Hybrids -- last chance

Well, folks, I really tried, but from the time I started, and people told me how difficult it is to hit long irons, like the one and two, I worked to do the "most difficult" thing. I learned how to hit the low, boring 'stinger'. It's my go-to safety play when I need 200 yards, straight (yes, I've lost 20 or so yards since my youth).

I spent an hour on the great, grassy tees at Miles of Golf (the owner's name is Miles) beating balls with hybrids and long irons. Now the hybrids will find a home in my garage.

And the only reason I don't carry a 1-iron any more is because the 2-iron I use now is close to what my 1960s vintage 1-irons were, in both shaft length and face loft. And I now carry three wedges, not two.

Time marches on.