Lust Actually
My hybrid is a Motorola flip phone in terms of golf equipment. IT’S GETTING EMBARRASSING. How can a guy of my position at Golf Digest play an 11-year-old club from a brand whose current proof of life is an infomercial? The rest of my bag I keep pretty fresh—it’s easy with steady sneak peeks at new products from our expert equipment editors, Mike Stachura and E. Michael Johnson—but my hybrid is beat. My 17-degree Adams Idea a7 has half the paint chipped from the crown and some small dents, but I do love her so. She carries the exact distance with the same trajectory as our first season together, I swear. Sweet, sweet constancy, when 3-wood is too much and 4-iron not enough, upon thee I do rely. Before you make fun of…