Irons and wedges.

[haplesshacker]

After reading a couple of other threads on wedges. It got me thinking.

Does anyone else think that their GI or beginner PW, (or even their regular irons), feels blimin' heavy, cumbersome and chunky, when compared to their 'bladey' gap, sand and lob wedges?

Must admit that I try and avoid using my PW, and will generally opt for the full swing with the 52 if I can. Even though I prefer half and three quarter swings with the wedges.

 

[mono217]

Yup defo i prefer hitting a full 52 degree rather than a 3/4 or 1/2 PW any day of the week.

 

[Whereditgo]

Can't say I have noticed it at all (bet I do now though lol)

I never seem to have much success with a full swing of the 52, I much prefer to 3/4 swing my PW even starting to choke down on the PW and take a full swing. The 52 is in spectacular form from 40 yards in though

 

[GB72]

Only really use my PW on full shots as the lofts these days mean it is basically a 9 iron. Use my gap wedge more than anything else, it is 50 degrees and great for chipping, pitching, pretty much anything.

 

[jeffc]

use the pw,gw,and sw all with full swings and have a 60* mizzy wedge for bunkers. use the sw for 8/9/10 o clock pitches.
As I have said before on this subject, yes they are not as delicate or as a fancy as a set of wedges but it means that all the irons feel the same.
Set of wedges can cost you as much if not more than the original set of irons, that don't make sense to me, where do you stop?

Just my opinion

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Im currently using a 52 and 58 set of wedges but still torn whether to dump a longer club (5 wood probably) and go with 52, 56 and 60 to give myself some real versatility around the greens.

I am hitting the 52 pure and actually generating lots of back spin. Looked particularly impressive on out par 5 15th on Saturday in the medal where I flew it 2 foot past the pin and spun it back two foot the other side. Would have been even better to have made the putt but the zip looked good!

 

[haplesshacker]

All very nice, but I think I must have miscommunicated my question. (To some anyway!).

I just wondered about how you felt about the differences between your iron set standard wedges and your specialist 'bladey' wedges? And whether you alter your game to either make use of, or avoid using either of them?

ie. have you ditched any of the iron set wedges for specialist wedges, and how you felt about that etc.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[RGDave]

Does anyone else think that their GI or beginner PW, (or even their regular irons), feels blimin' heavy, cumbersome and chunky, when compared to their 'bladey' gap, sand and lob wedges?

Nope. Then again my irons are swing weight D1 or so and my wedges a few notches heavier.

Dunno? Some GI irons do feel awfully heavy.....I just wouldn't but a set that did.....each to their own....

 

[julsk10]

My irons are mizuno mx 25's and they do not have cavity backs on the 8, 9 and PW, more of a blade back so are reasonably the same to look at as my titleist wedges so have not got the problem of them looking chunky for short shots

 

[RGDave]

My irons are mizuno mx 25's and they do not have cavity backs on the 8, 9 and PW, more of a blade back so are reasonably the same to look at as my titleist wedges so have not got the problem of them looking chunky for short shots

Couldn't have put it better.

Only thing is.....they are still cavity-backed...it's just the others are a little hybrid in design.

I have MX-900s which are a similar deal.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have to be honest and say the SW on my tour burner looks like a 4th form metalwork project. Its big chunky and uninspiring and has never been hit. I use up to the PW (itself not a thing of great beauty) and then my TP Z wedges which are much more refined and behave as well as they look.

 

[RGDave]

I have to be honest and say the SW on my tour burner looks like a 4th form metalwork project. Its big chunky and uninspiring and has never been hit.

Leave it in the shed.....for sure.

It's weird how all this technology can make a bag look pretty damn odd.

I have a square (type) driver
regular 3 and 5 woods
a rescue 3 iron
a big bertha (super GI) 4 iron
5/6/7 Mizuno hollow tech/wide sole/cavity
8/9/PW standard cavity
GW/SW satin and vokey.

No more than 3 clubs of a similar design!

Still, it doesn't bother me - I just hit the thing and let the club help me.....(if it does!)

I went and played today at 6.00 and just got round.

I got thinking last night that I'd actually over-shot 6 greens yesterday (thanks, I believe to improving my path).

So, today, I went down a club every time I was working out which short iron to hit. NB....this isn't so strange, since I always go up a club if in-between.

The result.....well, I only over-shot just the one green and had 77 shots total.

The highlight of the round was a 270 yard drive off the yellows at the S.I. 1 hole.
The lowlight was the next shot, 110 to the centre of the green, took a PW and landed in some cabbage about 20cms off the back of the 1st cut. ...I reckon I hit that wedge 125 yards.....madness....(for me).

Still 77, not bad.....

less than 36 hours until Holiday.....then return in 10 days to hackers-ville no doubt.

 

[Golfmmad]

Good shooting RGDave, even off yellows 77 is great golf!
What do you play off, and can I ask, is it a golf holiday?

Golfmmad.

 

[RGDave]

Sadly, not a golf holiday.

Clubs laid up for while unless the weather holds, then I'll be down the club tomorrow for another 87 probably!

Such an odd game.

Currently off 11.6 and unlikely to move ever. I tend to par the last 4 off yellow and make bogey/bogey/double/bogey off white.....

 

[USER1999]

Back to the OP, no, as my 8, 9 and pw are blades anyway. I wouldn't buy a set where the high lofted clubs are clunky. It just isn't right. I can't see why you need technological help in getting a wedge off the deck.

 

[RGDave]

Back to the OP, no, as my 8, 9 and pw are blades anyway. I wouldn't buy a set where the high lofted clubs are clunky. It just isn't right. I can't see why you need technological help in getting a wedge off the deck.

Couldn't agree more.

In an ideal world, I'd probably exchange my 7 iron for one that matches the 8/9/PW.....

as it is, it's lumped in with the 5/6 iron as a bit chunky.

Rather oddly, a well struck 8 iron is only 5 yards short of the 7 anyway, just goes to show, these G.I. irons help you get the ball up, but not so great for the ideal trajectory.