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Wow Pretzel thats an impressive list. I was not expecting a response that well thought through and with that much research. Thank you very much for putting that together. I actually have a set of eye 2's still. They need grips and they would be good to go. Your list has me considering going Mizuno. They seem to have a cult like following. I love Titleist but i personally think of everything titleist to be unforgiving even if its actually not.

I am sure I am not the only guy that has ever had this feeling, but I just don't know what to buy. I have been hitting a set of DCI 762's for I don't even know how long. 10 years maybe? I finally stashed away enough cash to go buy whatever I want, but now that I am here I don't know what to get. I know what characteristics I am looking for in an iron, but there are just soo many options and everyone thinks a certain set or brand is the best and my head is spinning trying to wade through all of it. I thought maybe going to the PGA Superstore and hitting all of them myself would help solve my dilemma but it didn't at all. I went there thinking I was going to hit the Speedblades and fall in love, but it really didn't play out that way. I am scared of having a gap between the Speedblade pitching wedge and my gap wedge and having to relearn all of my distances again. All I want is consistent distances, forgiving mishits, and the less offset the better. I play a draw already and I don't need any help getting it to turn left. Not worried about working it and not worried about a thick topline. I want the ball to go straight and I want to know how far it is going to go and that is it. I subconsciously would probably prefer a gamer iron, but I really don't care. I just want to hit more greens. If the damn club is pink and it helps me hit more GIR sign me up. TLDR; I am looking for a straight, forgiving, and distance consistent iron so I can hit more greens and shoot better scores.

Shot a 75 with a really dumb double bogey. Thanks Budweiser. 72.1/138 6,780 yards

75 on 18. 36 on 9. The back nine on my home course is 9 of the most unforgiving holes I have ever played. I have shot 36-37 on the front many, many times only to turn around and shoot a 45 on the back. Actually shot a 38 on the front today, and a 44 on the back.

So I gave it the old college try and I must admit it worked pretty well. I also got a lesson at the same time and told him about the advice you gave me and he agree. He also tried to address the root cause as well to try to fix it. We dabbled with ball placement some, we tried steepening my swing (but that made just hit really bad shots,) and then he noticed my hips weren't clearing and I was kind of swinging around my body. I have mixed a slightly open face with focusing on the hips and it is a much better result. Still a draw but a much more controllable one. Thanks for the advice mac.

Will do. Range tomorrow after work. I'll post my results.

I play my driver like a half a ball off the inside of my left foot but i put the three wood a ball or so in front of the center of my stance. I hit a baby draw with my driver but my 3 wood looks like a reverse image of a a banana slice

Part of me thinks moving the ball back or forward in my stance might do the trick. Maybe its too far back and I am coming at it really hard from the inside. It starts on my target line for like 75-100 yards then exits stage left hard

Toe hits are my usual miss Mac but I hook with the fairway woods even on center hits

Thanks for the tip. I tweaked my back today playing and I can barely walk or I'd go back out the range and try it. Def hoping its something simple like that. Ball position or forward press or something easily fixable. I'll try it and report back. Thanks again.

Haven't posted on here in a while. Work, school, and fiancee have been taking up alot of my time. I have been working really hard on my swing for the last few months, and I finally broke 80 for the first time this season this weekend, and I shot a really easy 37 this morning. If I hadn't missed a few easy birdie opportunites I would have been in the red. But here's my question. I have been taking lessons, joined a club, and am playing a whole whole bunch. I have the driver under control. I have the irons under control (except for 3-4 but I don't think many people ever really dial those in.) But I cannot hit a fairway wood. I have flattened my swing and am playing a draw and it works great on irons and driver, but I don't know if its the way they are weighted or the shaft in them or what but fairway woods seem to magnify my flat inside out swing to the extreme. Driver I aim right edge of the fairway and draw it back in. Irons I aim a certain amount right depending on the loft of the club and how much I can turn it. 3 Wood I might as well aim 40 yards into the right woods because it turns left really really hard. I wouldn't classify it as a snap hook, because it still goes 250-260 and it's got a nice trajectory, but it just turns sooo much I can't control it. I have tried weakening my grip some, even to the point of a hogan style right forearm above the left style, and tried combining with a steeper backswing and more down the line or even across the ball type of path, and it just doesn't work. When I try to make it not hook I either push it or hit it straight left. I would prefer to hit it straight or hit a baby draw but I can't find any sort of middle ground with it. It's either a 75 yard hook, or a completely unpredictable push or pull. It doesn't make sense because even at some of my worst ball striking periods I was always fairly confident with the 3 wood. Now I am hitting the ball as good as I have in my adult life probably and it's the worst club in the bag for me. I'd rather have to try to fly a 3 iron to a small green with water in front and ob behind it than to have to try to hit a 3 wood into a 250 yard wide fairway. And here's my scorecard from this morning which I wanna show off just because I am excited to see all my hard work paying off. Played from the silvers. And as always any advice is appreciated.

I hit the range everyday its just hard to drag my fiancee out to the range to record it. I have tried sitting my phone on my bag and all kinds of stuff but it never leads to good footage. I haven't had any issues with leaving the face open thinking about the right elbow actually. It's the only swing thought i have found so far that helps me produce any lag. My miss since I have been doing that is actually a hook not a block so releasing the face isn't an issue. Do you have a hard time when you make full swings with trying to crush the ball? Sometimes even if I think easy swing right before I hit it I get the club going down and I just black out muscle the hell out of it. (With what little muscle I have lol.) Going to try the half swings and stuff tomorrow

Maybe I don't have enough bend at the waist and my body is in the way of my arms?

Looks I am still not keeping that right heel down long enough too. Thanks for any feedback in advance! Edit: Also wondering if maybe my right elbow is getting too far back behind me. Like almost past the seam. Couldn't that make it harder to get the elbow back around in front of my hip?