Blades..would you?

[Deleted member 15717]

Used the MP-67s for the first time today...and loved them. Couple of mis-hits, but it didn't punish me as much as I thought it would, and looking down at them, and the thin top-line was awesome.

Think I need a set in my life...but then the question begs what?!

 

[3565]

Been a blade player all my playing life, and I won't play anything else, you can't beat a pured shot off of a blade.

 

[fourdoors]

I played mizuno blades for years. Then I got mp58 and am now onto 714 AP2. I still love the pretty looking blade, but much prefer the feeling of when I get away with a less then perfect strike and take home the bragging rights and cash 😊

 

[Ethan]

I played mizuno blades for years. Then I got mp58 and am now onto 714 AP2. I still love the pretty looking blade, but much prefer the feeling of when I get away with a less then perfect strike and take home the bragging rights and cash 😊

I have played AP2s, and they are a nice club, but do you really think the tiny additional forgiveness actually makes a difference? OK, if you were hitting 3 irons all day, perhaps a shot or two. But I doubt it makes much difference with a 6 iron or lower. I played yesterday and hit an iron longer than a 6 iron 6 times, and 4 of these were off tees on par-3s or 4s. I seriously doubt playing an AP2 would have made a bit of difference.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Nice to look at yes but no matter how low my handicap would get I would probably stick to mid cavities at least.

Recently heard a guy, who won a competition a few days before off a fairly high handicap, ask the pro to help him replace his iron set, just because he thought he could not hit his 5 and 4 iron set hybrids. He wanted less help in his golf game.

Are we just tuned as golfers to yearn for blades the moment we hit one top quality golf shot?

In the scenario above I chuckled to myself, I know if I had the cash I would get hybrids down to leave 6 as the highest iron. I was half tempted to offer the guy a trade, my mid cavities for his mixed set.

 

[fourdoors]

I really believe they make a difference. I know when you just miss a little bit with blade your in danger of not making the carry to the green. Ball speed is better with AP2 OR similar and makes the carry easier.

 

[Ethan]

I really believe they make a difference. I know when you just miss a little bit with blade your in danger of not making the carry to the green. Ball speed is better with AP2 OR similar and makes the carry easier.

OK, you believe that but have you actually tested the theory? I have used various blade sets (all Mizuno) over several decades and alternated with semi-GI clubs and failed to notice much overall benefit from the latter despite all the magazine articles. You might gain a little on a 4 iron but you give it back with the short irons. My last Non blade was the XHot Pro and when I switched to MP4 with the same shaft I expected to lose distance and have to work a bit harder with them but neither has happened.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I play with Orka blades and find them very easy to hit :thup:

 

[Deleted member 15717]

OK, you believe that but have you actually tested the theory? I have used various blade sets (all Mizuno) over several decades and alternated with semi-GI clubs and failed to notice much overall benefit from the latter despite all the magazine articles. You might gain a little on a 4 iron but you give it back with the short irons. My last Non blade was the XHot Pro and when I switched to MP4 with the same shaft I expected to lose distance and have to work a bit harder with them but neither has happened.

I have found th same now, after 2 rounds with the 67s. I don't feel any pressure of having to work hard to hit them...I swing, they go. If it is a poor swing, it's a poor swing. Going to leave the, in the bag for th quarter-final match play I have on Tuesday night as well

 

[Essex_Stu]

Have never considered using blades, why make the game harder is my thinking? But why I can't stop looking at s55's (not a blade)

 

[Father_Ted]

So, I have always had a bit of a yearning for using blades, more so over the past few months.

The question is then...would you use them?

i do

i had that itch some years ago and scratched it with some mp37s

still playing them but purely for fun

if it was my job like those at st andrews i would find something less demanding

 

[User20205]

I play with Orka blades and find them very easy to hit :thup:

Ego maniac

A little bird (with massive hair) told me you'd switched to graphite shafted g15's

 

[londonlewis]

My first set of Irons when I took up golf were some second-hand Mizuno MP-9 blades.
They were lovely to look at, looked great at address and the ball would fly forever if you hit them correctly ... or so I was told.

I managed to smash an 8 iron over 180 yards once, unfortunately it was on a par 3 with oob past the green.

I now have Taylormade R11 irons, they are nice.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Ego maniac

A little bird (with massive hair) told me you'd switched to graphite shafted g15's

Tell that massive haired little bird not to be such a stirrer


I have but they will never be seen at a forum meet