Potor_36
Club Champion
Looking for a bit of advice/opinion here guys - I recently bought the Callaways over the forum as something of an experiment and am very much undecided about whether or not they are helping my game.
Basically, I got a 2nd-hand set of the MX900's shortly after taking up golf nearly 3 years ago. For those that aren't familiar with them, they have pretty traditional forged 8i-pw but hollow-backed 3-7 irons, albeit with forged faces or something like that. Anyway, in that time the standard of my swing has vastly improved as you would expect and when playing well I really like the clubs (don't we all
), but I've never been totally comfortable with how different the 2 types of iron look and feel. On a bad day, I often wish I had a more forgiving set throughout.
The result? Despite having lessons after joining a club last november and seeing improvement, I managed to convince myself that I could score better if I was using a set of big, chunky GI irons. Hence the Callaways. Now, when I first got them I wasn't sure about them at all because I was developing a habit of hooking the occasional shot in my search to correct previous swing flaws, and the huge offset on the new clubs compared to the MX900's only seemed to exaggerate this. That said, my best ever round on the main course at my club was an 88 on only my second outing with them.
I went back to using the 900's once the 'power-draw' had been dealt with (largely) and felt much more comfortable, expecially with the short irons - I couldn't and still can't quite deal with looking down at a 9/8i quite so large and shovelly as the BIG Berthas are. I was playing really well at this point, even managing 18 holes round our 9-hole course in only 67 shots (par 31 twice). All was good.
Unfortunately, a severe attack of the sherman tanks during a round a few weeks later (we are talking about 8 or 9 of the b***ers, not just the odd one) made me think about re-trying the Callaways and they have gone pretty well since. I still like them better for anything roughly 4-6i, and still can't stand the short irons (not that I've been playing noticably worse with them compared the the Mizunos, but I just hate the look and don't feel confident using them for shots around the green).
So, my question is:
Which set would you persevere with and why? As I'm sure you can tell, I really am in 2 minds on this. If money was no object I would probably ditch both and go and get custom-fitted for a set I really liked (I'm a bit of a short-ass at only 5'3'' so it would probably make sense), but I can't really justify that right now
Basically, I got a 2nd-hand set of the MX900's shortly after taking up golf nearly 3 years ago. For those that aren't familiar with them, they have pretty traditional forged 8i-pw but hollow-backed 3-7 irons, albeit with forged faces or something like that. Anyway, in that time the standard of my swing has vastly improved as you would expect and when playing well I really like the clubs (don't we all
), but I've never been totally comfortable with how different the 2 types of iron look and feel. On a bad day, I often wish I had a more forgiving set throughout.The result? Despite having lessons after joining a club last november and seeing improvement, I managed to convince myself that I could score better if I was using a set of big, chunky GI irons. Hence the Callaways. Now, when I first got them I wasn't sure about them at all because I was developing a habit of hooking the occasional shot in my search to correct previous swing flaws, and the huge offset on the new clubs compared to the MX900's only seemed to exaggerate this. That said, my best ever round on the main course at my club was an 88 on only my second outing with them.
I went back to using the 900's once the 'power-draw' had been dealt with (largely) and felt much more comfortable, expecially with the short irons - I couldn't and still can't quite deal with looking down at a 9/8i quite so large and shovelly as the BIG Berthas are. I was playing really well at this point, even managing 18 holes round our 9-hole course in only 67 shots (par 31 twice). All was good.
Unfortunately, a severe attack of the sherman tanks during a round a few weeks later (we are talking about 8 or 9 of the b***ers, not just the odd one) made me think about re-trying the Callaways and they have gone pretty well since. I still like them better for anything roughly 4-6i, and still can't stand the short irons (not that I've been playing noticably worse with them compared the the Mizunos, but I just hate the look and don't feel confident using them for shots around the green).
So, my question is:
Which set would you persevere with and why? As I'm sure you can tell, I really am in 2 minds on this. If money was no object I would probably ditch both and go and get custom-fitted for a set I really liked (I'm a bit of a short-ass at only 5'3'' so it would probably make sense), but I can't really justify that right now
so I'll stick with just 4-7 for now.
