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thanks for the post. especially on your comment of "heavier feel" personal preference in the wedges i think is pretty important. some people dont realize that setups can be very specific to the player. yea having weight in the shaft is pretty important. ive considered trying KBS tour-v shafts in my 54 because its really only a full and partial swing club, not often used for short game. maybe the occasional long bunker i had 8950gh in my irons and spun them up too much. but id consider them in wedges with some tip trimming thanks for the post i appreciate it what kindve profile does the XP 105 have compared to True Temper DG S300s? soft with a high trajectory or something?

just curious what you guys who tinker have setup. im rocking the beloved macgregor vip wedge shafts. this is my second time ill consider reshafting. i play in colorado. long bentgrass. i generally use my 58 more than anything the ball will stop quickly with little to no runout. im recently played bermuda in ocala while on leave, and saw the same kind of spin but with a bit more rollout. i could still pitch very aggresively and stop the ball with ease. i play a 54 and 58 setup. i have a PM grind 60 in the bag for tight around the greens in cabbage but im not happy with the shaft feel or length. (i like my wedges around the same as my pw) give you an idea i can flight the ball lower with my 58 than my 60 but with a ton more spin. theoretically my 60, if i want it to play even, should stop quicker with a steeper decent into the green but thats not the case. my only concern is that spin tranlates to most shots i try from open faced to lean chips. the spin is immense and sometimes holds me short of ideal on the greens. although it looks good HAHAHHA what i play? the 54 is a dg sensicore s300 thats started to squeak a bit (probably normal)f the 58 is a standard dynamic gold s300 OR IS IT? one of them is softstepped from an 8 iron, i just dont know which. the other was cut to play the same and honestly they feel and bend very similar. kudos to the GOLF ETC. rep that no longer has a store to work at (thanks local sports store for undercutting) i was considering c-taper shafts but would love the short game spin. the 58 will still work out of bunkers and certain shots like downhill chips, etc. and i dont want the 54 to be a gapper and the 58 to be a short game club. wanna maintain consistency also considering regular kbs tour 9orPW softstep to hold spin but tighten feel and dispersion. or considering going with an s400 in the same softstepped 8 iron shaft. maybe the weight will cut spin a slight bit just looking for what you guys play to rack my brain and maybe even give me some new tweaking ideas for my wedges. thanks guys and gals anybody play kbs, TT, Nippon, etc. Aerotech?

just a recap. bought tour edge cb4 tour in 9* . aldila rip sigma claimed to sit in between a beta and alpha to appease the masses. to me it feels like a brute of a shaft. stiffer than the 3 wood i just had reshafted which has an aldila NV 75 tipped a 1/2 inch at 41.625 or something. it was the previous owner of my older 3-woods experimentation. i use it as an alignment rod not important. anyways ive slowly started to figure out the shaft. i still have trouble shutting the face and turning it over. ive considered the slightly softer mid section Aldila RIP phenom which still spins very low for its profile. i would try and get fit for a shaft but they (golfsmtih of colorado springs) would either not know how to fit a driver without any adjustbility, or start some ridiculous search for a new shaft. i have my reservations about that with my 3 wood reshaft i already mentioned. lets just say they ordered the wrong shaft 3 times, reshafted it with a hybrid shaft in the wrong profile (aldila NVS 85) and it took 3 weeks to get my 3 wood back finished. more to follow just in case somebody looks this forum up and learns something.

