I have 2-9 Percussion Center irons with stiff Hogan True Temper shafts, and I have been working on Module 1, off and on, for the last few months. Off and on because of physical injury and travelling. I am barely 5 foot eight and have always had a flattish swing. Anyway, I bent these irons around 4 degrees flat, and hadn’t been playing them (using ‘Directors’), and was fiddling with them this afternoon, trying to get them uniformly 4 degrees when I thought hang this and took them out to the lie board, at 4 degrees they were all off the heel - every one. So I put them in the bending apparatus and gave them a good tug.
On return to the lie board the 2-iron at 49 degrees was marking the centre of the sole, the 3 at 50.5 was nearly central, the 4 at 52 was slightly toward the heel, the 5 at 6 degrees flat still hitting the heel, the 9 at 7 degrees flat was well toward the heel. The upshot is that it seems that I need to bend the set close to 9 degrees flat to show centre impact on the lie board. I know lie boards aren’t perfect.
The hosel’s structure on the 7 is approaching that of well cooked spaghetti.
If my memory serves me well, Lag has written of people going to 8 degrees??? My question is is this anomalous or have I really flattened my hit or do I have anything to concern myself with.
Any information concerning this matter would be greatly appreciated. As the great Roland Kirk said, 'e’s flat and I’m flat too.
Thanks
Terry