I bought them. I'll pick them up around Monday or Tuesday, depending on when the guy comes back from a weekend out of town.
I still have my old JPX 825 driver and an old SW to flush out the set. Maybe I'll look for a Mizuno 3 wood, just for the hell of it. Somewhere around this mountainous mess I call home, I also have a pretty nice Mizuno stand bag I never got around to selling.
Something will be interesting with this set of irons. They are an inch longer, 39" five iron. I usually lengthen my clubs 2" and backweight them with 40 grams of lead. My typical 5 iron is 40" long and comes in at a swingweight around C3. I wonder if I can manage this set without the mod? Or, given back issues that come and go, maybe it's worth experimenting to make them even longer. They are standard lies, so the lengthening actually makes them slightly upright, which suits my specs nicely.
As for the eyesight problem, I also use optic yellow balls, but it's not visible in the air unless I have a dark background like trees to see the ball flying. My buddies tease me that I'd enjoy golf more if I consistently hit it in the trees... Anyway, the optic yellow helps me find the ball on the ground much more easily than other colors. I tried orange and red, but I don't see tham any better in the air and I can't find them as easily on the ground. I've never tried the optic light blue color Volvik is experimenting with, but I haven't got any reason to think it would be any different.
I recently loaded a shot tracer app onto my phone and I hope to try it Monday. In theory, it's supposed to be just like the laser trackers on tv, showing my ball flight. I'm going to take a brick to the course with me to lean my phone against and see if I can make it work. If it does, I'll be thrilled at the possibility of playing alone again. It's not that I prefer to play alone, just that I want to play more and don't know enough people who can play during the week.
I even had cataract surgery and my Ophthalmologist, who is an avid golfer, was surprised my left eye didn't help me see the ball better once it was fixed. What I need is a tour caddie. I refer to my usual Monday morning buddies as my seeing eye dogs.