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Hello I'm Mark from Northeast Ohio

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Welcome Mark. Up here in the akron area
 
Welcome to THP! Read up on the Tour Prefferred line here on the forum. Also recommend getting a fitting as new irons can be a hefty investment and you would want them to be the best for you!

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Welcome to THP.
 
I went to golf galaxy tonight and tried out the rocketbladez non tour head club with three different shafts. I used the stock TM 85g stiff shaft, KBS.tour stiff and KBS tour x stiff shaft. I was hitting the ground before making contact with the ball in the x stiff I didn't like it, it just felt a little too heavy and no lag on the the club. I hit the 85g the best as far as contact goes but I think that is due to me just being used to the lightweight stock shaft with my Burner 2.0's. The KBS stiff shaft felt better for the little time I used it, I liked the heavier feel of that shaft. I was hitting a launch angle between 22-25° and RPMs were 4400-4800 this was my average with or without the heavier shafts. My average carry on the simulator was 184 carry and 193 with roll. That is an improvement of about 8-10 yards. I had a friend with me and he was hitting the same clubs without a gain in distance from his usual set. Let me know what you guys think, I know the backspin RPMs are high but still pretty good distance
 
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Welcome Mark, Great to have you, You will find quite a few Taylormade Players on this site to help you, Best of luck finding the perfect sticks for yourself
 
Welcome to THP!!!
 
Hello welcome to THP.
 
:welcome: Mark!
 
Bump back up...I would like to hear what you guys think of my numbers at GG in my previous post or should I just make a new thread in the "Hi..I'm new here" thread section
 
Mark1621420 said:
I went to golf galaxy tonight and tried out the rocketbladez non tour head club with three different shafts. I used the stock TM 85g stiff shaft, KBS.tour stiff and KBS tour x stiff shaft. I was hitting the ground before making contact with the ball in the x stiff I didn't like it, it just felt a little too heavy and no lag on the the club. I hit the 85g the best as far as contact goes but I think that is due to me just being used to the lightweight stock shaft with my Burner 2.0's. The KBS stiff shaft felt better for the little time I used it, I liked the heavier feel of that shaft. I was hitting a launch angle between 22-25° and RPMs were 4400-4800 this was my average with or without the heavier shafts. My average carry on the simulator was 184 carry and 193 with roll. That is an improvement of about 8-10 yards. I had a friend with me and he was hitting the same clubs without a gain in distance from his usual set. Let me know what you guys think, I know the backspin RPMs are high but still pretty good distance
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hey what iron are you hitting? i am no numbers junkie but i am generally not worried about spin on my irons so much. i know lower spin gets more distance and cuts in the wind better.

for me if its doesnt balloon and has good distance and is on a mid ball hight. im more concerned about accuracy with them
 
Sorry forgot to put this was with a 7 iron. I balloon every shot so I figured my backspin would be high
 
Mark1621420 said:
Sorry forgot to put this was with a 7 iron. I balloon every shot so I figured my backspin would be high
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yea if your getting that on a 7 iron i wouldnt worry about distance at all. mabye look into a shaft to lower your ballflight and play a lower spinning ball.
 
Yeah that is why I went to golf galaxy was to get to try out different shafts. The x stiff, I couldn't stop hitting the ground prior to the ball and the 85g stock and the KBS Tour Stiff 120g were literally about the same. I can not explain how this happened considering it was a 35g jump up in weight
 
Mark1621420 said:
I went to golf galaxy tonight and tried out the rocketbladez non tour head club with three different shafts. I used the stock TM 85g stiff shaft, KBS.tour stiff and KBS tour x stiff shaft. I was hitting the ground before making contact with the ball in the x stiff I didn't like it, it just felt a little too heavy and no lag on the the club. I hit the 85g the best as far as contact goes but I think that is due to me just being used to the lightweight stock shaft with my Burner 2.0's. The KBS stiff shaft felt better for the little time I used it, I liked the heavier feel of that shaft. I was hitting a launch angle between 22-25° and RPMs were 4400-4800 this was my average with or without the heavier shafts. My average carry on the simulator was 184 carry and 193 with roll. That is an improvement of about 8-10 yards. I had a friend with me and he was hitting the same clubs without a gain in distance from his usual set. Let me know what you guys think, I know the backspin RPMs are high but still pretty good distance
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Sounds like you may have a winner with the KBS Tour's

We have a few places around here that will do some pretty in depth iron/shaft fittings if you really wanted to narrow it down to what performs best for you.

Or if you wait a few weeks for the weather to turn, we can meet up, rumor has it I have a "few" iron sets you could try out.
 
Welcome to THP Mark! Glad you joined us.
 
mikedean441 said:
Sounds like you may have a winner with the KBS Tour's

We have a few places around here that will do some pretty in depth iron/shaft fittings if you really wanted to narrow it down to what performs best for you.

Or if you wait a few weeks for the weather to turn, we can meet up, rumor has it I have a "few" iron sets you could try out.
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Mike,

This may be perfect actually to wait because the buyer who was going to buy my burner 2.0's just backed out, you know 2 days before the golf show. So looks like I wont be getting irons this weekend. :arrogant::at-wits-end:
 
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