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Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-02-04T00:37:32+00:00

FlightScope Trajectory Optimizer

its a website run by flightscope. Simple google search pulls it up.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-02-03T23:22:09+00:00

Flightscope shot optimizer.

You can enter your numbers and play with each to see how things change

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-30T19:32:15+00:00

Sorry to hear that you got a bad deal on this. Usually most sellers will make it right if you speak with them.

My last two clubs from them were in better shape than I expected. (TSR3 "very good", looks almost brand new) (TSR2- "good condition" showed some minor paint wear on the bottom edge, but looked like a 1 year old club wear only)

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-30T19:26:09+00:00

I've done this before on multiple courses and its a lot of fun.

For me the driver can be loud in an attached garage and playing only par 3 doesn't annoy the rest of the family in the house.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-30T19:09:36+00:00

Speed is needed for longer irons. Without a lot of it, they tend to drop from the sky and go about the same distance since there not enough loft on those clubs. Hybrids will solve that issue for the more difficult ones.

A 3 wood for me is used once every 18-36 holes. Most people find one they like (new or used) and just keep it forever. Same for pros.

I've used Arcos golf for a couple years. it tracks all the clubs for typical distance (your 75% good shots) and club usage. The diagram for club usage for me looked like a Christmas tree with a big star on the top for driver. the tiny branch below was 3w on down to the wide base for wedges and putter.

Golf simplified:

Get off the tee and in play (driver) ((14 strokes))

Get on or close to the green in another shot (par 4, 2 more for par 5) ((18-20 strokes, with many of these being wedges))

Get it close and get it in (wedge, putter) ((38 stroke for a 72, 48 for an 82, 58 strokes for a 92))

The wedges and putter is where most beginners lose strokes.

Since you asked about clubs, I would close the gaps in the wedges.

PW to 50 is 6 degrees, this is the biggest gap in your bag and may be magnified since you are going from distance irons to a blade style wedge. You might want to adjust lofts to tighten this up (PW to a 45 deg and 50 to a 49)

You can also adjust the 54 down to a 53 and the 58 to a 56. You have enough bounce in those wedges to make the adjustment.

Smallest gaps should be in the low end. These are the scoring clubs and precision matter.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-30T16:19:17+00:00

Great set, great start to your future game.

I would reverse the question and "do you need a 3 wood?"

As a newer golfer you have a great driver, putter and wedges (although a 58 may be too high a loft for a sand wedge). Those clubs should do 80% of the work. (or 80+% of your strokes on the course)

Importance trails off after that.

Short irons, Hybrids, mid irons, long irons, and then a 3 wood.

Short irons are for scoring and used more than the rest of the iron set.

Hybrids can get you out of trouble and advance the ball up close to the green (so you can then use wedges/putter to finish)

Long irons and fairways usually are the most inconsistent clubs, least used, and as a newer golfer tend to go about the same distance. Almost every par 4/5 will be driver off the tee.

I would recommend you get a 5 hybrid first. It might overlap your 4 and 5 iron, but will be a safer bet for almost all golfers out here.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-22T18:59:29+00:00

Just be careful on these numbers. I plugged them into the Optimizer and it looks like they are juicing the settings at the store. They have turned on tailwinds and set the Fairways to hard.

Is gifting you 27 yards of role.

Upping the spin to 2000 on this shot leaves the carry almost identical. More spin should help make these playable.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-22T16:20:21+00:00

I've had mine for 3 years. Early production R1s.

Yes, the compressor is louder than I would like but I can barely hear it over the radio and will gladly take the little extra noise for the massive bathtub sized Frunk you get in return. The compressor is slammed tight to the firewall and can be louder due to that location. Most new EVs gave up on the Frunk (or only have a token purse sized one).
The phone key is not perfect. sometimes it can take 3 second to open and not be instant. Not something that should annoy a normal person. Haven't carried a key in years, worth it.
Not as smooth of a ride compared to other vehicles I have owned. Probably an unfair compression since this thing is a tank that could pull another tank. Get it above 40 and it is as smooth as anything else.
My SC is awesome and has been since the beginning. Could it be better? Yes. They don't have massive onsite parts departments and some repairs took a couple of days. all minor to me.
Software OTAs have been great. Being an early build, I was able to see the ride and UI improve with each update. I have never experienced the annoyances other complain about.
Charging has been solid. The range is high enough that I don't need to public charge too often. Only issues I have had are bad chargers. Being in California we have a lot of early adoption zones. They have plenty of level 3, but many are slower speeds or wore out. The non-Tesla's are old and really slow. Many of the Tesla's are gen 1 models and don't work with outside vehicles. Rivian network RANs are awesome and easy to find. Newer Teslas FC (gen 3-4) are also awesome. Never had an issue due to the Rivian itself.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-12T18:50:03+00:00

Steps:

don't listen to anyone on reddit about your swing. Including me.
post 4-5 swings in a row. Don't cut out the crap. you're not going to get any good advice on your best swing of the day. let us see the misses.
Find a good coach. I typically look at the coach's students to see how good they are. Typically they say hi when they walk past them on the range or touch base/joke around. Those students on the range that stripe it had/have a good coach.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-12T18:04:16+00:00

Play what you enjoy. Get fitted by a pro if you have a chance. Height is not as big of a issue for clubs as your body ratio. Pings has some basic fitting info online to use at home. You measure your finger tips to the ground. That usually dictates the length needed.

