Lynx VT Irons

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

 

These showed up yesterday - the VT’s are a hollow-distance iron, it unlike the Ping G700, with maybe more of a players look.

 

There’s still snow on the ground but may head to the heated range over in Hampton to see what they can do. Swung them a few times at Demo Day but really didn’t get a feel for them.

 

KBS Tour V shafts installed, which is a lighter weight shaft with a stiff tip for lower spin. The shafts are 110

Grams, which might be a good option as the sweet bird of youth continues to crash and burn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[StrokerAce]

1 minute ago, GolfSpy Barbajo said:

 

These showed up yesterday - the VT’s are a hollow-distance iron, it unlike the Ping G700, with maybe more of a players look.

 

There’s still snow on the ground but may head to the heated range over in Hampton to see what they can do. Swung them a few times st DemonDay but really didn’t get a feel for them.

 

KBS Tour V shafts installed, which is a lighter weight shaft with a stiff tip for lower spin. The stuffs are 110

GramsC which might be a good option as the sweet bird of youth continues to crash and burn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I was looking at these online yesterday and must say, I'm intrigued....

did you hit any other Lynx irons at the demo day?

[M. Parsons]

8 minutes ago, GolfSpy Barbajo said:

 

These showed up yesterday - the VT’s are a hollow-distance iron, it unlike the Ping G700, with maybe more of a players look.

 

There’s still snow on the ground but may head to the heated range over in Hampton to see what they can do. Swung them a few times st DemonDay but really didn’t get a feel for them.

 

KBS Tour V shafts installed, which is a lighter weight shaft with a stiff tip for lower spin. The stuffs are 110

GramsC which might be a good option as the sweet bird of youth continues to crash and burn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Those look nice, can't wait to hear how they hit / feel.

[bardle]

13 minutes ago, GolfSpy Barbajo said:

Swung them a few times at DemonDay but really didn’t get a feel for them.

I'm not sure what this entails but it sounds terrifying, at least you got to swing some new clubs while doing it. 

[deejaid]

Wow Barbajo. Those look even better than the pictures we saw last spring. Glad to see you got them for an in-Hand review. They really caught my eye last year. Good luck with them!


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[GolfSpy Barbajo]

1 hour ago, GolfSpy Stroker said:

I was looking at these online yesterday and must say, I'm intrigued....

did you hit any other Lynx irons at the demo day?

Hit the new Black Cat irons as well -- hollow-body with a polymer fill. Those were maybe the eye-opener of the show - one of the few sticks I've hit in the last year where I stopped and went "whoa." 

If I were a betting man, I'd bet a lot of my money and all of yours the general reception on their appearance will be lukewarm to hostile, but seriously great feeling and easy to hit iron. The black PVD may be problematic, but I'm anxious to see what those do out in the real world, too....

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

Here are a couple of pix from Demo Day of the Black Cat irons...as you can see, they're also available in a chrome finish, which will most likely be lots more durable than the black PVD...







And from the show floor...






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[StrokerAce]

...interesting color scheme.... I certainly agree with your take on the appearance!
too bad they used PVD instead of DBM... can already see it starting to fade.

[deejaid]

Yeah the black finish looks like it’s not going to hold up too well.


The color scheme is interesting. I think the club shape and design looks pretty good. I think they just missed the mark with that green accent. If Ping or TM did it it would be fine. But I think that a brand that is perceived as lower tier than the big boys, whether warranted or not, should not go with colors that could cheapen the look.

If that green was red, or maybe gold, it would look a bit more high end. Still, good looking clubs.


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[chemclub]

Wow! Those VTs look fantastic. You usually see some kind of port on hollow irons that is filled with a plug or a screw of some kind. I don't see that on these. Different way of manufacturing? I always assumed they just welded a face onto the iron body and the little port was for... cleaning things up on the inside?

[MaxEntropy]

If the color scheme and badging weren't so bad, I don't think they are too bad on the eyes.

[romeopapazulu]

If the color scheme and badging weren't so bad, I don't think they are too bad on the eyes.

I agree. If they weren't so dang ugly, they'd be way better looking.

If those are reflective, you could stick them in the ground along the driveway so you know where to plow.

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[GolfSpy Barbajo]

Interesting question for everyone - so they’re not the best looking girl at the dance, but what if you tried them and hit the ever-loving snot out of them. Would they start looking better?


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[robertson153]

Interesting question for everyone - so they’re not the best looking girl at the dance, but what if you tried them and hit the ever-loving snot out of them. Would they start looking better?


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I wouldn’t care if they were hot pink with polka dots. If they went straight and far, I’d swing em.


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[StrokerAce]

24 minutes ago, GolfSpy Barbajo said:

Interesting question for everyone - so they’re not the best looking girl at the dance, but what if you tried them and hit the ever-loving snot out of them. Would they start looking better?


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I agree with @robertson153... I play to score well, no matter what the tools look like.

These aren't THAT bad and I would gladly laugh all the way to the bank with everyone else's money in my pocket after they smirked at my bag!

[Wedgie]

Interesting question for everyone - so they’re not the best looking girl at the dance, but what if you tried them and hit the ever-loving snot out of them. Would they start looking better?


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I play the Launcher HB irons....do I really need to answer this?


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[jayjay0808]

The Black Cats, if they work, they work. Play them!

