Some of you may know, I finally received my new Titleist T200 & T300 irons the other day. I was so anxious to play them, that I took off work early to get them & have enough time to get out to the course for a round. To my surprise, a lot of my shots were going left. And I don't mean slightly left, they were dead pulls and everything missed that way. My divot was completely different, also to the left. I could feel the toe grabbing on the turf thru impact. The club going thru the turf was just completely different than what I'm used to. So what gives right?
Well luckily I have a loft/lie machine at home. I get home & take out the 6-iron & put it on the machine. Turns out, 3* upright AND 3* stronger in loft!! WTH! So maybe it's a slight error ... couldn't be all the clubs, right? Nope ... take out the 5-iron .... same thing. 3* upright & 2* stronger loft. Uhh, I asked for 1* upright from Titleist. I go thru all the irons and they are all 2 - 3* upright with various degrees of loft. Not one club was correct! Well with the exception of the U500. The only other thing they got right was the swing weight. All the clubs are at D2.
So what do I do? Try and send them back to Titleist? Then have to wait forever & a day to get them fixed. Or do I go ahead and fix them myself? What would someone do if they didn't have a loft/lie machine like myself? Are you just stuck with them the way they are or do you take them back? Are we really at the mercy of whoever builds the clubs? If you weren't too knowledgeable on club aspects, what does what & why with the lie, etc. would you just chalk it up to a bad day with a bad swing? Or would you even think that it was the club and take them to be looked at for specs?
I'm at a loss for words really. Especially with Titleist.
Well luckily I have a loft/lie machine at home. I get home & take out the 6-iron & put it on the machine. Turns out, 3* upright AND 3* stronger in loft!! WTH! So maybe it's a slight error ... couldn't be all the clubs, right? Nope ... take out the 5-iron .... same thing. 3* upright & 2* stronger loft. Uhh, I asked for 1* upright from Titleist. I go thru all the irons and they are all 2 - 3* upright with various degrees of loft. Not one club was correct! Well with the exception of the U500. The only other thing they got right was the swing weight. All the clubs are at D2.
So what do I do? Try and send them back to Titleist? Then have to wait forever & a day to get them fixed. Or do I go ahead and fix them myself? What would someone do if they didn't have a loft/lie machine like myself? Are you just stuck with them the way they are or do you take them back? Are we really at the mercy of whoever builds the clubs? If you weren't too knowledgeable on club aspects, what does what & why with the lie, etc. would you just chalk it up to a bad day with a bad swing? Or would you even think that it was the club and take them to be looked at for specs?
I'm at a loss for words really. Especially with Titleist.
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