Checking lofts and lies ?

[Gerald]

I am not the kind of guy, buying a new set every few years, but I noticed some uneven gaps in my mid irons and got the lofts checked.

They just needed some small tweaks here and there, now lofts and lies are back to new and my gapping has improved much.

How often it would be wise to have lofts and lies checked ? 

[saevel25]

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

How often it would be wise to have lofts and lies checked ? 

When you buy your irons.

I might say once a year for forged irons and never for caste irons.

[Patch]

I get my clubs checked every year, or so. I have them checked when I get new grips. I have noticed it's the wedges that usually get the most tweaking. I even have my putter looked at.

That said, I have had very few problems over the years with loft, and lie angles getting out of whack. Just a wedge every now and then. Usually I just order a new wedge per my specs.

[Shorty]

It does make sense to get them checked - even with new clubs you could find that you have (close to) three 6 irons, for example - a 5, 6 and 7.

But if you feel that your distances seem OK, i wouldn't bother.

Edited May 31, 2018 by Shorty

[Buckeyebowman]

As good as golf club manufacturing processes are, they are far from perfect! There will be slight imperfections in loft and lie built into every set of clubs.

As saevel said, get those checked when you get a new set of irons. I don't know your game, but I doubt that you are swinging hard enough to cause changes in those parameters.

[1badbadger]

As some of the other guys mentioned, forged irons are susceptible to "moving" much easier than cast clubs.  However, there are many wedges that are cast using carbon steel (Vokey, some Cleveland models, etc) which are also soft and should be checked on a regular basis.

Guys who play once or twice a week or less should have their loft/lie angles checked at least once every year.  If you play 3 or 4 times a week, I would recommend checking them at least two or three times a year.  If you're playing 5 or more times a week, or if you travel by air with your clubs several times throughout the year I would suggest every-other month or even every month.  Obviously if there is an "incident", like your bag falls off the golf cart and smacks the cart path, or while playing a shot you hit a tree root or rock that you didn't know was there you should have them checked.  It's important for all irons to have the appropriate loft/lies, but it's more critical to have your short irons and wedges spot on, so make sure they are accurate.

When in doubt, remember...you can't check your loft/lie angles TOO much, but it's possible to not check them enough!

[saevel25]

This is a bit hard to determine, unless you have a system like Arccos or GameGolf, but if you realize that one of your irons is consistently going the same distance as another. Then the loft might have shifted on it. A few years ago, my 5 iron was only 1-2 degrees off from my 6 iron. I noticed in GameGolf that the yardages were really close to each other.

If a golfer doesn't have enough clubhead speed, then they will struggle to get proper gap in the long irons anyways. The reason why hybrids are a great option for them.