Interesting discussion with a guy who occasionally comes into the office today. He found out I was a golfer and we got chatting about things, mainly the Ryder Cup. Asked him all the usual stuff about his game and told him I'm picking up the Dynapowers next week. His response in retrospect was predictable but nevertheless a touch elitist. He said he wouldn't even entertain the notion of trying a game improvement irons because he doesn't agree with the notion of loft jacking, that it gives a false impression to new players that they're ball striking is improving when really the clubs doing half of the heavy lifting in the swing.
I've heard this argument a lot this past year and I can sort of understand where it comes from, but at the same time it's utter drivel. If the argument is that the club is doing all the heavy lifting then you could make a similar point about a fitting. That the clubs aren't 'manufacture standard' and you're doing aftermarket tweaking to help you improve strikes. Same argument goes for modern Drivers tbh. No company is making sub 300cc heads these days. The market has grown to help the modern golfer improve at every turn and jacking the lofts of irons is all part of that.
I was talking to my teacher about this a few weeks ago. I asked him why it is that we're not told as 'newer' golfers just to get fitted for set of players irons from the off and work on shot shaping from day dot. His response was that for 99% of golfers, good ball striking will take time. That you're swing and your rhythm needs to get to know you and that even with a ton of lessons it's got more to do with consistency of practice then it is about consistency of play. Game improvement clubs will give you the confidence to stay in the game as well as just enough feedback on bad strikes to encourage you to seek improvement through technique.
Bit of a ranty one, just thought it was an interesting if not totally useless perspective to talk about
And as it wasn't solo actually got it on EG \o/
