I admit that I held out on the hybrid craze longer than made sense. I carried a two-iron in place of a 5-wood or hybrid and would use it from the tee, the fairway, and the rough when the lie was good enough to goad me into going for it.
What’s that have to do with a set of irons? My two-iron was a PING Eye2, and until I tried the i15s, that single club represented the vast majority of my experience with PING irons. Sure, I’d seen how popular the Eye2s were with players in the 90s, but I never liked the look of the excessive high toe weighting, the bulge in the heel, the thicker topline, and the general look and feel. Even that two-iron had a bit too much offset for my taste – I had to watch that I didn’t hook the thing off the planet.
Having played with the i15s for several rounds now, though, it’s obvious to me that while PING has stayed true to their roots (the i15 is immediately recognizable as a PING iron), they’ve made substantive improvements through the years and deserve consideration from a wide variety of players.
We catch up on Tiger, Phil, Michelle Wie, the PGA Tour (and its first drug test failee), and everything we’ve missed in the past month, and a whole lot more in this episode of Golf Talk.
New products are being announced left and right, and they’re starting to make their way into stores. Surely, you’re tempted by something, whether it’s a new driver or a new set of irons. We’ve seen new clubs from 
Hello again golf fans and welcome to Hittin’ the Links. I am back in action this week, I would like to thank Alan Olsen for picking up the slack for me last week – a fine job he did.
Australia wisely invested $3M to lure Tiger Woods to the JBWere Masters, and they were treated to nothing less than Tiger’s best effort in a two-shot victory.