Question about club length

[StefanUrkel]

Question about club length

Naive question. If you are 6 ft and standard is the best for you. If one brand has a 5 iron 27 degree at 38 inches standard, and another has a 5 iron 27 degree at 37.5 inches standard. Would you play both at the standard, or is there a chart?

[boogielicious]

57 minutes ago, StefanUrkel said:

Question about club length

Naive question. If you are 6 ft and standard is the best for you. If one brand has a 5 iron 27 degree at 38 inches standard, and another has a 5 iron 27 degree at 37.5 inches standard. Would you play both at the standard, or is there a chart?

Most manufacturers recommend getting fitted because there are a lot of variables. Ping does have charts though. 

[WUTiger]

3 hours ago, StefanUrkel said:

If you are 6 ft and standard is the best for you.

Standard is best? Maybe, maybe not. The height/wrist-to-floor charts are just a starting point for fitters to use. You don't trim shafts or buy clubs based solely on the charts.

You need to hit the irons and see what type of contact you're making, whether the club's lie is too upright, too flat, or just about right.

Shaft length and lie angle are related to each other. Here are the standard 5-iron specs for three different models of irons:

Note that the shaft lengths and lie angles vary across the models. Go with the model that gives you the most center hits, or the model tweaked to do do..

[saevel25]

8 hours ago, StefanUrkel said:

 Would you play both at the standard, or is there a chart?

There is no standard. 

The best advice is to get fitted. 

[arturo28mx]

Usually a shorter shaft gives you a bit more control. Another thing, half an inch is not that much. I am never exact in the way I hold my clubs, sometimes I grip them a little higher and sometimes a little lower and I don't even notice.

[onthehunt526]

@StefanUrkel It's not a terrible question. It's actually a pretty good one. 

As stated above, there aren't really standard specifications anymore. Those days are long gone. Different manufacturers do pretty much whatever the hell they want with length, loft, and lie.

You could be standard length in 1 set of irons, -1/4" to a -1/2" in another and both clubs would be exactly the same length. 

When I got fitted for my clubs back in January of 2016, I actually had 3 finalists for irons. All with different stock specifications. My EXi irons are 3/4" longer and 2° upright than the stock EXi iron lengths, so my 5-iron is 39".

Another finalist I had was the Mizuno JPX-EZ. My fitting for them was 1.25" longer than standard and 3° upright. (Mizunos "standard lie is 1° flatter than Tour Edge). 

The final set that was a finalist was the Ping i irons. 1" longer than Ping standard, White Dot (3° upright).

All 39" 5-irons all have roughly 63.5° lie angles three different "standard" specifications to get there.

Just my 2 cents.