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Alex1975
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Hey mate, good post, interesting stuff.
I totally get what your saying and my take on it is thus:
I started with a crappy set of £100 irons with really soft carbon shafts, they were nasty and even though I was playing of a ladies handicap I did not like them at all. My mate had some Wilson fat shafts and I love them, so I got a set off ebay. They were great and I used them for years, they took me from 36-19 and at that point that felt agricultural to me and I felt the technology had seen its day.
So new club time, I want something that is sexy as my eye now hates what it once loved, Bulk. My eye wants small, sleek, thin, but I am not yet a mid handicap. I know that I will not be able to buy another set of clubs for a while, what do I do, get some ugly I15s or Cally X24s that I will hate the look of or go for the easiest players irons I can.
It is my intent to get better, I want and can feel the ball with them, I want to be able to move the ball, and am starting to be able to, this has been a great step up for me. I find that my good shots are better and my bad shots are the same. Do I every question my decision? yep, have I ever thought I made a bad move?.... No.
I dont want to just accept my swing or my game so I will keep moving forward. If I was happy to settle for my swing I would have got another set of GIs.
On your other points, yes the shortest way from one point to another is a straight line but as you well know, a ball going from right to left will fly further than one going straight or left to right.
I would love to be able to quantify forgiveness. I guess I know if I have hit my driver off the toe it will go ok but be short. Would love to see some science on it though.
Al
I totally get what your saying and my take on it is thus:
I started with a crappy set of £100 irons with really soft carbon shafts, they were nasty and even though I was playing of a ladies handicap I did not like them at all. My mate had some Wilson fat shafts and I love them, so I got a set off ebay. They were great and I used them for years, they took me from 36-19 and at that point that felt agricultural to me and I felt the technology had seen its day.
So new club time, I want something that is sexy as my eye now hates what it once loved, Bulk. My eye wants small, sleek, thin, but I am not yet a mid handicap. I know that I will not be able to buy another set of clubs for a while, what do I do, get some ugly I15s or Cally X24s that I will hate the look of or go for the easiest players irons I can.
It is my intent to get better, I want and can feel the ball with them, I want to be able to move the ball, and am starting to be able to, this has been a great step up for me. I find that my good shots are better and my bad shots are the same. Do I every question my decision? yep, have I ever thought I made a bad move?.... No.
I dont want to just accept my swing or my game so I will keep moving forward. If I was happy to settle for my swing I would have got another set of GIs.
On your other points, yes the shortest way from one point to another is a straight line but as you well know, a ball going from right to left will fly further than one going straight or left to right.
I would love to be able to quantify forgiveness. I guess I know if I have hit my driver off the toe it will go ok but be short. Would love to see some science on it though.
Al
