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Usually when you´re a high handicapper, you don´t get much greens in regulation, so it´s easy to have 4 wedges to match several distances. Then when you improve to a lesser o low handicap, you need more help from the long clubs (woods and irons) to attack par fives in two, and less wedges. At that time, you´ve mastered the partial swing, so with PW-SW-LW it´s enough. At a time, I carried only a 4W and PW-GW-SW-LW, now I carry also a 13º 3W and PW-SW-LW, and I´ve my distances of 110-100-90-80-70-60-50-40 yards covered with full and half swings from 9 iron to LW

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I´ve got a Sonartec NP99 4 wood (17º) It has a smaller head than today´s woods, and it´s definitively easier to hit off the fairway, almost as easy as an hybrid. I´ve got also an Sonartec GS Tour 15º 3 wood, but I can play many rounds hitting only the 4W... the ballflight is perfect, not balloonig as a 5W nor so low as the 3W. It would make almost the same distance from the tee as a 3 wood if the GS Tour wasn´t such a cannon... Many people take out the 3W and 5W and add a 4W and a gap wedge. I take a different approach, because I´ve got my wedges well distance-spaced. So, take what it works four you, wether is a 4W or not

Yeah, our clubmaker is selling tons of them. They´re quite good wedges

Well, I play a Wishon 949MC 16.5º 4 Wood with a Precision Saber 65gr shaft, and it´s a superb club. It gained a place in the Golfdigest 2008 hotlist. I´ve also played Wishon 550 M/C irons, wonderful irons. Wishon has a very very solid stuff. The key is to find the right fitting for you, but don´t be afraid.

They´re good irons, I think it´s a good deal... You´ve got the specs here : http://www.titleist.com/historical_c...ails.asp?id=91

Try Proforce V2 Hybrid, I´ve got mine in 85 gr regular and it´s a good shaft It´s suit my swing, perhaps can suit yours but give it a try

Answering your question : - First, fill in your distances, not the lofts . In my case, with 3/4 and full swings makes the following setup : PW 46º - GW 50º - SW 54º - LW 58º. That gives me exact yardages between 110 and 50 yards - Second, choose the bounce : not too much for the gap (10º-8º), as much as you can in the sw as the conditions (fairway, sand) where you play (from 10º in firm conditions to standard 12º to 14º if heavy conditions) and a little for the lob (6º-8º)

I had a Ping G10, that was a good wood with the Proforce V2 shaft. Right now, as I do more or less the same distance with my 19º 3 hybrid as my 5 wood, and I use driver most of the tees at my home corse, I´m replacing my 3 & 5 woods by a Wishon 949 16.5º with a Precision Saber shaft. Before : - Driver - Callaway FTI Squarewood 3W 15º - Titleist 906F4 5W 18.5 º After : - Driver - Wishon 949 4W 16.5º - Wilson Dh6 19º I think I´ve got more playability options now...

I ditched the 5 wood and 3 iron in favor of a 19º hybrid, so I can carry 50º GW, 54º SW and 58º LW. Now I´m replacing the 3 wood for a new 4 wood, easier to hit, as I use mainly driver always from the tee....

I do like to have mi distances well covered inside 110 yards (100 meters), but also I do like to carry my 3-iron for the ocasional par-3 or piercing shots, and my 3 and 5 woods, so I do the following to carry 14 clubs : - Carry 3-9 irons and GW 50º, SW 56º, LW 60º - Ditch the 46º PW - With a complete and 3/4 finesse swings, I have the following distances 9 iron : 110 and 100 yards Not 46º PW 50º GW : 90 and 80 yards 56º SW : 70 and 60 yards 60º LW : 50 and 40 yars and all inside 40 yards is pitching (mostly with the 50º), chipping (56º) and special shots (60º) It´s important for me not only to have well-covered distance gaps, but also to have all the tools in the bag. In fact some times I don´t use once or twice a round the 3-iron or the 60º LW, but I don´t like not making a shot because I miss a club.

We do like to bet a brand new good ball (Prov1 or similar), signed by the loser It´s enough for the loser to get a bit mad...

Callaway Great Big Bertha II Callaway Great Big Bertha Titanium 454 Callaway FT3 Draw Cleveland HiBore XL (illegal, so changed) Cleveland HiBore XLS (actual) Cobra F Speed Ping G10 Titleist 905R Well... Not too much, 8 in 4 years, a 6 months/driver ratio

You´ve answered yourself... Why to change?

If somebody get better results whith a chipper, should use one. Or two drivers, or no driver, or hybrids or belly putters... and so on I agree it´s a rare club, and you can get the same result with another similar lofted iron, but at the end it´s about how many strokes, so...