What's with the PXG craze?

[roadtrippin4550]

So I just went and tried out some of the new PXG irons and Driver and I don't get why people are going crazy over this stuff? I really like the look, and I want to like them but they just didn't do it for me. They were inconsistent, didn't feel like anything special, and I found myself looking for the next club to try rather quickly.

 

I think the craze is generated all around the marketing and I feel like people are buying them just to say they have them and not because they are the best thing out there?

 

Am I the crazy one here or one of the few sane ones left?

 

Thoughts?

[MarkFromTheUK]

You're perfectly sane. Hideously overpriced stuff, with tour results that are underwhelming at best.

[BirdieBob]

Here are some results from Carl's testing. Now just what is one expecting from these irons?

More consistency; more accuracy; more distance? They are very fine and well made irons, but lets not expect miracles!

Well perhaps not...........maybe it's the looks or the feel of them. Then you will pay up for just that and that's it.

 

That said these irons certainly have the "buzz" on them and they will sought by some just to impress your foursome friends.

 

 

 

[AC168]

All the screws/weights is a good idea. May not be the best looking to many but highly customizable.

[roadtrippin4550]

All the screws/weights is a good idea. May not be the best looking to many but highly customizable.

 

It is a nice idea, but most of the club fitters that offer PXG do not have the option to even move the weights around.

 

Here are some results from Carl's testing. Now just what is one expecting from these irons?

More consistency; more accuracy; more distance? They are very fine and well made irons, but lets not expect miracles!

Well perhaps not...........

 

Number 1 thing in irons for me is consistency. More than anything I was expecting to hit these and understand why they are priced the way they are. I was expecting maybe a few extra yards due to nothing more than a little extra ball speed, as that is what this club is designed to create more than anything. In all honesty even without the price I wouldn't game these, and I know that to each there own but the with the buzz circling around these I think I was expecting miracles...

[glensmithis]

I guess I am part of the craze. I hit the PXG irons on multiple occasions and they beat everything else that I hit including my regular gamers. I ended up with the 0311T's which had a better dispersion and distance gain. I was not at all impressed with their driver, fairway woods or hybrids. Granted, they are not for everyone. Then again, nothing is. But, they work for me.

[apprenti23]

I've hit them on multiple occasions and they are phenomenal- but, for me they are not leaps and bounds over anything else I hit, so I didn't pull the trigger on them. Looks, feel, performance, they have it all.

[frisbeedog33]

I'm currently gaming 0311's and love them. With the PXG's I'm easily a club longer and more consistent. They are forgiving on miss-hits in terms of distance and direction. The 0311's beat out my Ping s55's and i25 iron sets.

 

Good looks, great feel, longer and more forgiving. Yes, the Ducks Nuts!

[Anser]

I think on some occasions people get interested in stuff like this because they've owned every set of irons except these :)

[kekoa]

I'm currently gaming 0311's and love them. With the PXG's I'm easily a club longer and more consistent. They are forgiving on miss-hits in terms of distance and direction. The 0311's beat out my Ping s55's and i25 iron sets.

 

Good looks, great feel, longer and more forgiving. Yes, the Ducks Nuts!

 

That seals it. Ive been in search of the ducks nuts for some time now.

[BMC]

Here are some results from Carl's testing. Now just what is one expecting from these irons?

More consistency; more accuracy; more distance? They are very fine and well made irons, but lets not expect miracles!

Well perhaps not...........maybe it's the looks or the feel of them. Then you will pay up for just that and that's it.

 

That said these irons certainly have the "buzz" on them and they will sought by some just to impress your foursome friends.

 

Did you buy the CF16s? Long and consistent!

[KPH808]

I was fitted today for the 0311Ts and they are the "ducks nuts"!!! Very solid irons, gave me the best numbers in terms of spin, launch, ball speeds, and feels great.

[Bimmer1]

Same thing that lures a man to a woman.............new and exotic...........and makes promises that it can never keep.

 

[soap1984]

What craze I have still never seen a set in person and I play a lot of golf. I'd also say the sentiment on this board is pretty negative on the clubs in general...

[SwingMan]

According to a friend who is a clubmaker, he is getting his clients a club longer or more with properly fit PXG irons. The key is properly fit.

 

If you are fitting yourself, save your money.

 

If interested, run to a PXG dealer.

[EricWGolf]

What craze I have still never seen a set in person and I play a lot of golf. I'd also say the sentiment on this board is pretty negative on the clubs in general...

 

That's interesting. I've probably seen 8-10 full bags over the past month and the reviews have been stellar - and not just by the people who bought them. People I've talked to who've demo'd them but not ordered have been impressed as well.

[swizbeatz]

Here are some results from Carl's testing. Now just what is one expecting from these irons?

More consistency; more accuracy; more distance? They are very fine and well made irons, but lets not expect miracles!

Well perhaps not...........maybe it's the looks or the feel of them. Then you will pay up for just that and that's it.

 

That said these irons certainly have the "buzz" on them and they will sought by some just to impress your foursome friends.

 

I look at PSI tours on eBay every time you post this.

[Your-away!]

PXG clubs are not really helping there tour players yet though are they, dont think ive ever seen zach johnson play so badly!

[Huskypride28]

I don't get it either. I find them rather hideous looking but to each their own.

[DrJACOB]

Today is 3-11 and that was my favorite band in the 90's! Lol I cannot wait to try the 0311 Blades and if I find them in lefty. Want to compair to my Miura and understand how PXG cost soo much more. That GoDaddy.com guy must know something because the buzz is being heard everywhere.

