3/8 iron steps

[ShaneNZ]

I am 6'4 and have always played my irons off a 38.75 5 iron as I do not like feeling like I am stretching with my short irons. My current 50 and 54 wedges are 36.25 long.

Getting a new set of irons build up and want to try 3/8 steps instead of traditional 1/2.

Proposed             Current

3 iron 39.250       3 iron 39.750
4 iron 38.875       4 iron 39.250
5 iron 38.500       5 iron 38.750
6 iron 38.125       6 iron 38.250
7 iron 37.750       7 iron 37.750
8 iron 37.375       8 iron 37.250
9 iron 37.000       9 iron 36.750
46 pw 36.625      46 pw 36.250

current  50 gw 36.250
wedges  54 sw 36.250
            60 lw  36.000

Not a big difference but will hopefully make my longer irons a bit easier to hit at shorter length and give me more of a yardage gap between pw and gw.

Any thoughts ? Has anybody tried this and liked it ?

[bcheeks]

You better email me that. I'm never going to remember all those specs.

[Sillybodkins]

I am 6'4 and have always played my irons off a 38.75 5 iron as I do not like feeling like I am stretching with my short irons. My current 50 and 54 wedges are 36.25 long.

Getting a new set of irons build up and want to try 3/8 steps instead of traditional 1/2.

Proposed             Current

3 iron 39.250       3 iron 39.750
4 iron 38.875       4 iron 39.250
5 iron 38.500       5 iron 38.750
6 iron 38.125       6 iron 38.250
7 iron 37.750       7 iron 37.750
8 iron 37.375       8 iron 37.250
9 iron 37.000       9 iron 36.750
46 pw 36.625      46 pw 36.250

current  50 gw 36.250
wedges  54 sw 36.250
            60 lw  36.000

Not a big difference but will hopefully make my longer irons a bit easier to hit at shorter length and give me more of a yardage gap between pw and gw.

Any thoughts ? Has anybody tried this and liked it ?

While I am not especially tall, I too hated to bend over too much for a short iron.  My solution - just lengthen my 8-iron to PW. 

[GavinC]

I don't know about this plan or how it should work out but let me drop some of my knowledge on this.
I too have longer irons, same height as you, but what I do is; for an average shot, grip about a half inch down. it makes it shorter but it also allows me to have a extra 5-10 yards in each club if theres a distance that I need to hit. It just works for me instead of having to swing harder or take more and swing less.
Just a quick suggestion instead of buying new sticks.

[ShaneNZ]

Finally got to try set with 3/8 steps on course (Nickent 3dx pro with PX 6.0) - long irons easier to hit at slightly shorter length and longer short irons make me feel less hunched over. Overall i really like !!

[Red_on_the_head]

You've heard of TLT fitting, correct?  "My long irons are too long and my short irons are too short" is their motto.

Danscustomgolfshop.com  I think is the website. 

I've heard a lot of people who have tried TLT and they believe that is the true way to fit clubs.  I've done some simple mathematical calculations to come up with a similar set-up(hand position is the same for every iron) but I'm a SL guy so I've never actually tried it. 

Good luck with the 3/8" increments. 

[ShaneNZ]

You've heard of TLT fitting, correct?  "My long irons are too long and my short irons are too short" is their motto.

Danscustomgolfshop.com  I think is the website. 

I've heard a lot of people who have tried TLT and they believe that is the true way to fit clubs.  I've done some simple mathematical calculations to come up with a similar set-up(hand position is the same for every iron) but I'm a SL guy so I've never actually tried it. 

Good luck with the 3/8" increments. 

Yeah i had heard of it and done some reading on it. Thought I would try this out first as I didn't have to buy the charts. I am very happy so will not bother messing with the 3/8 steps but would be interested in your calculations and see how close my set up is.

[Backspin9]

I believe I saw that .4" increments were used when MOI matching a set of irons.  Don't see why 3/8 (.375) wouldn't work.

[BigDaddy13440]

I am 6'4 and have always played my irons off a 38.75 5 iron as I do not like feeling like I am stretching with my short irons. My current 50 and 54 wedges are 36.25 long.

Getting a new set of irons build up and want to try 3/8 steps instead of traditional 1/2.

Proposed             Current

3 iron 39.250       3 iron 39.750
4 iron 38.875       4 iron 39.250
5 iron 38.500       5 iron 38.750
6 iron 38.125       6 iron 38.250
7 iron 37.750       7 iron 37.750
8 iron 37.375       8 iron 37.250
9 iron 37.000       9 iron 36.750
46 pw 36.625      46 pw 36.250

current  50 gw 36.250
wedges  54 sw 36.250
            60 lw  36.000

Not a big difference but will hopefully make my longer irons a bit easier to hit at shorter length and give me more of a yardage gap between pw and gw.

Any thoughts ? Has anybody tried this and liked it ?

Shane - I did the exact same thing with a set of DG X100's I stuck in some Acer XP Professionals. Extended them a couple inches, frequencied them, tipped to get all 8 shafts exactly the same frequency at the same length, with only 1 cpm variance. Got all the heads to have exactly a 7gram variance from one to the next, wound up with a CPM slope of 5 from one club to the next, with the exception of the AW, SW and LW - only 4CPM, but also only 1/4" shorter.

Felt FANTASTIC, very easy to hit from one iron to the next.
FWIW, I'm 6'7 - based all mine off a 39 1/4" 7 iron. Didn't alter the lie angle, even tho the local PING fitter/shop wants me in 4* upright at 1 1/2" over.... 

5i - 40"
6i - 39 5/8"
7i - 39 1/4"
8i - 38 7/8"
9i - 38 1/2"
PW - 38 1/8"
AW - 37 7/8"
SW - 37 5/8"
LW - 37 3/8"

Note: with the X100's and extensions, they were extremely heavy - the SW was a full 50 grams heavier than my (then) current DGSL S300/ Acer XP. Even so, they were smooth, but I couldn't play them for 36+ holes (like I tried to shortly after having a cardiac problem), so I went back to my DGSL's.

I'd probably be gaming them now, but I lent them to my buddy for a tournament he had to play in, and I never got them back......