Scrindle
Head Pro
I've just got back from a round in the glorious sunshine (wahay!) with my regular playing partner. A few weeks ago we were chatting and, after discussing how rubbish I had been playing with my woods of late (I've now retired them from the bag for the time being - costing me too many shots), he mentioned that he might have an old 1 iron lying around in his garage. I asked him to bring it along to our next game which he did today!
So. Out comes the 'Masters 1 Iron'. It looks ridiculous - really don't see how it could be any less lofted than it is (I have no idea what loft it actually is but it can't be much more than my driver I don't think, if at all).
I hit it off the first tee and put a very gentle fade on it to land on the right hand side of the fairway. Quite pleased with the first hit. Throughout the round I used it off every par 4 and 5 hole (12 in total) and hit 10/12 fairways with it. One of the fair ways I missed I pushed it ever so slightly on a really tight fairway and it ended up in a fairway water hazard - any other hole and it would have been on the fairway. The other I hooked it slightly and ended up 10 yards to the left of the fairway in the rough.
I also had no trouble getting it lofted off the fairway without a tee, though it took me until 14th hole to actually have the balls to try it!
What is more, it's going just as far as I hit my driver off the tee and is massively more reliable (I appreciate what that says about my use of an actual driver, but still!). I literally can't believe how much this 15 year old club helped my game today. It's a shame the short game is crap.
So does anyone know where I can get my hands on a modern 1 iron to try? Do manufacturers make them still? I don't really like hybrids because I find them to be too much like a wood (or at least the ones I've tried are - long graphite shafts, etc...). If they're not about I'll keep using this.
So. Out comes the 'Masters 1 Iron'. It looks ridiculous - really don't see how it could be any less lofted than it is (I have no idea what loft it actually is but it can't be much more than my driver I don't think, if at all).
I hit it off the first tee and put a very gentle fade on it to land on the right hand side of the fairway. Quite pleased with the first hit. Throughout the round I used it off every par 4 and 5 hole (12 in total) and hit 10/12 fairways with it. One of the fair ways I missed I pushed it ever so slightly on a really tight fairway and it ended up in a fairway water hazard - any other hole and it would have been on the fairway. The other I hooked it slightly and ended up 10 yards to the left of the fairway in the rough.
I also had no trouble getting it lofted off the fairway without a tee, though it took me until 14th hole to actually have the balls to try it!
What is more, it's going just as far as I hit my driver off the tee and is massively more reliable (I appreciate what that says about my use of an actual driver, but still!). I literally can't believe how much this 15 year old club helped my game today. It's a shame the short game is crap.
So does anyone know where I can get my hands on a modern 1 iron to try? Do manufacturers make them still? I don't really like hybrids because I find them to be too much like a wood (or at least the ones I've tried are - long graphite shafts, etc...). If they're not about I'll keep using this.
