Q: PING i59 irons: Why aren’t employees gamers gaming these within the bag? Looks like a majority are going in the direction of both,
a) i-series (ex: i230)
b) Older fashions (ex: S55)
Appears a bit odd that employees aren’t utilizing the “latest expertise” that their firm has to supply for participant’s irons. – @TheColbyWatson
It’s commonplace for PGA TOUR professionals to play older fashions and a few manufacturers (PING, for instance) are much less aggressive than others on the subject of pushing new stuff into their baggage.
That helps to clarify the older stuff.
With respect to the i59, it’s not one thing I have a tendency to consider as a real “Tour” iron. The design is extra alongside the traces of a compact, weak-lofted participant’s distance iron. To reference one other producer’s lineup, it’s extra Mizuo Professional 225 than JPX Tour.
Whereas these varieties of hollow-body constructions have grow to be common with amateurs of various talent ranges, after they’re discovered on Tour, it’s sometimes restricted to the longer irons in blended units.
Against this, the i-series (presently the i230) is a cavity-back design. Whereas I wouldn’t name it a 1-for-1 with the Titleist T100, it does appear to have carved out an analogous area of interest as an iron that satisfies each the most effective gamers on the earth and common golfers inside the low- to mid-handicap vary.
Q: Finest reasonably priced ball (lower than $40/dozen) just like Professional V? – PeteyPotter
My first thought each time I’m requested this query is the Maxfli Tour. It’s continuously on sale for $35 or much less. Sadly, when you’re not within the U.S., they’re exhausting to get.
Alternate options embody Snell balls (although we’ve simply began testing the brand new line) and the VICE urethane lineup (apart from the Professional Zero). Usually, on the subject of the value-priced stuff, we are inclined to favor balls manufactured by Foremost in Taiwan.
I’ll additionally throw Seed on the listing as a is perhaps value a glance. We’ve samples in for Ball Lab and two Seed balls in our upcoming robotic check. It will likely be our first expertise with them however the firm actually has a following, particularly within the UK.
Q: Finest membership to have within the bag for a mid to low handicapper. Driving iron (2-iron), hybrid, 5-wood? – drewy1717
With allowances for the truth {that a} good little bit of that is golfer-dependent, my feeling is simply too many common to good golfers carry utility irons, approach too many nonetheless have standard lengthy irons within the bag, not sufficient select hybrids (many higher gamers keep away from them just like the plague) and, on the subject of lofts round 18 levels, the golf green wooden continues to be doubtless the best choice.
Extra compact designs just like the COBRA Aerojet LS, for instance, nonetheless enable for some workability/trajectory management whereas sustaining among the forgiveness that almost each golfer would profit from.
Why have a harder-to-hit membership within the bag when you don’t completely want it?
All of that mentioned, I believe it is sensible to maintain a utility round for windy days and firmer situations. I took a 5-wood to Bandon as soon as. I gained’t do it once more.
Q: What would your final putter collaboration be? Mine can be a @labgolfputters with @SikGolf face expertise and @SeeMorePutters rifle scope alignment. – @RandallSiedsch1
Within the curiosity of making an attempt to irritate as many manufacturers as attainable and limiting my reply to stuff I’ve performed, I’m going to say my present gamer (PXG Battle Prepared Blackjack) with the unique PING TR grooves.
My hunch is your mixture of L.A.B. and SIK can be common with the MGS employees. I believe I’m the final man who hasn’t performed with a L.A.B. putter. The opposite guys love them.
As a barely associated apart, I not too long ago performed with a man who ditched his L.A.B. Directed Power as a result of he bought uninterested in his taking part in companions making enjoyable of it. He changed it with a LINK.1 which I suppose is a validation of types.
Q: When are you guys getting the brand new Titleist T Collection irons for testing? – @andyGerard100
We (nicely, Titleist’s launch schedule) missed the window for 2023 Most Wished testing, so we gained’t have our full physique of information on them for an additional 12 months.
That’s clearly not excellent for everybody (or anybody) so a few of us might be writing up “We Tried It” critiques on the brand new stuff we have been fitted into. They gained’t be as data-driven as Most Wished however that ought to maintain us over.
Remember to tell us when you’d prefer to see us do extra of that kind of write-ups all year long.
Q: What are your ideas on the Takomo 201 irons? – @TaylorSchwanke
Full disclosure: I don’t have any private hands-on expertise with them (and yeah, that’s a 301 pictured above). That mentioned, among the Takomo stuff has examined nicely for us and I’d actually think about them a critical choice within the DTC/worth area alongside New Degree, Sub 70 and, to an extent, PXG (it’s nonetheless bizarre to jot down that).
Secondhand and anecdotally, we’ve heard that the customer support isn’t all the time the most effective however in any other case it’s exhausting to disclaim the worth proposition. Oh, and so they look fairly good too.
Q: Fascinated about altering from a blade putter to one thing else. My stroke has a slight arc. Solutions?
Generally, I help the thought of making an attempt a mallet. I used to be a longtime blade man however I’ve come to understand the added forgiveness. Past that, my recommendation is all the time to get fitted. Failing that, I suppose you must try to get a type of new Restricted Version Odyssey Jailbirds. I imply, something that wins three straight weeks on Tour has to work for completely everybody, proper?
