found an old set of blades.. worth keeping?

[md2179]

I used to play golf years ago and bought a second hand set of clubs mainly because they looked nice, I didn't know much about golf then. Years onward I had to give up to study and work and only took the game up again recently buying some mizuno jpx 825 clubs which I tend to strike very well. To my surprise I found the old clubs again in a relatives cupboard well preserved and they are a Maxfly Australian Blade. I Tried hitting them on the range and it was like going from a bike with stabilisers to some kind of professional racer bike, very difficult to hit indeed but yet strangely quite satisfying when I got one out the centre. My distance suffered somewhat with these clubs. My question is, has club technology got to the point where older manufactured clubs are just a handicap and a complete waste of time to use? Or on the flip side, has golf club technology completely masked our swing flaws and given us a false sense of our own skill that older clubs never allowed. My feel is I would like to get these clubs re-gripped with new shafts put on and train with them to learn the skill of hitting balls out the sweet spot and that that I might reap dividends in the long run. Maybe as the handicap improves there could be some advantage to learning with a difficult blade like this?

 

[CMAC]

back in the day all of us only had blades and yes I agree it helped either make you a better striker of the ball or you hated it and gave up.

Technology certainly has helped with offcentre hits and todays irons are easier to hit, however, you can still top/thin/fat/shank the most forgiving clubs out there if you dont have the swing.

My advice would be to get one club (maybe the 6 iron) regripped etc and try with that before forking out a lot of money on re-doing the whole set.

p.s welcome to the forum.

 

[scottbrown]

I have a couple of old bladed clubs I occasionally use to practice. Makes going back to my TM MCs seem like hitting GI clubs.

 

[Ethan]

The Aussie Blade is a classic iron and worth keeping if they are in any sort of half decent nick. Certainly a different proposition to JPX. They are probably several degrees more lofted, and maybe a bit shorter in the shaft too.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

They were one of the top sets in their day. I had a set and when you were playing great there was no better feeling, especially hitting a long iron into a green. Get it wrong, especially the thin on a cold winter's day and boy did you feel that. There was little forgiveness and so it was sweet spot or bust.

 

[Maninblack4612]

I suggest you cut them down by about 4", they'll fit in the bin better that way.

 

[Ethan]

I suggest you cut them down by about 4", they'll fit in the bin better that way.

Boom tish.

The other gag is 'put them in the garage for 6 weeks, then throw them away completely'.

 

[shivas irons]

Those Aussie Maxfli blades are fantastic and I suggest you get good with the Mizuno's then stick the blades in your bag

 

[Maninblack4612]

I think all this codswallop about blades being better for shot shaping is complete tosh, except for the very low single figure player and even then, I think most of those could do as well, if not better, with non blade clubs.