Specialized Chalks - Pricing/Performance/Pre-shot routine/etc.

Wanted to create a thread for this as the Pagulayan Shaft thread started going that way.

Wanted to gather opinions on specialized chalk, (TAOM, Titlist, Pag) and why you like it? I've been strict with Blue Master forever, always using my own piece, never what is provided at whatever venue. Usually buy them a gross at a time and work through that gross over a year or 2.

Some of my questions:

1. Which brand do you prefer?

2. Why do you like it over other brands? What do you dislike about those other brands?

3. What is the price point of the brand you use per cube.

4. How long does a piece last you?

5. Did switching to a new piece affect your preshot routine?

I'm not looking to make the switch, I'm curious of the reasons to use it over Master especially with the larger price point per cube. I'm not a cheapass by any means, but there seems to be a lot of contradictory talk in that thread with people taking shots at the price tag on the Pagulayan shaft, but are ok with 20 dollars per cube of chalk, so I'm curious of the reasons/justification.

Edit to add: I too think the Pag shaft is priced too high.
1. Pagulayan GREEN
2. Performance in all areas I care about(long lasting both in how long a cube lasts and how often I NEED to apply). Square shape as opposed to others. To say this chalk is clean is just massively underselling it.
3. I think it's about $22 per cube? Which is to say $22 a year as I'm on my 3rd piece in year 3(that includes losing one).
4. At least a year.
5. Not really but I certainly don't spend as much time chalking as I used to as a gentle breeze type fly by is plenty as opposed to the older Master and the like type chalks.

Was a skeptic too. It's worth it. I'd gladly buy 1 cube of Pagulayan over 2 gross' of Master anyday.

Pagulyan Carbon Fiber shaft?

that still doesnt answer why would taom do that or let omega or acme do it
what am i missing?
sometimes i dont get it the first time.... 😂
My unfactual guess is that Taom didn't make square chalk but knew they needed to offer it .. it was probably much cheaper to sub it out to someone else than to retool all their machines to change from round to square production lines and I would guess that Taom is also getting a percentage of whatever square chalk is sold from, the other company .. OR Taom actually already owns a percentage of the other company

Derby City 2026 Misc. stats and such

Is that to say that 37% of the time tables aren't in use? Am I reading that right?
This is the average over the whole of all tournament playing time up to when it started winding down at nights and on the final Saturday and there were not enough matches to fill the tables. During that active tournament time, on average about 1 in 3 tables had no match being played on it. If all of the tables had been kept full, they could have had 50% more matches in the same time.

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