I had the pleasure of attending a very good golf pal’s wedding today. “Jimmy V” is a long knocker. He’s a red head with a hot temper. But he can play and I’ve seen him go low on several occasions, which made my wallet lighter.

Jimmy V and I had a match once which was the biggest ass kicking I’ve ever seen. He was NINE UP after nine on me. No I didn’t win nine holes in a row to halve the match…

Congrats Jim and Nicole. I wish you the best. And now maybe I can win a few more bucks in my matches against Jim, since his mind may be on other things…

Cool table arrangements

There were assigned tables at the wedding. Since Jim and Nicole golf, they assigned everyone to a golf themed table. I sat at the “Carnoustie” table. Nice touch for us golfers.

You’d better sit down and watch some golf today, or at least record it on your DVR.

NBC 12 p.m. ET – 6 p.m. ET

Tiger Woods is appearing for the last time until his Target World Challenge in December. Tiger will be playing my pal and neighbor Mike Weir in his singles match. Man, Tiger will be “Wal-Marting” Mike with his driver. (Wal-Marting is when you knock your drive so far past someone else that a Wal-Mart could fit between the two).

This is obviously NOT the Ryder Cup

The USA team has a huge lead going into today’s singles matches (14.5 to 7.5), and barring a miracle, should cruise to a win. This is definitely not the Ryder Cup.

Are you a “tinkerer”? Do you love tweaking your putting stroke, changing putters, weights, lie angles? Do you have a bunch of putters in your garage?

Perhaps you should check out the Elmer Golf M1 Putter. It’s about 439,745 putters in one. The Elmer is a fully configurable, tweakable, tinkerable, “interchangeable face-able” putter. The Elmer putter employs the popular new concept of interchangeable putter faces but adds a whole slew of other dynamics to the concept.

Technology

Face It

The Elmer comes with two putter faces. Both faces have porous, milled surfaces which put a great roll on the ball.

The first putter face is made of milled aluminum with a polymer insert inside, which provides a softer feel and may be better for speedy greens.

The second putter face is a solid block of milled aluminum and has no insert. This face provides a little harder feel, and in my opinion may be better for slow greens (or if you just can’t seem to get your putts to the hole).

Ok great… So the interchangeable putter face technology is awesome. But that’s only a fraction of what makes the Elmer M1 putter so cool.

Adjustable Lie Angle

One awesome feature which sets the Elmer M1 apart from just about any other club (putter, iron, wood or hybrid) I’ve seen, is the built in ability for lie angle adjustment. Typically if you wanted to adjust the lie angle of a club, you’d have to take it to a golf shop. They’d “bend” the club to your requested lie angle. Then you’d have to put it in play and see if it works for you. If it didn’t work, you’d have to go back to the shop and have it bent again. Many techs will tell you they don’t recommend bending it too many times or you’ll start to weaken the metal and compromise the club’s performance.

With the Elmer M1, adjusting the lie is as simple as getting out Allen wrench and turning three screws (see video below).

Loosen the screws a bit, but not enough that the club head moves too freely. Stand over your putter and adjust the shaft so that the lie looks and feels just right. Then tighten down the screws. Total time? A few seconds. This can be done right on the practice green before your round. No appointments. No dropping your club off and hoping the tech bends it right. No waiting for days. Adjust your lie on a daily basis as needed.

Not only could you adjust the lie as needed, but you could literally switch orientation from right handed to left handed. Show me a mallet putter anywhere that can be switched from right to left-handed in a few seconds, on the practice green. I’ve never seen one.

Adjustable Weight & Billet

The back portion of the mallet, or “billet,” can also be tweaked. First you can adjust the billet’s distance from the face. By doing so you can move the center of gravity (cog) around to your liking. Being able to adjust the COG while on deck to tee off is something no other putter I’ve ever seen can boast.

The weight of the putter can also be quickly adjusted by exchanging the rails which connect the billet to the face. The Elmer M1 putter comes with two sets of rails, combinations of brass and aluminum.

