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    can someone help me find new irons

    I've been playing TaylorMade OS for approx. 3.5 years...which was my first new set of irons (only been playing for approx. 4 years)...

    I feel like its time for a new set of irons, but don't know anything about how to pick a new set...My handicap is approx. 13, I've been shooting mid 80's for a while now...havn't been getting much better, and looking for equipment improvement, as it may help...

    I went to look at Mizuno irons...of course they felt great...but I wasn't sure which model would suit my swing...I like the Taylormade brand, but willing to try something new.

    Can anyone help me, on how to fit irons to my swing - any suggestions with brands?
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  • #2
    Re: can someone help me find new irons

    I suggest you head to www.danscustomgolfshop.com/registry.html and find someone close to you for a TLT fitting. I prefer the Wishon brand myself.

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    • #3
      Re: can someone help me find new irons

      If you don't want them made as Ben suggests then check out these reviews

      For single figures http://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/images/pdf/64.pdf

      For higher caps http://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/images/pdf/39.pdf

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      • #4
        Re: can someone help me find new irons

        hi
        think its a case of going and trying every club you like the look of and also every club the the golf pro/assistant suggests.
        take your time in making up your mind and try and get them fitted as that is very important. get the clubs to fit you and not you having to fit the clubs.
        best of luck
        bill

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        • #5
          Re: can someone help me find new irons

          has anyone heard anything about the TaylorMade r7 irons? I was thinking they would be a good segway from my TaylorMade OS irons...

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          • #6
            Re: can someone help me find new irons

            Try getting custom fitted for Ping... Callaways are good too...

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            • #7
              Re: can someone help me find new irons

              Mizuno are good clubs and as most are forged can be bent to fit

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              • #8
                Re: can someone help me find new irons

                Originally posted by BrianW View Post
                Mizuno are good clubs and as most are forged can be bent to fit
                You can bend cast clubs too...

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                • #9
                  Re: can someone help me find new irons

                  Originally posted by LowPost42 View Post
                  You can bend cast clubs too...
                  Well there you go, I didn't know that. How do they do it My experience in cast parts has been that due to the lack of grain flow and the porosity cast materials tend to resist bending and crack.

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                  • #10
                    Re: can someone help me find new irons

                    hi Brian
                    all ping's can be bent + and - 2 degrees and the have been bending there clubs from the late 60s. it is how the clubs are cast and heated, it takes longer to make a club that can be bent and a lot of club makers wont bend some makes of clubs.
                    with ping if they snap a club at the neck when bending then they just get another head that speck (all pings are numbered and there speck is recorded and held on file so you damage a club. just a phone call and a replacement is on its way) and they stamp on the same number on it as the broken club and put the old shaft back in.
                    just to add the older the ping club is, then the harder it is to bend so i take it the head ages and gets more brittle to bending.
                    cheers
                    bill
                    Last edited by bill reed; 08-11-2008, 04:40 PM.

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                    • #11
                      Re: can someone help me find new irons

                      Bill touched on the big reason - the annealing (metal hardening) process. The better the process, the more bendable the head is. Now, forged heads by nature are more easily bent than cast heads, but cast heads can be bent, especially with the (relatively new) carbon steels out there. For example, the SMT 303 irons can be bent up to 8 degrees easily (I have), and their durometer wedges (also cast) I've bent 10 degrees for loft with no ill effect.

                      Now, the older cast clubs (say, made of 14-4 stainless) are very difficult to bend, but not impossible.

                      Whether cast or forged, the tough ones to bend are the bore-throughs (like Callaway irons). You actually bend the shaft in the head. It's part of the reason that you have to send your clubs back to Callaway.

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                      • #12
                        Re: can someone help me find new irons

                        hi lowpost
                        all the newer ping irons have a grove cut into the neck to help them in being bent.
                        if you look its angled just a little so i take it it changes the stress point.
                        cheers
                        bill

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