Is forgiveness for humans and not golf irons?

[BubbaP]

Thanks for the replies fellas.Very interesting views.
I agree you can hit further with a forgiving club than a blade if it isn’t a good strike, but that was the point I was trying to make. If your green approach is 120 yds and your bad strike, intending to fly 120, flys 80% as far then you are liable to be in a bunker, water etc. More trouble than if a blade strike is bad and goes 50%.
Posts 5,7 and 10 agree that a bad strike doesn’t produce the required distance.

I agree it’s different re drivers. They weren’t in my thinking.

I follow where you are coming from and it likely comes down to how the course is laid out / designed.

I was at a course a bit back where a lot of bunkers were at the sides of the greens & long was often not good.
MP60s (so not full blades) and misses were often short, and I generally scrambled well from there.

A course with water carries, big front bunkers, then the cavities maintaining carry likely comes out better.

But probably over thinking, and just recalling certain outcomes!