I finished the construction of my new hybrid clubs today. Specs:
I plan to try them out tomorrow.
Today, Jarvis and I practiced and played nine at the North Texas Golf Center. The first half of practice, with short sand / lob wedge shots, went well. After that, practice was a complete disaster, all my short iron were pushes. Putting practice was also poor, speed control was awful. Fortunately, how I practiced didn’t dictate how I played today. Jarvis hit an awesome putt on 8 from 25 ft, down hill, with a 1 foot break to the right and another putt from 15 ft. I hit only one putt beyond 6 ft.
Scorecard:
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total |
| Par | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 27 |
| Score | 4 | 4 | 3* | 3* | 3 | 4 | 3* | 3* | 4 | 31 |
*Hit green in regulation
Highlights: Hit two excellent 10-iron shots at holes 7 and 8, but missed both birdie putts, from 12 ft and 6 ft, respectively. Hit a very nice lob wedge over an 8 ft high hump to 6 ft on the final hole, but lipped out the putt. No three putts today.
Lowlights: Short tee shot on 1, pushed tee shot on 9, caused bogeys. If I could have hit some 6 to 10 ft putts today, I could have scored 28.
Still, a good day, as 31 is my best score ever on this course. Considering it was 101 degrees by the time we finished, I’m pretty happy with the way I played.
Today I epoxied the shafts to the club heads. I also inserted some 2.5g weights into the clubheads to get the swing weight up a little. The assembly went off without a hitch. Tomorrow I will install the grips.
Sunday morning, I will try them out on the range and see how they work. Another report at that time.
I’m learning how to build golf clubs. Last week, I had a custom hybrid club made, specs were:
I hit shots with this club 5 yards farther and with better accuracy than my 3-iron, so I decided to learn to build clubs by building two more hybrids, same specs as above, with 23 and 27 degree loft Quick Strike II Hybrid club heads, same shaft but each one 1/2″ shorter than the less lofted club.
I bought a clubmaking kit from Golfsmith and ordered all the parts. Tonight, I cut the shafts to size and abraded the tips. Tomorrow, I will attach the club heads, after I set the right swing weight. The first club swing weight was about C5, I’ll make these about D1.
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