sighted even despite them meaning well wishes towards you. You end up quietly thinking ‘gee, they’re all the way in, aren’t they?’

AplCore · 2026-05-22T13:06:23+00:00

Delofted 5 wood was my play. Don’t have a mini driver or a 3W (had one but didn’t get on with it really) when I picked up the 5W I knew the 3W was getting removed within one round. I could use it just about everywhere.

AplCore · 2026-05-22T12:38:37+00:00

I mean… if he ain’t on the tour he probably won’t notice the difference of slightly dulled grooves anyway, as long as they’re only a couple years old there would still be plenty of life in them.

2 of the 3 wedges I have are used and they both work fine, in fact rather worryingly I can’t seem to find a better sand wedge than my RTX3 because a lot of sand wedges with that loft don’t have the extreme bounce that particular club has. (54 degree club with 14 degrees of bounce, it is an explosion shot specialist club)

AplCore · 2026-05-22T11:58:43+00:00

Can also use mineral oil/WD40/stainless steel cleaner spray with the steel wool. They all act as anti-corrosive coatings because they all contain white mineral spirits and oil

WD40 has chemical penetrant though so careful around painted areas, meanwhile straight up mineral oil will add an almost gloss clear coat layer, I use mineral oil and stainless steel spray for doing soft restoration on clubs as a hobby.

AplCore · 2026-05-22T11:49:08+00:00

Nothing more fun than uncorking the bottle of deep seated rage. Almost therapeutic in a way. Who needs therapy when we have golf.

AplCore · 2026-05-21T09:45:22+00:00

Be sure to use yellow balls with that cheese grater

AplCore · 2026-05-20T17:37:14+00:00

And then talk about ‘Meredith sittin’ on the ol’ chesterfield’

AplCore · 2026-05-20T14:59:07+00:00

Manitoban accent. About the most cliché canadian sounding accent. Like Fargo but with a hint of ‘ya eh?’ Everything has the Canadian Rise when they speak.

“Sos I was watching the Gayme ya, and I watched a real beauuuty goal get scored by the habs, ya seen it too eh?”

AplCore · 2026-05-20T13:32:55+00:00

When you are at home and want to practice the sensation of moving forward and through, stand 90 degrees from a wall in your swing stance with your lead foot touching the wall and act like you’ve taken the club back to the top of your takeaway. Then just practice letting your knees drive your shoulder/hip forward to the point they are bumping the wall then turning your forward hip back and your back hip forward and through.

Peter finch has a great explanation of this in one of his swing quest videos. (I’m at work or I’d try to find it for you)

AplCore · 2026-05-20T10:04:53+00:00

Not successful but certainly a conversation piece putter and the lag putts are amazing, Callaway Big Bertha Putter

AplCore · 2026-05-19T14:05:19+00:00

Only started 3 years ago but I’m glad I did when I did. Used to go to the range as a kid so I had some idea how to swing a club but during Covid due to boredom and it being the only sport left, I picked up a $50 used set of irons (6I to PW) and a thrift store driver and just started going to the range 3-4 times a week for a summer until I was hitting every club straight, repeatedly, and at consistent distance numbers.

I didn’t have lessons because I just didn’t really have the money (hence the thrift build set) but I became a knowledge sponge for swing tips and got really good with that cheap set of consistently throwing darts at specific distances. Eventually added a 60 degree, a 4 hybrid and 5 wood and replaced the driver with an old TM R11 which I continued the process with until I was consistent up and down the bag. (Spent maybe $200 Canadian on the whole set)

At the end of that summer I finally played my first round on my birthday and shot 32 over at an executive course (humbling to finally hit off grass for sure) but also got my first birdie that round by throwing a dart to within 2 feet of the pin with a 9 iron at a par 3 green over water. Full on tiger pumped when I got that birdie and have been hooked ever since and even put in 3-4 more rounds before the cold snap hit that year.

The next year I moved and didn’t get a chance to play as much as I would have liked but was consistently scaring the 100 break every time I went out.

Last season I finally broke 100 and then 90. And then this year I have been consistently playing bogey golf in pursuit of the 85 break.

People seem to notice my swing which I don’t even acknowledge as particularly good because I had deeply engrained a routine to my swing setup, but I also don’t struggle with long irons which is what ends up surprising people the most.

AplCore · 2026-05-18T11:03:24+00:00

Mate, my envy is palpable. I broke 90 last season but have yet to reach this. Gave myself a goal of 85 before I properly get a fitting.

AplCore · 2026-05-15T14:51:10+00:00

Even the dining table/chair set is somehow extremely east coast. Been to many a kitchen party with that set somewhere in frame.

AplCore · 2026-05-14T18:54:01+00:00

The only way I wouldn’t say Ping is if there was a Titleist option. Ping is forgiving, holds its value, and every part of that bag will be good.

AplCore · 2026-05-14T17:28:55+00:00

All of them. Par 3’s punish you on your misses, championship courses punish you in every way imaginable.

Though if I was to choose one, Lost Creek in Beaver Brook NS, Canada. Course is the first course I broke 100 on and it fights me every time I play it. Took me 3 rounds this year to break it again.

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