BladesOShanter

Was a fitting club, not a set, so I can't say.

who's that?

I remember following him at the Senior Open at Ridgewood and was surprised to see him hit a draw! He had this cool FW wood. Sorta tiger-striped or so it appeared. If I recall, he'd play it off the deck after thumping it to raise the turf a bit. His wedges from like 50-60 yards were amazing. I remember one coming toward me at the right side of the green. The ball did a hop, and spun left across the green to the hole. No fade bias there!

I shoot 63 every time I play.... (By around the 9th or 10th hole.)

Bingo. I can't do it, after 45 years of trying, but this is one great description for what needs to be happening....

Just held a custom 250/350 combo set in my hands a few minutes ago. Custom order with +1" PX 6.5s and MCC+4s. Lotta offset on the 350s. 250s don't have much offset. Nice clubs.

I looked real close at their website after watching a lot of their videos, and trying to apply what I saw to myself. Like 99% of everything I watch online, I can't replicate it well, no matter how many reps. Is why I went to their site to study their pricing, options for getting access to their tech and know-how. Agree with others your review of the experience will be good to 'see' and read about. The points made about using the $s to take lessons over a longer span of time so your progress and deviation from same can be tweaked is sage stuff, but like you said you are wired to cram in a short timespan. Don't know your age, but am circling the drain and have never been able to fix my flaws, and $6k a lotta hay for me. In fact, the buck seventy they want where I live for one hour is such a turnoff I just keep trying to fix things on my own, as I have no way to vet the pro, and if we don't jibe, that's my tough luck. (Imagine paying $170*5 new pros trying to 'land' on one who actually gets something done for you? (I've known a lot of pros, and even had one for a business partner, and YMMV with all of them. Most of them mean well tho....) Glad for you for taking the plunge. You only live once.

I often pause the clubhead on the backswing briefly to emulate his P2, but when I get to P6 it's all over for me, whereas in his video (which is a bit SD blurry) he's able to hold onto the angle, which I 'think' is part of your original question[?]

Thanks.

Got any closer shots of the 7-p grooves on those 945s?

After 45 years, I still cast! It comes and goes, and miffs me to no end. Had me sniffing around for new ways to fix old bad habits, and found the thread. Lots of golden nuggets of wisdom from folks that have been on this site forever!

Was he really 80? OMG!

I used to play whole rounds with my feet together, 00, and still casted.

Interesting thread. I'm playing with the 221s (5-P, but just got the 4 and plan to reshaft the set, as the current 760 Recoil F3s feel a bit hollow, or lackluster) combo'd with the 225 2-3 (in Recoil 95 F3s that are also not playing very nice for me for some odd reason). Prior, I was playing the MP-20s, but the shafts in that set were too much for me as age and a 1yr layoff due to injury have overtaken me. Before the MP-20s I played the 716MB (5-P)/T-MP (3-4) combo. In between the MP-20s and the current 221s, I tried the Zx7s in MMT 80 R flavor. My neighbor, who is a 3G clubmaker/fitter in his 70s with a huge following here let me try some shafts and head in his Flightscope X3/GCQ dual LM studio. My numbers were super-depressing, as I've lost 10 mph of club speed. I took his advice and dropped my shaft weight about 30 grams, and went from X to R flex in those Sroxons. I had tried Axioms, as I have played the SFs, Recoil Protos, and MMTs already. I played the Srixon MMT 80 Rs for about a month this past May. They were a 'mixed bag', in that they either went really far and kinda straight, or I was losing the face maybe due to laziness or floppy shaft timing being off, or my 'swing in pergatory' mode was the culprit, not sure. Hard to describe it, but I can get sloppy or lazy with some heads, especially if I 'think' they will 'help' me. I don't mean to say there is anything wrong with those Zx7s. On me, totally! Might be I was not able to get totally comfy with them is all. The 221 v Zx7 distance-wise was noticeable. I played some very long iron shots with the Zx7s, and I need help with distance. I don't think misses with most clubs 'feel' any different. They all suck whe you whiff the ball. Do you get more out of some than others? I think so. The experts here know better. I wasn't sure if it was the shaft or the head, but I decided to try a blade in a weaker Recoil as the old F5 110 Proto Recoils I had in my 716s were fun to play with, and I never had issues with them. Just know my 'new normal' calls for something else. So, I snagged the 221s off the Bay with a lighter shaft. Only a few grams lighter than the MMTs. I like them a lot, as I am used to the head shape, and it helps me focus on accuracy vs distance. That was great, in the past, when I could hit a ball. Now, I'm finding the lack of club speed has really fallen off. I'm here reading this 243 thread as I do NOT like the 225s, and fantasize the 223 might have more mass, or jacked lofts, and not be a mallet so I will maintain some degree of focus. I see a new set with SF R 95s for $1400 (speical offer). That is a Hellava lotta coin for a set of irons, and I already have the 716s, 221s, MP-20s, and a set of 770s. BTW, the 770s: I thought these might 'feel' nicer than my P-790 2I, and they 'do', to a degree. More muted and soft-feeling, but balloony sort of non-piercing ball flights, and I am a draw trapper with a shite OTT from inside move that gets very wonky in the slot, but I've always managed to get away with that, until my recent 'comeback'. I took them out, again, in May to try them. The shafts at MMT 125 S SS'd 1x. I think the shafts are just to heavy for this old bear tho, and while I hit the heads fine, they still don't do much to make the effort satisfying. Just on me, the indian, and not the club/arrow.... Now, June and half of July have gone by, and I will say my iron distances have fallen off so much I'm on here and BST every minute I'm not practicing, playing, or doing life's essentials, reading about the 243s! They have mass behind the face, and my misses are a groove or two high when I'm hitting off of a tee (hate hitting my rons off tees!), or if I have a ball sitting up too much. The only CBs I played were Tour Action gun metal 588s in the 90s. Just for short, but went back to my old faithful pre-buttonback Dyna-Powers. I'll have to go across the street and try the 243 or 223 head in my neighbor's studio. I don't like hitting balls on LMs. It's a skill I am not good at, as the target never seems correctly set up and as I know I am being 'monitored', I tend to overswing and get myself really lathered.... But... beggars can't be choosy, eh? Hope more post about their experiences with the MP 223 ans 243, as I am not a fan of the offset on the JPXs, or the head, although I know it is a cult club, so no insults here intended. Just not my kinda club.

