bought a played 7 iron today to improve my ball striking. currently using G20s but my ball strikin gisnt great, so to improve that i bought a bladed club as i was told 'if you can hit a blade, you can hit anything' am i right in doing this?

Its right wot you say. If you can hit with a blade.... But why not practice ball stiking with your ping 7 iron? Dave CAC handed Geordie.

G20's dont have neough feel to know if your hitting it well or not.... they're game improvement irons

What is the 7 iron blade you have aquired? Dave CAC handed Geordie.

titleist MB.

Liam, no club will improve your ball striking. The quality of the strike is a simple matter of physics...nothing to do with the club. If you deliver the clubhead to the ball in the proper fashion you will hit the ball well with either a G20 or a blade. The G20 is just a bit more forgiving than the blade so you will get away with slightly off centre shots as the sweet spot is larger.

Richard

Mate, you have done absolutely the right thing in investing in a proper club. So much garbage is peddled by the golfing media about game improvement, forgiving, easy to hit clubs etc, that newcomers to the game take it as gospel. The truth is that a good club, properly proportioned will prove just as easy to hit well than any of the junk put out by the likes of ping & taylormade (with their huge advertising budgets) with a decent swing, which you, as a youngster obviously have & can improve upon easily. It will take you no more than 3 or 4 rounds using the titleist to find that it is far superior to the g series that you will wonder what all the fuss is about. I predict that you will buy a full set of these before the end of the year (or another equivalent) & when you see the huge shovels in golf shops in the future, you will wonder how the hell you could play with such clubs. To hit an iron well requires a degre of precision that will not be enhanced by perimeter weighting etc. Use, enjoy, enlighten yourself & most of all, good luck in the quest for single figures. Accuracy over distance!

John, I see you are in Warwickshire. Where do you play?

When was looking at new irons last year I was pushed towards the g15's by virtually all shops and pro's I went to. I got a number of irons to try at the range and one of them was a g15 iron. I couldn't hit them for toffee. It just felt far too heavy and clunky. I ended up going with the i15's which are far from blades but still felt a lot better in my hands and I am far from a good player. I am actually amazed they can be marketed as easy to hit clubs because I thought the exact opposite.

Just remember you hit the ball with the front of the club! Whats behind it is in your head most of the time. Most iron players I see are scoopers tryingto lift the ball up. Hit down on the ball to impart spin, lift and distance! BTW, I got Ping I15s and they are, in my view, the DB's.

I play with blades, main reason is that I don't like irons with 'big' heads so all this 'forgiving' means nothing to me. It is right however that if you strike a ball correctly it will get to where you want it to go, more or less., no matter if it's a blade or a forgiving club. If you don't strike it right it will be short (please no comments about thins). I would imagine that the more forgiving club will mean it'll be less short.