Trying to figure out what club to buy and more bang for buck

[Booney3722]

Alright here is my situation, I am usually a 6-10 handicap but due to loss of clubs (tragic what a ex gf can do) I have been using a set for the past 2 years that are 2 inches shorter than the norm for me.  I have been eye balling clubs for a while and decided this past week that I deffinetly need to get better clubs and custom fitted to me.  

My main question here is that I am stuck with the Calloway X series (X2 hots to be precise) and the Nike VRS-X irons.  Now I have never been a Nike fan by any means but I swung the VRS today and was hitting the ball further and streighter with the same consistency against the X series.  They feel better too but I cannot find a lot of information on them.  Eventually in the next year or 2 I plan on the Wilson Staff C200's because I hit them the best of all but till I can get the money for them ($800) I can buy the Calloway X2 hots, used, for $230 or the Nike VRS for $200 brand new. Now of course I am looking at the plability factor on them and I am looking for game improvement clubs but I do not want a club that is wide like the big berthas so I can have something to blade easier in a rough and its a club I can grow into and not give up a lot of distance.  Any ideas or thoughts or information would be greatly apprciated.

[freshmanUTA]

It's your call, but if you can hold off with your current clubs, I'd wait and get the wilsons if you hit those the best. The wilsons are a little wide on the sole but not big Bertha or G30 wide. They're great irons, but then again so are most irons on the market.

 

Props to to you for choosing to get custom fit if you go that route. Best thing I ever did was get a custom shaft for my fairway wood.

[Booney3722]

3 minutes ago, freshmanUTA said:

It's your call, but if you can hold off with your current clubs, I'd wait and get the wilsons if you hit those the best. The wilsons are a little wide on the sole but not big Bertha or G30 wide. They're great irons, but then again so are most irons on the market.

 

Props to to you for choosing to get custom fit if you go that route. Best thing I ever did was get a custom shaft for my fairway wood.

Oh most deffinetly the way I am going to go but with the clubs I have now I cannot play at all.  They kill my back and my shoulders when I play and I went from shooting upper 70s lower 80s to shooting upper 90s and lower 100s and its nerve racking.  I have a aggressive swing so the weight of steel shafts help me with control over these ones I have now that are way too short and they are graphite shafted.  I have always been a firm believer in the whole "its the indian not the arrow mentality" but I cannot work on my game until I have the proper equipment to do so.

[freshmanUTA]

18 minutes ago, Booney3722 said:

Oh most deffinetly the way I am going to go but with the clubs I have now I cannot play at all.  They kill my back and my shoulders when I play and I went from shooting upper 70s lower 80s to shooting upper 90s and lower 100s and its nerve racking.  I have a aggressive swing so the weight of steel shafts help me with control over these ones I have now that are way too short and they are graphite shafted.  I have always been a firm believer in the whole "its the indian not the arrow mentality" but I cannot work on my game until I have the proper equipment to do so.

What I would do is for now find a goodwill or somewhere you can find a set for 50$ and make sure they're a proper length and use those until you can get fit.

 

Im a big fan of Nike clubs so those are a good option as well. Getting fit for those could prove to be better than wilsons. only a fitting will show you.

 

[Ernest Jones]

37 minutes ago, Booney3722 said:

  Now I have never been a Nike fan by any means but I swung the VRS today and was hitting the ball further and streighter with the same consistency against the X series.  They feel better too but I cannot find a lot of information on them.  

Sounds like you have all the information you need right there. 

[Booney3722]

Yeah I reckon, I mean I am a open book and I by no means know it all.  I just wish I could find a this club v.s this club and pros and cons like on a webpage or something so I don't know but any information would be great.

[freshmanUTA]

1 hour ago, Booney3722 said:

Yeah I reckon, I mean I am a open book and I by no means know it all.  I just wish I could find a this club v.s this club and pros and cons like on a webpage or something so I don't know but any information would be great.

Apologies for linking another website but this is a review of the nikes: http://www.thehackersparadise.com/nike-vr_s-iron-review/

[Booney3722]

1 hour ago, freshmanUTA said:

this is a review of the nikes

That actually helped me a lot cause I was tryibg to figure out when I was swinging the Xseries why in my slower swibg soeed I wasnt having them carry like I did with the VRS at both faster or slower swing speeds and that explained why.

[Booney3722]

3 hours ago, Booney3722 said:

That actually helped me a lot cause I was tryibg to figure out when I was swinging the Xseries why in my slower swibg soeed I wasnt having them carry like I did with the VRS at both faster or slower swing speeds and that explained why.

Sorry about my horrible spelling and grammar.

[dave66ss]

I went to golfsmith for weeks & hit irons & took a pic of of the monitor with all the stats, made a spreadsheat to see what I hit the best ,& I could see  a difference between my old ping i2s & newer Irons with my swingspeed  then went to a custom fitter,my Swing speed was 12mph faster than at GS , he got me dialed in with Wishon Irons & shafts, was hitting the ball dead center of club face, still undecided though