Golf equipment phobias

[Webster]

I can't:

- use irons that are any longer than standard length
- hit Callaway fairway woods off the deck
- use Mizuno wedges - they don't look right or feel right
- hit a 3 wood thats got less than 15 degree loft - it doesn't get off the ground
- use rifle 5.5 shafts. 6.0's are fine, but not half a flex softer - they feel completely different
- use grips that are any thicker than 1 paper - they feel like cricket bats.

What are some of yours?

[Courty]

I can't use putters with a plumbers neck. They just look wrong to me.

[kpac]

Can't

- Play regular or heavy shafts. Need to feel the weight in the head for some bloody reason.
- play a safe right to left (draw) when needed, can control left to right, but not the other.
- apply sunscreen mid round, don't know why, just a bit special

[sms316]

Can't believe that anybody who uses a long putter has any morals.

[LeftyHoges]

Definitely can not:

- use any wood that's square or closed faced.
- play anything softer than an X flex (this is not a pissing contest thing, just my swing).
- play any iron with medium to major offset. My AP2's are about as much as I can handle.
- play anything PING, except their putters.
- spin a golf ball more than 2 feet, regardless of what club I'm using...

[simmsy]

I can't use putters with a plumbers neck. They just look wrong to me.

Same here Courty.
Also can't use Tour Wrap type grips, Fingers always get caught up.
Can't shape left to right with approach shots in a game. Can do it in practice rounds though.

[Minor_Threat]

Some of mine are the same as Lefty!

Definitely can not:

- play anything softer than an X flex (this is not a pissing contest thing, just my swing).
- play any iron with medium to major offset.
- play with a 2ball putter.
- use a golf ball other than Titlesit ProV.
- use a grip with less than 2 papers.

[markTHEblake]

cannot hit anyone elses golf club, ever.

except: Golfer69s Whale, that is best driver ever built

[petethepilot]

Blakey, didn't you love Gary Tosier's Epon with the strange (T3) shaft!!??

[markTHEblake]

That doesnt count cos he told me before I hit it that i couldnt hit it.

[Jarro]

I can't hit open-faced drivers ..... they scare the bejesus out of me.

Also, like jack, i can't hit a fairway wood with less than 15* of loft.

[LeftyHoges]

Some of mine are the same as Lefty!

Definitely can not:

- play anything softer than an X flex (this is not a pissing contest thing, just my swing).
- play any iron with medium to major offset.

Gotta say, these make me feel good, to have some things in common with a player of your ability.


- play with a 2ball putter.

Oh, I totally didn't even think of this. Spot on. Biggest pieces of crap ever invented IMO. Good call MT!

[terrys]

can't spin the ball with PW down, yet can generally spin it nicely with 8 or 9 iron.

[KristianJ]

Ditto on 3 woods below 15* and playing a safe draw (most often off the tee with driver as most who've played with me can testify - I can generally hit one with my fairway woods, hybrid and irons).

[PerryGroves]

KristianJ, figured you had never met a club you didn't like :wink:

[KristianJ]

Long term commitment is not a phobia for me anymore...:mrgreen:

[Daves]

Ditto on 3 woods below 15* and playing a safe draw (most often off the tee with driver as most who've played with me can testify - I can generally hit one with my fairway woods, hybrid and irons).

I have no problem with the how, but struggle with the why of 13* 3 wood. Would make sense for a Pro but for muggins it is not a % club.

[Moe Norman]

I can't hit a fairway wood off the tee, driver or hybrid for me.

[dean0820]

- mallet putters
- ping irons
- very noisy drivers
- those soft, heavy balls
- watch or anything on my wrists

[virge666]

13 degree fairway wood... seriously... use your driver.
Adam's clubs... cant hit them - they just feel dead. Especially the hybrids.
Love my 3iron - I wish I could hit it. Desperatly looking for a hybrid I like.
Larger irons... can't hit them as far or as well as smaller clubs.

[vman]

I cannot play with ugly golf clubs which just about rules out anything made by Ping (except petters).

[LeftyHoges]

13 degree fairway wood... seriously... use your driver.

I used to carry a 12* orlimar TriMetal up until 6 months ago when I broke it. Was a piece of piss to play off the deck, long and straight. No way in hell I can play shots anywhere near that thing off the deck with a driver.

Just my $0.02.

Probably should get around to reshafting the thing at some stage. :-)

[Dotty]

I can't mix models of wedges.
Ditto for fairway woods.
I can't own brands with a high turnover of new models.
I can't be an OOT advertising billboard for the manufacturers, esp. headcovers, bags, iron cavities, shirts, etc. (It feels like a Nascar car.)

I also don't like hitting 460cc drivers.
(Unfortunately, at my skill level, they are a necessary evil.)

[Tongueboy]

Can't
hit 3 metal off the tee
not hook hybrids

[goughy]

ProV1x golf balls. I hit one and it goes no where. Woods, irons - just goes no where.

