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Had a great time at the fitting, the pro at my club is a genuinely nice guy, which helps make me feel a lot more comfortable and able to hit my best shots.
Yeah, from what I've read and understand, only hitting the 7 iron is standard practice unless you go to a specific manufacturer fitting say or manufacturer center.
Yeah I made sure to check the lofts so I was confident in the gains, my Cobra 7 was pretty strong already at 29 and the Callaway Smoke is 28. So pretty comparable and the distance gain was definitely beyond what 1 degree would offer. Interestingly the Cobra DarkSpeed was 27 and I couldn't carry it as far as the Callaway or the Stealth (also 28).
Yeah I don't think I mind it so much on wedges, they get battered around more than any other club so they ways get rough quickly. I had some black ones which ended their life grey. Typically I'm not one for coloured irons, I know TaylorMade reckon they've nailed black finishes on the P770 and P790 but time will tell.
. I at least have to go hit some awful 3-iron shots before I get over it. I have to change the grip, too. I bought it from some thrift shop ebay store and the grip smells like powerfully foul pipe tobacco. It's also that lime green camo Winn grip which is hideous. Mizuno irons are so handsome, even the old ones. Glad I now own one.
Very nice, I've hit my brother-in-laws Mizunos a few times and they do feel and look fantastic. Interesting you mention the Elevate, I have TT Elevate 85 mph in my Callaways, 85g.I have a matching 5 iron that I picked up used but like new from PGA Superstore for like $20. My Apex set was 6-AW. But they have Callaway-exclusive 95g Project X LZ shafts, which feel awesome, and they're +1 inch over standard length. The 5 iron feels like shorter than standard and comes with this ultra light Elevate shaft. Feels like swinging a straw-- a real no-go. Since you can't even get full length PX LZ 95g shafts, and the closest ones are 115g, I looked at options for just buying one of those and transplanting the 5i head onto it. They want crazy money. Instead, I found a 3-iron for 20 bucks, which is the correct length LZ shaft for a set-matching 5i.
Only problem is now it looks like it's in such good shape that I feel bad about taking it apart
. I tried like hell to undo the Apex. Eventually I shoved a chopstick in there to get more solvent down the middle and I was able to muscle it off. What a moron I was. I didn't even try to undo the Mizuno. I figure that club feels secure enough and if anything it's just like it's got an extra wrap.
It's a marvelous club and I felt like I could actually shape the ball somewhat compared to my hybrids. It was the first time I hit a draw and a fade while actually trying. Most of the balls I hit had so much topspin, however, that they just dove back into the ground and shot off. Those clubs are hard to hit man.
Props for persevering, nothing more frustrating than hitting some bumps on a job like that once you've committed. Were the JumboMax grips a preference or any particular reason behind them? They're such unique grips.So I realized that my package of Tour Velvet grips actually came with tapes and solvent. I decided to be ambitious and remove that nasty grip from the Mizuno and re-grip my clubs myself. The Winn grip came off easily and I put the tape on and slide the grip on, no-sweat. Easy-peesy. I decided that since that one was so easy I'd just do all my Apex CF19s that have the jumbomax grips on them. Well, let me tell you, never buy Jumbomax grips. The EVA was practically cemented to the tape. Took all my might to peel it off before I decided that I would need to cut them down both sides and take half off at a time. I had to use my linesman pliers to peel the foam away from the taped shaft. By that point my razor blade practically stopped cutting the stuff. I had to be so careful not to cut the crap out of myself. When I finally finished the first Apex, I realized that the white slippery part was just the covering for the other side of the tape. !!! That's why the first Mizuno one slid on so nice
I decided to just continue the jumbomax-ectomy after rectifying that tape mishap. For the next two clubs I took off the thick PU wrapping that was over the foam core before attacking the foam. That didn't help much, but at least I could see what I was cutting by that point. On the last two clubs, I decided to switch out the blade for a fresh one before I had an accident after coming so far. Wouldn't you know it, but the new blade cut through those bastards like nothing. I still needed pliers to peel them off, but at least I was past the point where I had to worry about seriously injuring myself.
I left the Jumbomax grips on my PM Grind wedges. I really never hit full shots with those, anyway. Will probably see about getting some other new or new old stock wedges with some different grinds now that the next product cycle is here.
Another interesting thing I discovered is that the Callaway-exclusive Project X LZ 5.5 "95" shafts are really just LZ 115s in the same flex. Under the grip and sticker at the base of the shaft is True Temper's laser code that says USA115. Glad I don't have to worry about the Mizuno in 115 not being a matching shaft weight, lol. A more unfortunate discovery was that all my irons are standard length cuts with +1 inch extensions grafted on. I would have hoped that, coming from Callaway's official pre-owned store, they would have been cut to length or pulled from two clubs up to get the extra length. I'm kinda glad that I did my own grips because the cuts were just roughly chop-sawed and a few weren't even round nor cut evenly. I had to use my file kit and deburring tools to give them nice flat, clean chamfered edges.
All's well that ends well, though. I can actually fit my irons in my bag now. The Jumbomax XL experiment is officially over!
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Nice when the work pays off. 👌 I hear you with 3 irons, granted my Cobra 3 utility was a chunky boy, had a graphite shaft and just wasn't the right spec for my swing, but it was difficult to hit. First time in a long time I felt more comfortable with a hybrid. Had no qualms about ditching that 3 iron, admittedly the Paradym Smoke 4 iron is the same loft but as it's specced properly for me, it felt so lot easier to hit on the range.Took the bag out to the range today. My god, I can actually hit my irons now! I'm used to looking up when I hit a ball, but now I'm actually having to crane my neck. I feel like my clubhead speed went way up and the ball is just LAUNCHED with my scoring irons. Felt like I could never hit the Jumbomax clubs with any power or I would shank or block-slice every time, so I used to always play dinks and runners like I was on a windy day in Scotland. This should change up my game considerably. I need to go to the range with Top Tracer next to see what my gaps actually are.
Oh, and I think I'll be losing the Mizuno 3 iron.
Then Bryson and Jumbomax became a thing so I figured I'd try them. I didn't know any better. I could never really hit them well, then I figured it was because of my right hand so I tried the non-tapered jumbos on a few of them. I actually got my Titleist irons because some huge guy in New Jersey had them on ebay with a whole bunch of the JMX STR8 non-tapered grips which were hard to find and almost as expensive as his whole ebay listing. He also sold me my gamer putter because all his stuff was +1 inch. You can't exactly find 36 inch Evnrolls, and they stopped making the center shafted ones as well.
