I’ve been in discussions with MacGregor Golf for a few months about doing some reviews of their gear. Finally they sent the first piece of gear for me to review: The Bobby Grace designed V-FOIL M5K-GT. I’ve been using this putter exclusively in my rounds (including tournaments) for about the last 3 weeks.
To be honest, the reason I was so intrigued by this putter is because it just looks cool. This is quite an engineering piece of art considering all of the individual components and the specialized construction of each.
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There was some problem where the poll (lower left) wasn’t counting the votes but I’ve fixed it. So if you haven’t done so go ahead and vote for who you think will win player of the year. VJ, Tiger, Phil, Ernie, Retief or “other.”
Some thought Danielle Amiee wouldn’t break 80 in her first LPGA event, the Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill. They were close. She managed a 79 in round 1 yesterday. She’s going to make it into into the weekend but only because the 2nd round was washed out and her 6 over score for 11 holes will be thrown out. She gets a mulligan. We’ll see if she can take advantage of it.
Speaking of Kingsmill, Annika is going to have to make up a ton of ground to get to her 6th consecutive LPGA win. But if anyone can do it she can.
By the way: Hey Golf Channel dot com, you can take down your banners for BBIII “all-new episode premiers this Tuesday” now.
Sergio is at -7 and holds the lead after two rounds of the Wachovia Championship. I’m just not sold on Sergio quite yet. He needs some more victories under his belt. This would be a good start if he can hold onto a lead and seal the deal.
Tiger is a little rusty.
And how about Jim Thorpe? He donated all of his winnings from last week (around $250k) to his church. Can you buy your way into Heaven? I guess he’ll find out.
I promised a report from yesterday’s round. Bonneville has awesome greens with great breaks and they are fast. I didn’t putt these greens very well with the demo putter I used. I’m done with my evaluation and I’ll be posting a review of the Mac Gregor V-FOIL M5K-GT in the next few days.
I struggled with the driver but hit these demo irons (soon to be named) very well. Unfortunately I missed a short par putt on 9 to shoot 3 over on the front. The back I had an eagle on the 14th hole (par 5) when I made a completely crazy 60 footer from the lower fringe to the top of a 2 tiered green. Managed an even score on the back for a total of 75. So for two complete rounds of 18 with demo irons and putter I’m 3 over par. I’m quite happy about that.
Tomorrow I play Bonneville again with 7 other buddies in a “money game.” It’s time to bust out the trusty Ping putter I usually use.
I played 2 days ago and the weather here was finally great. The conditions were perfect. I was doing a demo on a set of irons and a putter. So I go out and use these irons on the course with no range time or swings at all. They were excellent irons and I hit them fairly well. Shot a 72. Not bad for using irons and and putter I’ve never hit before. I’m going to demo them tomorrow as well.
Tomorrow is a round at one of my favorite courses, Bonneville. This course is a country club quality course for a muni price. The picture on this post is one that I took myself at Bonneville last year. This course is not extremely long. It does have a defense in it’s greens. They are usually quite fast and have lots of interesting breaks. I takes a long time to learn the subtleties of these greens.
I’ll do a complete review of Bonneville some time in the near future.
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