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This is a something I was thinking for the past few days that I want all golfers opinions on. So I am in the market on updating my golf clubs and especially my irons, now I have a Callaway 8 Rogue that I want to get at least the 6 and 7 irons to go along with it but now being on a budget I may be able to only get one for now. If I bought one now and the other I am looking at sells, is it fine to go with a different brand of iron to fill the set?

 

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2 minutes ago, Supersoft said:

This is a something I was thinking for the past few days that I want all golfers opinions on. So I am in the market on updating my golf clubs and especially my irons, now I have a Callaway 8 Rogue that I want to get at least the 6 and 7 irons to go along with it but now being on a budget I may be able to only get one for now. If I bought one now and the other I am looking at sells, is it fine to go with a different brand of iron to fill the set?

 

Why wouldn’t it be fine? 

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2 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Why wouldn’t it be fine? 

I always thought most golfers wanted one brand cause thats what they felt comfortable with

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23 minutes ago, Supersoft said:

This is a something I was thinking for the past few days that I want all golfers opinions on. So I am in the market on updating my golf clubs and especially my irons, now I have a Callaway 8 Rogue that I want to get at least the 6 and 7 irons to go along with it but now being on a budget I may be able to only get one for now. If I bought one now and the other I am looking at sells, is it fine to go with a different brand of iron to fill the set?

 

 

20 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Why wouldn’t it be fine? 

I once had a set of Ping G5s 3i through PW. I also had a Cleveland 56* sand wedge. I was playing really well and really knew my distances for my clubs. A couple years later I noticed that I really needed a gap wedge for 100 yard shots. One day I found a Ping i3 UW in a used bin at the golf big box retail store.

Well it went 100 yards, but it had a bad habit of consistently landing 15 yards or right of my target. I ended up compensating for this, but it was sure frustrating if I forgot to compensate. 

I would be concerned about loft, offset, weighting which could affect flight between different brands. I haven't looked in a few years, but there seemed to be so much stuff on eBay from good manufacturers. Full sets of irons less than $200?

When I go from my Ping e1 5i to my G30 3h, I have to be conscious if the offset and the draw bias on the hybrid. I think that playing irons from a set is important.

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5 minutes ago, Carl3 said:

 

I once had a set of Ping G5s 3i through PW. I also had a Cleveland 56* sand wedge. I was playing really well and really knew my distances for my clubs. A couple years later I noticed that I really needed a gap wedge for 100 yard shots. One day I found a Ping i3 UW in a used bin at the golf big box retail store.

Well it went 100 yards, but it had a bad habit of consistently landing 15 yards or right of my target. I ended up compensating for this, but it was sure frustrating if I forgot to compensate. 

I would be concerned about loft, offset, weighting which could affect flight between different brands. I haven't looked in a few years, but there seemed to be so much stuff on eBay from good manufacturers. Full sets of irons less than $200?

When I go from my Ping e1 5i to my G30 3h, I have to be conscious if the offset and the draw bias on the hybrid. I think that playing irons from a set is important.

thank you for the help

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9 minutes ago, Supersoft said:

thank you for the help

When I started out I was given a starter set of irons 3, 5, 7 and 9. Maybe you could go with the 4, 6, and PW to supplement you 8i. Lots of women's sets are half sets like that.

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29 minutes ago, Carl3 said:

When I started out I was given a starter set of irons 3, 5, 7 and 9. Maybe you could go with the 4, 6, and PW to supplement you 8i. Lots of women's sets are half sets like that.

Carl I sent you a message on the Cobra F-Max One Length Iron set

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On 2/10/2020 at 11:19 AM, Supersoft said:

This is a something I was thinking for the past few days that I want all golfers opinions on. So I am in the market on updating my golf clubs and especially my irons, now I have a Callaway 8 Rogue that I want to get at least the 6 and 7 irons to go along with it but now being on a budget I may be able to only get one for now. If I bought one now and the other I am looking at sells, is it fine to go with a different brand of iron to fill the set?

 

Buying clubs (irons) singly is a very uneconomical way to do it. Use whatever you have and then buy a complete iron set. My research shows that buying two irons or three irons individually is a similar price to buying a whole set. They price single irons high because they think someone needs tp replace a single club which is cheaper than buying a whole new set.

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As long as that number at the end of the score card is satisfactory, what's in the bag is not a big deal.

I flew to DFW for husiness, and a visit with relatives. Didn't take my clubs with me.

Had an offer to play some golf at some nice courses in the aea. My nephew spent a morning driving me around the area to different golf outlets where I pieced together a short set of clubs. It was a mixed up set of used clubs. 

Played a couple rounds with some big shot business types, who didn't take kindly to being out played by a rag tag bag of clubs.  

Nothing wrong with a mixed bag of clubs. Irons, or otherwise. 

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