Try to keep this short as possible.
Circa 2010 I was an avg score player of 85 using the playable lie (****ty lie/in a divot adjustment player). This was using Callaway X-14 Steelhead irons, that were released in '98. This discussion is for irons only. I have not played a true round since about 2013, or ten years.
Because my son, who will inherit these irons because he is beginning golf, and I am ready to get back in the game, I am now in search of the best irons possible for me. My X-14's and driver/fairway woods were all stiff shafted steel because I was 12 years younger and was aggressive in swing. I am now approaching 60yrs. I was at a golf shop (not to be named) and took my first swings at a ball just for fun in 5 years. Grabbed a Callaway Paradym X head with a HZDUS Silver graphite regular flex and the feel was, well unbelievable. I know it is perfect conditions off the mat, but it felt like I hit the ball with a 7 and then a 5 totally in the screws and the simulator confirmed it. I know it was a simulator, I get that. My son, his friend, my wife, and the sales guy was like WTF knowing my absence from the game.
Has anyone hit the Paradym X on the course, and could give some feedback here? From everything I have read, it lands between the Apex DCB and regular Apex in playability. I took my son to the range, and my best ball with the X-14's of old with the 7 consistently lands consistently 14 yds short of yesteryear, best being 150.
When I go to the shop, it is going to be between the Paradym X based on the fantastic initial results not even trying, and the Taylor Made Stealth, which I have not even hit yet.
Golf Board, what have ye to lend?
Circa 2010 I was an avg score player of 85 using the playable lie (****ty lie/in a divot adjustment player). This was using Callaway X-14 Steelhead irons, that were released in '98. This discussion is for irons only. I have not played a true round since about 2013, or ten years.
Because my son, who will inherit these irons because he is beginning golf, and I am ready to get back in the game, I am now in search of the best irons possible for me. My X-14's and driver/fairway woods were all stiff shafted steel because I was 12 years younger and was aggressive in swing. I am now approaching 60yrs. I was at a golf shop (not to be named) and took my first swings at a ball just for fun in 5 years. Grabbed a Callaway Paradym X head with a HZDUS Silver graphite regular flex and the feel was, well unbelievable. I know it is perfect conditions off the mat, but it felt like I hit the ball with a 7 and then a 5 totally in the screws and the simulator confirmed it. I know it was a simulator, I get that. My son, his friend, my wife, and the sales guy was like WTF knowing my absence from the game.
Has anyone hit the Paradym X on the course, and could give some feedback here? From everything I have read, it lands between the Apex DCB and regular Apex in playability. I took my son to the range, and my best ball with the X-14's of old with the 7 consistently lands consistently 14 yds short of yesteryear, best being 150.
When I go to the shop, it is going to be between the Paradym X based on the fantastic initial results not even trying, and the Taylor Made Stealth, which I have not even hit yet.
Golf Board, what have ye to lend?
"Green" is the new RED.