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TmagBryce

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  1. BIO: Hey everyone. This is kind of a secondary review on these irons, and not one of the officially selected peeps to test and give feedback. I will start with a little about myself. I hang between a 3 to a +2, depending on how i am feeling, mainly to aches and pains and onset of arthritis starting to take over in finger joints. I have played the game for many years and just turned 50. Still have around a 108-110mph driver clubhead speed which puts it out there 285-290 range an my previous gamers were Taylormade P790's and hit a 7 iron around 175ish with stiff KBS Tour 120's. My bag got stolen and I was in the middle of piecing it back together and was approached on these and decided to give them ago and told guy I got them from that I would try and keep this review alive with current information. After reading several of the testers feedback, I am not sure I would agree that Lynx is back so to speak. They way the clubs were sent out in your descriptions were terrifying. First thing i did was check the loft and lie angles compared to their Specs online and they were all over the place, so no normal Quality Control measures are in place. Definitely seem like a fly by night operation. MODIFIED SET UP: I put them on my Mitchell loft and lie machine and bent them to match my old gamers specs as follows with regards to lofts and lie angles (1* flat) PW 45* 63* 9 40* 62.5* 8 35* 62* 7 30.5* 61.5* 6 26.5* 61* 5 23.5* 60.5* 4 21* 60* With the CG movement on these irons, why in the hell would they pair these with KBS90's? That has to be the highest launching shaft in the world. Next thing I did was remove all the silver paint fill and wet sand them with 2000 to smooth out some of the imperfections and finally shafted them up with some UST Recoil 95's F3 hard stepped to play as stiff. Ben wanting to move to graphite to help and alleviate some of the vibrations that cause pain in fingers and elbow. PLAYING FEEDBACK: I got on a launch monitor with a Trackman 4 and looked at some numbers to see what was going on before range and into play. Fairly low spin but was picking up some discrepancies on yardages but could be do mats and not to turf interaction. Initial numbers were on point with my P790's maybe a little longer on the short irons 8-PW. Range time proved to be about the same and proceeded to playing them in a round. Purposly teed off most par 4's with a driving iron to give myself more play throughout the bag. One thing that stands out is they feel and sound almost identical to Titleist TMB's. They tend to have a more hollow feel and they do fly forever, so plenty long. Did not see a tremendous loss of distance on miss hits, but more than say PXG or P790's. So if you like the TMB's you would love these as a cheaper alternative. One drawback is I did get a couple hot flyer shots from the fairway. Normally hit a PW around 130, and a flushed one to 155, air mailing the green and smashed an 8 iron 170 on a hole, slight helping breeze. As for me personally, I will probably go back in search for some P790 heads as i had them in play for so long and feel under pressure i know what they will do. One caveat is not 100% sure how much the graphite shafts add to this. Going from 120 down to 95grams I did pick up 2-3mph club head speed access the bag, but the shaft frequency was the same after hard stepping them. I have never been a fan of black or gunmetal finishes as I hate the way they wear, and that is for all clubs, Taylormade, Vokey's, etc...These are not any different. After a bucket of range balls, started to see some scratching on the face. I think after a month of use and the wear blending in will look much better then the obvious marl's against newer pristine finish. For the record teeing off with an iron and giving up a lot of distance on a 6800 yard course still managed a +1 73 on the day, so not bad. VALUE: I would not pay their $795 retail pricing with KBS 90 shafts, with so many other United States options available from all the big OEM's spending millions and million in R&D. Now I would be in the market at a $400-$450 range with some different shaft options, or to be bought as a component (heads only, similar to Maltby). Now I have spent a great deal of time to clean these up and dial in the specs and shaft up wit a more viable option and making them a good set of sticks. Just a review from someone with a little lower handicap for additional feedback compared to other testers. Feel free to ask any questions and i can answer them as well. These will be hitting the sales pages shafted or as heads if interested. Cheers!!!
  2. Well I guess I get to report on them Friday, USPS pending
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