[forexsoft]

Sory up front for the long post.
I am looking into new clubs and recently had 1st ever club fitting. Before my question about newer irons I'd like to tell a bit about my golfing so you better to understand my point of view and or better know how to answer, comment or advise about what it is i ask.

5 or 6 years ago playing bit more often i started shooting mid 80's. 85 to be exact on 2 ocassions. If not in the upper 80's then would hang around the 90 mark. All in all game was improving but then couldn't get out there much since and here I am back mostly in the mid/upper90's again. This year however I've been able to get out a bit more and have two 90's and some low 90's. Of course hoping to improve back into the 80's again

My problem is not legnth, I'm a fairly long hitter. 8 iron @ 150, Can drive 270 to 280 with the ocassional 300yarder when given perfect favorable conditions and I can strike balls decently. My biggest problem is incosistancy due to not enough golf and/or practice which will develope muscle memory over repititions only. I usually know what I did wrong when hitting poorly. And it will usually be things like " I picked up my head and walked out on that" or "darn, i didn't roll my hands over on that one" or maybe "I hit down too early on that one" etc... you all get the point.

Any way, without every detail, my club fitting and discussions with the fitter went something like this. Driver swing speed 105, 5 iron swing 94, Hits down on the ball well, good release, smooth tempo, gets the ball up, then of course there was lie angle, club legnth, and etc.... He commented on my swing being one of the better swings vs most people who come to see him through the years. All said and done, the biggest change and or improvement for me with new clubs would be the recomendation of different lie angles vs what i am currently using.

With all that said he also recomends a 5 iron loft of 24 degrees and of course all the other irons to follow suit up and down the scale.. My existing 10 year old irons has what he said was a (for my 5 iron) a 29 degree loft. Here is my problem/question with this and about new G.I. irons of today whch are now incorporating such lower lofts. Why do I nead to hit any futher than what I already do?. I certainly am not struggling for distance with any club. I use my 6 at 180 and 5 at 190 and thats with the older more upright lofts (29) on my 5. Why would I nead a lower loft?

Manufacturers are making claims that they all have the longest irons. what really did was put a 6 iron loft on what use to be a seven iron and still even more than that. Of course the shaft will be shorter since it is now a seven but even the shafts are being made longer which IMO are too long for many to swing well (unless your fit) but that's another subject.

The point is that if/when i get new clubs, they will be some sort of G.I. clubs which now seem to most all be designed with the lower lofts. Why do i have to hit my PW more than the 130 I currently do? Will I not then also be comming into a green at a lower angle causing more roll we usually don't want? Then what also do I do between my PW and AW? I already have a big gap between my two existing clubs now. If a new lower lofted PW for me ends up being from 140, then anytime I may be at about the 120 to 130 mark, I'll have to swing easy, choke up, or alter my PW swing to not hit it as far. Just doesn't seem like any advantages to this newer low lofted irons situation for me. They seem to assume all high handicappers are all looking for distance but that is not the case at all. I do nead G.I. irons due to the forgiveness with my inconsistant swings but why be forced to legnthen my shots? And why would the fitter even have recommended that too me? Or perhaps he just going with the times and knows most new irons sre being made this way now.

Anyway, any help to get me to understand the advantage it would be to me and my game please explain. because i just don't know if this may end up being a disadvantage for me instead. hope i am wrong.

THANKS in advance