BiXLL
New member
I am 58 years old in good physical condition. I started playing golf at about 10 years old, and won a state junior tournament at 12 shooting a final 89. I played weekends until about 20 years ago and do to life, gave the game up completely. When I stopped playing I was shooting low 80s touching high 70s on occasion. Recently my stepson has started playing and he and I have really had some good bonding times when I started going with him. I played about 8 or 9 rounds at the end of this season with him and want to get back into the game. I am playing with a set of ping knockoffs irons that I bought used over 20 years ago. When I realized I am hitting a 4 iron on the same par 3 that he was hitting a 7, I came to the realization that it was probably time to update my clubs. This year I have been coming in with scores of low 90s and high 80s. Short game is what has been killing me, and I can not blame that on the clubs, and with more play I am sure that will come around.
The help I am looking for is to know what iron set a golfer like myself, a weekend warrior who is competitive by nature, but is more interested in having a good time then trying to become a pro golfer.
To try to give a little more info, I had started using a Taylor Made Burner Driver that was bought for me when someone had borrowed my driver to go to the range and brought it back headless. I found that all of a sudden with that club I had a terrible slice off the T that I never had before. I happened to try a used Taylor Made SLDR driver someone had extra in their bag and they lost the club to me. I absolutely crush that thing with only an occasional fade.
In my limited research, I am thinking a good fit for me and my game would be Taylor Made Speedblade or SLDR irons. I just am completly uniformed on what are the quality, best bang for the buck clubs that are now available. Hell I remember when I had a set of Top flight woods years ago and they were state of the art, I don't think they are even made anymore??? Calloway, taylor Made, cleveland were not even heard of brand names back then.
So, are there any ideas or suggestions you guys can offer me? Understand I am not interested in paying $300.00 to have a pro swing Annaliese, I am more interested in finding out all the info I can and make the best educated choice I can and learn to use the clubs I buy.
The help I am looking for is to know what iron set a golfer like myself, a weekend warrior who is competitive by nature, but is more interested in having a good time then trying to become a pro golfer.
To try to give a little more info, I had started using a Taylor Made Burner Driver that was bought for me when someone had borrowed my driver to go to the range and brought it back headless. I found that all of a sudden with that club I had a terrible slice off the T that I never had before. I happened to try a used Taylor Made SLDR driver someone had extra in their bag and they lost the club to me. I absolutely crush that thing with only an occasional fade.
In my limited research, I am thinking a good fit for me and my game would be Taylor Made Speedblade or SLDR irons. I just am completly uniformed on what are the quality, best bang for the buck clubs that are now available. Hell I remember when I had a set of Top flight woods years ago and they were state of the art, I don't think they are even made anymore??? Calloway, taylor Made, cleveland were not even heard of brand names back then.
So, are there any ideas or suggestions you guys can offer me? Understand I am not interested in paying $300.00 to have a pro swing Annaliese, I am more interested in finding out all the info I can and make the best educated choice I can and learn to use the clubs I buy.