[LarryLong]

I'm afraid to try out any club that costs more than $100 just in case I like it and find myself succumbing to its slutty charms and blowing the rest of my disposable income.

My biggest phobia is that I have an irrational fear of using high spin balls because I figure high spin also means high sidespin. Not sure that this is actually true for high spin balls on full shots. I can't make any ball spin around the greens anyway.

[Chris32]

Can't play wearing a watch
Can't hit oversize Irons - although Ping Eye 2's are the exception, but compared to some o/s clubs they aren't that big. Don't mind offset

[moree golfer]

I must have my grips aligned correctly otherwise try as I might I can't line up the face square to the pill. It's probably a throwback to my selective obesessive compulsive behaviour.

Also can't use any other putter grip than a Pingman pistol grip, must be smooth.

[LarryLong]

Can't play wearing a watch

Same here, but for me it is because I almost rub my forearms together on the follow through (somehow, still don't quite know how it happens) and I usually end up with a few grazes if I leave my watch on.

I'm also superstitious about hitting a shot with a ball in my pocket. I don't know where it came from, but I've been known to drop a ball at the back of the tee box rather than leave it in my pocket while swinging. Maybe I whacked the club against a ball in my pocket once, or maybe it's just because it feels like I've mentally prepared myself for a reload. I dunno. Does anybody else have this one?

[IanO]

I can't play without a golf towel or a hat.

[Captain Nemo]

I cant hit a Hybrid to save my life?:cry:
Dont know what it is but just cant do it!:smt021

[Scottt]

Can't have a ball in my pocket or a watch on.

Can't wear a hat.

Refuse to buy Wilson, Bridgestone or Srixon clubs. Dunno why...

[simmsy]

Yeah LLong can't have a ball in my pocket. To the point that if it's a teebox where u leave ur bag 100m away(cause ur gonna pass by there again) I won't take a provisional with me I see that as putting into my mind that I'll blow first shot.

[macjackass]

I hate putters with shaft offset. If I could find one, I'd happily use an old accushnet bullseye.
Not a fan of cleveland and mizuno wedges, don't like the shape at all.

[Tongueboy]

I hate putters with shaft offset. If I could find one, I'd happily use an old accushnet bullseye.
Not a fan of cleveland and mizuno wedges, don't like the shape at all.

good one went on the bay the other day. about 90 dorra

[PeteyD]

Deep face fairway woods.

[BayBum]

- Cant stand over my ball with a callaway or titleist wood.I hit them ok,just cant stand the sight of them.
- Dont like changing putters or putter grips much.
- Not a big fan of using a new ball often (worried about losing it ?)
- Cant play after drinking (not equipment related but its something i try to avoid..)

[macjackass]

good one went on the bay the other day. about 90 dorra

Must have missed it.

[Moe Norman]

I can't wear a watch either, and for a confession - I can't even tell if a club as any offset. I know so little about the mechanics of equipment and the golf swing its embarassing.

[Johnny Canuck]

I can't putt through someone's shadow.

I don't mind hitting a shot with a ball in my left pocket but not my right.

[PerryGroves]

- Not a big fan of using a new ball often (worried about losing it ?)


Gonna be hard to lose the perception that Kiwis are tight when you keep proving it.:)

[Moe Norman]

I can't putt through someone's shadow.



you shouldn't have to!

[Minor_Threat]

- Can't play with sunglasses on.
- Can't play in the dry without a glove
- Can't play in the wet with a glove.

[Tongueboy]

something else I can't do(this is straight after 9 holes!)is drive the ****ing ball. hitting it like a pussy

[solarman]

I can't stand over the short 140m par 3 8th at Cairns without getting the heeby jeebies.

Doesn't help having 3 idiots behind me videoing the whole episode each time I tee it up either. F--kw--ts.

[sms316]

Struggle to feel anything but disdain for anyone who wears black socks with shorts.

[talbo]

- Can't hit oversize irons
- Can't putt with sunnies
- Can't play with watch on wrist
- Can't get out of fairway bunkers with 7,8,9,PW needs to be longer iron (green side bunkers aren't a problem with short irons)!!!!

[rubin]

can't
- Play a round without a glove. Tried it, didnt like it, cant do it.
- Hit driver of the first tee.......... A strange one, but everytime i've tried, it's gone, never to be seen again.
- Play Pro-V1's (of any type).
- same as Vman, can't touch an ugly stick. if it looks like shite, you'll hit it like shite.

[Hux]

Struggle to feel anything but disdain for anyone who wears black socks with shorts.

