Thanks guys. I was just trying to stimulate some back and forth banter about "players cavity backs". Right now I play Mizuno
MP-37"s. I'm a 4 handicap and have been playing for 40 years. Trust me the 37's are demanding irons. (They were kind of an impulse buy. Afterwards I realized the offset INCREASES as your progress to the pitching wedge.)Everything I've played has been a muscleback style blade. Old Wilson Sam Snead Blue Ridge, Hogan BH Grinds, Titleist bulletback blades then Mizuno 37's. Trust me, I don't change irons very often. But I'll be 52 next year and I'm thinking the swing won't be getting anymore precise in the years to come. Will a players cavity or a total players improvement iron like an Eye 2 make a difference?
I apologize to those who shank with dowels or play in suspended animation.
Trade
I play MP60's, they replaced my MP29's about a year ago. Prior to that I had hit but didn't particlarly like Miz Pro's and Pro II's. The difference? very small but measureable.... I'm always getting kidded by people in my group who say "nice shot" in the air while I'm saying "it was thin or toed" and "it won't get there" and it does. The top line of the club is pretty blade like, so I don't have a problem looking at it.... the clubs are workable (although at 3.2 index I don't work anything I don't have to).
Thanks guys. I was just trying to stimulate some back and forth banter about "players cavity backs". Right now I play Mizuno
MP-37"s. I'm a 4 handicap and have been playing for 40 years. Trust me the 37's are demanding irons. (They were kind of an impulse buy. Afterwards I realized the offset INCREASES as your progress to the pitching wedge.)Everything I've played has been a muscleback style blade. Old Wilson Sam Snead Blue Ridge, Hogan BH Grinds, Titleist bulletback blades then Mizuno 37's. Trust me, I don't change irons very often. But I'll be 52 next year and I'm thinking the swing won't be getting anymore precise in the years to come. Will a players cavity or a total players improvement iron like an Eye 2 make a difference?
I apologize to those who shank with dowels or play in suspended animation.
Hogan BH grinds were nice - so nice some Ba#@a%d stole them from my car! Still have a 5 iron to remember them by... The more recent Hogan blades don't seem quite the same...
Mizuno TP9s are beautiful - so soft! Agree with Nuke that they have a special "dense and soft" feel... the density is something to really fall in love with... again not felt it so much with the newer mizuno blades...maybe shaft issue ... so hard to get an exact comparison ( same shaft... different head... similarish swing weight ) .
TM 300 forged cavity back are nice as a players cavity but their best never feels as good as the best Mizuno TP9 shots... but maybe 1-2 extra green per round... but does being on the front of a green 40 foot from the flag mean a lower score than 50 foot from the flag and in the front bunker??
Not with my short game! down in 3 from both!!
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Haven't played any of those irons, so I can't give any feedback on those specifically. I played the MP-29's for about 4 years (with one re-finishing job) and loved em. From those I went to Ping S-59 Tours.... a close substitute looks-wise, but not quite the same "forged feel". I'm considering going back to the new Mizuno modified cut-muscle next year if I don't try to hang for another season with the Pings. I'm still partial to Mizuno's, regardless of the model.
Interestingly enough I had heard a lot about the PX shaft and happened to have a playing partner show up today with those in a 6.5 model (he had a set on loan that he got this week). I have DG-X100's in my Pings and like them, and my friend wanted me to hit his PX's on the range to get my input. He's played professional golf, primarily at the mini-tout level, and I'm a 0-2 handicap. I didn't care for the PX's at all, and he wasn't enamored with them either. They felt verrry stiff and provided little feel.
Keep it up boys. Good discussion so far. I have not kept up with the business end of what is happening but I've heard that True Temper now owns Royal Precision who made Rifle's and Project X's. Am I correct? If so, I wonder what they will do with those two product lines.
Keep it up boys. Good discussion so far. I have not kept up with the business end of what is happening but I've heard that True Temper now owns Royal Precision who made Rifle's and Project X's. Am I correct? If so, I wonder what they will do with those two product lines.
From what I have read over the Internet and through other sources this is correct. TT have bought over the property rights and possibly Royal Precision outright. The last report has said that they are going to have both lines running side by side and that they are going to start up the manufacturing of new stock of RP shafts soon.
Alex
Hogan BH grinds were nice - so nice some Ba#@a%d stole them from my car! Still have a 5 iron to remember them by... The more recent Hogan blades don't seem quite the same...
I just remembered I still have an old beat up set of Hogan Redlines in the garage which I use in the offseason at the dome. Your right, those older Hogans were beautiful.
Hybrid Mode