Easily interchangeable, depending upon the wind and course set-up... naturally.

Yes... welp... the idea was to get the ball rollling by sharing my own experieces of late lol.

i've been all over the place lately.

So I'm out there and my swing is me turning a crank (my shoulders), with gears (arms) and pushing on a lever (hands). The levers whack a stop (clubhead) sign into a shoe (ball), which kicks a small bucket (tee) holding a large ball bearing (golf ball). The ball bearing (ball) rolls (dribbles) down some crooked stairs (fairway) and into a rain gutter (rough), and then follows the gutter (path in forest) to bump into the bottom of a vertical rod (Rain Bird sprinkler). The top of the rod has a "helping hand" (I dig for a Mulligan) that bumps another ball bearing (said Mulligan), making it fall through a "thing-a-ma-jig" (riccochets off caddie shack) and into a bathtub (Hell bunker), then out of the bathtub and onto a diving board (cart roof). This catapults a diver (red hawk carrying my pellet) on an arc up and into a washtub (Port-O-San), knocking loose a cage suspended from the top of a bumpy rod (Alphard Cybercart). The cage rattles down the rod and onto another player's mouse (err, i.e., fellow competitor's ball), trapping it (he's 1-up). Hole No. 2.... Don't know where the driver's going? I understand. Got the creeps with your fairway woods? Know how it feels. Those hybrids all over the place? I feel for ya. It's the wind.... The snazzy new T-200 2-iron, the one with that LA Golf L-Series 6TX and 'bespoke' BB&F ferrule... ain't working, either? Ouch. Anything to hit a fairway, huh? 7I? No, really? Feel your pain. Been there, done that! Quad on No. 1? No way! Brutal. It's rough, I know. But don't you dare look back at that parking lot!!! Soldier on, laddie. 48 on the front? Hmmm.... Forget about it. Just a warm-up nine. Oh, you're playing St. Andrews? I 'get it'. Hang on bro... you've got this! Welcome to Mousetrap golf. You're in good company. Your tsunami has you hitting the skids. There's hope! All is not lost. You're not the only one to struggle with your swing, reads, putting stroke, and short game. You are not losing your mind. That happened long ago. You may be scrambling like a dog, and/or scoring like your card is a ticker for the DOW, or smarting from the $1k/day burn rate you wallet, and wife, are feelin'. It's all good, lad. It may hurt, but... ...you've got this, man! Stick to your guns, matey! No you? Priceless....