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Morgan Mullins

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  1. The post you quoted from was almost three years old, and maybe this has already been said, but I would double check the names and clubs they associate with. A mashie niblick is a 7I, not a 5I.
  2. Exactly! That loft number is all you need. The fact that one OEM calls it an Approach Wedge and another calls it a Gap Wedge is irrelevant. For me, I need a 50 degree wedge; then I know what to do with it. OEM’s are in business to sell golf clubs, period. If you think they have some altruistic motives as well, you have probably drunk the koolaid.
  3. That really seems to be a rational approach to this. We aren’t going back to the old school names; (I don’t think…) ? And iron numbers have been rendered meaningless. So you approach creating a club set by saying,” well, I need a driver, a fairway club around 18 degrees, and a …..” I think this says it pretty well!
  4. And that’s it isn’t it? If you don’t hit a club well, and you’ve given it a thorough trial, why fight the obvious? Try something else! Or ask, “do I really need this club?” And as a case in point, it seems you’ve found an older driver that you really like and hit well. I really don’t believe we play this game for the purpose of keeping the club manufacturers in business.
  5. Oh, I totally agree. There can be 6-7 degrees of loft difference between 7 irons from different manufacturers, none of which bear any resemblance to the lofts of clubs that are older. Iron numbers are meaningless and obsolete. We might have an opportunity here though. How does this sound, “I pulled out my 29 degree mashie niblick.”? 😛
  6. Same boat for me as well; seniors have some interesting decisions to make 😳. I use the 6 degree gapping for my long clubs: D (11.5), 2i (18), and 5h (24). I left my irons as I found them, 7,8, and 9 (28.5 ,33, & 38). 2 wedges (50 & 58) and putter. 9 clubs.
  7. Yardage gaps are very much the issue. And for each one of us, they are different. And you need to know what yours are. My original example of choking down on a 9i, 38 degree loft, to produce a 110-100 yard shot was a real world issue. I noticed that I rarely, if ever, pulled out my PW; I just didn’t hit into that gap where a 110-100 yard shot was required. So if wasn’t using a club, then why am I carrying it around? And if on the odd occasion I would need 100 yards, then choke down on the 9 and swing away.
  8. I totally agree. The fewer clubs you carry, means that you hit the ones you do carry better. I don’t understand why you can’t just choke down 3/4 of an inch on a 38 degree iron to produce a 100 yard shot? Gotta ask, what are 468 and 579 wedges? PW and SW?
  9. Exactly! Mine are 44, 50, and 56 degrees, with a 58 in reserve to be swapped in for the 56 depending on the course. The lob wedge and the accompanying flop shot are unnecessary risks.
  10. Just curious, is there a significance to carrying 8 clubs, as opposed to 9 or 10 or 7? i’ve been told by my teacher that as a college player his coach would send the team out to practice with a putter and one club of their choice. He said it helped them learn that club very well. You knew all of its capabilities. If you extend that logic to your own bag set, the fewer clubs you carry, the better you get to know the clubs you do carry and what they each do in various situations.
  11. It sounds like Titleist is already thinking about the issue. We do need a different way to categorize and discuss clubs, because the old number system is no longer valid. But that is a different topic. if you use a gapping system based on club loft to select your wedges, then the question is how much gap, in degrees of loft, do you want between your wedges? Is it the same as it is for your other clubs?
  12. It is SO dependent on the manufacturer, it almost doesn’t make any since to use club numbers any more. My 4h (Taylormade GAPR-Mid) is 21 degrees, fitting perfectly between my 6i, 25 degrees, and my 2i, 17 degrees. Go figure....
  13. I’m not sure that the pros would be a good model here; situations that would would cause us to choose a chipper might not occur as much for the pros. Their distances are so dialed in that each of the 14 available club slots needs careful evaluation and a chipper probably wouldn’t be selected. For those of us less skilled.... I don’t take a club out to carry a chipper; even with it I only carry 10 clubs. It’s a choice, one that I practice with and I’m comfortable pulling out of my bag. I find specialty clubs useful, especially around the green.
  14. Especially weight. I use a very old school chipper, a Tommy Armour Rough Iron. It has a flange on the back heavy enough to knock out a steer. I don’t need to swing very hard to really make the ball travel, so practicing to get the speed right is critical. But once you get the touch down.....
  15. I’d love to see a picture of the MacGregor chipper, if you get a chance. The argument against chippers seems to have a couple of main themes. First, “It’s a single purpose club that takes up one of the 14 slots allowed by the Rules.” True, but we carry two other single purpose clubs and I don’t see a movement to start putting with a driver, even thought the lofts are similar. The other, “Real golfers don’t carry chippers!”, seems to imply some kind of group consensus of what a club set is supposed to consist of; but I gave up trying to run with the pack in my 50’s. 😊
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