kcsteve

I know this is an old post but thought it was funny because just last week I went to both locations in search of new 2014 irons and to get fitted. A little background about myself first...I'm a lefty, age 49 with a handicap of 5. I've been hitting the Callaway X-12 graphite shaft irons for the last 13 years, still love'm and they still help me shoot low scores but good grief it's time to get new clubs and take advantage of new technology. Anyway...here is what happened, I first went to Golf Galaxy, huge place, lots of top of the line clubs everywhere. Store was not busy this was on Saturday, I saw couple workers in back chatting, I stood by the irons I was really interested in which were the Titleist 714 AP2 and Mizuno JPX EZ forged irons. No one came to assist or ask if I had any questions about the irons, stood around for 20 minutes and left...it just felt weird. I then drove down to Golfsmith and to be honest I really expected the same. I walked in the store, heard a lot of ball's being hit in the back, walked in the back, sat down on a nice soft couch and watch guys crush balls off the tee in the fitting area. I immediately was asked by one of the workers could he help me and I told him I was looking real serious at the Titleist 714 AP2 and Mizuno JPX EZ forged irons and he said wait right here and I will get you set up to hit them in the fitting room. He brought in the two I had requested along with the new Callaway apex pro irons...all were fitted 6 irons. Over the years on average I hit my old X-12 6 iron about 167'ish. The worker gave me the new Mizuno JPX EZ forged 6 iron and said go hit a few and we'll see the numbers. I gotta tell ya it felt like butter coming off the club, hitting a beautiful high left to right draw and the average distance was 164. I then hit the Titleist 714 AP2 6 iron, same high left to right draw but averaged 171. The worker then told me the new Callaway apex pro irons have been getting incredible reviews and that I should try them. Ball flight the same but higher and longer at 175 average. He then said let's change the shaft by 10g less because I had told him I had graphite shafts on my X-12's. The final results were the ball flight was higher than any of the others and longer at 180 yards with the 6 iron. I will be honest, I am not a long hitter but 180 was very respectable in my opinion. I will be getting the new Callaway apex pro irons very soon! The worker said we can set you up with the lighter shaft and half the clubs with (regular apex irons) and the other half with (apex pro irons) for a great combination. That was my experience last week.

Hello, my name is Steve.