Stronger or weaker loft?

[stealthhwk]

I absolutely love my irons,  but they have what is considered traditional lofts. Do you guys think I would be able to hit more gir if I bought some irons with juiced lofts like the taylormade speedblades?

[iacas]

8 minutes ago, stealthhwk said:

I absolutely love my irons,  but they have what is considered traditional lofts. Do you guys think I would be able to hit more gir if I bought some irons with juiced lofts like the taylormade speedblades?

No. Work on your swing.

It doesn't matter what number is on the bottom of the club.

[stealthhwk]

7 minutes ago, iacas said:

No. Work on your swing.

It doesn't matter what number is on the bottom of the club.

Yay!! That was the answer me and my wallet were hoping for. :)

[mvmac]

4 hours ago, stealthhwk said:

Do you guys think I would be able to hit more gir if I bought some irons with juiced lofts like the taylormade speedblades?

Even though they may be more forgiving they most likely won't make a significant improvement to your handicap. 

[pganapathy]

Unless you are struggling with hitting your current clubs and they are ill suited for your game, buying a new set does not make much of a difference.  Hit a modern 6 iron at 26* loft or an old 4 iron at 26* loft (or whatever the loft is, this is just an example), how does it make a difference.  Hit the club according to the distance you have on it and you will hit the same GIR

[onthehunt526]

As it is, as @mvmac and @iacas said above, the number on the bottom of the club doesn't matter... I play stronger lofts. But Erik and Mike will both tell you, I've had my issues with the "decreasing loft" disease, until I realized why they "need" to make GI and SGI clubs with less loft... Its a little overkill to have a 20° 4-iron, as most average golfers can't hit an iron with 20° of loft regardless of whether it has 2, 3, or 4 stamped on the bottom.

In my experience, my carry distance with weaker lofts isn't much different than with stronger lofts.

For example, I have a set of Tour Edge V-Blades from 2000 with traditional lofts, my 36° 7-iron carries only 2 yards less than my EXI which is 31°, the difference is my V-blade launches lower for whatever reason... but I like the spin my EXi gets... can't explain it but it's the numbers.

[stealthhwk]

4 hours ago, pganapathy said:

Unless you are struggling with hitting your current clubs and they are ill suited for your game, buying a new set does not make much of a difference.  Hit a modern 6 iron at 26* loft or an old 4 iron at 26* loft (or whatever the loft is, this is just an example), how does it make a difference.  Hit the club according to the distance you have on it and you will hit the same GIR

After a good nights sleep this is exactly what went thru my head this am. Lower lofts would probably be harder for a high capper like me to hit and like you mentioned the distance gain per club would probably be slight at best. It just means when I have 160 to the green the number on the bottom of the iron MIGHT be different. Thats not gonna lead to more gir. Turned up my driver loft a bit more and Im hoping that may help. 

[Dave2512]

Right lofts are lofts less or more relative to the number on the club means nothing as long as the shafts are the same length, and usually it's close when considering modern vs traditional. The reason club manufactures can feed us the 15 yards longer crap is because they just changed the number on the club not the lofts. Your PW used to be a 9i etc.

The reason higher handicap golfers don't hit a lot of greens is because they are poor ball strikers and the problem starts on the tee. Bad drives lead to overly long approach shots often in or near trouble. Clubs aren't going to fix anyone's problems unless they hand them to a better golfer and have them hit their shots.