An Affair To Remember

[MyBluC4]

Just got my i10's delivered. Had them fitted at GolfSmith. I'm an 11 handicap with a 9 index. For the last 11 years I played the Ping ISI's with stiff shafts. The fitting resulted in me moving to a steel R shaft with a one degree difference in the set up. Only used them once so far, but really like them. Ball fires off the face. Don't have swing hard with these to get distance and I really liked the feeling of control, especially in the mid irons.

FOUR WEEKS LATER

Confession: Recently purchased and had fitted a new set of Ping i10 players irons as earlier stated. Everything I thought and hoped would help my game. Beautiful sticks. Played with them 4 times...right back to GolfSmith for a credit. Just didn't feel right in my hands or to my eye. Pulled out my old Ping ISI Berilyum Copper heads, apologized to them for the affair with the new sticks, polished them up and went out and shot an 81. Glad I kept them. Definitely feel they are, along with the original Tommy Armour 845 Silver Scots, the best designed clubs crafted over the last 12 or 15 years.

 

[extremeVFT03]

i didn't like the way the i10's felt ether. good hitting irons just the feeling was not there.

 

[warbirdlover]

Good review. I won't bother looking at i10's for the future. There's something to be said for the older Pings.

 

[Hmbre97]

thought about putting reg flex shafts in your old pings?

 

[ManchesterGolfer]

There's something to be said for the older Pings.

Yes, Thugly sums them up quite well!!!

 

[Irish]

Yes, Thugly sums them up quite well!!!

whats thugly mean... I always use FUGLY when referring to pings

 

[Clugnut]

MyblueC4, huh. Corvette owner?

 

[MyBluC4]

'95 LT-1, 6 Speed, Admiral Blue. Love it. Nice catch.

 

[Clugnut]

'95 LT-1, 6 Speed, Admiral Blue. Love it. Nice catch.

'92 LT-1, 6 speed, Corvette Yellow. Love it, except for the opti-spark!

 

[ualtim]

Good review. I won't bother looking at i10's for the future. There's something to be said for the older Pings.

:smilie_pi.......


Old Pings. Somehow they work for me, too.

 

[ManchesterGolfer]

The old ones are the best.

Lee Westwood discovered the very same thing. He played with some old Pings as a junior and Amatuer & stuck with the same irons when he became a Pro. He signed with Ping and played there Drivers, Wedges and his old trusy irons. With this setup he climbed into the Worlds Top 10. Then the big wigs at Ping decided he should play some more modern irons and promised to get him fit so they performed better than his old trusty's and threw a load of money at him. Like a FOOL (but we'd all do it) Lee accepted and switched to the new irons. 2 years later he had tumbled down the rankings & was 150+ in the world and looked like his career was over. About 18 months ago he switched back to his old trusty's and he's climbing the rankings again and he looks like he's gonna be a threat for the Majors again this season.

 

[MyBluC4]

Nice tee box you got there. What course is that?

 

[extremeVFT03]

yeah id like to see the whole course

 

[chemboy2]

yeah id like to see the whole course

whole course or hole course? **buddam bump** :laugh:

Also, I believe Westwood has gone to the i10s this year. PING made a huge deal about his victory a few weeks back because they were the first win for the i10 series (woods AND irons iirc).