The Most Used Irons On the Champions Tour (inc. Cavity Backs vs. Blades)
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Having looked previously at the iron choices of the top players on the PGA and LPGA Tours in this video Golfing Focus turns our analytical lens on the irons chosen by the best players on the Champions Tour to see:
1. What are the most popular irons, and
2. If Champions Tour Pros Prefer Blades or Cavity Backs?
This is part of our ongoing series at the end of which in the following overall video we analyze the golf bags of the best players on the Champions Tour to see what the most popular 14 clubs are on the Senior Tour.
Unpacking The Clubs Champions Tour Players Use. Most Used Set Revealed - • Unpacking The Clubs Ch...
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Most Popular Irons
3:58 Cavity Backs vs. Blades on Champions Tour
6:16 'Mixed' Sets of Irons
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Just love the insight you bring - please keep these vlogs comimg
Many thanks. Delighted you’re enjoying the videos 👍
I would love to see you do this with the LPGA tour.
LPGA comparable videos coming soon! 👍
The attachment of club head to shaft at heel make the mass in the club head twist the shaft and toe of the club open and closed during the swing the more mass there is in the toe of the club the more this occurs.
In the hands of an experienced golfer the sensation of the club heat TRYING to twist in the hands provides valuable feedback and situational awareness of face angle during the swing allowing them to adjust it with their superior hand-brain-coordination if it isn’t correct for the shot being planned; straight or straight. The pros seldom try to hit and shot dead straight because tilting the backspin axis like this \ for a fade ( or like this / for a draw ) ‘takes one side of the hole out of play’.
Karsten Solheim if PING is credited with creating the ‘high-MOI’ design in the 1950 after taking up golf in his 30’s and realizing the toe bias of the putters and blade irons were twisting in his hands for the reason explained above. Being an engineer is realized that could be fixed by moving mass from toe to sole and heel of the club in his Anser putter and PING EYE designs. The heel-sole-toe balance is designed to help the face of the club stay automatically square, not to the straight target line but rather the curved swing path the club head travels on.
Due to the physics of mass and movement cavity back clubs will not twist in the hands during the swing as much as a 1960s MB blade will and will deflect less at impact if ball strikes isn’t perfect. Some marketing wonk decided to call that “Game Improvement” when it us actually “Mistake Mitigation”. To the extent they are more “Forgiving” it is because they mask the underlying fact the golfer’s swing has room for improvement. This has resulted in three, four generations of golfer believing that buying the next NEW and MORE FORGIVING set of clubs will improve their SKILL. They will improve SCORE to some degree but mask the feedback that is needed to improve toe and face control like the pros do.
I’m old enough to have started in 1983 with a set of blade irons and purchased and regripped several sets of MB blades from the 1970s to understand the differences. I found a set of PING EYE2 irons 3i - LW at a thrift store for $60 and played those for about ten years before going back to less ‘forgiving’ but better ‘feedback’ in a $400 set of circa 2009 PING S57s and at age 72 recently switched to circa 2000 Mizuno T-Zoids I picked up for $120 because like the pros I never try to hit a full swing shot dead straight and and like the feedback of the lower MOI head designs when shaping shots 😊.
Keep up the great work
Many thanks. It’s much appreciated 👍
I’m 99.9 percent certain, that Steve Stricker is a Titleist staffer, and plays them with the only exception being the old Odyssey putter he’s used for decades. His WITB from a month ago had him using Titleist irons.
You’re absolutely right James and thanks for spotting. The change from Callaway came right after we finished our research. Will update the data now. Thanks again for sharing 👍
Hi @jamesconnolly3042 - Saw an interview with Steve Stricker this week and looks like he has returned to his Callaway driver and irons after testing out the Titleist TSR3 driver and T200 and T100 irons in April. So he's back to a Callaway and Titleist mix throughout the bag and by the looks of things based on an interview he gave at the American Family Championship this week isn't going to be changing again anytime soon. Reason he was testing the TSR3 driver apparently was he broke his old Epic Speec Triple Diamond but has now sourced another Callaway so he has it back in the bag. And while he was testing out the new driver he thought he would try some new irons but again has now going back to his Callaway Apex '19 irons. 👍
What’ model ping irons to they use ? I210, i230?
Interesting. What about an analysis for tour pro's across everything, clubs and balls
👍 further series coming soon on LPGA and men’s game in due course. Are a number of videos on PGA Tour already on the channel from last year which you can check out. Updated 2024 versions will then follow 👍
How about looking at iron use based on top 20 GIR rankings? Just a suggestion.
Thanks for the feedback. Something we can consider for the future for sure 👍
4:20 is the hardest to buy. NO senior golfers use a combination of blades and cavity backed?
Out of the data we could find none of the senior pros had a mixed set of blades and cavity backs. There may be some we don’t know about though of course but think it’s fair to say from the 50 odd pros we found iron info on that it’s very much a niche choice if any of them do play such a mixed set.
How many of these players are still sponsored?
Most Irons don’t differ that much and if you get them for free plus a nice paycheck, as a player you pick the highest bidder.
Definitely sponsorship plays a part for sure but not for all of them. Langer has 7 different brands in his bag for example and he’s not sponsored by them all. It is a factor though for sure
That was a long video to not answer the question
It’s all about money and who sponsors who
Exactly
Just got the Ping 730 Irons I love them.
That’s great. 👍Out of interest what did you upgrade from?
I played a set of Titleist 716CB’s for a long time. Just bought a set of Ping 530 irons and really like them although gapping the PW-LW was a pain.
@@j.w.matney8390 That's great and delighted the new set of PINGs are going well 👍
Funny how ernie els endorses xxio but plays sxrixon
Yup apologies - should have been clearer on this piece. XXIO are a Japanese golf manufacturer owned by the same company as Srixon and Cleveland. So some players like Els use a combination of these different brands while being sponsored by the one company. 👍