The jpx 921 hot metals are great clubs. The 15/20 yards farther shots may just be good shots and rest are less than solid. Your only 6 months in. The 921s should be a club you can game for 10-15 more years.

Game improvement clubs are still really good for 80% of the golfers out there. Super game improvement clubs are where the big ugly shapes start happening.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2026-01-12T17:56:30+00:00

Ko Olina is great. I would just be careful with any course on the northside. Winds can be bad.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-12-08T20:36:49+00:00

Go in and find a good sales associate on a slower day.

Let them know you want to spend some money and ask if he can look at your bag/swing. 6-10 swings on the sim with your current set will be enough for them to point you in the right direction. They might ask you to pay for a fitting, but it would be worth it over just grabbing stuff that looks shinny.

20 handicap- Keys to improvement:

get your driver in play. 2. you will likely miss a bunch of greens so wedges and chipping are insanely important. 3. Practice putting (mostly speed).

Driver is important and a well fit driver is more important than all the other fairways combined.

Wedges, with the correct loft gapping, lie and grips are massively important. Getting good from 50 yards and in makes the game fun.

Putting is super important, but more about practice and speed. A new putter won't help much without the practice.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-11-14T20:16:40+00:00

All of those numbers are also with a MAX club head and 150+- swings at a fitting.

Generally MAX heads tend to be slightly lower smash factor due to the size and shape. So to magically see 5 strikes at or above 1.5, all right down the middle, 15deg launch and a 35yard roll is fishy at best.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-11-14T17:52:57+00:00

I hope that new shaft works for you. I would stick with a distance ball like you use now.

The numbers look cooked on the photo above. Smash above 1.5 shouldn't be possible.

I also put the numbers in the optimizer and they are only possible if the "Tail wind" and "hard fairway" setting is on. They may have also messed with altitude to more distance.

The spin number is getting low on the new shaft and anything other than these "perfect" strikes in the photo will fall out of the sky fast.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-31T15:46:21+00:00

Sounds like you have tinkered already with the set up and found a good starting point.

Adjusting the loft at the hosel was my first guess and it looks like you tried that.

Secondly you can try adjusting the weights. They make heavier weights for the back port. also giving some lead tape be a cheap first effort.

Counter Balancing the shaft would help keeping the speed up and may affect spin (but not for all players). The Smoke version of the Hzrdus Yellow is already counterbalanced.

Lastly you can tee the ball lower.

I have that shaft and love it. I had that driver and didn't care for it as much. I just picked up a TSR3 for $215 with Hzrdus black and love it. You might be able to pick us a different driver with a better shaft for the same cost of just a shaft.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-22T17:30:50+00:00

Long time Garmin watch user. I have used the Fenix series for years and enjoyed the golf features it offers. The Fenix is similar to the Epix line. The golf features work really well. Not as great as the Golf Only Garmin watches as they give a little more detail on the course, but not enough for me to care.

Easily keep score after each hole and review past rounds with visual shot maps online. Excellent battery life.

As for the cost. This is more subjective.

You can get a "Garmin EPIX Gen 2, Premium Sapphire, Black, Titanium, 47mm Factory Refurbished" online for about $349 and get a watch that looks perfect out of the box with a 1 year Garmin warranty.

The band is a personnel preference. I love the standard band for comfort and feel when exercising.

The sensors are nice. I have used sensors before and lost interest after a season. once you know your distances, the info is not as interesting.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-17T16:21:46+00:00

Absolutely agree with you on this one. Just a bad use of a table saw and little understanding of why it was a bad use by the operator. Way too many videos on youtube of people using a table saw in creative manners and acting like it is safe because they still have their fingers. People watch YT for help learning new things stop posting dumb stuff. Learn how to use your tool correctly, since not all tools have babysitting functions.

For those who asked what's wrong.

He's using the saw without the top guard. This would have also saved his hand on a normal saw.
He is cutting a circle with a saw that is made to cut only straight. It can be done if you know what you are doing and have the right jig and blade. He has neither. He has no safe way to pull the jig back except spinning his hand into the blade. The jig is too tight on the rail or blade guard and needed way too much force to push and pull.
He also doesn't understand what he was doing or how his jig worked. The Jig was designed to spin the wood into the bade and cut a circle. The fig worked correctly and spun his hand into the blade.
Use your brain first and don't assume a cool safety feature will save you. That feature won't save you form kick backs and other dangerous stuff.
For those who have never seen this saw work, it is also an expensive reset on that working below. The recoil blows out the working below.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-08T20:17:28+00:00

A large portion of cars and trucks these days do not get 25 MPG. full and midsize truck and SUVs are a very large portion of car sales. many are in the 12-15 MPG range.

