www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

There are two groups of golfers at each extreme end. One type do not change their clubs at all. They are so used to their old clubs, they even fear that a change may destroy their game or perhaps to get their money's worth. At the other end of the spectrum, there are those who will keep changing. Among this group, there is the trendy type who must have the latest as it is the latest fashion. Then there are those who use their small change to buy new clubs and punish them by consigning them to their store room when they do not perform. I am none of the above. I do not keep nor play a set or certain clubs for 5-10 years. To do that it has to be the ultimate. I change my clubs periodically to keep updated to technology, to understand the engineering, latest materials, new ideas or philosophy and evolution of golf. I would make a great tester of golf equipment with the accumulated knowledge over the years. Some day, people would be knocking at my door to request for me to tes...

When Rory McIlroy was victorious I wrote about his humility then recently I learned that he ranted at a fellow pro who was a commentator who may have criticised him saying that he was just a pro who barely made it and has no right to talk. Sad or maybe it was just the heat of the moment? Pressure and disappointment can make us all like that? So if you are not hitting with the right sticks, you may end up with more pressure you set yourself up for and irons has the most sticks in a golf bag than driver, putter, wood or hybrid. They are the bread and butter clubs so to speak. It pays that you know not what is best, sold the most or is the latest but what is suited to your game. There are three types of irons - "Player's", "Game Improvement (GI)" and "Super Game Improvement" (SGI). Players'c clubs are like blades or TP (Tour Preferred), Game Improvement has midsized club heads and SGI clubs are those with extreme perimeter weighting and the bigges...

Titleist is synonymous with the finest in golf. Tiger Woods was using Titleist before Nike. Current US Open Champion and golf prodigy Rory McIlroy is using all Titleist equipment. His equipment used in the historic win: Titleist 910 D2 Driver (8.5 degrees), 906F2 Fairwoods (13 & 18 degrees), MB irons 3-9, Vokey Spin-Milled Wedges, a Scotty Cameron Prototype putter and Pro V1x ball. Mostly, Titleist makes clubs that are meant for Pros, low handicappers and better players. At least that was the impression. They are for purists! Then Titleist came out with the AP1 & AP2 irons with AP meaning Advance Performance. It used to be that irons came in 3 distinct categories of Super Game Improvement (SGI) for beginners and high handicappers, Game Improvement (GI) for average or mid handicappers and then Player's type for pros and single digit handicappers. Increasingly today, the line is a little blurred as even touring pros are using what we call Tour or Tour-Preferred irons. Th...

Irons are the bread and butter clubs. They used to give you 3-9, PW and SW. With the advent of the hybrid the longer irons like the 3 & 4 are more or less obsolete in some cases. If you walk in to a golf shop today you will easily find combo golf clubs in a bag. Usually they now come with the 3 & 4 in hybrids instead of traditional irons. This normally happens in the "Super Game Improvement" category. Meanwhile, some low handicappers prefer sharp looking more playable irons with less directional help which are less forgiving and found in blade like irons with little or no cavity behind or in forged irons (called Players' irons). Other single digit players may still prefer friendlier ones. Irons that are in between are the Game Improvement types which are mostly used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG9hb3_blo It is most important that you are equipped with the right set of irons which when fitted well with your game is likely to last for quite some time. I...