Things That Just WORKED

LBlack14 Landon, I still have that Adams Insight Tech A4 fairway/hybrid (3 wood) that I bought from you a few years ago. Do you want it back? Trade?

Best list
Driver: SMT 455 with Accuflex VS339.
Fairway woods: Orlimar Trimetals and Louisville Persimmon Niblicks
Irons: Powerbilt Citation FZ-1 forged
Hybrid: None
Putter: Hammy, Sizemore SB-1

Best:
Driver - Cleveland Comp 460 (sad day when the head cracked)
Fairway - Sonartec SS 2.5
Irons - Cleveland TA7, I played really well with these then I messed with the poon...lesson learned
Wedges - Original Raw Vokeys
Putter - They all suck

Worst clubs:
Driver - Callaway C4, received as a gift and felt like I had to use it so I didn't appear like an ungrateful dick...another lesson learned
Irons - Ping G10s, everything I hit was a moon ball and I had a terrible time judging distances

LBlack14 are you a smart ass by chance

Tinker by chance.

Im not proud of some of these.....

Best Driver

Oh, TM M2, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.......its the first driver to beat my beloved R9 Supertri, which itself beat my beloved R7 425 TP, which in turn beat my beloved R510 TP. There's a pattern there......

Best Fairway Wood

Callaway Steelhead (mk 1), all things to all golfers, good off the tee, great off the fairway, great out the semi, yes others have come and gone, the Hawkeye VFT was better off the tee, the 980F was better off the fairway and the Adams Tight Lies was better out the rough, but the original Steely was good at all those shots.

Best Hybrid

TM Rescue Mid TP, still in the bag, unbeatable combination of forgiveness, power and control. Just edges out the Adams Pro Black for me as they aren't quite as good as control off the tee clubs.

Best Irons

Ping Zing 2, best irons ever made, there I said it. Whilst nothing on earth is truly idiot proof due to the ingenuity of idiots, these are just about there. I can honestly say I've never had a bad ball striking round with these, if only their magic extended to the other clubs in the bag on the day!

Best Wedges

Cleveland Reg 588 RTG (1999 editions), narrowly beating the 200 series vokeys simply because they are more robustly built and come in slightly more loft options.

Best Putter

Odyssey 2 Ball DFX, 13 years strong this relationship, its battered and bruised, but unbowed. Its needs a shaft and if im honest, new inserts, but it keeps me around the 30-34 putts per round mark consistently and is the best clutch putt putter I've ever had. Even when I'm not putting well, I putt ok because this lets me away with so many flaws in my stroke.

Notable mentions:

Driver: Tourstage 375Z, incredible feel, but ultimately not the longest driver I've ever used.
FW: TM 300 Tour, good looks, good performance, let down by poor standard shaft options
Hybrids: Adams A12 Proto G, 20 degree was like a 190 yard wedge from almost any lie, could put it within 20 feet from almost anywhere, but not great off a tee for me.
Irons: Mizuno T-Zoid Pro II, I won trophies with them and still have them, not the player I was though, hence the Pings edging it these days.
Wedges: Mizuno MP-R series, looked great, performed great, but wore badly (as all Mizuno products of the era did).
Putter: Yes Tracy II, the only blade putter that dislodged the 2 ball for any length of time.

Bang-O-Matic driver with Titanium shaft was awesome 10 years ago. But then everything worked better for me 10 years ago.

Cobra LV4 driver works great now.

Callaway Heavenwood hybrids - awesome

The above clubs seem to do well even when my swing is bottom dwelling.

Best club.... this is easy. Odyssey 2-ball blade putter.

Worst club... Nike square Sasquatch driver. Sounded like kicking an old aluminum trash can with below average performance (for me)

kchacker I don't see more on here about the original Rocketballz fairway woods

I still watch for 3w & 5w of those. I have to have both though. It's an OCD thang.

bangomatic 3-wood was very reliable for me

I had a Zero Tolerance 3-iron hybrid that I loved so much I replaced it with another one when I lost the first one. Sadly, these are no longer in production

The best putter I've ever used is still in the bag. It's a MacGregor DCT Sanibel. I altered it by putting a backweighting kit in the handle and putting on an oversized grip. It's butter.

As far as drivers go, I would vote the KZG Gemini2 and to go a little older, the Golfsmith HiCor was a bomber. It still may be the longest driver I ever had. The KZG Q fairways are still crazy good. I'm experimenting with others right now, but the Qs will never leave my possession. A favorite set of irons was the Cleveland TA5s in gunmetal. Loved them. Also in the Cleveland family, an old set of copper wedges, pre-cg-anything, were outstanding. And I'll throw a putter in there. Yes, they can still be found easily and cheaply, but I loved me some original black Zebra mallet, and the Zebra IV mallet that Golfsmith made later on (I still have one of those).

kchacker

I tbink i have an RBZ 3 wood head someone left behind at the shop. Great head for sure...could be swap shop material.

Hour and a half drive into NH today got me thinking about drivers i had. I know i said i didnt have a bad one...Bang Storm was a bad one.

Since 2004..20 different driver heads. What a waste of time and money. Too bad we didnt have todays clubfitting tech around back then.

Best clubs,
Driver: Golfsmith Hi-COR Plus 400cc
Fairway: Ashton X-1 3-wood
Irons: Dynacraft PC3, Snake Eyes TC-01

Worst:
Driver: Bang Storm
Irons: Wishon 770CFE

pellmell
Bang Storm suuuuucked. Set up sooo friggin closed.

Gee, all this hate on the Bang Storms -- I had won an EBay auction for 1-3-5 Bang Storms quite cheap a few years ago, and I was excited to get them. A few days later, seller claimed they were stolen from his garage. I wasn't quite sure I believed him since my winning bid was really low, but moved on. Had he shipped them, I doubt they'd've still been around but I might have been able to make a few bucks off of them.

Driver: Alpha V2 425cc -- picked one up recently and it's the longest I've hit. Yamaha Inpres X V201 has better dispersion for me, though.
Fairway: TEE EX-9. The 16.5 4W is great off the deck or tee. I keep trying different 13-14 3W for off the tee and they're mostly the same for me, though I don't think anything is easier than the original Rapture.
Hybrids: Alpha V5 are longer than anything but I have a TEE XCG-V that's not going anywhere. The Adams Super LS and XTD Ti are long, too but sound awful.
Irons: Bridgestone Access Hi-Draw VP-02. Ti face, not hook machines despite the name. Ancient irons (2002) that are long and forgiving.

Wedges: Chicago Wide Sole -- kinda ugly, too much offset, but they work for me. Picked up a 55-60-65 set off EBay for $20 shipped a couple of years ago, the guy raised his price to $20.97 and charges shipping now.
Putter: I had a Projector II mallet I put together and the single bend shaft turned just a bit while curing, so it's a little cockeyed, but I putted great with that for years. I should dig it out and give it a try again