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Thanks to Golf WRX for posting this today . I love what the writer left at the end, "Sorecards don't care about head size." This was just too relevant not to repost!

I want to accomplish one thing in here, if anyone is on the fence about buying a GI iron for any reason whether that is they look stupid, don't want to look stupid, or don't think they hit the ball poorly enough to constitute using them, maybe this will help them feel better about it. I felt the same way for my entire life, it took me hearing accomplished PGA tour pros playing PING G15 irons to even put the thought into my mind. Literally the sole smartest decision I have ever made in my golf career was switching to PING G15 GI irons, even if that only means I hit 1 more green in an 18 hole round that means I save a stroke or 3 and that is the difference between winning and losing. I've read so many posts like this over the past few years and so many comments from people who are not elite golfers telling other non elite golfers to go ahead and use a fancy club that won't help them. I couldn't take it anymore! If the club looks nice to you at address you're not going to hit the ball any better, confidence isn't going to prevent you from going over the top, hitting it 1 mm off center and it certainly wont prevent the ball from fading 10 yards, being short 10 yard and it wont prevent that missed green from turning a 2 putt par into a 2 putt bogey or double bogey. Like I said, I think PING is ugly, I hate that it's not a nice shiny chrome, I have how fat the club looks at address, but I will smoke you on the course. No one really cares that Rickie Fowler looks pretty ridiculous when he golfs (much less now than 3 years ago) because he can play. But when you are at a pub links and see someone head to toe in orange with a flatbill you're going to think it's a terrible golfer / poser, but if you see someone with blades you're going to assume they are a good golfer, until you play with them and they shoot an 85 on a 5800 yard course. Buying golf clubs is not any different than basketball shoes. Sure, if you wear a pair of Jordan's or LeBron's you might look cool, you might even feel good about yourself and even if you think deep down it will make you play better it wont. Even if it raises your confidence a little it's not going to make you have better shooting for or in the case of golf hit more consistent shots. What the majority of people don't realize is that pro basketball players get their shoes made to the specifications of their foot, LeBron James once threw his shoes into the crowd after a game only to have someone chase them down a few minutes later and get his orthotics out of the shoe first. The exact same goes for golf clubs, take the KJ Choi going to Golf Galaxy in Dublin Ohio and buying some Mizuno clubs off the shelf which he played all 4 days of the Memorial that year. He tried several sets of Mizuno and bought the only set which had the exact swing weight of each club. Rickie Fowlers Scotty Cameron which he used to win the Players, looks like any other GSS Cameron except there is the ever so slightest modifications that would be almost unnoticeable to the eye. You can go buy the Bubba Watson Pink G30 driver, but you're not going to put 13 wraps of tape on one side and 11 on the other hand. My point is that even your good amateur golfer probably doesn't have the proper grip size, proper wraps of tape, proper loft and lie adjustments done and their clubs wont have consistent swing weights. Unless you plan on doing ALL of those things, stay away from blades unless you're a +1 handicap.

Also, I have a Titeist 905 R with a Graff Red shaft in it and also a PING G30 with an Oban Kiyoshi Purple, on average I would say I hit the old Titelist 30 yard further, maybe even more but I don't hit it as straight and as consistent. This could save me anywhere between 1-5 strokes a round depending on the course, one bad hit on the Titelist vs the G30 is the diference between hitting 1 off the tee or hitting 3 off the tee. The point of golf is to score the lowest score not play the best looking gear

"because it causes me to be more focused than a bigger head would case me to be" Literally, some things that come out of peoples mouths is beyond belief.

Anyone who says you'll play better with a blade > a GI iron has lost their mind, or is so full of themselves and their ego won't let them give you a straight answer. I'd be willing to bet most of the people telling you that you'll play better with a players club are a 10 handicap or more. I played in college and used Titleist AP2's which are pretty forgiving compared to the Titleist MB or CB. I then read that KJ Choi was using Ping G15's in the Masters, and had used them quite a bit for almost a full season. Also I read Lee Westwood used PING g15's in a Masters one year as well. I'm not 100% on Westy using them but I've seen pictures of KJ Choi's bag with the G15's in there. At this time I was about to buy some Mizuno's and was looking at the players clubs, made the choice of buying G15's and I could not be happier. Instantly I started to hit more GIR. You have to remember that if you mishit the ball by a mm on a blade that could mean you miss the green, end up in the sand...etc etc. Sure they are ugly, they are not a nice chrome finish and they are insanely offset and they are fat and I never once liked the look of any PING iron in my life, not even the S56. But I play better with them than any other irons I've had in my life. I have KBS tour shafts in my G15's and hit the 45 degree W about 145, plenty of distance. I can move the ball easily, If I want to hit a 30 yard cut or draw I can do it easily. The only single flaw I have ever experienced with owning G15's is if you need to punch out, I have 4-pw and if you're around a lot of low branch trees its tough to keep the 4i down low enough. It comes down to 100% ego, just because Tiger Woods hits blades and an 8.5 degree driver doesn't mean you can or ever should. PING was notorious for selling drivers 1.5 to 2 degrees higher than the driver listed because they knew people didn't know how to pick a loft correctly, if you bought a 9 degree ping G2 it was 11 degrees. You're going to mishit shots, unless you're a pro you're not hitting thousand of balls a week on the range with a coach watching your swing constantly. Unless you can afford to hire Butch Harmon to watch you hit balls 12 hours a week there isn't a point for anyone who's not a legitimate scratch golfer to use blades. This doesn't mean your local pub links that's 5800 yards, go play a 7500 yard course where you're hitting a 6 or 7 iron into the green and still shoot 72 or better. Not many people can consistently take a 4 iron on a 200 yard par 3 and stick it within 10 feet repeatedly, if you could then you'd be on the PGA Tour.