What Are The Benefits Of Game Improvement Golf Clubs (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Are The Benefits Of Game Improvement Golf Clubs (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if we look now at the benefits of the game improvement irons, why we see game improvement irons being quite popular for the higher handicapped, for the less experienced golfer? I think one of the first reasons why people go for these types of clubs is simply they hit them further. So when you strike a ball well with a softer flex shaft and a bigger more forgiving club head, you're generally going to hit that ball further than if you were playing with a very small club head and a very stiff shaft. So generally the higher handicapped golfers, they are not generating masses of club head speed, so the better more forgiving golf club is going to be easy for them to hit on the longer shots, so added distance is always a good thing. The next thing is just added level of forgiveness, simply put if I gave you a very small nail and a very small hammer, you might find it quite difficult to hammer the nail accurately, but if I gave you a really big nail and a massive hammer that’s going to be much easier to hit the nail in with a bigger hammer. So simply when you stand up behind the back of the golf ball, if you’ve got a smaller, more bladed type of design with a thinner top line, the smaller club face might feel like it’s a little bit more difficult to hit, but the big fat top line, the bigger club head, the bigger sole, as that sits behind the golf ball, just instills a lot of confidence in the less experienced golfer and the game improvement golfer who requires the game improvement clubs.

The one last part about this is actually when you strike the golf ball from the club face, with the game improvement iron; it feels a little bit more forgiving. Like I mentioned previously, my irons are kind of mid-market irons, they're not particularly bladed, they're not particularly game improvement, but if I bounce the ball up and down on the club face, I can straight away feel there is a sweet spot in there, but if I move the ball towards the toe, on the toe it dies a little bit, it drops off, doesn’t bounce up quite as far and obviously if that has an effect and I’m only bouncing the ball up a few inches, if I was then trying to hit that ball out there 150, 160 yards, and hitting it off the less efficient part of the golf club head, it’s definitely going to affect this distance so my clubs aren’t massively forgiving, we would expect that with the game improvement iron, as we move the ball across the face, yes the distance would deteriorate slightly, it always would do. The sweet spot is always going to be slightly better than off center is, but it’s not going to drop off a cliff, we are still going to find some benefit from hitting the ball off center with the game improvements iron, it might lose 10 yards of distance but it won't lose 20, 30 yards of distance like it might do if you're playing with a very bladed or smaller headed iron. So those are really the key features for the game improvement iron could bring to your game if you felt like you were in that part of the golfing market. 2015-11-06

So if we look now at the benefits of the game improvement irons, why we see game improvement irons being quite popular for the higher handicapped, for the less experienced golfer? I think one of the first reasons why people go for these types of clubs is simply they hit them further. So when you strike a ball well with a softer flex shaft and a bigger more forgiving club head, you're generally going to hit that ball further than if you were playing with a very small club head and a very stiff shaft. So generally the higher handicapped golfers, they are not generating masses of club head speed, so the better more forgiving golf club is going to be easy for them to hit on the longer shots, so added distance is always a good thing. The next thing is just added level of forgiveness, simply put if I gave you a very small nail and a very small hammer, you might find it quite difficult to hammer the nail accurately, but if I gave you a really big nail and a massive hammer that’s going to be much easier to hit the nail in with a bigger hammer. So simply when you stand up behind the back of the golf ball, if you’ve got a smaller, more bladed type of design with a thinner top line, the smaller club face might feel like it’s a little bit more difficult to hit, but the big fat top line, the bigger club head, the bigger sole, as that sits behind the golf ball, just instills a lot of confidence in the less experienced golfer and the game improvement golfer who requires the game improvement clubs.

The one last part about this is actually when you strike the golf ball from the club face, with the game improvement iron; it feels a little bit more forgiving. Like I mentioned previously, my irons are kind of mid-market irons, they're not particularly bladed, they're not particularly game improvement, but if I bounce the ball up and down on the club face, I can straight away feel there is a sweet spot in there, but if I move the ball towards the toe, on the toe it dies a little bit, it drops off, doesn’t bounce up quite as far and obviously if that has an effect and I’m only bouncing the ball up a few inches, if I was then trying to hit that ball out there 150, 160 yards, and hitting it off the less efficient part of the golf club head, it’s definitely going to affect this distance so my clubs aren’t massively forgiving, we would expect that with the game improvement iron, as we move the ball across the face, yes the distance would deteriorate slightly, it always would do. The sweet spot is always going to be slightly better than off center is, but it’s not going to drop off a cliff, we are still going to find some benefit from hitting the ball off center with the game improvements iron, it might lose 10 yards of distance but it won't lose 20, 30 yards of distance like it might do if you're playing with a very bladed or smaller headed iron. So those are really the key features for the game improvement iron could bring to your game if you felt like you were in that part of the golfing market.