(07-26-2023, 07:38 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Two reasons: The first is psychological. You know at the range that if you hit a bad ball, you can just reach over and pull in another ball and try again. There is no pressure to get it right the first time.

The second is physical. How often do you change clubs between shots? Like most of us, probably not until you’ve grooved in the club you’re practicing with after 10-15 swings. Play the range like you would play the course: driver, mid-iron, then wedge. Play three or four holes in succession from memory of a course you know.

This in turn leads to another reason range sessions rob from course play. How often do you practice your short game? We can spend hours with the long clubs and little time with the short ones.

While we’re on the subject of golf, I want to talk about the my new irons that I played for the first time yesterday. Oh.My. Gawd. I’ve gained up to two club lengths from my old clubs (which I never liked but were free). 162 to a center pin. The 7 iron sailed the green. The 8 iron rolled to the back of the green. I’ll need to recalibrate my distances now. I told my son these clubs can’t be legal.

Wilson D-9s, 4-GW, with graphite shafts.Fantastic clubs. Long and forgiving.

That's awesome.
I may need to go to some more forgiving irons for a while. 
I'm struggling to get through my latest episode of "look! I found a new way to screw up my golf swing!" 

Unfortunately for me, my issue is more user error than anything -  and longer, wider soled irons won't be enough to fix it. Gonna take some practice. 

I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't know about lofts, but a lot of the modern "distance" or "improvement" irons are lofted lower than what we know as traditional lofts. 
It's roughly one club difference.
The PW will be 44 degrees instead of 48. I've seen some at 42. 
5 irons are coming in at 24 degrees when 3 irons used to be 22. 

Anyway, I think if you're getting great results, who cares? 
I gave up on having an ego about club selection when I ditched my 5 iron for a hybrid. LOL

edit: forgot to mention
I did buy "improvement" wedges a while back. Cleveland CBX. A 56, and a 60 degree.
They've been so great that I just decided to get the GW and PW as well.
I'll have 44, 50, 56, 60 in the bag now from that line. It's basically just a hollow enclosed-cavity-back design with a bouncy wider sole.
Cuts down on duffs and chunks. Easy to make solid contact even if off center a bit.

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