 

Seen a set on ebay listed and the seller said something like "Best feeling irons I ever hit but just didn't work for me." I thought that was funny! Feel is big to me and not soo much added distance.

[DTXgolfer12]

I think it's great we have a new brand on tour and in stores. Mixes things up a little and creates more competition. Competition is ALWAYS a good thing for the consumer.

 

The only downside to PXG is they are trying to isolate themselves from their competition with branding and pricing. They're saying they're nothing like every other golf club out there. Which in my experience, is impossible. Pretty much every club made today is made withing 5% of it's nearest competitor....so it's hard to justify the price difference. I think guys are excited to have a new brand. And the price they pay only makes them "buy into" the brand even more.

[MtlJeff]

I actually like the look of the irons, but the price (especially with the CDN conversations now)...it's too much. I had considered a custom ironset once from scratch, so 2500$ isn't necessarily a total deal breaker, but I'd have to be in love with them

[swizbeatz]

I actually like the look of the irons, but the price (especially with the CDN conversations now)...it's too much. I had considered a custom ironset once from scratch, so 2500$ isn't necessarily a total deal breaker, but I'd have to be in love with them

 

The cool thing with going that route if you had would be they would stand the test of time much better, they are custom and exactly what you want. PXG will have a new 2500 set of irons out within a year that will be marketed as better than the last, and so on every year.

[duffer987]

What craze I have still never seen a set in person and I play a lot of golf. I'd also say the sentiment on this board is pretty negative on the clubs in general...

 

That's interesting. I've probably seen 8-10 full bags over the past month and the reviews have been stellar - and not just by the people who bought them. People I've talked to who've demo'd them but not ordered have been impressed as well.

 

Ya the Vitriol for PXG can be pretty darn high on the forum, but very little of it seems to have to do with the irons themselves (well OK some no-screws folks aside).

Assuming PXG release a Boxster equivalent in the future, maybe some opinions will change...hmm... actually that could just make things worse, ha.

[joey2aces]

anything new is a craze... and old stuff too... people still call Scotty Cameron a 'craze' or a fad.

 

Like anything in golf, it is personal. I didn't 'get' PXG' at all. I scoffed at it, said it was ugly. Then I took the leap and wow... I was sold. Was it a waste of money?? Not to me but yes it was expensive... but I used to waste thousands a year on booze and broads, yet I can't sell those things on the secondary market (legally anyway)..... I don't claim that these new irons will make me a scratch player... just as I don't claim a $3,000 CT will make me a better putter.

People will hem and haw and call people a poseur or whatever but I like to tinker. I don't care what people snicker about in front of me or behind my back. What people don't get is that their opinions mean bull excrement to people.... yet we love to dog on people and we think that our opinions are facts.

 

Marketing has been great for PXG and with the limits on being able to access them they are even more coveted.

 

Most of the time, people who really dog on expensive items can't buy that item or their wives won't let them. I am sure if they were transparent about their lives and what they spent money on people could scoff at them too.

I hope these 0311's will stay in my bag for years to come as I am really trying to spay my buying. I seem to do well in the spring and summer but come winter I tinker tinker tinker. I know that tinkering is what's contributing to the stagnation of my handicap and my growth as a player.

 

diatribe over.

[rainkingjr]

I'm sure are top quality clubs. Better than rest? Certainly not. Parsons hired two former Ping engineers and to me they are very Ping looking clubs. Time will tell how long they stick around. I have no interest in them personally.

[Doc420]

I'm currently gaming 0311's and love them. With the PXG's I'm easily a club longer and more consistent. They are forgiving on miss-hits in terms of distance and direction. The 0311's beat out my Ping s55's and i25 iron sets.

 

Good looks, great feel, longer and more forgiving. Yes, the Ducks Nuts!

I have hit the 7 iron and thought it was very solid. I wasn't sold when looking at the 4 iron, I thought it had too much offset. What did you think about the amount of offset in the long irons, and how easy has it been to transition.

[BirdieBob]

I'm currently gaming 0311's and love them. With the PXG's I'm easily a club longer and more consistent. They are forgiving on miss-hits in terms of distance and direction. The 0311's beat out my Ping s55's and i25 iron sets.

 

Good looks, great feel, longer and more forgiving. Yes, the Ducks Nuts!

I have hit the 7 iron and thought it was very solid. I wasn't sold when looking at the 4 iron, I thought it had too much offset. What did you think about the amount of offset in the long irons, and how easy has it been to transition.

 

 

If you look at the 0311T model, they have much less offset than the 0311.....

 

Offset:

Iron............Titleist MB........0311T

4.................0.122"..............0.130"

7.................0.098"..............0.076"

P.................0.075"..............0.020"

[Doc420]

I'm currently gaming 0311's and love them. With the PXG's I'm easily a club longer and more consistent. They are forgiving on miss-hits in terms of distance and direction. The 0311's beat out my Ping s55's and i25 iron sets.

 

Good looks, great feel, longer and more forgiving. Yes, the Ducks Nuts!

I have hit the 7 iron and thought it was very solid. I wasn't sold when looking at the 4 iron, I thought it had too much offset. What did you think about the amount of offset in the long irons, and how easy has it been to transition.

 

 

If you look at the 0311T model, they have much less offset than the 0311.....

 

Offset:

Iron............Titleist MB........0311T

4.................0.122"..............0.130"

7.................0.098"..............0.076"

P.................0.075"..............0.020"

I knew that, I hit them both. Just wasn't sure if the t's were the best fit for me. My scratch ar1's were much more forgiving. The regular 0311 could work though.

[BLLDWG23]

But they have a lot of cool screws.