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The brand or style of irons you play is probably not very important.


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i said it more because someone said low handicappers wont be good with SGI and also Monty played with the bhig berthas when they first came out and i assume he was still good at that point

Ooooh . . . yeah, that may be true for some people, just like any other hard and fast equipment rule. A couple weeks ago my ball was right at 100 yards. My "cart buddy" was off somewhere flailing away in the trees. With my bag and clubs unavailable, I borrowed another guy's SGI wedge. After one 1/2 swing for practice I hit it stiff. It got my mind racing - should I switch? On the next hole, I hit my own SW "even stiffer!"

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I did not fell like going out to the car to get my clubs. I broke out my old infinity clubs just to knock around while showing my son how to hit, gotta admit, they felt great. :)

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Surely you havent heard of KJ Choi

i said it more because someone said low handicappers wont be good with SGI and also Monty played with the bhig berthas when they first came out and i assume he was still good at that point

Yeah... about that... I wasn't really trying to say that low hcp players wouldn't be good or shouldn't play with game improvement irons.... Those will work just fine for them, and if that is what they are comfortable playing then so be it. I was trying to make the point that while certain types/categories of irons match up to particular handicaps, the particular brand or specific model doesn't matter.

Put another way, a player going from one players club to a different players club or a gi club to a different gi club won't really notice any significant difference. Once again, I was by no means trying to say that a low hcp player couldn't or shouldn't play with gi clubs.

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Ooooh . . . yeah, that may be true for some people, just like any other hard and fast equipment rule. A couple weeks ago my ball was right at 100 yards. My "cart buddy" was off somewhere flailing away in the trees. With my bag and clubs unavailable, I borrowed another guy's SGI wedge. After one 1/2 swing for practice I hit it stiff. It got my mind racing - should I switch? On the next hole, I hit my own SW "even stiffer!"

Did the same thing a few weeks ago, I was 130 yds out but my brother had the cart/clubs on the other side of the fairway looking for his ball, so I grabbed my Dad's G5 PW, hit it a few feet out.

Then again, I holed one on the previous hole from 115 with my MacGregor PW, so maybe I was just on that day.

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High handicappers are high handicapper because they don't hit the ball very well. Heavy headed SGI irons don't cure a poor shoulder turn, swaying, scooping, and slashing across the ball.

You seem to agree.......

style does matter based on an individual's game. What doesn't matter, is what anyone else is playing. I certainly agree with that.

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3-Wood: Titleist 910F;  15* Diamana Kai'li
Hybrids: Titleist 910H 19* and 21* Diamana Kai'li
Irons: Titleist 695cb 5-Pw

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