I just bought a set of these blade heads. .5 mm offset on every iron, which I’ve liked. You can buy just the heads or assembled clubs. I bought the taper tip heads as I prefer to assemble my irons.
https://www.golfsub70.com/sub-70-taper-tip-649-mb-tour-iron-heads.html
The Arias Zero Offset which have been discussed on here align with the ABS definition of offset and are another good modern option, but I haven’t used them.
I set my 949mbs up with x100 shafts and my preferred jumbo grip. First round with them yesterday and enjoyed them a lot. Thin top line and pretty compact head. Not as compact as my 75 dynapowers though. Are they worth it? Very similar performance to my Dynapowers, so probably not. But I did enjoy them quite a bit and it gives me something for the “modern” bag. The Dynas will be my go to in the vintage bag.
So the persimmon 4 wood in the “modern” bag?
Why not a hybrid?
For me the bridge club between the 3w and longest iron is the toughest. I don’t like most modern driving irons or hybrids. Modern high lofted fairway woods go too high and far. The old 4w fits in nicely and I can shape it different ways and take something off it when needed. I don’t own anything modern that would fit there. Even with the old stuff, finding good 4 and 5 woods is tough. I have 2 4 woods I like now and may just play them till I die.
Until these irons the only modern clubs I owned were wedges for the fresh grooves and the TaylorMade 300TI and Cobra hyper steel ss 3 wood picture here which I bought last year. Both of those were made in the early 2000s. The driver is on the conforming club list, is 300cc and fade biased. Still looks massive next to my persimmons, but not as crazy as the 460cc heads.
I also put together a very cheap modern putter recently and that helps me a lot on fast greens. I’m okay with my bullseye on slower greens but pretty awful on fast surfaces with it
How did you set up the driver and cobra 3w?
I cut them down a bit - the driver is 43.25 inches. And I put larger grips on them that are 67 grams. Both of those things necessitate adding weight to the heads.
They just have their stock, stiff shafts so the extra weight has made them too flexible. I have some steel shafts coming soon, so I’m going to try a similar setup to how my persimmons are set up in terms of overall weight and swing weights.
I did go ahead and reshaft the TaylorMade driver and Cobra 3w with steel shafts.
The driver came out at 43.75 inches and 396 grams. Hopefully I can try it out this week.
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