Who plays the most forgiving clubs on tour?

[aggiegolfer21]

I know there are a few players with 4 hybrids, YE Yang plays a 5 hybrid (not sure how much he competes on the PGA Tour anymore), and KJ Choi was gaming G400 irons before switching to the i210s. Anyone else on tour play really forgiving clubs?

[jdubya13]

Wild guess, but whatever is in Billy Mayfair’s bag

[Jokes]

Billy Kennerly on Korn Ferry tour has typically played a G series iron 4-LW the past few years.

[Natural1]

I think I saw that Mike Weir has a full set of P790s in the bag

[GoIrish17]

Kenny Perry seemed to always be playing some shovel.

[2bGood]

Rocco Mediate was famous for playing SGI irons back in the day.

[RH82]

KJ Choi?

[benicetomonty]

Stenson with the legacy blacks?

[BYK]

> @benicetomonty said:

> Stenson with the legacy blacks?

 

are those considered GI?

[BMC]

Ben Curtis won the Open with Titleist AP1s.

Stenson's Legacy Blacks are GI - huge cavity, wide sole, though forged.

[grm24]

> @BMC said:

> Ben Curtis won the Open with Titleist AP1s.

>

IIRC Curtis was playing the DCI 981 irons when he won his Open Championship. The AP1 line wasn't released until 2008/2009.

[iBanesto]

Jeev Milkha Singh won in 2008 with the Callaway FT irons and Ping Zing wedges.

 


 


 

[Snoop Golfie Dogg]

This is going back a ways, but Fred Couples made the switch to game improvement irons when he was still fairly young.

[Superbrit]

Y E Yang must be up there, he uses a 5 hybrid same as my dad

[mocokid]

I mean there were lots of tour players who played the Ping Eye2, arguably the best ever game improvement club and non forged. Then the TA845's were popular on tour. Don't Webb Simpson and Kuch carry 5 hybrids?

[8602081]

Everyone that's using PXG irons.

 

[Llortamaisey]

The only way to seriously answer this question would be to limit it to definitive metrics like MOI. I’m also assuming, based on the original post, this is only talking about full sets on the pga tour, no split sets with a outlier 4 or 5 iron and no Senior Tour. I’m that case, I think i210s would take it followed closely by the Titleist AP2/T100 according to the MOI ratings. I know a couple of guys play i210 and lots of players bag the AP2s. Forgiving clubs are more prevalent on tour than some might expect.

[sergizmo]

Monty has played GI clubs his whole career. 2002 Big Bertha's at the 2004 (?) Open Championship which are huge, and shot a 64 one round. When he signed with Hogan he tried playing blades for a bit and it didn't work out. Went to CFT (Hogan GI) irons and played much better. Even some tour players prefer a wide sole and some offset.

[aenemated]

> @"Snoop Golfie Dogg" said:

> This is going back a ways, but Fred Couples made the switch to game improvement irons when he was still fairly young.

 

Pretty sure he won the '92 Masters with the Lynx Parallax irons - which I had back then as well. I guess you could call them "game improvement" for the time - they were effectively what you see in, say, Titleist 718 CBs. I dunno if he ever gamed the Black Cats - which I also had and STILL have in my closet - which were a clever mix of something like a Ping Eye 2 with a polymer insert that went around the inner edges of the cavity.

 

Man, those Parallax were awesome.

[gvogel]

> @grm24 said:

> > @BMC said:

> > Ben Curtis won the Open with Titleist AP1s.

> >

> IIRC Curtis was playing the DCI 981 irons when he won his Open Championship. The AP1 line wasn't released until 2008/2009.

 

He won the Texas Valero open with the AP1's - 2012 model (712).

[JD3]

> @aenemated said:

> > @"Snoop Golfie Dogg" said:

> > This is going back a ways, but Fred Couples made the switch to game improvement irons when he was still fairly young.

>

> Pretty sure he won the '92 Masters with the Lynx Parallax irons - which I had back then as well. I guess you could call them "game improvement" for the time - they were effectively what you see in, say, Titleist 718 CBs. I dunno if he ever gamed the Black Cats - which I also had and STILL have in my closet - which were a clever mix of something like a Ping Eye 2 with a polymer insert that went around the inner edges of the cavity.

>

> Man, those Parallax were awesome.

May have been onto armour 845 by then

[dlygrisse]

Lee Westwood played Ping Zings for years, I-series as well.

[Santiago Golf]

Some LPGA bags have some pretty forgiving sets. Ho Sung Chio has pretty forgiving set

[aggiegolfer21]

> @Llortamaisey said:

> The only way to seriously answer this question would be to limit it to definitive metrics like MOI. I’m also assuming, based on the original post, this is only talking about full sets on the pga tour, no split sets with a outlier 4 or 5 iron and no Senior Tour. I’m that case, I think i210s would take it followed closely by the Titleist AP2/T100 according to the MOI ratings. I know a couple of guys play i210 and lots of players bag the AP2s. Forgiving clubs are more prevalent on tour than some might expect.

 

I would not include the outlier 4 or 5 iron but I would like to know about Senior Tour guys who play forgiving clubs. In addition to MOI, metrics that can be used are bounce and sole width as these provide forgiveness as well.

[grm24]

> @GoIrish17 said:

> Kenny Perry seemed to always be playing some shovel.

 

For a while he played the retail non TP R7 irons, They worked well for him.

[BCULAW]

KJ Choi played G400 irons last year on tour, and played G15s for an entire season if I recall correctly.

 

Nevermind. Just saw mention of KJ in the original post. Oh well. Here is a photo as proof!!

https://forums.golfwrx.com/discussion/1625962/kj-choi-playing-g400s-impressive/p1

 

 

[gvogel]

> @grm24 said:

> > @GoIrish17 said:

> > Kenny Perry seemed to always be playing some shovel.

>

> For a while he played the retail non TP R7 irons, They worked well for him.

 

I think he almost won the masters with Adams game improvement clubs.

 

[phatchrisrules]

This is going back away but K.J. Choi used a blended set of Nike Ignites and the original Nike blade when he first signed with them. He would use the Ignites as long irons. Rory Sabbatini had a full set of the Ignites in the bag for a year or so when he was at his "best". Immelman won the Masters with Nike CCI Cast irons and at the same time (perhaps a little bit later) had the Sumo Square hybrid in the bag. Tim Herron still uses the Eye 2 that he gets remade each year. When I was at the Canadian Open this year there were quite a few Callaway pros using the Apex Pro irons which are pretty forgiving.

[PowderedToastMan]

> @gvogel said:

> > @grm24 said:

> > > @GoIrish17 said:

> > > Kenny Perry seemed to always be playing some shovel.

> >

> > For a while he played the retail non TP R7 irons, They worked well for him.

>

> I think he almost won the masters with Adams game improvement clubs.

>

It was actually the above-referenced R7 irons he had the Masters in the bag with two holes left in the tournament.

 

[GoIrish17]

> @PowderedToastMan said:

> > @gvogel said:

> > > @grm24 said:

> > > > @GoIrish17 said:

> > > > Kenny Perry seemed to always be playing some shovel.

> > >

> > > For a while he played the retail non TP R7 irons, They worked well for him.

> >

> > I think he almost won the masters with Adams game improvement clubs.

> >

> It was actually the above-referenced R7 irons he had the Masters in the bag with two holes left in the tournament.

>

 

He did play the Adams Redline irons at some point.