Need some advice please

[upstate-sc-hacker]

I have been looking for a new set of irons as of late and cant afford to spend 500 or 600 dollars on a new set. I currently am hitting TA 845s that are probably 15 years old or better and other than being a bit inconsistent i like them and wasnt even wanting a new set until i broke my old ping knock off driver a couple of months ago and bought the Adams bul 5000. Wow could not believe how much of a difference it made in my game. So now i am in the market for a set of irons. I want a set that will give me some feedback without having to take 100 trips to the driving range to learn how to hit them. I am a 19 handicap now, but i also quit playing for 7 years or so and just really picked my clubs back up. I was previously a 14 handicap and if i could ever have learned a short game could have probably been in the single digits fairly easily. I took a trip to a local golf shop and hit the Mizuno mx 25's, ping g5's, soe cobra's and the mx-19's. Hit the mx-25's first and to be honest they made every other club feel like garbage, but really cant afford them. When i hit them my swing speed with a 6 iron was 92-95 not trying too over swing. My irons are a pretty solid part of my game and am very comfortable with my long irons. These are some i was considering.

Titleist 704cb and the 804
Cleveland TA 7

Since i really haven't hit another iron in 12 years or so, i would appreciate some feedback from someone that has played these irons. Thank you in advance for the help.

[polodinks]

buy my titleist ap1s theyre really nice irons for a handicap like yours..... i know its out of your budget like you said above but $550 shipped cant go wrong look at my post's you'll find my thread

[Lefty731PM]

  polodinks said:

buy my titleist ap1s theyre really nice irons for a handicap like yours..... i know its out of your budget like you said above but $550 shipped cant go wrong look at my post's you'll find my thread

He said he can't afford that kind of money - man!!!!!

You will find lots of excellent sets on ebay and you will be able to get them for considerably less than $550. Try and hit as many sets as you can (easier said than done) and go back to ebay and see if you can get the ones you like from there.

[polodinks]

  Lefty731PM said:

He said he can't afford that kind of money - man!!!!!

i said i know he cant afford that kind of money..... anyways back to topic.... sorry to the OP

[cfehlis]

Out of the clubs you listed, I can only speak on the TA7's as that is what I currently play. I bought my set in 2002 new and have yet to find a set of new irons that I like better, or at least not to the extent I want to drop $600 to $1000 on. The Taylormade RAC LT, which came out about the same time as the TA7, are very similar in feel and performance, at least in my opinion. I'm a 14 handicap and have tried blade and muscle back Mizunos, which when hit solidly definantly have a better feel. However, I don't have a lot of time to practice and my consitancy really suffered, so both times I went back to the TA7's.(thank goodness I didn't sell them)

I've seen TA7's on ebay for $150 or less, so I don't think you can go wrong. I'm actually thinking of finding a set of TA7 Tours to try, as these would be a slight move toward more advanced irons with less offset (baby steps!), but I haven't found a set cheap enough yet just for a test run.
Good luck

[upstate-sc-hacker]

Thanks for the advice fella's. That is a good price on the Ap1's, but i really dont want to spend that much. Plan is i hope that this set will get me enough feel to get more consistent in my swing. When that happens and i get comfortable enough with my game, i will probably go to a full blade or more of a players iron. I was just wondering if anyone had hit these before and if they were a pretty good transition from the 845s to eventually a blade.

[upstate-sc-hacker]

Do you get pretty good feel out of the TA7's because i was leaning pretty hard to those. I have read alot of good things about those. Hey you might want to check out callawaypreowned.com, they have a set of the TA7 tours for 169.99. Dont know how much you want to spend, but that seems like a pretty good price.

[cfehlis]

To me they have very good feel. I'm sure single digit handicappers who play blades would disagree. But even after giving blades a try, my opinion of the TA7's has not changed.

[upstate-sc-hacker]

  cfehlis said:

To me they have very good feel. I'm sure single digit handicappers who play blades would disagree. But even after giving blades a try, my opinion of the TA7's has not changed.

Thanks for the advice.