Like Ned? Fashion tragic that it is :-)

Personally for a terrible chopper I can't stand the sight of game improvement irons to the point I refuse to play with them. I see good to very good players with them and hitting them good but put those thick sole & toplines in front of me and I'd prefer to stay home and look at SMS's weird porn ;-)

[sms316]

Like Ned? Fashion tragic that it is :-)

Personally for a terrible chopper I can't stand the sight of game improvement irons to the point I refuse to play with them. I see good to very good players with them and hitting them good but put those thick sole & toplines in front of me and I'd prefer to stay home and look at SMS's weird porn ;-)
I'd better send you the Ipswich threesome.

[Toolish]

Same here, but for me it is because I almost rub my forearms together on the follow through (somehow, still don't quite know how it happens) and I usually end up with a few grazes if I leave my watch on.


You flip it..I used to have the exact same issue but with me I even ended up with a mark from the bottom of the glove rubbing on my other forearm.

For me...
Can't wear a watch or my wedding ring playing.
Can't play clubs that don't have cord grips...can use the half and half ones but that is the limit.

[macjackass]

Forgot to mention, no way known could I play a wood or hybrid with a closed face.

[just]

I can't play anything with the following:
-offset
-closed faces
-wide soles
-thick top line
-cavity back
-hybrids (they're cheats clubs)
-mallet putters (ditto)

That's how I roll.

[Eag's]

No phobias for me, I will use what ever gets the ball into the hole in the least amount of shots ;)

[Dennis]

- Can't hit a 60* wedge. By can't hit, I mean cant even make contact. I seem to slice divots straight under the ball, and then the ball doesnt move
- Cant hit anything that claims to be a "draw" club
- Cant play with sms316

[Dotty]

I just developed a new one ...

Can't putt with a shaped grip. (Back to the Crossline Midsize tomorrow.)

[PeteyD]

- Can't hit a 60* wedge. By can't hit, I mean cant even make contact. I seem to slice divots straight under the ball, and then the ball doesnt move
- Cant hit anything that claims to be a "draw" club
- Cant play with sms316

That is you in that sig on tgf?

[sms316]

That is you in that sig on tgf?

Yep. :lol:

[Moe Norman]

- Cant play with sms316

Didn't you give him a hiding?

[jaybam]

3 irons. Always had a dislike for them.

[markTHEblake]

That's how I roll.

thats not a phobia, thats just being just.

[Boonie]

- all Mizuno wedges (I'm with you on that one Jack)
- all Ping wedges (post Eye 2's that is - loved them)
- can't judge distances or read putts in sunnies

[mUTHA]

afraid of my 1 wood.
only hit 1 outa 5 how i want

will only use set height tee's
wont use my putter untill on the green no matter how close

wont use woods on the fairway ever

[mike]

Can't putt with anything other than a Ping Anser.
Can't play in sunglasses.
Can't hit a lob wedge.
Can't hit a hybrid.

[Goldy]

Can't tee off with my own shadow in view
Can't chip off a downhill lie
Can't field, can't bowl

[mike]

Can't tee off with my own shadow in view
:-s

[Goldy]

:-s

You know - I end up watching my shadow tee up - and we BOTH c*ck it up.

[simmsy]

Can't tee off with my own shadow in view



So do u change which side of the ball u stand? Do u carry left&right hand driver.

[Goldy]

So do u change which side of the ball u stand? Do u carry left&right hand driver.

No - I just go ahead and c*ck it up.

[mike]

:-s

Just tee shots or any shot?

[Goldy]

Just tee shots. Sometimes its ok - mostly its not.

I'm seeing a whole team of doctors.

[mike]

Anyhow ...

[simmsy]

Speak to JC, he always helps me out with useful advice.

[Goldy]

Think my brain requires more than the power of prayer would normally provide.

Reckon if you could cure me of this then we could have got Mary MacKillop over the line ages ago.

[mike]

Play on overcast days.

[Courty]

Play on overcast days.

When is it ever overcast in Mareeba?


Ask not what Tapatalk can do for you, but what you can do for Tapatalk.

[Courty]

You know - I end up watching my shadow tee up - and we BOTH c*ck it up.

I have to admit this often catches me out also.


Ask not what Tapatalk can do for you, but what you can do for Tapatalk.

[mike]

When is it ever overcast in Mareeba?Get with it Courty.

First, Goldy said ...
Can't tee off with my own shadow in view
... and then he said ...
You know - I end up watching my shadow tee up - and we BOTH c*ck it up.


... so I said ...

Play on overcast days.

No shadows on an overcast day.

capish?

[Goldy]

Overcast is good.

[dean0820]

oh bugger. now i'm gonna start noticing my shadow and getting put off by it.

[Dennis]

Didn't you give him a hiding?

Yep

[Goldy]

oh bugger. now i'm gonna start noticing my shadow and getting put off by it.

sorry dean

[f00re]

Can't play in the wet,
can't use "distance" balls,
can't play without a glove,
can't use fairway woods period.
cannot mix wedge brands and all clubs must have the same grip.