Equipment review #1

Posted by Michael on 31 July 2010 | 0 Comments | Tags:

Here at PG2010 we're quite old school with our equipment not helped by the fact that we have had as much support from golf companies as Obama would get in the deep south. 

So here is a wee equipment review of my favourite club - the trusty 2 iron.  These things were rarer than hens teeth in the US but over here in the UK they are not quite so foreign...  I find my 2 iron useful for the obvious reasons such as hitting the ball low off the tee and snaking it up on the firm par fives, but also the less obvious reasons such as putting when my putter is misbehaving (eg on day 12 at Centenniel) and for playing a spot of tee hockey when waiting for the group ahead to clear. 

This particular 2 iron was found in a golf club bin at the Garden City Golf Driving range in Harewood about a decade ago. But it was the kind of bin that was shortly to be emptied at the dump.  I not only was kind enough to rescue my trusted friend from the scrap heap but also made a donation of NZ$20 to Garden City Golf for doing so. Prosimmon is the brand for what that's worth but they're all the same aren't they?

The other feature of my 2 iron that has not been captured is the grip peeling away at the top of the club exposing some chards of metal which may eventually give me tetanus. 

The new set of blades I got included a 2 iron but it's just not quite the same - and it's far too shiny.  Phil Tataurangi being the generous legend that he is also gave me a 2 iron to try out but it's a cavity back number which goes high up into the wind and again it's just not quite the same... 

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Also, an equipment review of the titliest prov1x golf ball kindly given to us from our famous day at Winged Foot. This ball is one of those rare breeds that has lasted four entire rounds around the links without being lost.  But as is always the way, as soon as it was photographed it got all clucky and started to misbehave and is now deeply entrenched in a gorse bush somewhere. Karma.

 

 

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