The VT look absolutely stunning. If they are easier to hit and get up with the hollow body, and those looks... Wow! They are such a clean look and I love the no paintfill. A real 180 compared to the Black Cat

[MaxEntropy]

3 hours ago, GolfSpy Barbajo said:

Interesting question for everyone - so they’re not the best looking girl at the dance, but what if you tried them and hit the ever-loving snot out of them. Would they start looking better?


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I think I could get past the looks. You can't see the badge at address. 

[romeopapazulu]

I agree with [mention=71790]robertson153[/mention]... I play to score well, no matter what the tools look like.
These aren't THAT bad and I would gladly laugh all the way to the bank with everyone else's money in my pocket after they smirked at my bag!

For a bit...but then your handicap would adjust to your improved play and you wouldn't be winning that money anymore. You would just be left with those ugly clubs.

I certainly can't claim to have had the sexiest bag in the past (or ever), but these tip the scale to the too ugly side for me. If I was really smashing these things, I would take that shaft and try it in every other club head possible.

Those blades though...

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[edingc]

Personally, I feel like the heads need some paint fill, but that may not be a popular opinion. Nice looking clubs overall, though.

Most interested in the Tour V shafts. Like my Tour 90s, but wish I could get a little lower launch.

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

First range session with the Prowler VT irons - I could definitely see these in the bag this year. 

Admittedly plenty of winter time rust, but despite their blade-ishness, the VT's are pretty easy to launch and, if you're able, to hit high or low on demand (I pulled it off about 70% of the time -- or maybe 65). I can't fade or draw on demand reliably - so "working" the ball remains a theoretical part of my game, but nearly all my well struck shots were a nice, tightly little draw. The long irons (set is 4-PW) were easy to launch high or low, and seemed to have some nice distance to them (it's winter, Sagamore Golf Center has seriously beat up range balls) - at least impact felt good, like the ball would be going somewhere if it was spring or summer and balls weren't cold.

The VT's are a hollow-body iron - the face is forged and the head is hollow cast. The knock on clubs like this is a harsh sound/feel (Ping G700, for example), but with the cold and the crappy range balls it's really hard to tell, other than for today anyway the sound and feel was well within what  you'd consider acceptable. 

I kind of like the KBS Tour V shaft, too -- for today anyway. Lower flight and lower spin than the KBS Tour - and a little lighter than the C Taper. Seemed to work well for today on the range in the winter in New Hampshire hitting crappy range balls off a well worn mat. 

 

 

[StrokerAce]

...can't get over how nice and sleek these look. Classic with excellent lines!

[Shankster]

Those do look mighty good. Very MP-33 ish.

[fozcycle]

Now those VT’s are just about the sweetest irons I have ever seen.


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[deejaid]

[mention=68812]Golfspy[/mention] Barbajo

 

Where did you buy your VT’s? Did you order direct from their website or are they starting to be stocked by other retailers both online and brick and mortar?

 

 

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[Rtracymog]

I kind of like the KBS Tour V shaft, too -- for today anyway. Lower flight and lower spin than the KBS Tour - and a little lighter than the C Taper. Seemed to work well for today on the range in the winter in New Hampshire hitting crappy range balls off a well worn mat. 
 

 


I’m surprised that they were lower launching than the KBS Tour. Typically those Tour-Vs launch pretty easy but keeping the low spin.


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[Sluggo42]

Do the VT’s have a foam/poly fill?

the black cats in satin look remarkably similar the the sub70 699’s...

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

17 hours ago, Sluggo42 said:

Do the VT’s have a foam/poly fill?

the black cats in satin look remarkably similar the the sub70 699’s...

VT's are hollow body construction - no fill.  

The Black Cat has a polymer fill - and does resemble the Sub70, as well as the PING G700, which is hollow but similar in appearance, and the TaylorMade P790, which has the much-ballyhooed Speed Foam, and the PXG whatever it is, which led to a series of lawsuits between TM and PXG. 

Can't speak for Jason and Sub70 (met him once - he's a really good guy), but Lynx contracts with a gent named Kevin Woolgar to handle its club design. Kevin spends most of his time in China working with foundries over there. Some of Lynx's stuff is open model, some of it Kevin co-designs with China's R&D people - mostly adapting/improving/altering their in-house designs. From what they've told me, the VT is a patented model for Lynx (sure, it looks like others, but it's a golf club - it's gonna look like a golf club), and the new Switch Face driver is also a Lynx patent.  Not sure if the Black Cat is an open model or if it's based on an open model with some Kevin-specific alteration. Based on some of the pricing I've seen bandied about (don't believe they've finalized it yet), I'd lean towards the former. 

 

Which begs the question - if an open model performs well, has the shaft you want and is priced right, does it matter if it's an open model or not? Would you buy it and feel confident in it?

That's a question that might lead to another thread...

[Sluggo42]

What’s an “open model”?

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

What’s an “open model”?

Open model,open mold - means the design is open to anyone who wants it. Chinese manufacturers have designs that are either o longer covered by patents or that are of their own design and shared - basically anyone can sell it, or modify it in conjunction with their own people, and sell it.

Basically, you and I can go into the club business tomorrow and sell open models with our name and logo.

Small companies like Lynx and - I presume Sub70 - will make use of open models to fill out their line rather than investing $30k in developing their own mold for a particular club they don’t think they’ll sell a ton of. The challenge is with the way manufacturing is over there, a mold one company think is theirs may wind up being an open model at a completely different factory. We had a blog on it last year - I’ll dig out the link for you


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