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now are the 3* bend from the factory? and the extentions should not mess with it it should be not very noticeable its at the top of the shaft and covered buy the grip.

i wont say its impossible i got my 07 x forged for 99 bucks 3-PW and they are 2*up well some are i would say maybe 1.5*up due to how i swing had them all bent to the best lie per club so contact was tittie boobie. took for ever and boy was i tired afterwards lol.

not trying to argue just show the benefits of the fitting aspect of the clones for the price ya know. and from the sounds of it the original poster is just getting back into golf and has a budget line and a hard fitment issue. your option is true get them extended and you may be be able to stay in that price range. but he had mentioned resale resale on a older brand name to stay in that range is about the same as the resale of the clones is my point.

i agree but you can get a custom set of clones for 300 built to spec and fit and probably even get your wedges all for the $300 range. and will sell for the same amount as the clubs you just posted as a example

just to show depreciation on golf clubs here is last years cobra amp irons. http://valueguide.pga.com/detail-exec/brand/2678/product_type/205/model/48180/shaft_type/2/b/Cobra/p/Iron%20set/m/AMP

http://valueguide.pga.com/detail-exec/brand/2768/product_type/205/model/43829/b/Titleist/p/Iron%20set/m/DCI%20762 here is the current trade in and resale on those clubs. the resale value is lower then the asking price on those. and this site is generated from the avg sale on ebay. they look like they are in good shape and all but they will never sell in 2 years unless someone wants that club specifically.

i believe that a 2 upright is a blue dot with ping and callaway is a wight paint fill. but at the same time there are good clone companies out there that make a solid set. the hireko line is good i know that from experience and have never heard much about giga that is either good or bad but usually you can hear lots of bad on any clone due to it not being a brand name. If you find a club that you could do all that with and stay under $300 by the time you sell you will get just as much for them as the clone just saying

well here is my look on it if you play them 3 years and put some coin aside for your next set and pull say 100 bucks off ebay for them it was worth the buy. or even 50 bucks you will get your money back in some way due to the savings on a full custom set fit to you and the feel you want. i can see the resale part but if you are not changing clubs every year why worry about resale value. i bought my caimens played them 2 years and put them in the garage in a old bag for when i have Buddy's that wanna play and don't have clubs or if some one is looking for a budget set i would sell them but they were cheap enough just to keep them or sell them for a good deal to get some one playing. I'm currently playing a Set of 07 x forged irons that i bought for a good deal on ebay. but again i did not need the shafts extended just the lie and loft 60 bucks and done. so again if the price is right new is better then used as long as you like what ya got and feel confident with them. next year you will see this years clubs going for about half price on used sets. so resale in clubs is not that great any way. here is a web site to show the decrease in worth of golf clubs go to pgavalue.com and look at the resale of last years items and also this years used items you will get a better idea of the resale on many top names its just not worth it to look at clubs for resale value

oh im fairly new my self but love to help were i can

I know i will probably get some flack for that but its true.

that debate is like the gun debates at times. you will find a lot of gear snobs just like gun snobs. you talk to one guy and he will say i wont shoot anything but a glock and the other guy will say that a glock is a plastic piece of junk and he will only shoot smith&wesson.; same happens in golf taylormades are the best no callaway no titleist and on and on and on. the best advice i can give is the score card does not see what is in your bag. go with what your budget allows and i have nothing bad about some of the bigger no name brands like hireko and giga

I'm not sure on the wedges i never had my wedges bent played those standard. but I'm only 1.5 up on my lie. you can kinda set your lie a bit with your stance with the wedges but i have known people that have played thee wedges standard with there irons bent. try standard lie on your wedges when your at the store next time. as far as your pw that would probably be bent with the rest. when i did my fitting we hit every club i bought and adjusted from there so that every club was bent to my swing of that club. so I'm sure you could just run straight thru all the irons and wedges and have them all bent individually regardless of club. at least that's what my fitter did. i sprayed the R1 all over the place when i tried it out on the course did the same with the R11 i stick with my callaway razer hawk. or the adams speed line i bought. I play my callaway and i put the speed line in my brothers bag due to confidence with the callaway. speed line was longer but i hit more fairways with my cally. but i guess to answer the question if you buy the clubs and have them fitted the fitter should set each club to spec including wedges. due to shaft length. i know my fittying did and some were a little diferent then others when bent he did a bunch of fine tuning to make sure contact was dead on as he could get it. but again not sure how every fitter works

Sweet deal. i almost bought the rocket blades but then life happened lol. I'm happy you got your fitting done. the only thing i would not look at from it are the distances on there machine. i have went to a couple of places that use the machine for fitting and i know that i can not hit my driver 320 carry lol. so i don't know how they do it but they can juice the machine to give you false distances. Lets be honest they are trying to sell clubs and if they make it look like you gained a ton of yardage with a club they use it to convince you to buy that set. so what did you come up with for you fitting were the web sites right? also i had a set of caimen irons that i loved but moved on to a new set this year after i sold them to my buddy. the caimens are mad by hireco and are really pretty good some will knock them cause they are a knock off set. but in my opinion they are a little better then your run of the mill knock off. i got my whole set custom to what i wanted shaft,grips loft lie and and a couple of wedges for about 350 out the door. that was a 4 hybrid and a 4-p with a 56* and a 60*. yes i know i have the 4 hybrid and a 4 iron but that's what worked for my 3 iron filled the yardage gap perfect. some people just straight pick the exact number hybrid for the club they want to replace instead if the loft they are replacing. sorry got off the subject.

I agree that maybe making a mixed bag of ap1 and ap2 is a good way to maybe sell your self on either a complete conversion or sticking with the mixed set. If you think you will score better with the ap2 set then use it or what ever one you feel more confident with

that would have to be the dumbest thing i have ever heard of a course doing lol. i always thought the ball had to be in the hole when you got there to be a hole in one not some were on the green after hitting the flag. i wanna play there so i can helpfully get my first hole in 1

my thoughts exactly

and you may be able to get them extended without buying new shafts. in turn is probably way cheaper then new shafts

thats what i was saying. Some will do it even without purchase for free, the last fitting i did was free and i did not buy a club one from them i bought mine from ebay

well said

size age and weight don't have much to do with technique. if you hit the ball fat then you will lose yardage. if your missing the sweet spot you will lose yardage. he may have stronger lofts alot can go into this. i play with a guy that is a monster in the gym and swings hard to boot and must have me by at least 70 lbs and i out hit him all day so size is no way to compare distances between golfers. i myself would say get the lofts checked and go from there. there is a web site that has most stock lofts on it and you can compare between your old set and the 704s your playing now

most reputable golf shops or pro shops can fit you properly. i know i have one in my area that has fitted me and it was free with the purchase of any set new or used as long as the equipment did not need drastic changes such as shafts or grips then it was material and labor but fitting was free

agreed 100% but life can get boring without a good debate here and there

People that fish say they caught a 7 pound bass on 2 pound test and the deer they shot last year was like a 10 point with eye guards. then they never have any backing on the truth. so like i said let them believe and just take there money on the skins game lol. I dont believe many of us can say we hit 300 average like it was posted earlier pros have a hard time hitting a constant 300 yard avg.

Also who cares what people hit for average. If they say they hit it let them believe they did. We need more people to play so we can take there skins lmao. 300 yard or said to be in the woods looks like I won the hole

So I don't believe a 300 avg is possible for a high handicapper. I do think they can have a few at that level by luck. How about that saevel25