DonM Based on my experience, a very high torque shaft will help

Thanks.
A good thought and yet I'm still trying to evaluate this approach.
Larger, more forgiving heads and lower spinning golf balls......not sure how realistic this thought might be.

    So I had no intentions of playing today after my dismal play of late but I had put a couple clubs together that I wanted to try so off I went to the Slumpbuster. Played a different 18 then usual, (it's even easier) Par 71 5400 yards. I played about 5 holes from the back so I wasn't hitting wedges into greens so often so I probably [played about 5600 yards.
    Ended up playing in 2 hours and 20 minutes but I never played two holes in consecutive order, I was jumping around so much. Ended up shooting 38-37-75 which even on such an easy course is a huge improvement over what I had been doing. 8FW's, 9 GIRs, 31 putts, 1 birdie.
    Changed my swing a tad but stayed with the general idea of what I had been doing.

    I went around once today. I caught up with a buddy and we played 9. I hit a 9 iron from about 160 out, I dropped the ball to the right of the green in the rough. It seemed like everything I hit was going another 10ish yards, then again it was at least 90° here. I wasn't scoring well at all, my mind was not really there today. I did have a 1st today, hole 7 is listed at 80 yards from the back tees, and about 70 from the forward tees. This is also the hole that the 2x a week (Tuesday and Friday) hole in one contest is held on. One dollar buy in, winner gets 1k, and a 10 free play card. Today I hit a 9 iron with a 1/2 swing, watched the ball fly up to the fairway, and I turn and head to the cart. My buddy is standing there watching my ball, so I turn and watch it roll above the hole where I expect it to stop. It keeps rolling, now towards the hole where it dropped out of sight. I just stood there a little dumbfounded. I had a poor round score wise, yet I got my 1st hole in one. The next hole I doubled, along with the 9th hole. Go figure...

      Walterjn I got my 1st hole in one. The next hole I doubled, along with the 9th hole. Go figure...

      Congrats!!!

      The rest of the scoring is not uncommon after a hole in one, haha.

        Walterjn However, a 70 yd shot may be harder since not a full swing. Your play gets better each time. Congrats. Did you back date the play to Tuesday?🤣

            Didn't play today. It was raining most of the day. Our course just reopened on Wednesday after being flooded.
            It figures, open Wednesday and raining again today. Supposed to be raining each day through the weekend. We
            got .83" so far today and if it does that two of the three days of the long weekend, we'll likely be under water again.🤮

            39/38...77

            Tried something today I had never done since the invention of hybrids.
            A couple days ago I had to pull the shafts from Jake's old set of Rocketbladez due to the tips being bent. Decided to reshaft them with some Nippons I had. Threw the 5-PW in the bag today, and only took 1 driver. Never touched a hybrid all 18, and only used the 7wd on the last hole! iirc, I did hit every iron in the bag, even off tees on Par 3s, and actually hit them fairly decent yardages and straight, although a bit short of greens where a hybrid would have reached; but was adamant not to use anything but irons today. Only wedge I had, besides PW, was an SW and it was damn good, thankfully, what with all the GIRs missed. Hit 12/14 FWs. Only 24 putts and 12 were 1 putts, due to the SW. (did have a few balls on fringes though)
            Felt like it should have been a better score, but damn.....hitting irons feels great again.👍

            Bravopilot my play has good day, and absolute dog shit days. I'm just trying to have a good time out on the course. Keeping score, is just a habit on the full size courses. My little course is all practice where I can hit a ball from the tees I'm playing, then hit another one with a short distance wedge from the forward tees. Mostly just to see if I can muscle one to the green.

              I shot 87 with 6 greens and 33 putts. The short game was not sharp. Bunker game was horrid. I stepped on my wiener all day.