craigstardis1976
Head Pro
So the Adams Idea Irons have not been working out. Despite their nice Golf Pride grips, the quality Aldila graphite shafts, the easy to hit hybrids, we just have not seen eye to eye.
True enough there was the occasional good shot....but more often than not they just trundled along the ground and if the confidence I had was caught leaving on a speed camera the local Deputy's no doubt would have pulled him over, instead of catching the madman who is randomly killing people on the interstate around our fair city at the moment...(Google Phoenix shootings!)
I have been fortunate enough to play with some very good players since arriving here and last week one of them loaned me a set of PING Eye2 Irons. The originals, he added in a reverential tone.
They have a compact head, stiff steel shafts and very old school lofts. Two practice sessions with them seemed promising. No more topping or thinning - the ball got airborne very easily. Yesterday, I shot an 81 and was just one over for the last nine holes. My best effort by a long way.
Why a set of irons that by modern standards are unforgiving, have way too stiff shafts for my meager clubhead speed and are one inch shorter per club and with old style lofts to boot hit further and straighter than a modern set, I do not know. But they do. It may be because they seem to have a very light static weight. What I do know is I could even get the 4 Iron airborne with no problems. The PW goes around 115-120 yards at 50 degrees of loft whereas before I was using a graphite shafted 9 iron with 41 degrees of loft to cover the same distance.
And while they look like they could survive a nuclear apocalypse, I will take them to the course again today, as long as I do not get shot dead on the drive there!
True enough there was the occasional good shot....but more often than not they just trundled along the ground and if the confidence I had was caught leaving on a speed camera the local Deputy's no doubt would have pulled him over, instead of catching the madman who is randomly killing people on the interstate around our fair city at the moment...(Google Phoenix shootings!)
I have been fortunate enough to play with some very good players since arriving here and last week one of them loaned me a set of PING Eye2 Irons. The originals, he added in a reverential tone.
They have a compact head, stiff steel shafts and very old school lofts. Two practice sessions with them seemed promising. No more topping or thinning - the ball got airborne very easily. Yesterday, I shot an 81 and was just one over for the last nine holes. My best effort by a long way.
Why a set of irons that by modern standards are unforgiving, have way too stiff shafts for my meager clubhead speed and are one inch shorter per club and with old style lofts to boot hit further and straighter than a modern set, I do not know. But they do. It may be because they seem to have a very light static weight. What I do know is I could even get the 4 Iron airborne with no problems. The PW goes around 115-120 yards at 50 degrees of loft whereas before I was using a graphite shafted 9 iron with 41 degrees of loft to cover the same distance.
And while they look like they could survive a nuclear apocalypse, I will take them to the course again today, as long as I do not get shot dead on the drive there!
