Learn About Custom Irons

Custom Iron Trends

What irons you choose to put in your bag is perhaps the most important decision you'll make when it comes to equipment for the new season. Frustratingly so, it's also the easiest to get wrong.

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The number of designs and customization factors for your new set of custom irons can get a bit overwhelming. Check our Custom Irons Essentials for a look at the design elements of a modern iron set.

The market for golf irons used to be cut and dried. Choices were pretty much between Blades and Game Improvement Cavity Backs. Depending on your skill levels you went for a set of Blades or Cavity Backs.

At the players end of the equation, pure muscle back blades have all but disappeared. Even the top Pros are getting some help from their iron designs. At the opposite end of the equation, super game improvement irons boast bigger cavities and wider soles, making for a much more forgiving set of irons.

It used to be Forged for good players, Cast for average. Not anymore. Iron design nowadays overlaps. How about Players Cast Cavity Backs like the Acer XK Pros, or forgiving Forged Cavity Backs like the Dynacraft Prophet CNC or Super Game Improvement irons like the Power Play System Q2 or the amazing Acer XK Ti. There really is a set of custom irons for players of all skill levels.

Growing up I used a set of forged blades, from 1-Iron down and consequently my iron play became pretty good. Now playing a set of Acer XP Pro's with Dynamic Gold steel shafts in Stiff, Standard Length, 1^o Upright. Using from 4-Iron through PW, having ditched the 3-Iron in favor of a Hybrid Club.

My current clubs are easier to hit than my old blades, longer, more consistent, more forgiving, plus I can still work them when needed. Need I go on? The differences in the club designs are pretty obvious as you can see from the comparison image of my old and current 7-Irons. I'm all for keeping things simple, and in this case my game is better from using a cavity back. Simple.

Workability is a big part of custom irons. Bias things too far towards a forgiving set of irons, and you take away some of the shot shaping potential. Stick to a more workable set though, and off-center hits will be punished far more.

"Feel" is also associated with forged irons. You can feel a well struck shot with a forged iron that much better. Perhaps more importantly, you can feel a badly struck shot far more. That "feel" on a bad shot is what gives you the necessary feed-back to know what you're doing wrong.

One thing's for sure though. Our Custom Irons won't let you down in the "Feel" department, Forged or Cast.

Custom Iron Essentials

Set Makeup: With the growing popularity of Hybrids, the conventional iron set is more or less gone for good, particularly in the game improvement segments. Most iron sets now start at the 4-iron, as manufacturers realise the longer irons are being replaced with easy hitting hybrids. With our custom irons you can pretty much start (and end) where you feel most comfortable. The choice is yours.

Distance or Consistency: Modern shaft technology and club design mean yardages are rarely a problem for a set of custom irons. Choose the irons you can hit with the most consistency and that consistency will bring the yards.

Progressive Designs: Iron sets today are designed to be slightly different from club to club. Each iron in your set will have been designed to have different COG's, MOI or sole widths, to get the best from each individual iron.

Forgiving Forgings: How about a forged cavity back? Modern forging techniques mean intricate cavity backed forgings like the Dynacraft Prophet are here to stay.