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Fred Couples has been using them for a few months, even played with them at The Masters, and he never uses a glove. 

Fred Couples has been using them for a few months, even played with them at The Masters, and he never uses a glove. 

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Fred Couples had started using Star Grips, and it looks like they have now made their way to The Masters and ended up in the hands of the greatest to ever play the game! I wonder what he thought of them... 🤔

 

Yeah, but WE'RE the pioneers baby!  Well, maybe the fifth or sixth wave of the pioneers, but whatever. 🙂 

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Fred Couples had started using Star Grips, and it looks like they have now made their way to The Masters and ended up in the hands of the greatest to ever play the game! I wonder what he thought of them... 🤔

 

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Fred Couples had started using Star Grips, and it looks like they have now made their way to The Masters and ended up in the hands of the greatest to ever play the game! I wonder what he thought of them... 🤔

 

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Fred Couples had started using Star Grips, and it looks like they have now made their way to The Masters and ended up in the hands of the greatest to ever play the game! I wonder what he thought of them... 🤔

 

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that Fred Couples had started using Star Grips, and it looks like they have now made their way to The Masters and ended up in the hands of the greatest to ever play the game! I wonder what he thought of them... 🤔

 

There are a few reviews on the product pages on their website: https://www.smtgolf.com/smt-579-irons.html
SMT used to create their own designs, and they were very well performing clubs - especially their drivers. But then the owner (Mike Tait) lost interest in the equipment business and instead moved into hosting charity golf events, and he sold off the equipment side of it to Diamond Tour. They have a bunch of new models but they are all open-foundry designs made by XIamen Jasde, none of them are original/unique designs. That's not to say they are bad clubs, just not the same company they used to be. 

They look similar, but definitely different at the same time. 

For anyone who missed out on these, I just wanted to point at that all they've done is use an open-foundry design which is the same one used by SMT for their SMT 579 irons, and you can buy a set of those 4-PW heads for $200 or $400 fully assembled. If you buy the heads, you can pair them up with shafts & grips of your liking and build them to your exact specs for quite a bit less than $500. So, these Kirkland irons really aren't that great of a "value" after all, and certainly nothing new or groundbreaking in terms of design.  
     

Soonest I can get SMT stuff is 2 day delivery likely shipping Tuesday EOD at the earliest so won't be able to get the wedge to LetsPlayThru for the review. Will post once I have the wedge and the Costco irons to compare the images. 

For anyone who missed out on these, I just wanted to point at that all they've done is use an open-foundry design which is the same one used by SMT for their SMT 579 irons, and you can buy a set of those 4-PW heads for $200 or $400 fully assembled. If you buy the heads, you can pair them up with shafts & grips of your liking and build them to your exact specs for quite a bit less than $500. So, these Kirkland irons really aren't that great of a "value" after all, and certainly nothing new or groundbreaking in terms of design.  
     

There are a few reviews on the product pages on their website: https://www.smtgolf.com/smt-579-irons.html
SMT used to create their own designs, and they were very well performing clubs - especially their drivers. But then the owner (Mike Tait) lost interest in the equipment business and instead moved into hosting charity golf events, and he sold off the equipment side of it to Diamond Tour. They have a bunch of new models but they are all open-foundry designs made by XIamen Jasde, none of them are original/unique designs. That's not to say they are bad clubs, just not the same company they used to be. 

Often when a brand uses an open-foundry design they will tweak the spec sheet slightly, while still keeping them with in tolerances, so that way they aren't exactly the same as anything else out there using the same model. Or it's possible they tweaked the specs slightly since they obviously had their own molds made with their branding. 
As for the shafts, the Multi-Step Lite on the SMTs is probably very comparable to the Elevate 115 in the Kirklands - which isn't the $35 version with VSS tech, but rather a watered down OEM version with totally different specs which likely costs them closer to $5/shaft. 

For anyone who missed out on these, I just wanted to point at that all they've done is use an open-foundry design which is the same one used by SMT for their SMT 579 irons, and you can buy a set of those 4-PW heads for $200 or $400 fully assembled. If you buy the heads, you can pair them up with shafts & grips of your liking and build them to your exact specs for quite a bit less than $500. So, these Kirkland irons really aren't that great of a "value" after all, and certainly nothing new or groundbreaking in terms of design.  
     

There are a few reviews on the product pages on their website: https://www.smtgolf.com/smt-579-irons.html
SMT used to create their own designs, and they were very well performing clubs - especially their drivers. But then the owner (Mike Tait) lost interest in the equipment business and instead moved into hosting charity golf events, and he sold off the equipment side of it to Diamond Tour. They have a bunch of new models but they are all open-foundry designs made by XIamen Jasde, none of them are original/unique designs. That's not to say they are bad clubs, just not the same company they used to be. 

That's my plan, to make a full Kirkland bag if for nothing but the novelty of it. And yeah I noticed the big gap between the PW and 52 as well, but the 52 & 56 both have 10° of bounce (which is high for a 52) so they can be bent to 50/8 and 55/9 for better gapping. 

Often when a brand uses an open-foundry design they will tweak the spec sheet slightly, while still keeping them with in tolerances, so that way they aren't exactly the same as anything else out there using the same model. Or it's possible they tweaked the specs slightly since they obviously had their own molds made with their branding. 
As for the shafts, the Multi-Step Lite on the SMTs is probably very comparable to the Elevate 115 in the Kirklands - which isn't the $35 version with VSS tech, but rather a watered down OEM version with totally different specs which likely costs them closer to $5/shaft. 

For anyone who missed out on these, I just wanted to point at that all they've done is use an open-foundry design which is the same one used by SMT for their SMT 579 irons, and you can buy a set of those 4-PW heads for $200 or $400 fully assembled. If you buy the heads, you can pair them up with shafts & grips of your liking and build them to your exact specs for quite a bit less than $500. So, these Kirkland irons really aren't that great of a "value" after all, and certainly nothing new or groundbreaking in terms of design.