I didn't entirely cut them out but I cut out quite a few. Between end of last season and now I've tried everything. Nike all 3 types of speed, pro, and flex drivers. Cobra Ltd and f6+. Titleist d2 and d3. My favorites were the xr pro and xr16 pro, Cobra Ltd pro, and the G LS tec. The xr was probably the winner even though it perform similar to the LS tec. LS tec just too hard at contact and loud. The reason I initially did not like adjustable clubs is because the feel seems compromised. The Taylor made and Titleist drivers don't have much feel to me. Callaway changed my perception of that (sortve). Compared to my then i15 the feel lacked. Knowing how good contact was gave me little feedback. I haven't hit the M2 but that looks promising. Only reason I don't want adjustable has nothing to do with the clubs. More to do with me. I'd fiddle around with weights and face angles and lofts way too much. Especially when I'd do something that could be detrimental to distance. So I'm not against adjustable drivers, but I'm not entirely satisfied with them either when I know of models (CB4 Tour) that work fine. And it turns out all I really needed was a lower spinning driver

Hey guys seeing as the ping i15 had a hard time reducing spin, lowest seeing 2900ish, I decided to get a version advertised as "low spin". Seeing as I'm partial towards tour edge, I got their cb4 9* lightly used. Now the stock shaft aldila rip sigma which is claimed to be between an alpha and beta, is quite a trying shaft. I'm gonna try an aldila rip phenom as a compromise and so how I go. I'm currently in a hybrid and putter fenangling. So the adjustments to the bag are coning slowly

I play an i15 9.5 with a ping 700d stiff flex driver. I hit it at golfsmith recently when I thought I might be spinning it too high. The shop guy said it was me. I wasn't releasing the club. After a few swings and a quick mental fix to release the club a bit more I was getting total distance mid 280s, but distinctively remember one shot going 286 with a slight push draw and spinning 3880ish and for some reason remembered that number. Now I talked to the same tech recently after they messed up a shafts order and was hitting the finally finished product, and he thought near 4k was a lot of spin I hit some newer low spin driver about mid 2k in spin and saw great distance numbers. I know it's specific to each player, but do you guys have suggestions on a particular club you like for its look, feel, and control etc? I'm already considering older clubs because I'd prefer no ridiculous adjustability, but im open to suggestons. Just too complicating and would hate to become a tinkerer.

Understood. And all I have to say is that I have mishit and hit this club pure. There is not, in my opinion, much difference in feel. Very firm. No real sense of accomplishment after contact. Different circumstances in forged. This is an age old argument.

With all do respect, I know how to hit a wedge. And cavity backs are meant t felt well struck in a larger area, hence the cavity back. Forged are firmer. But a cast blade wedge to me and even firmer still. I wouldn't post on a forum a question unless I knew ahead of time I could hit the club in question. Now onto the question. Does anybody have any forged wedges, or have hit kronus wedges in question, and can suggest a good traditional forged wedge. And to be fair nike was a mid level golf company 10 years ago and is now one of the titans in the industry. Recent info is most important

Unfortunately I do see the difference. I bought a 50* Vokey sm4 and didn't realize it was a cast club. Kindve incredible that brand new the things are 145?? My only indication of a good hit is flight and a suggested sound. But to me every shot feels like a mishit. Very firm, if not harsh. I also have trouble with short game distance control with it as well as trajectory. I usually never have issues with that. I do like the new K grind vokey. But I could do that with any wedge. Too expensive again. I do like the newer callys. They look incredible

I want something similiar. No strange cavity back wedges. I'm a feel kind of player so how the VIPs feel is actually quite exceptionally good.

Recently I've been looking into forged wedges. I currently have macgregor VIP forged. Which are made by golfsmith with pre-2010 grooves. I like forged. And unique wedges. Only wedges by big names I'm interested in are mizuno and cleveland wedges. But Jim Kronus from "iron factory" is a well reputed refinisher. Anybody playing either kronus or iron factory wedges?

I haven't not hit the i25 or callaway. I'll admit the 915 d3 does look very nice. I'm not such a big fan or the alignment aid in fact I'd prefer hardly visible, or no alignment aid quite honestly. The i15 fits the bill nicely. But it's a bit hard on center hits and although it tells me where I've gone wrong in terms of the fact contact. I don't get enough of a positive sensation when hit flush. Mostly the results are what I draw from. Unfortunately I hit my first round of the season with it 2 days ago and it was fighting hard to stay in the bag. I could place the ball anywhere. There were some missed fairways but the flight was exactly what I want just some fine adjustments at address. I'll give the 915 d3 a nod. Also looking at Cleveland classic xl custom. And possibly a tour edge exotics. I just don't want these big wide flat looking drivers. G series of ping comes to mind

