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I literally created an account just to respond to your post (albeit a year late), after having spent hours upon hours, upon days upon days, of my time trying to find a Nike Vapor Fly Pro 2-iron.  I was actually placing an order for the club and was interrupted towards the end of the call, and had to call back the next business day to redo the transaction. You know what that next day was (unbeknownst to me)? The day Nike Golf went out of business. My begs and pleas to Nike's reps (and the reps of every 3rd-party re-saler of Nike clubs) were uniformly rejected, and it's haunted me ever since because I haven't found a worthwhile (much less comparable) 2-iron to fullill the purpose of the VFP in the 2 years since that all happened.

Well, I don't know if you've perhaps been fortunate enough to actually get your hands on a VFP 2i since your post—if so, I BEG YOU to please let me know if you know where I may be able to still get one, no matter how unlikely—but I've finally found a club that serves the same exact purpose, and actually feels and hits BETTER! For me at least, that club is the Taylormade GAPR Lo 2-iron (17-degree default, though I adjust mine a degree strong using the wrench that comes with the club). It's definitely not inexpensive by any stretch of the imagination, and is probably way overpriced to be completely honest, but I can't get over how perfect that club is off the tee and fairways. 250+ yards from that club has eliminate the destruction my score usually faces from being forced to confront my biggest weakness every round (driver), out of necessity since I have no other club to really travel far enough on very certain holes.

I definitely recommend you go try out the GAPR, and if you have any leads at all on a Nike Vapor Fly Pro 2-iron please let me know, cheers!


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On 8/13/2018 at 1:28 AM, ddub569 said:

I literally created an account just to respond to your post (albeit a year late), after having spent hours upon hours, upon days upon days, of my time trying to find a Nike Vapor Fly Pro 2-iron.  I was actually placing an order for the club and was interrupted towards the end of the call, and had to call back the next business day to redo the transaction. You know what that next day was (unbeknownst to me)? The day Nike Golf went out of business. My begs and pleas to Nike's reps (and the reps of every 3rd-party re-saler of Nike clubs) were uniformly rejected, and it's haunted me ever since because I haven't found a worthwhile (much less comparable) 2-iron to fullill the purpose of the VFP in the 2 years since that all happened.

Well, I don't know if you've perhaps been fortunate enough to actually get your hands on a VFP 2i since your post—if so, I BEG YOU to please let me know if you know where I may be able to still get one, no matter how unlikely—but I've finally found a club that serves the same exact purpose, and actually feels and hits BETTER! For me at least, that club is the Taylormade GAPR Lo 2-iron (17-degree default, though I adjust mine a degree strong using the wrench that comes with the club). It's definitely not inexpensive by any stretch of the imagination, and is probably way overpriced to be completely honest, but I can't get over how perfect that club is off the tee and fairways. 250+ yards from that club has eliminate the destruction my score usually faces from being forced to confront my biggest weakness every round (driver), out of necessity since I have no other club to really travel far enough on very certain holes.

I definitely recommend you go try out the GAPR, and if you have any leads at all on a Nike Vapor Fly Pro 2-iron please let me know, cheers!

How were you able to buy the GAPR? I thought it wasnt available to the public yet

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On 8/14/2018 at 1:23 PM, klineka said:

How were you able to buy the GAPR? I thought it wasnt available to the public yet

I've found in life that the simple act of shaking as many hands as possible, as often as possible, can make all the difference when you need favors. I know a TM guy from a relatively recent round of golf we simply let him join up with our threesome. Exchanged cards after the round and then about a month ago I learned about the GAPRs and decided to shoot him an email asking about them. Out of the blue, he asked if instead of telling me about the GAPR, I'd be interested in just trying them out over another round. So of course I took him up on it and tested out the Lo and Mid a few weeks back, and decided I had to have the GAPR Lo (by the way, I have no idea why, but I consistently hit the GAPR Mid at least as bad, if not worse, than any other golf club I've ever hit in my life).

Also, far far more shockingly, I actually managed to get my hands on a nearly new Nike Vapor Fly Pro 2i, and for just $140! I know you may wonder how I got one and how for so cheap, and here's my my advice (i.e., what I did): Go to eBay, enter in the search bar "Vapor Fly Pro 2" [DO NOT PRESS SEARCH YET THOUGH], before you hit search click "Advanced" next to the search button, scroll all the way down to "Locations," click the second option down ("From preferred locations") and choose "Worldwide," NOW click the search bar. This is how you'll find it because they're apparently much more readily available, and for a much more reasonable price, in other countries than they are here in the U.S. And in case you're also interested, for me, it's hard to believe the Vapor Fly Pro is even a 2-iron, because I hit it just as easily and consistently as a regular ole 5-iron, except I can get 240+ out of the Vapor Fly Pro (which actually even outperforms the GAPR Lo).

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