1 iron

[bill reed]

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hi cmays
i to am a shortish fat guy and i to play the one iron more like i do a driver, i do find the 1 iron to be on the fairway more times than not, do you find it harder to use or is it just another club in your bag that you use for a type of shot you sometimes need. i really find it so suprising how so many people have trouble using it. i have never though of it a hard club to use but i would never use it in rough or a bad lie, to me its just a club i use to hit a long low shot, like i use a wedge for a high short shot.
i do think if i can use one then most player could.
bill

[jfacteau]

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I was given a 1 iron.I am having lots of trouble with it . Does any one know how to hit it?

I still use one when the winds kick up in the fall here in the seacost of New England. Play it a little forward so you dont hit down on it and swing SMOOTH ! do not try and kill it. Can be a great club to have or a fantastic lightning rod.

[Scragger63]

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I too have a Ping Eye 1 iron, and I love it... I carry it in preference to my 3 metal...

Being a tall lump of a lad, 6'5" or so in the old and weighing in at around 110kgs. I spray the woods all over the shop, possibly cos I like to swing hard. I have a Taylor Bubble Burner 9 Deg Driver with a stiff shaft and I just can't bring myself to slow down once I pick it up. Standing over the ball, driver in hand, I say to myself, slow down, but once I start to take it back, something in me says, its your driver, go ahead and smack it!!!

I have always managed to hit my long irons well.

I can't explain it, I just know I can hit them well.

All I need to be able to do is chip and putt.

My troubles start once I get inside 100m.

I love this game.

Cheers

[ilang]

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The only thing thats good for is when there is lightning.Even God cannot hit a 1 iron.

[javichanche]

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Are u crazy!!! There are easier golf clubs such as hybrids or fairway woods!! You won´t see actually a golf player using a 1 iron, though fine strikers such as Jose MAría Olazabal still using a 1 iron sometimes.

[Ian Hancock]

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Hi Guys,

I keep noticing this very old thread keep comming up and would just like to add that I still carry my 2 iron and love it................................................ The question I would like to ask is how many of you have actually tried to hit a 1/2 iron, I say 1/2 as they are about the same now, the modern 2 is like the old 1 iron.

I would suggest that most player have never even hit one because they think a 3 is hard enough, when I have always found the 2 iron easy to hit and subsiquently gave me more confidence with my 3 and 4, so you could say it's a good training aid.


Easier than you might think.


Ian.

[bloodredsun]

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I have a 2 iron that I use for training purposes, the logic being that any flaws in my swing are pretty obvious when trying to use an 18 degree bladed club head to pick the ball off the deck.

[javichanche]

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Obviously this is not a club for a mid handicapper. Maybe if u are a single digit handicap it could be used as a training aid, but even professionals are changing 2 irons for rescue clubs. It is silly using a 2 iron when we can take advantage of the new technologies, as professional players do.

[bill reed]

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hi
i'm a 14 handicaper and i use my 1 iron on 3 holes on the course i play and it works well for me and i have no problem with it, if its really windy i use it to drive with on a lot more of the holes, i hit my 1 iron about 230/240 yards and its on the fairway more than my driver or 3 or 5 woods, i dont even take my 3 wood with me now, i have a ping k11 2 iron with a ping bar that hits the ball even lower and that works too, i hit that about 200 yards, if it works then use it, if it works real good then why change it.
i think a lot of it in the mind with a 1 iron, i have never had a problem hitting with my old ping eye 1 iron, and three of my friends have tried it and could hit it it ok, one hitting it about 260 yards and as far as his drive. its all about not trying to hit to hard and let the club do the work. if clubs are a matched set then why would it be harder to hit than a 5 iron?????
bill

[ilang]

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I used to use a 1 iron when i was younger when there was not the equipment there is today.I played with the small ball then,much easier to hit.Today with the modern equipment i dont see the need for a 1 iron.Amateurs that use a 1 iron off the tee,usually have no confidence in their woods.You may have an advantage on very dry fairways with lots of run,like links courses.There are not many high handicap players who can hit a 1 iron off the deck with no rolling of the ball.So what club would you leave out of your bag,in place of it?.

[ilang]

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Bill Reed,you hit a 1 iron 240 yet your handicap is 14?Then you must have a problem with your short game.Or your course is 8000 yards long.If you were playing the 5th at my course, par 5 ,520 yards long.You would have a pitch shot of 40 yards left.The index is 3,so you get a shot on that hole from me,remind me not to have a bet with you.Just kidding, but tell us whats wrong with the rest of your game?.

[bill reed]

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hi ilang
only get to play on a sunday due to work and family comitments, had to give up for a year due to damage to my spine and did not think i'd play again, been back playing almost a year now and feel like i playing some of my best golf but my back is still weak so i cant play to much or go to the range much. hopping to play more next year and drop a few more shots. use my 1 iron more as a drivng iron and not of fairway very often, i can reach the green on two of my par 5s but sometimes it runs through the green and its a harder shot back on both holes so it better to be short or play to hit a full 8 or 9 with the third shot.
thanks for your kind words.
bill

[ilang]

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Thanks for the reply Bill.I live in the Philippines now,some of your posts remind me of my times,on some great Scotish links courses.I married a lady from Dundee so when we visited there i always played the local courses.Carnoustie, Barry Down,St,Andrews(10shillings green fee when i played it.)I played the old course, and a 1 iron was very usefull around there.Story goes about the origin of 18 holes,many years ago the commitee sat around a table in the St Andrews clubhouse discussing the matter.they broke open a bottle of scotch,and they got 18 nips in total.So 18 holes were born.any truth in that?.
hope you get fit soon.

[bill reed]

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hi ilang
never heard the one about the 18 nips but i know my course the old course in musselburgh is the oldest in the world and it started with 7 holes and went up to 9, said that golf was played there in 1567 and have evidence that golf was played there in 1672, in 1870 the made it a 9 hole course and they played it twice so thats how we got the 18 holes. musselburgh is a lot older than St Andrews.
you said you played carnoustie, how did you find it, i think its the hardest course to play anywhere and its one course that cant be mastered.
i said i hit a 1 iron 220 but thats run too not just carry.
cheers
bill

[ilang]

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Thanks Bill,Carnoustie,was hard,played with a local who knew the course backwards.So that helped alot.He watched Ben Hogon win the open there.If you remember the par 5 rifle hole,next to the rifle range.well theres a bunker on the left that stops you opening up the green,so most people drive to the middle.Hogan drove it over the bunker into a gap between the bunker and the out of bounds fence.The gap is only 30 yards wide.Hogan did this in all 4 rounds,and the only one to miss the green side bunkers with his approach shots.Yes great course,but back tees forget it.