After getting my calculator out, I determined that between the interchangeable faces, changing the lie angle, changing the weighting/rails and changing the billet’s position, there are 439,745 combinations. Oh no. Wait a minute. I didn’t figure the LEFT handed possibility too. That makes 879,490 combinations… A tinkerer’s dream.

On The Course

I first tried the M1 with the polymer insert. I putted extremely well. I didn’t even hit the practice green with the M1. I just put it in play in my Tuesday league. I had about a 40 foot eagle putt on the first green which I snuggled to about six inches. No three putts and a handful of birdies in my first round, but I wanted more feel.

This doesn’t make much sense, but when I switched to the solid aluminum putter face I liked it even better. That’s the opposite of what a “feel” concept should be, but I liked it even better and putted superbly.

Regardless of the face configuration, I had a very good time messing with the weighting and the lie angles. I found that for me, I like a different angle (more straight up) in very windy conditions as I stand wider and more over the ball like Padraig Harrington. In less windy conditions I stand more upright with a less wide stance, so it’s nice to adjust the lie angle to match that as well. How many golfers do you know who adjust their putter’s lie angle on a daily basis, based on wind conditions?!

Conclusion

Consider the Elmer M1 putter, especially if you’re in the market for an interchangeable face putter like the MacGregor Face-Off putter. The interchangeable face alone is as good as any other company’s offering, but with the ability to adjust weight, orientation, lie angle, COG and more, it blows other putters out of the water.

More Pictures And Videos

Video one: Adjusting the billet.
Video two: Tinkering…

Hooked On Golf Blog Elmer Photo Gallery:
http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/gallery2/v/Equipment/Elmer/

I’m coooooollllld. I spent the afternoon watching my (mediocre) college football team play in a SNOWSTORM. Yes, it’s September 29th and it snowed for several hours this afternoon. Don’t believe me? Just look at the size of the snow flakes in the picture. My feet are still frozen and the game ended about three hours ago.

I can’t believe it. It is 35 degrees right now. The mountains in my back yard are white. Two weeks ago it was in the 90’s. That’s what the weather here in Salt Lake can be like.

I’m going to go take a hot bath…

Does anyone know of a place that is in the 80’s all year long, has low humidity, and has cheap golf? New Mexico? Arizona somewhere? I need to move. Your suggestions are appreciated!

UPDATE:

Perhaps I should update my requirements to:

“…a place that is in the 80’s all year long, has low humidity, has cheap golf, great mexican food, great italian food and many hot (available) women who golf…”

That’s better.

If you stopped by Hooked On Golf Blog earlier today, you would have seen something different. All my content was gone and a single blog post advertising a women’s golf site was here. Someone got in, deleted my content and sent links to ladiesontour dot com. I’ve left out the URL intentionally so that they don’t get any more traffic from here.

If you voted in the new poll, please do so again as some votes were lost.

I’m not one to suggest anything illegal, but I would ask you to NEVER send any traffic, visit, or do business with these jerks who would do such a thing. Don’t go to their site, don’t support them. I hope their in-box is full and their server is melted down with erectile dysfunction spam. Karma baby.

Oh here’s the hacker’s IP address: 83.43.163.62
If you know how to protect your own site, block that IP! IF you can edit your own .htaccess file on your server, put this line in there:

deny from 83.43.163.62

If you have a c-panel you can go to “IP Deny” and put that IP in there.

Backup your own site now

Oh here’s an opportunity for me to remind you to backup your site. My sites’ databases all automatically back themselves up every night. So I didn’t lose anything. Go back your own site up now! You’ll be glad you did.

Man check this putter out. My pal who just picked it up said it was about $800.

Titleist Scotty Cameron Classic
Limited Edition
Teryllium Ten
Newport 2
Te I3

More pictures here…

I have a new pal named Mike Gray. He’s running a golf blog I just added to the Hooked On Golf Blog Master Links section. His blog is called Life In The Rough.

Mike is documenting his journey to becoming a golf pro as well as writing some other nice golf articles. Go check it out.

I must have been in Monterey when this news broke. Tiger Woods inked an endorsement deal with Gatorade for $100 million.

more here