| Well I guess I will be the odd one out here in this thread. I for one perfer MB Blades, when I learned this game my parents didn't think I would stick with it so I "bought" some clubs from a buddy that bought them at goodwill for an outrageous price of 50 cents for the set, lol. But anyway these clubs were probably from the 60's or 70's and are all MB blades and this is what I learned with as a 10 year old kid in jr. golf that had never played anything more than putt putt before the latest hobby I had decided upon that summer. I used these irons for 2 years before I invested in some $30 fairway woods from Sam's Club and as a Jr. Golf member I became one of the havy favorites in my age group and got to a 4 handicap by the age of 14. Now I also practiced everyday, not always at the range or even hitting a ball but I would swing my half dollar irons daily working on the stuff my "coach" told me to work on. As I got into high school and started playing for the high school team I was lucky enough to recieve my very own set of CB irons. I was given the chance to watch my handi cap go from a 4 to a 10 to a 12 and so on. At this age tough I didn't quite grasp that the new set of wonderful CB irons that I let the sales person talk me into could be the problem and even if I would have it's not like I would have told my parents the clubs they just bought for me were horrible. I stayed at a 12+ handicap until just a few years ago when I switched back to blades, I am currently at a 5 handicap with high hopes of lowering it still.
I guess with me I rely on the smaller head and fractional sweet spot on blades to keep me true to MY swing and not getting sloppy knowing that it's no big deal if I don't hit it just right. In my opinion the switch to CB irons put my game on hold and injured my golf swing that I developed as a jr. golfer and to this day I am still working kinks and bugs and bad habbits that I seemed to develop over the 5 years that I used my beloved cavity back irons.
Well sorry I didn't plan on this turning into a rant so I apologize and I hope that my experience may help someone out there try different companies irons in CB and MB and decide on what they think not what they read then I guess what I have said will be of some use.
Zebra |