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Old 05-20-2015, 09:52 AM
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As Mikeod has stated this concept has been tried in the past without much success. I can't recall the name of the company but we had a set of irons in a pro shop that I worked in in 1978. They had a display showing how all of the irons would swing exactly the same when swung like a pendulum from a pivot point that they were hanging on.

You got several problems when trying to do this. As the manufacture says, you have one stance, one posture and one swing. Everything should feel exactly the same no matter which club you are swinging. But I don't know that that's ever been proven to be an advantage.

The thing is that if all of these clubs have exactly the same length, weight and swing weight, then the only thing that changes is the loft.

Loft is only one factor in determining how far a golf will travel after being stuck by a particular club. Length of the shaft is also a factor and perhaps a more important factor than loft.

The lower the loft of a club, the more club head speed is need to get the ball airborne. The longer a shaft, the faster the head will travel with the butt end of the club moving at the same speed. But, if the head is too heavy, the player will not be able to swing the club at the same speed as the shorter clubs.

In order to compensate for various shaft lengths, club heads are made in different dead weights. The longer the club, the lighter the head. The increased length contributes to a faster club head speed so long as the head is light enough to be swung fast enough. If the head of a three iron was the same as a sand wedge, you might not be able to produce the additional club head speed that the low loft requires.

It's a nice idea to think that all of your clubs would be as easy to hit as your pitching wedge, but I can't see how that an work. I think that physics work against it.

My advice would be to get rid of all of your long irons and have a lot of hybrid clubs in your bag.
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