 What a great start to the day. Just got in, opened the post, not sure what this is private but basically that is a notice of intended prosecution which basically means a speed in fine. Ah dear me, it's just a great start, it's miserable weather, the golf competition that I referred to is on this afternoon and the first thing I walk into is that. 57 mile an hour and a 50, I mean come on. No worst thing, I was going in the driving range. Anyway forget that, let's move on, let's get straight into positivity. That board behind me is absolutely rampact full, can't thank you enough. I've got a whole list of names here that I've had to write on paper because I've got no room and I need a white board so I think before I go any further I need to take a trip down the road to the range as it's called. Let's go and get a new white board. Two minutes at the moment, the way the names and handicaps are coming through, we need bigger. So I was to insult somebody and ruin a day, I've just been in the range, on the way out, someone on the stand asked me have I ever considered making a will. Jesus how rough am I looking nowadays, talk about ruining someone's day. So as you can see the day just gets better, I'm now getting asked have I prepared a will as yet. So what a day this has turned out to be. Let's hope the golf is better than the morning has started so far. Anyway, let's talk about first of all that board is fantastic, I haven't got another white board but I will get one soon and keep the names coming in. So it's your name, current handicap and target handicap. Get on the Taggers target board. Now if you can as well, any tweet, anything on Instagram, the hashtag that we use is Taggers and Taggers is, if anybody wonders what that stands for, it's the Average Golfers. Okay so that's what's all about this channel, it's all about Average Golfers, that's our hashtag, hashtag Taggers, so stick that on to any of your tweets and appreciate it. Right next thing just about to put up the press release about the Callaway XR Speed Drivers and Fairway Woods. So I'm not going to go into too much technical detail about these clubs because we'll do a review as and when the club arrives from Callaway for our testing. What I'm really interested in is the fact that it's about the release, it surprised me, I didn't know these clubs were coming. Don't forget Callaway have got the Epic range and they've got the Rogue range out and they've got some Steelhead fairways, they've got the Apex range is still covered, so they've got the X4 range, they've got a lot of products out right now and I know it upsets a lot of people and I can kind of like, again this releases, it comes as a bit of a surprise. The reasoning or the logic I would apply to Callaway release the product range certainly in terms of the driver would be to attack a price point because they've put drivers up in the sort of 450 zone now, great British pounds, that's a real hike so I can understand if they brought a product in it was in around the sort of 250 to 280 markers of driver because that would make a product maybe more accessible in terms of affordability. But this is coming in at 339 in terms of the list price, okay, yeah it is cheaper it is attacking a different price point but it is still very very expensive. I'm not going to go through the list of the fairway woods in terms of prices but again I would imagine it's that kind of again premium price. Looks a real nice driver to be fair but you know fast just got faster the question again is how much faster they did fast get. Try saying that when you've had a few. And the reason I say that is because we want to see and again I read the comments I get the mentality of the average golfers out there when a new product is released they want to see you move forward and they want to see a leap forward they don't want to see a very minor and a small move forward from manufacture when they release clubs. And I just wonder and we will measure this claim because when we get down to track band and start to look at club head speed and ball speeds let's have a look at how much faster fast got because we'll compare it through to the XR16 and I really hope that there are some big changes otherwise again there's the question mark raised over why is this product being released onto the market. So yeah it's a difficult one. Anyway that's enough of that. Your input is this. I want to know what your thoughts are. Forget I'm not talking about Callaway. I'm talking about manufacturers again because I know there's a particular thing towards maybe Callaway and towards tailor made. There's an issue with Ping as well releasing the G400 max driver not so long after the G400 range come out. So you know there's a couple of gripes out there at the moment. What are your thoughts? What are your opinions on that? Right next thing is today's competition. So the whole purpose of the Taggers target ball as we've now called it is it was a goal. It was something that was we sort of we marked by writing on a board and it was a target that everyone can see and I didn't put it doesn't put because my first idea was obviously I'd tell you what my target is and it's a kind of a it's not a pressure but it's something it's being monitored. It's I don't know it's an it for me personally mentally it's an extra drive to think that you know and maybe improve concentration in terms of I need to reach and achieve that goal. So that was the idea behind the whole target board and I hope it works in the same way for you as well. And I hope that in the weeks ahead we get that board absolutely full of average golfers with targets and be great to see. Don't forget the important thing is is when you have an improvement or in fact if it goes the other way you might have to let me know but certainly improvements let us know and we'll make an amendment to the target board and I hope I do that. The reason of the video the other day was timing wise was because today I'm playing the first midweek competition of the season which I hope provided it's not pick clean in place because it's been very very wet again is a handicap qualifier. That's this afternoon. Personally I'm looking forward to it. I played I played what it was Easter bank holding Monday so it was about sort of what I ate nine ten days ago and I played particularly well in some really bad conditions. If I assessed my game that day driving iron plate was as good as it's been for quite some time and especially bearing minor conditions and I wonder whether or not that was partly due to it again the concentration but my putting was poor and short game as well that I have practiced on short game came up good but I'm not all in puts and I didn't really all puts last season and it's a bit of a surprise because I put putting for people and there's a couple of people who watched the channel who knew me from a few years back putting is a real strong point of my game was a real strong point of my game and I suppose when the confidence dips and you start missing a few maybe it's a lot to do with confidence but I am struggling. I don't have an issue with pace. Pace is always quite good. I always put the ball kind of in bin lids but I was always fancy puts around eight to ten foot of making a fair proportion of them and I'm not doing that and I didn't do it last year either so I do the old obvious thing instead of blaming stroke and technique and looking for lessons what you do I go and have a look at other putters which is I know it's a hair brain idea and I know don't need to tell me but I still do it anyway, we all do it and I got sent a putter by Ping not so long about which is very nice though to test and I can't test any putters because the conditions are so poor can't test balls at the moment because the conditions are so poor there's a stunning putter from Ping Ping I struggled to get him focus on this camera with this wide angle lens and anything close Ping Vault 2 absolutely stunning piece of engineering I'm going to give it a go this afternoon I'll hit a few balls on the practice ground or practice screen and see how that goes it's one of them where to be quite honest with you it's not so much I'm not putting well with the current putter that's been in the bank so I think the idea of moving to this is not so risky and we'll see how we get on so I'll try and film that the problem I have in terms of film a lot of people ask me to film I'm not keen on filming golf on the course because I really struggle to concentrate in doing both I'm afraid and it really ruins my game both in terms of the pressure it puts on you in terms of the swing but also the necessity to continually remind yourself to record every shot I don't like it really but it's part and parcel of I think it's what people like on channels the other issue I've got this afternoon is I don't know what I'm playing with but again, not everybody's comfortable being on a camera so I'll see what happens this afternoon and I'll take, I maybe record a little bit on the iPhone a little bit of that's not too clumsome to carry around so I'll carry that with me and record a few shots but I'll certainly be recording and reporting back my score anyway and we'll see how that goes so I'm going to leave it there for today's daily-ish vlog you notice I called it daily-ish I was perhaps misleading with the should I start a daily vlog almost sound like a golf club manufacturer should I start a daily vlog well did you mean to say that? well actually no, not exactly that so what I really meant was I will record footage daily and perhaps produce a video every two or three days every week depending on how the footage gets put together so yeah, I apologize maybe it was slightly misleading but thank you all for your input again and advice regarding that I'm enjoying this new setup this bit is fantastic I can't believe the response on that so keep them coming in in terms of the targets for the year and I better go home, pay me fine and then cheer up get positive, get the new putter out start holding some birdies and record a good score I might, you never know be changing my handicap come tomorrow morning