Need SUGGESTIONS. ive been gaming this club for just over a year. and althought i dont mind its challenge, id like for something a little nicer to hit. not neccessarily in terms of forgiveness. if theres a way to keep the more traditional shape and still be able to work the ball id go for that club. i havent had the time to research the new stuff. and even so, the new stuff is never up to what the clubmakers put them out to be. the only club ive looked at is "older". cleveland classic XL custom. i love the shape more than the ping and have heard its one of the best feeling drivers. muted and soft. thats what im looking for really is a great feeling traditional type driver. and spare the jokes of going with a persimmon wood hahaha the ping feels just a bit hard off the face. but still a driver id keep around for the workability and power it is capable of ANY suggestions would be appreciated =)

sorry for the wait..I got away from thesandtrap for a while and just kept playing the irons I currently have with the 950s. I should've abandoned all the speculation and just got fitted because for my swing speed the nippons were playing a 3.7 in flex frequency. (not acceptable) I got a little upset with the golf shop I originally bought the irons from seeing I was fitted so poorly. Since then they have acquired a simulator. I went to a local golf ETC and swung a taylor made iron for fitting purposes with the following shafts: true temper dynamic gold s300 kbs tour kbs c-taper project x (id assume a 5.5?) id have to look at my print out which I currently am unaware where it is. from a feel perspective I cant get why players like the project x...the shafts just feel incredibly heavy in the hands and un-balanced. Needless to say they resulted in the worse results. I dont know if I got solid hits even and the pro shop guy said that shaft doesn't need any more results haha the best results were the kbs c-taper. I crushed all of them and they felt like butter. Which after the first shot I cringed. They are pricey shafts to be honest. the true tempers were a pleasant surprise to me. Being the second best and only losing about at most 3 yards in difference on worst of shorts but very tight dispersion. I was worried the dgs hard hitting nature wouldnt work with my smoother swing. But the performace being at best identical to the c-taper, I made the order and was excited to get back on the course grips were tacki mac it2 midsize. first round without warmup I felt great and actually shot in the low 80s which for me was a good round and I had just started. the next 4 out of 5 rounds were breaking 80. With the 5th being an 85. I felt great and realized now I'm finally where I need to be an made the right decision with the good ole reliable TT dynamic golds. I'm about a half club longer. (not much but at the courses I play its that difference from a lost ball to a phenom shot) particular hole par 3, 3rd which plays to a 4 handicap. I believe its 169 and with a pond playing to the edge of 160 leaving a tough hole. Before with my Nippon 950gh i had to play a 5 iron because the 6 always ballooned just short. My 5 irons flights varied on the hole from ballooning short of the green STILL to pushed right and long my first day with the S300s i played. 6 because i always should've been playing a 6 at that distance. And i put it pin seeking about 2 feet short of the hole. The rest of the round was about the same. I'd bought a Scotty Cameron studio style putter used and was getting used to it compared to my old Wilson 8002 style toe down. But the irons proved there place in my bag. i forgot to mention the swing simulator analyzer measured me for a 5.8 frequency and due to fitting issues with my irons taper (I can't remember exactly the difficulty of it) it ended up easier to fit them to a 6.0 frequency. I'm 23 and have been playing since i was 19 so i can probably grow into a 6.0 easily. So to anyone new to golf and feels their swing isnt strong enough for an S300 I suggest you at least try them. I'm lucky to have long arms (6'4") I can create enough speed with little effort. But the feel and sound of these wilsons are just fine. sorry the long posts this process was long and before the fitting very frustrating not knowing what I did wrong when the ball sailed in every direction but where I was aimed. Now fitted, I've started to feel how to work the ball a bit, control the trajectory, distance. Gripping down on the club actually works and becomes second nature. Man am I a happy golfer now...onto the wedges hahaha