Club offset and ball flight

[inthecup]

I am hitting Callaway X-18's they are reasonably forgiving clubs.  I am hitting them better this year they years past.

I literally have a pile of mad money, a stack of $100 bills that I want to treat myself to a set of irons with.

I have tried several clubs over several range sessions and and I have not found a set that I hit better or that feel better then the X-18's.

It is killing me.

Last night I was hitting Titleist  AP2's.  The thing I found interesting was that I was more likely to hook the AP2's.

The two things that were different were the AP2 has much less offset and it has a stiff shaft and my clubs have regular shafts (I believe).  My clubs are off the rack and that is part of the reason I want to get new ones so I can get fitted.

I thought offset would help close the clubface, am I wrong?

[glock35ipsc]

Offset will give you literally a couple hundreds of an inch more to get the clubface squared up.  Some players irons (blades for example) might have no offset difference between 3 iron and gap wedge, where the offset might be anywhere from .000" to .100" throughout the set.  Others, like my irons, start at .180" offset in the 4 iron, .160" 5i, .140" 6i, .120" 7i, then goes .100" from the 8i to the GW.  More offset will mean that the face is further behind the hosel/shaft.

Basically, the thinking is that with more offset, the hosel/shaft will pass the ball before the club face gets there, giving the face a fraction of a second more to get squared up.

I found offset specs for the two.  If I'm not mistaken, you should be hooking the X18's??

X18    AP2

3i  .270   .160

4i  .260   .145

5i  .250   .130

6i  .240   .120

7i  .230   .110

8i  .220   .100

9i  .210   .090

P   .200   .085

A   .175   .080

S   .150

L   .125

[inthecup]

Originally Posted by glock35ipsc

Offset will give you literally a couple hundreds of an inch more to get the clubface squared up.  Some players irons (blades for example) might have no offset difference between 3 iron and gap wedge, where the offset might be anywhere from .000" to .100" throughout the set.  Others, like my irons, start at .180" offset in the 4 iron, .160" 5i, .140" 6i, .120" 7i, then goes .100" from the 8i to the GW.  More offset will mean that the face is further behind the hosel/shaft.

Basically, the thinking is that with more offset, the hosel/shaft will pass the ball before the club face gets there, giving the face a fraction of a second more to get squared up.

I found offset specs for the two.  If I'm not mistaken, you should be hooking the X18's??

X18    AP2

3i  .270   .160

4i  .260   .145

5i  .250   .130

6i  .240   .120

7i  .230   .110

8i  .220   .100

9i  .210   .090

P   .200   .085

A   .175   .080

S   .150

L   .125

I agree I should be hooking the x-18's not the ap2?  That's why I posted it, because it was so odd.