Spuzz

I understood what Rex was saying.

And you're right, by explaining it more in detail , expressing it better than I was able to.

In this guy's own mind He did everything for his kids , but he did not in the way of preparing them for the future.
He did expressed his intention of let go of his kids after they turned 18 to me at least once or twice. I thought he was joking because a father whom spoiled his kids could not let them loose in the street at such young age.
Not in his position.
My wife had different opinion. Thought the cost of raising a child before they turned 18 was dwarfed comparing to the cost of between 18- 22 and beyond. In her mind he was not doing everything he could as a parent, by taking the easy way out.
I see some of my other friends whom have younger kids are treading in the same mistake by giving their kids "everything" in the wrong way. Can't talk them out of it, tried and they won't listen.
Parents always want to give their children what themselves did not have when they were young. Like to re-live their own childhood in their children's.
Anyway, at least I tried to help those around me, however, some do not need nor want advice. Until years later they realized there was no other motivation beside friendship.

    Ok, so like release was saying, it used to be that oems didn't put out new crap every few months and then discount everything or make it so u. oils buy used stuff dirt cheap. Why mess with components

      Typhoon

      Don't kill off the components.
      Some of us still take pride in putting our sticks together. I still tinker, just on a much smaller scale.

      OEM must revert back to the pre-mayhem state to maintain reasonable profit margin for the industry. Golf is a different industry than say automobile or fashion industry. People in the industry knew, hence many had got out when they saw this messing around by the pencil pusher coming a few years ago. Hopefully some of these will get back into the business when the dust settled.

          I honestly haven't hit a club made after 2010 that was any better than one before then. I think the gap has closed between manufacturers and there is no one clear line that is superior. Also, the same with balls, now, most every manufacturer have really good models.

            Release

            True...true. At Bang we sell a lot of units! Diamond Tour, Value Golf, Components Plus and others move tons of components. After all these years

                15 days later

                Bangoman

                I still LOVE to tinker. It's my other hobby after playing the game (and playing music, kayaking, spoiling grandbabies, etc.)

                I just reshafted 2 sets of PING irons recently, built 2 sets of component irons for another member here and just placed an order with Value Golf. Getting ready to refinish some TMAG hybrids and a FW that I snatched from Play It Again. I'll keep the component industry going a bit...... 😃

                  Finally got around to buying some shafts and grips from DiamondTour for the Alpha C1 Pro Forged heads I've had laying around for 6 or 7 years. Also bought an Aldila DVS 60S for an old SMT Indio head I had laying around. I chickened out and went with my favorite shaft from the past for the irons - DiamondTour put the Tru-Temper DG R400 shafts on sale for $14 a piece, so I went with them instead of experimenting. I'm not exactly reaching out for the new stuff. Got them all put together this week and hope to have pictures and a range review out before the weekend ends.

                  2 months later

                  JD-I feel your pain, after putting 2 kids thru 7 yrs of Ivy League and 4 yrs of private college, with a 2 yr over-lap, then paying off my accumulated debt and saving for retirement, I finally got to play all the golf I can,and:

                  I'm in my 70's, with a 200 yard drive, and more body pains you can shake a stick at. The moral of the story is to go play now, because tomorrow is not so much fun. Muni's are not that expensive, go play 9,at least.

                    Bigborgel

                    I found a Pro V1 at a golf course in the rough, It has a number 58 printed on it with the custom script on the side said " Chasing Life".
                    If 58 was the age of the previous owner, he had more time to chase life than a lot of golfers I know. Most of them didn't have the time nor the money to play golf until they retired at 62 or 65..... but that's life.

                    Sunset is beautiful, just too close to the darkness.

                      Just now starting to want to tinker with components and thought I'd start playing with different shafts in my G15. I lost about 20 yd on it in last 2 yrs so thought lighter shaft like the GD AD 40 in my Exotics 4 wood might be a good first shot since I like the 4 wood . Looked for one but way too expensive for this retiree. I saw the Integra ulta light 12* head 175 gram and thought that might be better than reshafting my G15 and maybe find an affordable 45 g ish shaft pull I could afford .
                      Instead , bought Cleveland UL 270 new for $80 with Miyazaki C Kua 39r shaft. I couldn't put together the experimental club for that $. So that went out the window . Still honeymooning with the Cleveland but either my swing suddenly improved or it works for me. Think I can move back to the members tees now thanks to the extra yd . The dispersion isn't any worse than my usual military golf only lost one ball in my usual 9 hole outing. Lost on v narrow hole, should have hit a hybrid , but wanted to try new toy instead.

                      The Felon balls were okay too, btw,
                      , but my soft Callaway chrome were same length for me .
                      Handicap dropping a little , finally

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