I have the G400 models and find they are excellent firing into par 3's off the tee and haven't notice too much of a flatter flight unless strike is poor. Certainly on par 3's I am seeing them pitch and stop fairly quickly. I haven't tried the latest incarnations, certainly of the Ping so it will be interesting to see if they are indeed harder to flight and control
I did the same a few months ago, replaced my 5 iron with a Ping G410 5 hybrid. So far the results have been positive. Strike is so much better/consistent with the hybrid, increasing my confidence. It gets the ball airborne so easily and lands with a decent enough descent angle to make stopping it on a long par 3 manageable.
This seems to be a bit of a daft side effect of iron lofts getting stronger and stronger. The lower numbered irons just don't have enough loft to launch easily. More and more people are getting hybrids and starting their irons at 6, like you and I. If you look at that on paper though it seems pretty ridiculous - irons that were numbered 1 to 9 now starting at 6. I wonder if in another five or ten years most people's irons will be starting at 7? The mind boggles.
As has been mentioned on here many times over though, a 7 iron now is effectively a 6 iron from the past. If the lofts in the bag are the same, just the numbers are changing, is it actually much difference?
It will be when they run out of numbers! Haha.
Not that far off from my bag......I carry 5 wedges.It will be when they run out of numbers! Haha.
'What's in your bag?'
'Oh just driver, 3 wood, 5 wood, hybrid, then 9, PW, AW, GW, SW, LW, 50, 54 and 58, and putter.'
You obviously have a lot tighter gaps at the top than me. I have D, 3W, 7W, 5H and then 6 iron, so that's four clubs for me where you have six. I don't feel like I have any gapping issues though - do your gaps really warrant having that many at the top end? Granted it might be the case that your 6 iron isn't as strong as mine (24.5).
What's the difference between your 5 wood and 3 hybrid? I go 3W to 3H and only really hit the 3W on long holes into the wind. I'd have thought the 5W and 3H would go around the same distance.
Got a pretty decent average dispersal (according to Arcoss) of 12-16 yards per club so for me that is more than adequate. More often at not it means I can hit the lower loft and not have to try and smash it and swinging smoother normally equates to a better strike and overall distance
I thought my 6 iron was strong at 27.5, that 24.5 is mental.
My 7 iron is 27.5.
My I series 7 iron is 33 degrees. and PW is 46My 7 iron is 27.5.
Never thought about it....but 10/14 of mine have head covers. Only the 50/54/58/64 wedges don't. Head covers are a real pain in the butt...........
Ditch the covers
. I don't bother with a cover on my 3 wood or hybrids. Just driver and putter and even that is largely just to stop clatter. Liberate yourself!
