What if most of what you know about irons is wrong?

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One thing we COULD maybe take from hammers is this. Heavier heads and lighter shafts. I had a Stilletto Titanium hammer that was only 15oz, but struck with the force of a 24oz hammer because it has a steel face with a titanium head and shaft. So it basically had a super heavy swing weight. So it required less force in theory to drive the nail the same distance on a given swing.

So maybe we should be trying super heavy heads with lightweight shafts instead??
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That was pretty much the concept of Goldwyn clubs and big butt, ultra light weight grips. I'm surprised no one has tried the big butt shaft again, I always thought it would work well with big driver heads.
[/quote]Those big butt shafts were a pain to put grips on though but I have a tool to do it with. Not really that expensive of a tool I got mine from Maltby back in the day still have it. Do not know why but evidently I had the only one at this beach. All the other shops used to send those guys with the Tmag bubble shafts to me for grips. I still have a few customers that swear by those shafts and if I see any clubs in the thrifts etc I buy them for a couple of bucks for the shaft. Personally I am a feel player and I could never get any feedback with those shafts
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I made my own tool using a funnel and it still comes in handy installing Winn grips once in a while. The longest drive I ever hot was with an Apache Maximizer big butt shaft on a Mercury II(Callaway clone) 9.5° head.
[/quote]There was something about those old Callaway Mercury II heads. I built quite a few of them back in the old golf shop days. They hit pretty good. My wife still has a Mercury 7 wood in her bag that she hits and it has an Apache shaft in it. I can hit it and it is a little short for me and the shaft is whippy but I can hit the prettiest little rope draw about 160 yards. In fact I still have a couple of those 7 wood heads somewhere in case my V-Steel ever cracks

[pdgolferman]

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You can drive a nail with the side of a hammer just fine, I've been doing construction for over 15 years and do it all the time in tight spaces.
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Yeah +1
These guys who think this stuff up are definitely not carpenters. I was in the game 35 years and could drive a nail just as well with the head side on. The weight was still there. Lol.
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Then what you need is one of these....

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