Going a little against the grain - 4 years ago i wanted more forgiveness and something that was easier on my arthritic back and hips - was playing callaway x-22 with regular flex steel shafts
A couple fitting session later and i was ordering taylormade M5 irons 4-sw with graphite regular+ shafts - atmos red i think they are. and i coupled those with new gloves by BIONIC
Distance and accuracy went way up, discomfort went down.
SO lesson of the day - go to a fitter and pay attention I used mmm Golf Galaxy, went to 1 store and didnt mesh with the pro there - he was pushing cleveland launchers on me i couldnt stand the look of them so i left and a week later was in another GG and the guy there listened to what i had to say and initially set me up with the newer callaways with steel in senior, no go all over the place, then steel in regular better dispersion but still a variety of missess, on to ping - i use a G400 lst driver with a copper xtorsion shaft - and they felt really good but were going to be a month or 2 out, and then tried the TM M6 which was just like the ping G, misses with both of those were low on the face, finally tried an M5 they had in a graphite regular and boom long and felt much nicer on contact, tried in Stiff to tighten up the dispersion which worked lost a little distance and settled on ordering the regular+ shafts.
They have been fantastic -
SECOND part of the fitting, i try the bionic gloves they look weird but immediately noticed much lighter grip pressure, the hook is mostly gone and they last !