Mark, Well, sounds like you're taking the club back inside too much. I'd work on taking the club straight back from the ball without breaking your wrists. Going straight back will force your upper body to turn about 90�. Keep the back of your left hand almost vertical and when your backswing gets about waist high, cock your wrist straight up, keeping the wrist-to-hand area flat as it started. The club should go up between your head and right shoulder, club head hanging down and shaft pointing nearly at the target. If you take the club too much inside on the backswing, the head gets behind your body and too flat. Then, you have to really roll the right hand, throwing the club over the top to make any contact, your body is ahead and the result is a pull hook.
The Acer XDS2 Pros might be a head you'd like better than the Catapult STS, because they have almost no offset. If your short irons are too high, you might look at some of the delofted style heads, which include: Avocet from Mirage, GV Back and KS Tour from Diamond Tour, PS Series 3 from Streamline, and there are probably a few others out there. These are generally low cg irons, so even though they are delofted to 43� and 44� PWs, they still hit the ball almost a normal height, but about 10-15 yards farther than normal lofts. Have no idea of the quality of these heads, but the Acer XDS2 Pros are good ones (though only delofted to a 46� PW). Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A. Patton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: was Test now iron heads > Bernie, I appreciate your response. What I was trying to do is solicit: > A: 1st some traffic here > B: an idea of what people are playing and why > > As far as your questions: > With this new set, I may be trying heads outside the norm of what I prefer, and > also what common knowledge leads to. > > I have an awful tendency to pull irons (as well as all other clubs), and when I > do not, I still hit a hook. Swing path is distinctly inside to outside., > Historically I have preferred to play minimal offset heads (Chicago 944DB and > Toski Classic). Traj has been messed up by my awful swing. In the past. All > shots were high, now only short irons are high (when I say high, I mean NASA > picks them up). > > Thinking of trying some items outside of the norm (ie: an large offset with a > large cavity back). > > My tendency is to catch the ball on the downward stroke low on on the heel. > > Mark > > Bernie Baymiller wrote: > > > Mark, > > > > What are your objectives and preferences for your irons? What kind of look > > do you like? How far do you want to hit a 7-iron and a PW? What are your > > directional tendencies? Cost parameters? > > > > If you like the look and feel of blades, the semi-cavity back Chicago 944C > > is hard to beat. Hits solid and long with the right graphite shafts...like > > Apache PM-30s. > > > > If you like cavity backs with low offset, Hireko's Acer XDS2 Professional is > > a quality-made, solid hitting head that looks much more expensive than it > > is. PW is slightly delofted at 46�. > > > > If you like cavity backs and are a fader who is helped by offset and needs > > distance in the short irons, Hireko's Catapult STS is another quality, low > > cost head with a low cg and is considerably delofted for the 7 through the > > PW (44�). > > > > I'm playing the Catapult STS with steel shafts from 8-PW and the Chicago > > 944s from 4 through 7-iron with Apache graphites. The combo works well for > > me, since I have a slightly outside-in swing and tend to launch my short > > irons higher than normal. > > > > Others that seem to play well for my customers: Dynacraft PC-3 has three > > different lies available. Golfworks CER 551 plays OK. Check out golf club > > review for some others. http://www.golfclubreview.com/componen2.htm > > > > Bernie > > Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark A. Patton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 3:44 PM > > Subject: ShopTalk: was Test now iron heads > > > > > oops > > > quiet I meant > > > > > > Looking for opinions on your fav iron head and why. > > > My house was robbed the other day, and one of the many things taken was > > > my > > > clubs. Being that it is slow, lets open up a thread on fav iron heads > > > and > > > the whys behind it. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > "Mark A. Patton" wrote: > > > > > > > Test > > > > Been real quite here > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > >
