Everyone is entitled to their opinion, including me. My experience is that I play just as well with hickories as I did with the "forgiving" "modern" clubs. There are USGA and R&A limits on clubs are there not? My opinion is that most of the advertisement about forgiveness and distance is marketing hype designed to sell clubs. They have every right to sell clubs, I'm a devout capitalist, but I don't believe the marketing based upon my experience. When I bought my last set of modern irons, I hit almost everything on the market and found, that for me, not much of a difference in any of them. With the same shaft, they all yield very similar results. With the same loft, they travel about the same distance as my hickories and with about the same accuracy. I enjoy hickories more, so that's what I play. I'm fine with everyone having their opinion, but don't tell me to be cautious with my opinion.