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Originally posted by bendable:
And do these clubs wear out ?
From whacking golf balls ?

And is three sets of clubs in 20 years a lot ?

Golf clubs can wear out. But it is more that the technology changes enough that the newer clubs are better. An amateur playing once every couple of weeks may not ever wear out a club, except for wedges and high lofted clubs. You'll round off the edges of the grooves on those, and they won't spin the ball as much.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
But it is more that the technology changes enough that the newer clubs are better.

This is definitely true. They're doing remarkable things with AI these days.

A couple years back I bought a Callaway MAVRIK Max driver. I already had a Callaway X2 Hot that worked well for me, when I did my part, but, this was one of the newer generation with some pretty interesting tech baked into the design.

The fascinating thing is I can feel when I have an off-center strike--particularly toe-wards, and watch what the feel tells me probably would've been a slice or a hook with my X2 Hot result in a fade or draw, instead.

It's pretty remarkable.

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Originally posted by fritz:
On a course, I prefer to take as close to full swings as possible with my irons. Larger loft gaps make this more difficult.

I agree with that 100%... I am not nearly as long as you are club for club (i.e. 120 yds = 8i for me) but like you I do better with a consistent (full) swing. I just need more club. My Achilles heel is my short game (<50 yds) that requires fairly big changes to my swing. I didn't do well with a 10 degree gap in wedges but my adding 52 wedge really helped. It's more me than the clubs but I can fix it with a smaller gap