Feel vs performance?

[Oddsocks]

Ever since my first fitting in 2012, every fit has suggested r300 / px5.5 playing regular or kbs 105 / xp95 playing stiff. I’ve always opted for the stiff lite version opposed to the heavy regular side, but being a player that cannot load onto the left side at inpact fully due to an existing injury it results in a high flight.

I was recently at the range with a pal who was playing an older set of cast callaway irons with px5.5 shafts and I was hitting my normal xp95 stiff cf16’s. I thought I’d have a slap with his and while I hated the feel as it give little to no feedback, the flight was a lot flatter and more penetrative into the wind which gave around 15 yard according to the top tracer.

It’s defo got me thinking and I have a lesson booked this week to try and work on a better angle of attack ...... but...... would you play a club that you had zero feedback on but achieved better results or just club up and get on with it?

 

[SammmeBee]

Just club up......feel is (nearly) everything....

 

[Neilds]

Is it feel, or is it sound..........?

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Performance. You don't write feel on a scorecard.

 

[Oddsocks]

Is it feel, or is it sound..........?

Definitely feel. No matter the strike even buttoned px5.5 feel dead. A similar strike with xp gives instant feedback.

I find it’s that bad a pure strike is only confirmed via strike stickers on the the px

 

[Oddsocks]

Just club up......feel is (nearly) everything....

It’s more about the flight, I get hammered in the wind.

 

[SammmeBee]

It’s more about the flight, I get hammered in the wind.

Steep always will....just learn to hit more....on most courses it will only be 4/5 holes a round.....

 

[srixon 1]

I went from KBS tour stiff (Mizuno MP54s) to PXi 5.5s (Titleist AP2s)and the difference was amazing. KBS felt much softer but definitely a club shorter for distance.

 

[Oddsocks]

I went from KBS tour stiff (Mizuno MP54s) to PXi 5.5s (Titleist AP2s)and the difference was amazing. KBS felt much softer but definitely a club shorter for distance.

Did you also find a lack of feel in the px?

 

[Oddsocks]

Steep always will....just learn to hit more....on most courses it will only be 4/5 holes a round.....

Going into holes with 5i’s instead of 7i’s gives less room for error. A 7i is always an easier club to hit

 

[srixon 1]

Did you also find a lack of feel in the px?

Yes. I still have them but they do feel dead, especially when not hit quite out of the middle. They are consistent though and any rogue balls are down to a bad swing not the shaft. I used to have some wedges with standard Project X shafts and they felt good.

 

[Oddsocks]

Wonder what the difference is between the px5.5 and the px wedge is.

 

[srixon 1]

I don’t swing ultra hard with my irons and as the PXi are lightish they suit my swing better than the heavier shafts.