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David L Yskes Great Member

David L Yskes

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Ok, so towards the end of the summer i bought a Titleist 690 mb 2 iron, and loved the look of it, and then proceeded to buy a 3, 4, 5 and 6 iron..   in hind sight i probably should of just bought a complete set, but oh well lol....... but since then i've bought another 2-6 iron, just in case..    

my thinking is i can use one set for playing and one for practice...not that i will ever wear them out, but the ones i did get was either NOS or barely used..  

and as for the 7 - PW, i did pick up a new 7 iron  ( 716 mb ) off ebay for a hell of a deal.. so i figure i will add the 8 - pw once i get my taxes back..

just curious if anyone else does this with iron's that might be hard to find?    

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Piz Great Member

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Absolutely.  My Callaway S2H2 set began with a single 5 iron.  Over the years I found a club here and a club there and, eventually, put together an entire set.  My current project consists of two, Tour Edge V blades...god knows how long this will take...and he ain't sayin'.  I think of it as a holistic approach to club acquisition: it fulfills my need to do something - without requiring any effort on my behalf.

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onthehunt526 Super Member

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1 hour ago, Piz said:

Absolutely.  My Callaway S2H2 set began with a single 5 iron.  Over the years I found a club here and a club there and, eventually, put together an entire set.  My current project consists of two, Tour Edge V blades...god knows how long this will take...and he ain't sayin'.  I think of it as a holistic approach to club acquisition: it fulfills my need to do something - without requiring any effort on my behalf.

I have a set of Tour Edge V-Blades I'm just missing the SW.

Which is hard as hell to find.

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Hatchman Great Member

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Oh yes.  I've done the same thing.  Shafted them a little differently though for practice and playing.  Got extra, extra clubs in the garage if anyone needs something!

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Vinny Cap Great Member

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Yea.... guilty.  I am a club collector.  I have 2 sets of all my Ping clubs.  I don't have backup's for my MC102's or MP67's so I guess I will have to work on that! :whistle:

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Gunther Great Member

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I don't get the concept of practicing with clubs other than those you'll be playing with.  It takes me a long time to acclimate to clubs so I couldn't imagine using a different set on the range, unless they were identical to my gamers.

In my Bag: Driver: Titelist 913 D3 9.5 deg. 3W: TaylorMade RBZ 14.5 3H: TaylorMade RBZ 18.5 4I - SW: TaylorMade R7 TP LW: Titelist Vokey 60 Putter: Odyssey 2-Ball

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21 minutes ago, Gunther said:

I don't get the concept of practicing with clubs other than those you'll be playing with.  It takes me a long time to acclimate to clubs so I couldn't imagine using a different set on the range, unless they were identical to my gamers.

I rarely use a 4i, but I do like to practice with one longer iron than the set I play with.  If I can hit that well in practice, it makes hitting the shorter clubs that much easier.

on topic - I have an extra driver (won't sell because driver is the only club I've broken and it's nice to have a spare).  I have a spare SW and LW, but only because I haven't sold them.  I could see having spare wedges with different bounces if one played in a lot of different conditions and were very serious about the game.

Since resale is such a poor bargain usually, I could see just accumulating old sets and clubs over time.  Or giving them to friends just starting, or maybe school teams.....

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Gunther Great Member

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46 minutes ago, rehmwa said:

I rarely use a 4i, but I do like to practice with one longer iron than the set I play with.  If I can hit that well in practice, it makes hitting the shorter clubs that much easier.

This makes sense but others were discussing having a practice set and a gaming set.  That's not a concept I can quite grasp.

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WUTiger Incredible Member

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Another thought on extra irons...

Golfers should consider getting a demo iron which matches their current iron set. You can use the demo for experimenting. That way, if you're considering changing loft, swingweight, or reshafting, you can test things out on the demo iron.

My X20 Tours came with PX 5.0 Rifle Flighted shafts, which were a bit hard to handle on most days. I got a demo 6i, and had it reshafted in both DG R300 SL and NS Pro 8950GH. Did tests with both configs, and then opted for the NS Pro on full reshaft.

Something to consider...

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Hatchman Great Member

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Well just for clarification about practice and playing clubs one may have, I use the practice set to try different shaft set ups, swing weights, etc.  Might go some time using just that set or change out the gamer due to injury changes.  Everybody might have a different reason or desire.

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David L Yskes Great Member

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well, the only thing i think i will try is taking the 2/3 irons down to the 4 iron length, and the 5/6 irons down to the 7 iron lengths.. since i seem to hit my 4 and 7 irons the best / most consistently...   but nothing is going to happen till spring time.... 

But i think it will be nice to have just a practice set of irons i can use

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Denny Bang Bang Great Member

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If you want to have extras of the same stick... go for it.

My previous irons were MP-52, and I picked an extra 6i (same specs) to keep in the Jeep in the event I randomly wanted to hit the range at lunch or something.

I may do the same with my current irons.

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Piz Great Member

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I will often nab a cheap club, from the bargain bin, because it has the same shaft as one of my other clubs.  It has never paid dividends; but I do it anyway.

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Cleveland Hi-Bore driver, Maltby 5 wood, Maltby hybrid, Maltby irons and wedges (23 to 50) Vokey 59/07, Cleveland Niblick (LH-42), and a Maltby mallet putter.                                                                                                                                                 "When the going gets tough...it's tough to get going."

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Hacker James Great Member

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BTDT from entire sets to individual clubs. At one time, I had  complete set of older Hogan Edges with graphite shaft, and another of the same irons with steel. Lost a 7 iron once (left it at Palm Springs muni), and later replaced it with a shaft of different flex. Thrift shop wooden woods too. Palmer, Puma and then Burner Bubble, and Burner steelheads.  I am a "ho".  Made poor decisions too. I let go of a perfectly good set of 962's (DCI Blacks), sold set of Tight Lies bag and all. Presently, I am getting some decent stuff one at a time.  

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I had a back-up set of irons, driver and wedges in the event that a club was lost/stolen or broke.  Thankfully it has never happened to me, but I saw it happen every day to others when I was in golf retail.  If I needed to take my clubs on a trip and check them with the airline, I took my back-up set unless it was a tournament or something like that.  Have been fortunate to not have a club broken or lost by the airlines either!

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