Warning I am going to ramble on about clubs. Clubs come either forged or cast. Generally speaking forged are for players(better control) and cast are more forgiving. At one time, top end was all exclusively forged and expensive. Not so much now. Great examples of both can be found. I think back to my first macgregor dx tourneys which were a quality club in their day that I grew up with, the weight was all middle. And they were blades. Weight has been moved lower in modern clubs and center of gravity has been moved as well.
I played with mizuno mp 33. They were like butter when hit right. Forged iron, vs forged steel (my 755s), forged iron were sweet. Miss a forged blade a pinch and totally awry. Blades vs cavity. The cavity is what its all about. My clubs are more muscle back, a blade with a cut of some kind. Cavity is a hollow cavity behind face, making a hot face, but not as workable or sensitive. My first real clubs top flite xl 2000 had big cavity faces. I could hit that four a mile. I always loved titleist irons and tm drivers. Clevland or vokey wedges.
Cavity, the rocketball z irons were, fairly large cavity. With a pinch of offset. Offset being the twist at the bottom, giving a little more time fornthe hands and wrists than mine which are near straight at the bottom. I recognized the ball flight well, high, long, and balooning. More a machete to the scalpel titleist but I always thought who cares? I mean really if its off a little from 180 I am cool if its on the green. Miss hit a forged blade and its not finding the green. Face a little left, way left. Honestly the titleist are better and more exact feeling imo to the clumsier rbz irons. Titelist ap 1 irons seemed awesome to me. At this point distance is somewhat controled by the rna and golfs other governing bodies. So they give distance by having less angle. So an 8 in my set is a 9 in his based on designed face tilt angle. My 5 his 7 etc.
Tldr, a cast cavity back larger face iron will be very forgiving and fly long and high. A forged muscle back or full blade iron will give more feel and control over ball flight. I didnt get into shafts but will at some point.
The "forgiving" part is what most interests me. I also have a tendency towards low ball flight (even off of my 11° driver.) I have an older set of Taylor Made irons.
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