My oldest son once built a new set of irons for his younger brother. We didn't want to keep rebuilding each year as he only played 6X's a year so I said just build his last set to get him through high school, knowing he was going to be 6 feet tall and strong. I said make them longer and stiff. We had reused his GS Tour Cavity heads again, what he had since age 11. I was hoping this rebuild would get him through high school.
The next week I had to play golf and grabbed my youngest son set of irons and wedges since they had new grips. I loved them and never gave them back. Instead I ordered KZG Forged Cavity Backs and Forged Wedges and told my oldest son to build his younger brother a forged set. The fitting was totally wrong for me but played significantly better. Go figure. I eventually cut them down a 1/4 of an inch and just sold them after 8 years of use. My new set this spring were new in-the-box Mizuno Forged MX-23 which I bought for a song at a town auction and then I reamed the hosels to accept parallel tipped steel shafts and finished it off Balanced and Blueprinted with Pro-Soft inserts. Reused the wrong fitting parameters which I stumbled on years earlier and I couldn't be happier. Other times with my oldest son (who played most days during the summer), I would build so he could grow into a club, like taking his driver from R to X flex (Harrison UL Pro 2.5 X flex) at age 15. The same day he was killing the ball. He never had to grow into it, it was better within the first few minutes. He made it work. He eventually got his handicap below scratch to the + level and shot a course record '64' to a club 55-years old. To quote Robert: getting pretty good results from stuff that isn't supposed to work! I found this too with my own clubfitting and building. Knowing this sometimes we experiment with changes against our own personal bias. We did this on a putter which turned out to be his favorite. Thanks, Harry www.myGolfDNA.com <http://www.mygolfdna.com/> WINGHAM, ON, CANADA _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Devino Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Performance benefits of long drivers Bernie, I'll have to try it cause like I said in the rest of my post we are getting pretty good results from stuff that isn't supposed to work ! But I don't know if a 48" driver will fit in my SUV??? LOL!!!!! Sincerely, Robert Devino 14252 Delano St. Van Nuys, Ca. 91401 (818) 770-0475 _____
