The Great Blade Discussion

[mr_divots]

All I know is that I suck worse with cavity back irons. It's been proven.

 

Once you get away from message-board-land nobody cares what's in your bag anyway, unless they are stealing it.

 

Best comment I've seen in a while, Bravo!

 

Ain't it the truth. THere are very rarely people that ask what I'm playing (maybe I'm JUST that bad?!) :D

[Steelman]

If you have a good enough swing and the practice time, blades are awesome. For me, I grew up playing crappy courses that basically were best to pick the ball of the deck instead of taking divot. One reason was the gnarly grass and the other was how hard the ground always was. In modern times, the clubs that allow me to pick the ball consitently are blades with a flat sole shape and blunted leading edge. Closest OEM that does that right now is Titleist with their 680 blade offering. Wide soles are primarily for two purposes. One is to prevent a fat shot by making it harder to dig in and the second is to position weight very low to make it easier to get the ball airborne.

 

That being said, there are some quite good cavity backed clubs that will allow someone like me, and Tom Watson by the way, to pick the ball but it takes some grind customization. I assure you Adams Golf custom grinds Watson's irons for this purpose. That, for most of us, gets expensive.

 

Right now, I play with MP-32s that allow me to pick the ball and am working with Blade Golf to get a set made of their blades with a custom grind which they are willing to do for their base price, which is a bit more than others.

 

The point of all this? Blades are incredible if fit correctly to your game and you have the swing to hit them consistently.

[steve81]

Didn't you just get some Titleist 704.cb's anyway?? Seems to me that was like less than a week ago!!

 

I'm a ho. I had them on order and then decided against it. They were kind of an impulse buy and I decided I wanted to hit some other goodies from the iron line-up at Titleist before buying. Probably should have done that first, but what do you expect from a club ho? :D

[steve81]

Well, I did it. Switching to a forged cavity back blade. Just bought a brand new set of Miura Forged Taylormade RAC CB's w/S300 shafts for $500 shipped.

 

If anyone is interested in my LT's feel free to PM me!!!

[VTHOKIES]

For what it is worth, my opinion is play what you want to. Most of us here aspire to be single digit and I would suppose that the main reason that a lot aren't is not the arrow, its the indian. I, for one, attribute my inability to get to scratch as a time issue, not an equipment issue. If you can't practice (unless of course, you are one of the rare God gifted folks who can just flat out play without much practice), you won't get better. Probably better said, if you can't practice properly and consistently, you can't get better. Yeah, butter knives are probably more difficult to hit than shovels. But, in the end, a 15 will stay a 15 if he don't practice or take lessons and commit to gettng better. A 15 WILL absolutely, positively get better, probably down to a high single digit, if he puts in the range time and studies his swing and knows how to improve. I went from a shovel swinging 12 to a MP32 swinging 7 pretty quickly. Why, well because of daylight savings time for one. Getting my Word not allowed out on the course nightly (I am lucky enough to live on a course) for 5 or 6 holes, and spending quality range time weekly, along with some tune up lessons. It had nothing to do with my sticks, per se. But, admittedly, I did get a lot of satisfaction seeking and hitting pins with the 32's despite what my friends said about how crazy I was.

 

The amazing thing is that no matter what you are swinging, once you start swinging good and get confidence in yourself and your clubs enough to execute what you practice, it all falls into place. The last thing that really helped me was gringing it out on the practice and chipping green. That was probably worth 2 or 3 index points right there. In short, ther is no magic pill for getting better other than work. And if you commit to work, you can swing whatever you like, that feels good TO YOU and you are confident with.

 

I say if you are not willing to commit to working on your game, save your money and stick with what you got. But, if you want to commit to try to master this beast of a game, get a fresh start and pick something new that looks and feels good to you and best of luck. Sometimes some new sticks add a great spark. Especially if your friends think you are crazy.

 

This is sooooo accurate of a statement. ;)