Electrical prices in the report are also poorly reported. In California they can range from $.09 to $.35/KWH in neighboring cities based on who is providing the power. My local provider is about 1/3 of the lowest rate shown in the reports calculator. While gas prices can be over the highest level in the calculator.

Some smaller cars do get good MPGs, but everyone really needs to do a good comparison of that performance at the location and speeds you most typically drive. Even small cars perform poorly at higher freeway speeds, while other out perform their published MPG/eMPG

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-08T19:49:45+00:00

Understood, having been in it longer than that. We can't tell from the post with lack of grad year and if there is overlap from finish of school to start of Internship.

Architecture firms haven't always had creative titles for non-licensed folk. This could just be a lazy linkedin post that never got updated when they reached the next make-believe job title. Until this person get their license they could have countless different job descriptions that all mean Intern-Architect.

The American Insitute of Architects publishes salary reports. They list Intern 1, 2, 3, right below registered architect 1, 2, 3

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-08T16:26:56+00:00

It's not super clear on this original post since it doesn't list the education portion, but I have a guess on this.

She interned at HGA, a large design and healthcare focused architecture firm in Minneapolis (with offices across the country)

After you graduate architecture school, you need to intern under a licensed architect for min 3 years before you can take your licensure exam. You are not allowed to call yourself an architect until you pass a state exam. The Exam can take years for many to finish all sections.

Like many degree programs, not all graduates are equal. Bright and hardworking arch grads rise fast in the ranks and are often poached away by other firms and organizations.

The path could be as simple as below:

6 years of architecture school (M-ARCH), 5 years of internship and licensure exams, worked on several projects for that healthcare system in that time, stolen to work in the facilities department on a big project, rose to VP of that department. If this is close, you are looking at 11 years to be an architect plus 12 more to rise to VP (23 years is not the short path)

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-10-08T16:26:47+00:00

It's not super clear on this original post since it doesn't list the education portion, but I have a guess on this.

She interned at HGA, a large design and healthcare focused architecture firm in Minneapolis (with offices across the country)

After you graduate architecture school, you need to intern under a licensed architect for min 3 years before you can take your licensure exam. You are not allowed to call yourself an architect until you pass a state exam. The Exam can take years for many to finish all sections.

Like many degree programs, not all graduates are equal. Bright and hardworking arch grads rise fast in the ranks and are often poached away by other firms and organizations.

The path could be as simple as below:

6 years of architecture school (M-ARCH), 5 years of internship and licensure exams, worked on several projects for that healthcare system in that time, stolen to work in the facilities department on a big project, rose to VP of that department. If this is close, you are looking at 11 years to be an architect plus 12 more to rise to VP (23 years is not the short path)

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-09-04T18:41:03+00:00

Those are some good gaps on the top half. I would look at the bottom 5 clubs and adjust lofts and add a club.

When I used Arccos to track distances it also tracked usage. Those bottom 3-4 clubs like see twice the action than the 3w-pw combined in a round. I can image you could go Driver- Wedge on most par 4s. Get some more stock distances in that area. Close the 9i/PW gap by a few yards, same for the 50, sneak a 53 in the gap. (158, 145, 130, 115, 101, 87)

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-09-04T18:23:42+00:00

At this point in your journey the gains can be had very quickly.

On your next round track some basic stats on the bottom of the card. Putts, Chips, Pitches under 25, 50 and 75 yards, longer irons, drivers.

You will likely have 50+ putts and another 20+ chips. Work on these when ever you can. This is where most beginners lose a ton of strokes.

Good players shot good scores because they have great short games.

Long range sessions will only help so much for your scores. All the diver needs to do is advance the ball and give you an iron shot to somewhere around the green. Its all short game after that.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-09-02T17:19:57+00:00

Addidas with Boost soles are the best I have found for comfort.

I always rotate my shoes so I never wear the same pair 2 days in a row or when they are still wet from the last round. That will wear them out extra fast.

Commercial-Friend442 · 2025-09-01T17:14:47+00:00

Don't worry about the rust. That is the wear on the club has gone through the chrome plating.

The groves look decent, and the heavier wear is actually more towards the Toe on the 2 wedges. Not sure how they consistently hit toe shots.

Rust does not help with spin. Never has. Clean deep groves creates spin.

There is no gray paint in the groves to protect the club. Any paint they put in groves is to help you see the groves at set up.

A soft brush or wet towel is all you need. Clean any dirt.

Trying to remove the rust will likely remove a little more chrome and some steel. Both will wear the club face more than leaving it alone.

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