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My area of knowledge lies in the field of woods, so I put this observation forward as someone knowing little about the technical side of iron play to invite you expert iron players to comment on.

I have recently built my own set of irons and notwithstanding only being 5ft 9 ins tall decided to build these longer than normal. For example my 2 iron is fitted with an an uncut 41" graphite iron shaft. So, my long irons are around 2" longer than normal.

Carry is now higher, not so much from launch angle but increased swing speed (generated from the longer shafts)  appears to make the ball climb, and climb, and climb. The final result  being that the ball almost drops out of the sky when it runs out of steam, and even in summer the ball is likely to virtually drop and stop.

With the ground presently being so wet I cannot honestly say whether or not the longer than normal irons will hit further or not when ball run on is factored in. I suspect that there will be little difference. But almost certainly it should be possible to play a ball with an  iron fitted with a longer than normal shaft much closer to the hole, and thereby not lose out so much as a ball runs and bounces through uneven terrain. 

Have any of you expert iron players experimented with significantly longer shafts? If so, are these observations / assumptions nonsense? If I am correct, do tour players have a long set of irons for windless 'drop and stop' days, and a shorter set of 'wind dodger' irons?

Sanders that's a great question and I will now do some delving and enquiring to see what the result is.

Initially I thought you'd have to strengthen the loft of the clubface to get a lower trajectory that would assist you in getting some run, but in fairness I'm not sure so now I'm off to find out