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I still think it's the most visually pleasing of all the Hogans.Īt Christmas '92 an Edwin Watts catalog had these discounted to $299, to clear out for a new model. My old cherished Haig Ultras were lost during a move, years earlier. Gad, I remember the gasp when I saw them new in '91. The 1 is for them being the least playable iron I have ever encountered, and that includes some Northwesterns my Dad bought me and cut down when I was about 3. Take a set and go play a round on hard pan with them and see how well you do. My 4 Value Rating is for their beauty to look at, and as a guide for comparing all other irons ever made too. Take the best forged steel you can find and make a set of irons whose sweet spots and offsets and hosel placement all match those old cheap miniature golf putters and you would have the perfect clubs. I do most of my practicing with an old miniature golf putter. I can crush the no offset, nearly center shafted, short, miniature golf putters all day. Everything you would want out of an iron this one gives just the opposite. It is obvious Ben had no input on this model, and his engineers were not exactly geniuses in their understanding of the golf swing. Are these some kind of commemorative edition not meant for serious play or what. I have a set in mint condition that I like looking at, and I think to myself what were they thinking when they made these.
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These Grind clubs were made as a novelty, but most players would probably hit the irons with hickory shafts that Vardon, Jones, and Hagen used more solid than these.
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Something like the Wilson Staff Dynacraft, or MacGregor MT, or VIP, or even the Hogan Apex II are all excellent choices, along with so many others. Unless you play on the most lush fairways in the world, like in Ireland, forget about compressing the ball with these clubs. I have played with thousands of clubs, and I have never picked one up that felt like it had absolutely no sweet spot anywhere to be found. The thinnest one iron from the old days is how every club in the set is made. They demand you to decelerate through the ball to even hit a usable shot. Hogan is my hero, but other than a beautiful addition to the corner of any room for just looking at them, the Ben Hogan Grind is definitely arguably the worst playing set of irons ever manufactured.