3 irons

[PaddyHarrington]

I am having a few issues with my driver recently and we have fallen out and are now not talking,normally when this happens I use my 4 iron off the tee for par 4 and 5's,with a good degree of success to I might ad,well in the fact it goes straight and not slicing into the woods which is what happens when myself and my driver fall out!

I currently don't have a 3iron,but as I can hit a 4i so well off the tee I thought maybe getting a 3i will help me get a few extra yards off the tee for the times I don't want to use my driver.

I'm not a fan of Hybrid off the tee either,I get more accuracy using a iron.

Just wanted suggestions on a good G.I or even SGI 3 iron that I could buy,I have been looking on ebay and I can get a Nike Slingshot 4D for about €50 delivered.

I will be buying the new Cobra S2 max irons later on in the year(after I get married ) and as far as I'm aware they don't have a 3i in any of there set ups,though I'm open to correction on that,but I don't mind having a different brand name 3i in my bag.

[sean_miller]

With Cobras, you may not need a 3-iron. Your new 4-iron will be 1 degree stronger than my current 3-iron.

[PaddyHarrington]

The 4i Cobra in the S2Max set is 22*,The Nike Slingshot 4D 3i is 20*
Will 2* make much of a difference?

[James_Black]

  PaddyHarrington said:

The 4i Cobra in the S2Max set is 22*,The Nike Slingshot 4D 3i is 20*

5 yards maybe?

Only thing is less loft = more sidespin.

[sean_miller]

  PaddyHarrington said:

The 4i Cobra in the S2Max set is 22*,The Nike Slingshot 4D 3i is 20*

My 2-iron goes much lower than my 3-iron and about 15 yards farther. I'd use the Cobras for a while and see if you really need the extra distance, but that's just my thought.

[PaddyHarrington]

  James_Black said:

5 yards maybe?

Not really worth the buying a 3i then I suppose?

I might just wait until I buy the Cobras,thanks for the help

[James_Black]

  PaddyHarrington said:

Not really worth the buying a 3i then I suppose?

Not really.

I have a 3i that I use on tight par 5's instead of a wood. The 4i that you'll be getting will do everything you need. Maybe you could keep the 3i as a reserve club for distance?

[andycook]

I just added a Cleveland XLI 3i to my bag. Works great in my backyard and at the driving range but it hasn't seen any action on the course yet. It is a very hybrid iron.

[adamg]

  PaddyHarrington said:

I currently don't have a 3iron,but as I can hit a 4i so well off the tee I thought maybe getting a 3i will help me get a few extra yards off the tee for the times I don't want to use my driver.

Be careful of this approach. I do the same thing. On days my driver is way right, I pull out my 4I on the tee, and it works well. I can keep it on the fairway. I found that if I try my 3I, I start to go right again. Not as much as my driver, but it tends to drift off the fairway. It is strange to me that 2° of loft is the point where I get enough sidespin to go right (could just be a mental thing), but I've found I'm 50/50 with my 3I where I'll hit my 4I good 90% of the time. I would demo a 3I on the range before you buy it and are stuck.

[alomar123]

Dang you Paddy, cause of this thread I bought a 3 iron. Im blaming this forum for spending too much.lol

[James_Black]

  adamg said:

Be careful of this approach. I do the same thing. On days my driver is way right, I pull out my 4I on the tee, and it works well. I can keep it on the fairway. I found that if I try my 3I, I start to go right again. Not as much as my driver, but it tends to drift off the fairway. It is strange to me that 2° of loft is the point where I get enough sidespin to go right (could just be a mental thing), but I've found I'm 50/50 with my 3I where I'll hit my 4I good 90% of the time. I would demo a 3I on the range before you buy it and are stuck.

it isn't 2* of loft for you though.

He wants a nike slingshot 3i, his cobra irons have low lofts so there's not much of a gap. There's around 4-5 degrees of a difference betwenn your 4i and your 3i. A 3i is also longer so it'll be less consistent.

[Shanks A Million]

  James_Black said:

it isn't 2* of loft for you though.

There's actually only about 3° between a 3 and 4 iron in most sets. 24-21 is the most common loft standard for a 4 and 3 iron. Hitting the 3 iron off the tee is golf's equivalent of masturbation. It's easy, safe, and fun. It's even better than the 3 wood. I used to love to tee off with this McGreggor 1 iron I had. I would recommend that players with a handicap of 10 or more focus on teeing off with a shorter club sometimes.

The driver can cause a lot of problems, I remember when I was a double digit, my driver would go all over the place, but at the same time, I could never find fairway woods that fit me right. I used to crank that driver 100 yards offline at times. I've hit the ball over houses, and out of the entire neighborhood the course was built on! I guess I never realized that hitting a shorter club off the tee would fix that, because I tried it once with a 3 wood, and popped one up, over some houses, and into a residential street. Teed up another, and did the same thing! I don't even want to know if there were any cars parked in that street!

[VMAN]

  alomar123 said:

Dang you Paddy, cause of this thread I bought a 3 iron. Im blaming this forum for spending too much.lol

What the heck is a three iron? :) They are good off the tee, I don't carry one...down to a four iron, I never noticed much distance gained between the two. I do however see a difference between my 3h and 4i. I still remember my hogan apex pc 2 iron, just saw it the other day and it doesn't have a scratch on it. :)

[PaddyHarrington]

  alomar123 said:

Dang you Paddy, cause of this thread I bought a 3 iron. Im blaming this forum for spending too much.lol

LOL I'm not taking the blame for your impulse buying!

Why did you buy one anyway? I checked in my local golf store today and they only sell the Cobra irons in a 5-SW set or else with the hybrids but I don't want the hybrid set. So i might need a 3i afterall

[kevinbomb123]

Must you hit a 3 iron most pros dont hit 3 irons the hybrid is so easy to hit easy to control and goes 20 yards past any long iron



3 iron=210

nike sq machspeed hybrid= 237

[James_Black]

  kevinbomb123 said:

Must you hit a 3 iron most pros dont hit 3 irons the hybrid is so easy to hit easy to control and goes 20 yards past any long iron

why don't you hit hybrids then?

I find them hard to hit, mine is really old though (2004) so maybe hybrid's have improved since then.

[JML22]

SOme dont like looking down on a fat hybrid

[Shanks A Million]

  kevinbomb123 said:

Must you hit a 3 iron most pros dont hit 3 irons the hybrid is so easy to hit easy to control and goes 20 yards past any long iron

Ug, hybrids? I can't even count the number of times I've duffed, topped, and shanked hybrids. Tried em, hated em. They suck, they always come with shafts like wet noodles, and the lie angle is always far too flat. With my long irons, I can have the lie angle adjusted to my desire, put a nice X stiff shaft on it, and swing away. I've had so few problems on course with long irons, although everyone keeps telling me I should, and I will, and blah blah, my long irons continue to be my favorite clubs.

Besides, what does distance matter with a hybird? We're not looking to hit these things far, we're looking to cover a known distance. My 3 iron goes about 215, and my 2 iron goes about 230. Simple, easy, known distances.