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Sukh said:
Can anyone just confirm that a second hand set of mx-25 for ~£180 is a good price, bearing in mind they have little wear around the grooves/faces no pit marks, but the sole of the 9 iron has a gouge taken out of it.
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Retail at £399, so i'd say yes.
 
Sukh said:
Can anyone just confirm that a second hand set of mx-25 for ~£180 is a good price, bearing in mind they have little wear around the grooves/faces no pit marks, but the sole of the 9 iron has a gouge taken out of it.
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personally would never touch a set of irons that sound as bad as you have described them.

Not recommending any sets in particular because you are best to try before you buy but for £50 more the Wilson irons below or £100 more Taylors Made irons. For the sake of a bit more cash a brand new set of irons is much better starting place. Again not recommending the sets below in particular but just an idea of how a good set of new irons doesn't need to cost to much more than an awful sounding set!!

£293 - brand new - http://www.onlinegolf.co.uk/golf-clubs/irons/320scog/4410pog.asp

£244 - brand new - http://www.onlinegolf.co.uk/golf-clubs/irons/320scog/1175pog.asp

P.S my mate just bought the taylor made ones above and loves them.
 
I went to go get them, but they were gone :(


But they had another set :) and had no marks on the faces and the only downside was a smallish dent on the shaft say the width a quarter of a 5 pence piece of the nine iron. £140 :D
 
Nice price. You can probably get the 9 iron re-shafted for not much brass also, i had to get my 6i and PW re-done, and even sending them back to Taylormade only cost £35 per club with new shafts , grips and fitting. Cost would have been cheaper if it had been a more common Rifle/Dynamic Gold shaft that my pro would have done for £20 with all the above included also.
 
Could I get some advice: I got 3-PW which is all good, went to play on the local par 3, but around the greens say 20-30 yards I felt I was missing a wedge to play the short chip.

Am I missing a 56 degrees or a Sand wedge or are they the same thing?
 
Your PW will be around 48deg. From what you are saying it does sound like you could use a higher lofted. A sand wedge it usually around 54-56deg.

I carry a PW and then a 52,56 and 60deg wedges.

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Forgot to say, depending on how much your willing to pay, the Callaway X forged at £80 are the best wedges around at the moment.
 
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Higher is good for soft sand and wet fairways, but on tight links fairways or compacted sand lower bounce is better. Personally i prefer low bounce wedges (i use Ping Tour WRX T Grind - basically the back of the wedge is ground away so there is hardly any bounce) as they can be adapted more easily to add bounce (i.e. if i need a high bounce i'll lay the face open of my 50/54degree wedge to give more loft -makes it a 60/64- and more bounce) if required, but you cant take bounce off a wedge when you are on the course
 
So 10 would be OK? I am never going to play on links since I live in Windsor, but at the same time would like to make more use of opening up the face. Only reason I like the club is because ive heard good things and the reasonable price.

In America I have heard Cleveland sell two wedges for $99 but haven't seen anything like that here.
 
I had another lesson tonight with the head PGA pro at a local course. Really enjoyed it, he said i have perfect posture. The main reason i was not consistant with my shots was due to my grip not being right. He showed me the correct grip - it wasn't that different from what i had but the difference did make it feel weird, we also worked on swing etc, i have another lesson in about 2 weeks to work on other things!
 
Are they PGA pro and how long do the lessons last? I want to start getting lessons, but want to know a ball park figure.
 
Yes, PGA pro and they are 30 minutes each, though now i have got to know him very well (30+ lessons in 2yrs), they can last up to an hour at times if he is bored and doesn't want to go back to the shop.
 
Yeh they are pro, it cost me £18 for the head pro or £16 with a normal pro. I prefer the first.

Its 30minutes long (however he does tend to get excited and go over a little bit)

My main problem now is that since i changed my grip when on my downswing my hands seem to rotate back to the previous position turning the club face and i just slice the ball miles right :(...need to stop this!

One of the 'exercises' he did with me was pouring water on the grass mat and having me swing - with no ball there - and hit the water so i hit the water enough that it sprays out infront of me. It was quite clever actually.
 
I remember having my grip tweaked when having a lesson about a year back now, felt absolutely alien and terrible, nothing went where i wanted it to go! Fast forward a couple of weeks and a few rounds of practise and it was brilliant! I also took away the ability to slightly shape my shots just by playing around with my grip.
 
Stick with the grip the Pro has taught you. It is a pain getting used to it, but will be well worth it when you do. It's all about muscle memory. Once you've been practising for a while, it will feel natural again.

I've been told I need to sort out my weight shift as everything is coming from my shoulders at the moment and that's most of the reason I am fading the ball. Also I tend to open my shoulders a little at address.

It feels pretty weird, and almost as if I am off balance, but I know if I stick at it, the results will come. I smashed a few drives yesterday about 40-50yds farther and straighter than ever, and there's no doubt it was because I shifted the weight correctly.
 
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