Joey's Golf Bag

I’ve been unable to play or practice (except for chipping and putting) due to lower back pain, so I decided to build some new clubs in the meantime. I’ve been hitting my 5-wood (Wishon Golf 915HL fairway wood with a Wishon Golf Series 7-SUL-55 shaft) pretty well, but I want that club to be a bit longer. I decided to build a 4-wood to replace it. I chose the Wishon Golf 949MC fairway wood, 16.5° loft, with a Wishon Golf Series 7-B2P fairway shaft, built to 42 inches in length. The 949MC fairway wood is the first shallow-faced fairway wood with a coefficient of restitution of 0.830. I epoxied the club together this morning and will swingweight it to D-2 and put on a Golf Pride Dual Duometer midsize grip tomorrow after the epoxy sets up.

I’ve been loving my Wishon Golf CX Micro Platinum wedges, but I’ve been having a problem hitting the wedges fat. My theory is that the clubs are too light compared to the Cleveland 588 wedges I’d used previously; more weight should serve to slow down my tempo. When my tempo gets fast, I tend to hit fat. So, I decided to build a new set of CX Micro wedges, using True Temper Dynamic Gold shafts, which are about 15g heavier than the Wishon Golf Series 5 steel shafts I used before. I also decided to go back to the Golf Pride New Decade Multi-compound midsize grips I used before. I am also simplifying the wedges by making them all the same length (36 inches), total weight and swingweight, so all three wedges feel and play the same. I epoxied the clubs together this morning and will finish them up tomorrow and bend them to my preferred 66° lie.

I’ll post some photos of the new clubs tomorrow after I finish them.