Changing Strike Point on Irons?

[downbylaw11]

is it true though that the sweet spots are towards the center on modern clubs?  also, how modern? I play 2007 forged irons.

i guess I'll just experiment with some impact tape, or just bounce some balls off different spots on the face

[Buckeyebowman]

All you need is some cheap, off-brand foot powder! 

As for your question if the sweet spot is more towards the center on MODERN clubs, I'd ask when has it NOT been? I honestly don't know where these ideas come from! The manufacturer shows you a place where you are expected to strike the ball. Do you really think that he would work against himself by directing you to the wrong place?! 

And, as far as an "expanded" sweet spot goes, Tom Wishon, a noted club designer, would disagree with you. The sweet spot corresponds to the Center of Gravity, which is the size of a pin point! There is no such thing as an "expanded" sweet spot! What club designers can do is move mass around the outside of the clubface and increase it's "Moment of Inertia". This describes the clubhead's resistance to twisting from an off center hit. 

Yes, I need to set up with the ball more toward the toe of the club, but that's not the club's fault, it's mine! I swing "out" at the ball, thus the compensation. 

[billchao]

6 hours ago, downbylaw11 said:

is it true though that the sweet spots are towards the center on modern clubs?  also, how modern? I play 2007 forged irons.

2007 irons should have the sweetspot at the center of the clubface. It's closer towards the heel slightly on vintage clubs, the kind with the long hosels, because the mass of the hosel shifts the CoG slightly towards the heel. It's something Ben Hogan used to talk about, but you're not using Hogan-era equipment.

[saevel25]

35 minutes ago, billchao said:

2007 irons should have the sweetspot at the center of the clubface. It's closer towards the heel slightly on vintage clubs, the kind with the long hosels, because the mass of the hosel shifts the CoG slightly towards the heel. It's something Ben Hogan used to talk about, but you're not using Hogan-era equipment.

I do think even today that a smaller clubhead style (i.e. Titleist MB's) have the sweet spot in towards the heel slightly. It might be less pronounced, but is there really that big of a difference between some of the MB's of the past and the true MB today?

[Vinsk]

15 hours ago, saevel25 said:

I do think even today that a smaller clubhead style (i.e. Titleist MB's) have the sweet spot in towards the heel slightly. It might be less pronounced, but is there really that big of a difference between some of the MB's of the past and the true MB today?

I can’t imagine with the technology they have today making a SS off center. 

[arturo28mx]

If you hold the middle  of the grip lightly with thumb and forefinger of your left hand so the club is suspended freely in the air and take a tee with your right hand and hit repeatedly along different parts of the clubface you will find that if you hit too much towards the toe the cub will twist, if you hit too much towards the heel the club will twist, but there is a point somewhere in the middle of the face where the club will not twist and will feel more solid. I understand this is the sweet spot and in all my clubs it is not on the exact center but a bit towards the heel.

Edited December 25, 2018 by arturo28mx

[Vinsk]

3 hours ago, arturo28mx said:

If you hold the middle  of the grip lightly with thumb and forefinger of your left hand so the club is suspended freely in the air and take a tee with your right hand and hit repeatedly along different parts of the clubface you will find that if you hit too much towards the toe the cub will twist, if you hit too much towards the heel the club will twist, but there is a point somewhere in the middle of the face where the club will not twist and will feel more solid. I understand this is the sweet spot and in all my clubs it is not on the exact center but a bit towards the heel.

Or have an engineer who makes a living building the irons and using precise laser technology tell you where it is?