same length shaft irons

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afternoon all,

following my recent round at Foxhills where I was hitting my 6,7,8 etc irons really well but struggled with my long irons I was thinking of getting my irons shafted with the same length shaft - possibly 6 iron length

I am no expert club builder and my clubs have all come from fleabay but what are the potential pit falls of having a standard length shaft in all my irons as surely my swing will only change on my 3 wood and hybrid.

thanks

Dando
 
Look up Bryson DeChambeau and his clubs. He has his clubs all the same length to make his swing more repeatable as he will always use the same swing. Apparently when he changed to it he had to do a lot of work to find out his gapping and the distance control was a big issue to him. Considering he is a +4/5 handicap top amateur I think it would be a lot harder for guys like us to change. Although there is talk that this is the way forward for golf clubs.

I believe he got all of his to 7 iron length as this offers him the best gapping.
 
The big issue is head weight and therefor swing weight. Your wedge is your heaviest club and your driver your lightest. Bryson DeChambeau iron heads are all the same weight, yours are not and you will be hard pushed to make them so.
 
Alex1975 said:
The big issue is head weight and therefor swing weight.
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In addition, wouldn't the lie angles all be wrong? If you have the same shaft lengths, you'd need the same lie angles, which a standard set of irons certainly don't have. I guess a set of Pings could be adjusted that way.
 
cliveb said:
In addition, wouldn't the lie angles all be wrong? If you have the same shaft lengths, you'd need the same lie angles, which a standard set of irons certainly don't have. I guess a set of Pings could be adjusted that way.
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A good point. To some extent forged irons are easily bent but only so far.
 
cliveb said:
In addition, wouldn't the lie angles all be wrong? If you have the same shaft lengths, you'd need the same lie angles, which a standard set of irons certainly don't have. I guess a set of Pings could be adjusted that way.
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Not necessarily. There are a number of golfers who play all their iron shots from the same position. For example the middle of your stance. You can still play this way and produce good shots.
 
jamielaing said:
Not necessarily. There are a number of golfers who play all their iron shots from the same position. For example the middle of your stance. You can still play this way and produce good shots.
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For sure but any standard set of irons will have all different lie angles as they would be designed to take ever longer shafts throughout the set so if a 7 iron shaft were put in them all then they would all need changing bar the 7 iron.
 
its not a new concept. if you look around you can find some same length sets.
 
Alex1975 said:
For sure but any standard set of irons will have all different lie angles as they would be designed to take ever longer shafts throughout the set so if a 7 iron shaft were put in them all then they would all need changing bar the 7 iron.
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Not really a problem,. For example, in the Mizuno MX 25 set there is only 3½° difference in lie angle between the 3 iron & pitching wedge http://dw4golf.com/iron-specs/mizuno-irons-specs/mizuno-mx-25-specs/ All my irons are bent around 4° flat so an average of around 2° either way for a forged club is fine, as long as the user isn't built like me!
 
HomerJSimpson said:
No you didn't dream it. Around the early 80's they had a set based around a 7 iron left
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On the face of it, a set of clubs with the same length shafts sounds quite attractive, but there are a number of downsides. A driver with a 7-iron shaft wouldn't hit the ball very far, while a wedge with 7-iron shaft might be harder to control! You would also have to make all the club heads the same weight and lie angle. The idea with a standard set of clubs is that each one is optimised for its primary purpose and the clubs have similar swing weights and vary in feel in a progressive manner through the set.
 
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delc said:
On the face of it, a set of clubs with the same length shafts sounds quite attractive, but there are a number of downsides. A driver with a 7-iron shaft wouldn't hit the ball that far, while a wedge with 7-iron shaft might be harder to control! You would also have to make all the club heads the same weight and lie angle. The idea with a standard set of clubs is that each one is optimised for its primary purpose and the clubs have similar swing weights and vary in feel in a progressive manner.
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Well the Tiger Shark brand was around for a good few years and so they must have found a way to make them playable. It's not a new idea and was only in the irons so your point about drivers is mute.
 
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