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Re: Iron options

• Mbarrettwcc 82 Posts

  Fri, Jul 7 2017 5:50 AM

  I'd like to see an Equip option for irons for 3-PW and 4-PW. The 3i is hardly ever used and it isn't as effective as a Hybrid, imo. I could also use 3 wedges, which are more useful. I think this should be a simple modification.

• borntobesting 9,700 Posts

  Fri, Jul 7 2017 10:52 AM

  Mbarrettwcc:

  I'd like to see an Equip option for irons for 3-PW and 4-PW. The 3i is hardly ever used and it isn't as effective as a Hybrid, imo. I could also use 3 wedges, which are more useful. I think this should be a simple modification.

  never happen as the iron set is programmed as a set and the best 3 irons smoke the best hybrids in this game.

• lonniescott711 4,206 Posts

  Fri, Jul 7 2017 11:19 AM

  borntobesting:

  Mbarrettwcc:

  I'd like to see an Equip option for irons for 3-PW and 4-PW. The 3i is hardly ever used and it isn't as effective as a Hybrid, imo. I could also use 3 wedges, which are more useful. I think this should be a simple modification.

  never happen as the iron set is programmed as a set and the best 3 irons smoke the best hybrids in this game.

  +1 Once you reach L90 you will change that tune .The 3 irons will reach from 225 - 240 yds depending on ball and wind . This is why if you look at the profiles of higher level players you will see that we dont have hybrids in our bag but 3 wedges instead .

  You still have a ways to go because you wont reach the tips until Legend and a few more levels to 90 . But once you reach both of those points you will see just how much a hybrid is useless to you .The 3 iron will become your go to club on Par3s and also very useful on Par5s too . So dont count the good old 3i out just yet its time is coming  very soon .

   

• Woodie312 671 Posts

  Fri, Jul 7 2017 2:29 PM

  I will admit that this is coming from a player who chose to forgo the hybrid as a gap club early on. I think I was about lvl 30 or so when i trashed it and went to 3 wedges. 

  Why???

  Because just like in real life you dont make a eagle, bird, or mostly even a par from 250 yards out, you post that score with a putter in your hand and hope it is a tap in to boot. So how do you end up with those nice little short putts? You do it from inside of 120 yards, the closer the better. The 3iron does that better for me than a hybrid could or ever will. 

  To my thinking it is a no-brainer...the 3iron wins for 2 simple reasons. The first LS covered with the reach of it, the second is that the 3iron will punch you out of that nasty thick velcro you are going to find yourself i from the rear tee's. This is going to happen more often than you like to think at first and less as you are able by credits & level to upgrade you equipment, but it will still happen. Why because at the rear tee's your landing area is normally in the very narrow portion of the usable fairway. True the fairway may be wider but think about the tree's, traps, and other obstacles to your next shot and that zone becomes much more narrow. In going for that narrow strip you are going to misjudge the wind, miss the ding, and otherwise have the normal what did WGT just do to me now situations; that will leave you in the deep mess. This being said that 3iron will help get you out of it, where a hybrid wont hit out of that junk effectively.

  So I say trash the hybrid as fast as you can, and spend some time learning the idiosyncrasies of your 3iron both dist and spin adjustments.

  And back to what I was saying earlier about 120 in, learn your wedges in both full and punch shots. Think of your  3 wedges as not 3 clubs but 6, because as you by now have found out most club performance is not a strait line but more of a curve. Most clubs, and I will admit wedges hold it better than others,  lose distance control below 90-92% of full swing. But your punch shot is generally about 80-85% of the full club distance on your wedges, and this makes hyper-accurate shots (distance wise) not just possible but with practice an entirely routine thing.

• SeveFrost 1,613 Posts

  Sat, Jul 8 2017 9:40 AM

  forget about a hybrid and instead save any credits you get for the Cleveland 64 degree wedge. that will save you countless shots and will be the most important club in the bag. it is for me anyway

• mak92 57 Posts

  Sat, Jul 8 2017 3:30 PM

   

  
  

   

   

   

• Mbarrettwcc 82 Posts

  Thu, Jul 13 2017 5:05 AM

  Clearly, but it is a simple program change.

• phred952 2,714 Posts

  Thu, Jul 13 2017 11:20 AM

  Mbarrettwcc:

  Clearly, but it is a simple program change.

  Do you really think this hasn't been suggested before?  Don't you think WGT hasn't done it before for good reasons?  Finally, how do you know it's a simple program change?  If you know that much about programming, perhaps you should get a job with WGT and move to SF.  Then maybe your ideas can be incorporated into the game.

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Thu, Jul 13 2017 4:52 PM

  Mbarrettwcc:

  Clearly, but it is a simple program change.

  
  
  OK. I have to ask. Why are you convinced that it's a simple program change? As far as I know, they've only sold the irons as a set of 3i to PW. How would it be a simple change to now offer the ability to break the set by eliminating only the 3 iron?
  
  If each of the clubs had been purchased separately, I can see that. But they weren't. They were purchased as a set. I guess maybe I'm missing something here because I just don't see it as a simple program change.