David Hillman
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- Apr 15, 2008
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About five years ago, I bought a complete set of Wilson clubs for my wife, because she was going to start playing again ( hadn't played since she lived with her dad, who plays a lot ). For various reasons, those clubs gathered a lot of dust until earlier this summer, but now we've played a couple times this year, and hit the range more than a dozen times. As I mentioned somewhere else, she wound up stealing my TaylorMade Burner 3w and hitting it great, causing me to buy myself a Wishon 949MC ( I'm not heart-broken about it ).
After seeing how well she hits the Burner, as well as a Nickent hybrid she borrowed, and how she struggled with her 3&4 irons, I decided to make things easier and replace them with something easier to hit. Light clubs with a low swingweight suit her much better. As you'd expect, I trolled eBay for a week or so. I didn't find any good deals on hybrids, which seem to hold their value pretty well, but I did wind up finding a fantastic deal on some fairways.
I bought 2 used Wishon 515GRT fairways ( 5 & 7 ) for $41 shipped(!). Also included was a no-name 7 wood that we have no use for. So that was about $14 per club. The Wishons are in fine shape, and have SK Fiber Pure Energy shafts of unknown flex ( I was told they are senior, but there's no marking ).
She hit them for the first time last night, and clobbered them. A little low, but that's normal. She was literally raving about them; how balanced they feel, and how they sit at address, and on and on. She asked if maybe I should find her a Wishon driver and some irons, too I tried to explain that she hits them well because they're suited to her swing, not because of the name on the bottom, but I guess now I have another excuse to keep shopping for clubs. That was definitely the best $28 I ever spent on golf clubs.
After seeing how well she hits the Burner, as well as a Nickent hybrid she borrowed, and how she struggled with her 3&4 irons, I decided to make things easier and replace them with something easier to hit. Light clubs with a low swingweight suit her much better. As you'd expect, I trolled eBay for a week or so. I didn't find any good deals on hybrids, which seem to hold their value pretty well, but I did wind up finding a fantastic deal on some fairways.
I bought 2 used Wishon 515GRT fairways ( 5 & 7 ) for $41 shipped(!). Also included was a no-name 7 wood that we have no use for. So that was about $14 per club. The Wishons are in fine shape, and have SK Fiber Pure Energy shafts of unknown flex ( I was told they are senior, but there's no marking ).
She hit them for the first time last night, and clobbered them. A little low, but that's normal. She was literally raving about them; how balanced they feel, and how they sit at address, and on and on. She asked if maybe I should find her a Wishon driver and some irons, too I tried to explain that she hits them well because they're suited to her swing, not because of the name on the bottom, but I guess now I have another excuse to keep shopping for clubs. That was definitely the best $28 I ever spent on golf clubs.