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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
1) You don't have blades. Ping didn't make blades until the S-59s. You have the I3 blade (as opposed to the O-size) which is still a cavity backed iron
2) Clubs go up to a maximum of 460 CCs, not 550.
3) Your driver is a Ping Tisi, which was a great driver.
You could increase your drives significantly, but you'll get just as much out of the new balls. Titleist didn't start making the Pro V1s and other multilayer, elastomer covered balls that were low spin off the driver and high off the wedges until after you stopped playing.
The best thing that you could do is go to Golf Digest and read their Hot List. You can also go to a forum like GolfWRX.com, but those guys are so wonky and specialized about equipment it probably won't be helpful for you for a while.
If cost is a concern check out the following websites;
3balls.com
Callawaygolfpreowned.com
Rockbottomgolf.com
Globalgolf.com
and Ebay.
Also, if you want to know what a fair price is for a used club, Topeka the PGA Tour Value Guide.
IMO, I'd stay with your irons, they were good clubs. I had a set of i3s for almost 10 years. Now I play the i5s.
As far as the drivers go, any of the drivers made in the last couple of years will give you the same performance, but you should go to a place where they can find a shaft that fits your swing characteristics. The shaft is by far the most important part of the golf club.
Any other ?s, just ask.
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Wow. Thanks for the insight. Very knowledgeable post.
If I can get to play golf once every week or two this year I am probably going to buy another driver. I hit a big high sweeping draw most of the time, so I kinda like my Ping driver because it's not an offset face.
My golf coach used to get pissed at me because I would sell my Pro-V's for 20% off to the other teams and just use my Maxfli's. Not that I didn't like them, but hey, I wanted some beer money and those things were expensive.
I used to have a Taylor Made back in the day, w/ that burner bubble shaft thing. I never noticed any difference and seemed mickey mouse to me. But alot has changed in 8-10 years. Titanium used to be the rave. I'll have to find a demo day sometime soon and check these things out.
I used a Calloway EVR (or whatever the illegal driver was called) one time at a demo day and I could tell right away why it was illegal. That thing just launched whitey deep. Sometimes would pull out the Condor ball just trying to mess around w/ my friends, and if you caught those things right they would fly forever, but they never seemed to react the same way. Those things were also illegal.