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Golf Club (Irons) Advice
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:30 pm
Looking to buy a new set in the next few months. I'm about a 12-14 handicap. Looking at about $800-900 budget and I want 3-PW (no hybrid crap) and steel shafted. What should I look at? Hoping to find some demos to try out before I guy.
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Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:30 pm to Boudreaux35
Ping
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:31 pm to Boudreaux35
What's your beef with hybrids?
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:36 pm to Boudreaux35
12-14 handicap screams Callaway to me, not in a bad way, I just feel the lower budget Callaway sets are tailored to be forgiving.
Every Callaway iron I have hit on that budget have been very forgiving and go a good ways. X2-X2hot are a good set for their price.
You can also look into Taylormade, but I don't have any experience.
But really, I would go hit some. If it's no a monitor, at a demo day, someone elses.. don't go out and buy something blind. These days it's easy to buy something you don't like.
Every Callaway iron I have hit on that budget have been very forgiving and go a good ways. X2-X2hot are a good set for their price.
You can also look into Taylormade, but I don't have any experience.
But really, I would go hit some. If it's no a monitor, at a demo day, someone elses.. don't go out and buy something blind. These days it's easy to buy something you don't like.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:40 pm to SBvital
Mizuno
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:40 pm to Boudreaux35
What's your beef with hybrids? I'm a 7 handicap and I carry 20 & 23 degree hybrids (Adams A2). 5-PW are Adams Idea Pro Forged.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:46 pm to Boudreaux35
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ooking to buy a new set in the next few months. I'm about a 12-14 handicap
Get the golf digest hotlist and browse for Game Improvement (GI) Irons, or Players Irons, and ask to be fitted with a local PGA pro.
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Looking at about $800-900 budget
That should keep you in range for most sets
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I want 3-PW (no hybrid crap)
Hybrids can be awesome. To each his own but have you tried a 3H instead of a 3I? Flies higher and lands softer.
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What should I look at? Hoping to find some demos to try out before I guy.
The fitting will let you pull any clubs you want.
Also, the new sets will start coming out around the end of the calendar year, so you should see some deals on last 2 seasons' models. Don't be afraid to get clubs that have been on the market for 2-3 years, they can be just as good (or better) for your game as 2014/2015 clubs.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:49 pm to Boudreaux35
If you were a true 12-14, you would be playing enough to know what you want.
Just messing with you.....what are your game strengths and weaknesses?
Taylor Made Rocketbladez get the ball up and goes forever, the tour series of that iron looks like an AP2.
I would guess that any if the Taylor Made or Callaway game improvement irons would be just fine.
More important than the iron is getting it fitted to your swing - having an expert get the shaft, lie, etc built for you will prove a better investment than purchasing off the rack.
Just messing with you.....what are your game strengths and weaknesses?
Taylor Made Rocketbladez get the ball up and goes forever, the tour series of that iron looks like an AP2.
I would guess that any if the Taylor Made or Callaway game improvement irons would be just fine.
More important than the iron is getting it fitted to your swing - having an expert get the shaft, lie, etc built for you will prove a better investment than purchasing off the rack.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 1:51 pm to Boudreaux35
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Irons
Ping.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 2:38 pm to CBandits82
hogan blades, circa 1983 ...
should work perfectly for you ...
should work perfectly for you ...
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:01 pm to tiderider
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hogan blades, circa 1983 ...
I gotta set of those. Hogan Decade's.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:02 pm to Boudreaux35
Go look at everything out there and hit as many as you can. There is not one iron that fits everybodys taste. Also has to do with what you want to get out them: distance, workability, forgiveness, etc. And don't be so quick to discount hybrids. I was the same way til I tried them out and love them now. I own 3 first gen rbz's and use them sometimes more than my driver.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:05 pm to Boudreaux35
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(no hyrbrid crap)
wtf
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:07 pm to Boudreaux35
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$8-900
Mizuno
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:13 pm to PapaPogey
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What's your beef with hybrids?
Oh noooz a club that makes it easier for me to make solid contact
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:36 pm to Boudreaux35
AP1
Taylormade makes good irons for people who dont strike it solid a lot. Very forgiving. They have a good feel which the average golfer likes
Taylormade makes good irons for people who dont strike it solid a lot. Very forgiving. They have a good feel which the average golfer likes
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:46 pm to JJ27
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Mizuno
Posted on 8/15/14 at 3:50 pm to bamafan425
Mizuno. JPX 825
I also cannot understand your problem with hybrids, they are like cheating
I also cannot understand your problem with hybrids, they are like cheating
Posted on 8/15/14 at 4:02 pm to namvet6566
I just started hitting my 3hyrbrid well again. I love that thing...now.
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