- Aug 20, 2005
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They have arrived. There was a box waiting on the door step when I returned home today and I could not wait to open it. Considering all the irons I have played in my golfing life, this was only the fourth set I have purchased new since 1980. (There have a been a boatload of component irons and used irons along the way). The first set was a Wilson Sam Snead starter set with persimmon woods and blade irons bought at a big box sporting goods store called Hermans. For the second set, I went to a Golf USA and got fitted into a set of Acer MXD's as I did not have the extra coin for Titleist DCI's or Tommy Armor 845's at the time. The third set was a full Ping fitting at the Edwin Watts flagship store in Orlando for a set of i10's. These are the latest and greatest.
Much like when I first saw the Ping i10's and knew that I must someday have them, the TaylorMade RSi2's grabbed my attention almost immediately. I held off for a while waiting to see what the next generation of Ping I-series was going to be like, but was underwhelmed with Ping's latest offering. Throw in a 20% discount on TM through work, and it was time to order up some RSi2's.
In many ways, the RSi 2's remind me a lot of my Ping i10's. A forgiving iron built into a smaller package with less offset that at address appears to be a better players iron. As displayed in the pictures below, the RSi2 long irons have a tungsten weight port in the toe on the long irons down through the 5 iron. The long irons down through the 7 iron have the sole slot and face slots for the added forgiveness as you can see on the 5 and 7 iron photos. At the 8 iron, the set transitions into forged face irons and the sole slot goes away. The 9 iron and PW lose the face slots for a more traditional look and feel.
The pictures online and in this post can not do them justice, they are absolutely beautiful when you hold them in your hands. The set I had made up for me includes 5-PW, bent 1 deg upright, +1/4 inch in length to match my i10's specs. I chose to put in the Nippon Pro 950 GH shafts in stiff flex to get a slightly lighter/smoother steel shaft compared to the ZZ65's and DG S400's I played in my last few sets. Thought about going with the Project X shafts, but I think those days are behind me as I increase in age. I had them topped off with some Lamkin Crosslines which I prefer over the GP Tour Velvets and Decade style grips, plus, they will match my wedges which I also had gripped in Crosslines from Hopkins.
I can not wait to get them out there for a hit.
Much like when I first saw the Ping i10's and knew that I must someday have them, the TaylorMade RSi2's grabbed my attention almost immediately. I held off for a while waiting to see what the next generation of Ping I-series was going to be like, but was underwhelmed with Ping's latest offering. Throw in a 20% discount on TM through work, and it was time to order up some RSi2's.
In many ways, the RSi 2's remind me a lot of my Ping i10's. A forgiving iron built into a smaller package with less offset that at address appears to be a better players iron. As displayed in the pictures below, the RSi2 long irons have a tungsten weight port in the toe on the long irons down through the 5 iron. The long irons down through the 7 iron have the sole slot and face slots for the added forgiveness as you can see on the 5 and 7 iron photos. At the 8 iron, the set transitions into forged face irons and the sole slot goes away. The 9 iron and PW lose the face slots for a more traditional look and feel.
The pictures online and in this post can not do them justice, they are absolutely beautiful when you hold them in your hands. The set I had made up for me includes 5-PW, bent 1 deg upright, +1/4 inch in length to match my i10's specs. I chose to put in the Nippon Pro 950 GH shafts in stiff flex to get a slightly lighter/smoother steel shaft compared to the ZZ65's and DG S400's I played in my last few sets. Thought about going with the Project X shafts, but I think those days are behind me as I increase in age. I had them topped off with some Lamkin Crosslines which I prefer over the GP Tour Velvets and Decade style grips, plus, they will match my wedges which I also had gripped in Crosslines from Hopkins.
I can not wait to get them out there for a hit.