What I did was last summer I went to the Arnold Palmer course, and to the golf school. Go down the hallway to the room full of clubs on the left. I picked out about 5 different irons that appealed to me, I took the 7 iron of each set. I had done some reading about the various sets before I went. They gave me a bucket of balls and I walked out the door about 15' away and hit each club.
I liked the Taylormade PSi 1 irons the best. Then I went down to the Sarasota Golf Shop on Morse and Moyer and looked at the sets and priced them. That set in graphite regular flex was about $850. Then I went on eBay and found a dealer in California that had 100% feedback and over 20,000 reviews and he had a brand new set in the box for $399 free shipping.
I like those irons for a couple of reasons. The 8 iron on down have a speed slot on the bottom, which helps increase your swing speed. There is also slots on each side of the face, so the sweet spot is almost the entire face. I've hit those irons and gotten away with hitting them on the toe and still making the green. They almost lose no distance regardless of where you hit them on the face. It's the best thing I've done for my game in a while, I had been using Adams A4 irons which are thin and nice to look down at when addressing the ball, but you have no margin for error in your contact.
