Re: Re: Re: RE: ShopTalk: Looking for an Alternate

[Tom and Donna]

Sorry Tom, did not mean to get you all fired up and I do understand what you are saying.  I guess I put to much trust in the big name brand club makers to have a close tolerance on their manufacturing.  Time might change that trust yet are folks like Wishon or Golf Smith and different in their consistence of quality.  I must assume that it is a trial and lost wages and time to check anyone out.  In reading the many postings on Shoptalk I almost get the feeling there is an air of secrecy between club makers and their suppliers.  However that is muted buy the sharing I see going on almost daily.  In time I guess I will find my way. Thanks for the help, have a great week. tflan wrote: Who can tell how a Cobra responds? There are so many heads on the market . . . clones, copies, knockoffs, etc., and heads designed by folks like Wishon, Maltby, et al, that it's nearly impossible to tell what head plays like a Cobra. Hell, you can buy several heads of the same design and they'll not necessarily play the same from head to head. The Cobra's a unique combo of shaft, head, grip, designed by Cobra/Titleist people. Matching characteristics is likely a futile chase, IMO. Believe me, I've been there, done that.   I've often believed that virtually any club will work well . . . until the check clears.   TFlan ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom and Donna To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Re: RE: ShopTalk: Looking for an Alternate Actually I am not looking for a clone but more for a head that responds like the Cobra at contact with the ball.  I have never had much luck hitting with the new larger club heads.  One of my Saturday foursome showed up with this one and was knocking the stuffing out of the ball ( not really, just hitting it longer than I could with my Biggest big Beartha).  On about the fifth hole I asked him to let me give it a try.  I took a slow controlled back swing and followed through hoping not to slice into the creek.  The ball sailed out of sight down the fairway and over the hill.  I have never hit that long and be in the center of the fairway in my life.  My average drives have always been around 190 to 210.  My ball came to rest 107 yards in front of the green.  I'm all pumped up now and I follow with an PW to six inches from the hole, drop the putt for a birdie. Two weeks later my buddy has put the club away and goes back to his 3W for ball control.  Took me another week to talk him out of it.  With an average score for this year in the mid nineties, I go play last Thursday afternoon.  I hit all but one fairway, ten greens in regulation, and walked off the course with an 80.  As we all say, some day everything is going to come together one day and all will be well.  I have had mine.   I had shot an 84 before but spent last year trying to break 100 again.  Dropping ten strokes off my present average would be a great way to finish this season. Tom M tflan wrote: There are a lot of Cobra knockoffs.Try a google search for clone golf heads. You'll be surprised at the large number of them.       ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom and Donna To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:23 AM Subject: Re: RE: ShopTalk: Looking for an Alternate   -- Where is it okay to be teed off, tote a six-iron, shoot birdies, and if you're under par it's a great day? -- Where is it okay to be teed off, tote a six-iron, shoot birdies, and if you're under par it's a great day?