In our forums, our members have been reacting to a cheap iron experiment that is working wonders for one WRXer. ‘Golfpractictioner5’ explained his experiment in our forums, saying:

“So, I bought a cheap set of Orlimar Single Length irons for $175 off of Amazon in December because I’d always liked the idea but never actually tested it.  I played with them for a month on my simulator and course and absolutely hated them.  I could not hit them consistently for some reason.  Flights and distances were all over the place.  I was gonna sell them but decided to change them up instead.  I cut off an inch in length down to 36 inches on every club from 5-GW and put on some cheap Amazon Champkey regular sized grips.

The last 4 months have been ridiculous.  I only lost about 5 yards per club on the 5-7 and everything else stayed the same.  Distances march down perfectly 10 yards ever club starting with 5 iron being 170 yards down to GW being 110 yards.  The crazy part is the flight patterns on all the clubs. I’m hitting 5-GW in perfect flight windows and spin actually improved most likely due to strike consistency.  The dispersion has been the biggest change with my distances tightening up to the +/- of 5 yards with every club and them landing dead center or at most 5 yards to the right of target.

The reason I tried this out is because 9 iron has always been my go to iron and it is 36 inches on my other sets or irons.  I always played to that club distance when laying up because it has always been automatic for me.  I plan on carrying out this experiment the rest of the year and looking at my numbers at the end of season.  So far, scores are staying in low 80s whereas I have mostly been mid to high 80s the last couple of years.  I do not keep an official handicap at this time due to no need for it as I have limited time to actually get on the course and no time for tournaments.  Maybe, I’ll start keeping one again once my kids are older.

I am mostly interested in seeing what people think about this and if other people have done this as well.”

And our members have been weighing in with their thoughts in response.

Here are a couple of posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

• JAM01: “I tinkered with a sub $200 Snake eyes set from Bock Rottom. They actually were ok at that price.”
• Ghostwedge: “This just shows how individual golf is for each of us, I couldn’t jettison my Cobra Forged Tec OL  4\5 irons fast enough for Ping regular length Crossover’s and my 7-gw one lengths drop dimes all day. Somebody playing well with a $175 set of Orlimar One lengths doesn’t surprise me because the shaft probably fits them really well and the swing will get consistent with the same set up all round long.”

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