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Man that Seven putter is such a steal !!

plenty of used ones out on the market. Also TR500 or Nabla Tour might be good alternatives.

Had my first round with the Cleveland 588MB / DG AMT S200. Shot a 74. Few iron shots pushed to the right. No misses to the left. Distance may be a bit shorter than the ID BLs... or maybe I'm just not hitting it in the true middle yet. But so far so good! Really like the feel when I do hit the middle!! Will continue using this for the off season.

I just picked up some Project X 5.5 shafts.... Aren't these supposed to be low launch too? Only time I had these shafts were in a Mizuno MP Fli Hi 24 deg driving iron. I really liked that club.

I have a #4 TW-U Forged which are essentially the same as these TW-X heads. I found that when these are paired with the Vizard IB graphite shafts, they feel very good for a multi-material head. Size is compact like Victor says. Very very forgiving.

Nippon Super Peening Blues are low. I've had Monaco Stiffs before and they felt boardy. I tried to love it because I absolutely think that bronze coloring is so cool! At the end, the shafts did not match my swing. But they were on the low launching side of things if I recall.

Just had a great range session with my Cleveland 588MB / DG AMT S200!! I have the 4 iron in MB but decided to use a 588CB for the 4 instead. MB 4 iron is still scary looking to me!! Anyway, the ball went pretty much where I wanted for the shorter irons. Looks big and mid were much easier to hit than the full on S300. With a 47deg PW lofts aren’t meant for distance but consistency is really good!! Will use more of this set over the winter in an effort to improve on my iron striking!! Yay blades!!! ( minus the 4 iron ... )

I've recently moved from Modus 125 to Modus 120 and I am much better off on most iron shots. If anything I would like my trajectory to be a bit lower so I will be testing out JDM DG AMT S200 soon. At 52 years of age... straight DG S200s are just too heavy for me especially on the mid to long irons. Short irons I can still handle. So the AMT model should be just perfect. The weight on an AMT S200 #4 and Modus 120 S #4 is actually right about the same.

Have not been much of a wedge guy but I really like the Miura S-01 and S-01 Tours. Currently also using Cleveland Japan RTX 2.0 Precision Forged wedges which were designed in collaboration with Hideki Matsuyama. Very sharp looking, ver soft and very spinny! The shape blends in nicely with the rest of the irons. Probably not the most forgiving though... Will also be exploring Cleveland Japan RTX 4 Forged wedges soon. I think these will be more forgiving.

It's interesting how the smaller heads provide better results. Bigger not always better!!

This driver is still very new. Not a lot of reviews out even in Japanese. I believe this head is JBeam's first head with a Carbon Crown. Lighter over all weight contributing to faster swing speeds. I also believe this is JBeam's first adjustable driver.

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I never gone on a trackman with my current RS-D / Loop GK set up but fortunately on Saturday I was able to get a glimpse of the kind of potential this combo has. I was in a 2 man best ball tournament on Saturday and the host had brought out their Trackman to hole number 9 and did a Long Drive hole on it. My RS-D in my primary bag now is a 45" build with a 9.5 deg head. It's D4 or D5 swing weight with 328g club weight. Not a distance build. It's more of a control driver. Anyway, I hit one out there perhaps not the best shot of the day .. but it stayed in the fairway to the left only about 2 ft from the rough! Distance was 239 carry and 272 total. Again not the best number that I could have had but actually it held up through the tournament and I won the driving contest!! Now for the real fun part.... the guy with the tablet said that my drive registered a 1700rpm back spin.... "Uh say what??" that is really low... in fact too low for my swing speed. Heck... I have a 10 deg head an another shaft that is slightly longer. Gonna build a Distance version of this combo! Will do a side by side comparo later today using, not a track man, but top tracer.

I think so.

Too deep for me as well.

They are 2015 models but I got mine brand new and unused this June. I only have about 10 rounds with them and they were protected with head covers all during that time. So no bag chatters. As mentioned in the post, 4 iron has a tiny nick on the sole that does not affect playability. These are the same models Yuta Ikeda used to become the money leader in 2017. N1-CB is named after being the first CB irons produced in their Niigata Japan production facility. They are excellent heads!! I wouldn't mind keeping them, but I recently had an urge to go back to less forgiving irons .. if you can believe that nonsense!! 🙂

Epon AF-505 4 iron was pretty good. but I'm currently using a Honma TW-U Forged 24 deg 4 iron with a stock Vizard 95 shaft. Really easy to hit even though the head is pretty compact. I liked this so much I bought a 21 deg 3 iron for my set in Japan that I use only once a year during my Summer family visit.

Many items still available and prices have been adjusted from already "low" prices to "stupid low" prices!! Hurry before they are all gone!! Thanks to those who have purchased their share of goodies thus far!!

I should add... if you are after a compact sexy looking steel head that provides penetrating trajectory but with a shallow profile, Modart MA01F in 14 deg is it. 14 deg head is unique in its line up as it incorporates cup face construction whereas the 16 deg and 19 deg heads do not. I had a 19 deg for a while but the 14 deg just felt so much softer off the face probably due to the different construction. While the 455 steel face construction with a 14deg loft my scare some ... it is quite friendly when it comes to ease of launch and overall forgiveness because of the shallow face profile. It is also a bit easier to work the ball because fo the smaller size. Highly recommended!

No I have never sold a JBeam G-FW ... The one I am using is the first and only one I got. and have no plans selling it any time soon!! 🙂 It might have been something else, though Maybe a Grandista RS-F? Anyway... the thing with Titanium FW woods is that CG is lower compared to Steel heads which means it will launch higher. If you want low penetrating flight, Titanium heads may not be the best. But that is only if you are using traditional 15 deg or so lofts. My G-FW is a 13 deg. Back in the day when I tried 13 deg steel headed fairways, I could launch it high enough and typically the 13 deg heads had pretty deep profiles. Unless it was tee'd up, it was extremely hard to pick off the turf. Not so much with the G-FW. It's pretty shallow profile and the low CG from the Ti construction helps with launch and is very forgiving. But at the same time it is not overly big like some other fairways. Crazy just recently came out with a 12.5 deg lofted CRZ Full Titan FW head which I think would have similar flight characteristics as my G-FW. Another couple that might be pretty good are the Romaro Type R or the new Alpha.

Very unique back face design for an MB... with the S20C should feel really really soft at impact!! GLWS!!

JBeam G-FW..... period!!

Similar to your results. I've gone back to my Grandista RS-D and it has been working really really well! No more shots leaking to the right. No more worry about gigantic block shots! Sold the Ping LST over the weekend too!!

I've had this nice Mackenzie Sunday bag made of waxed cotton canvas for a while now but really did not have clubs that I felt were apropriate to fill it with until now. So I just picked up a half set ( they call it a 'split set' ) of Shinagawa blades w/DG S200 shafts. The iron set consist of Long, Mid, Short, Pitch and Sand. It was a collaboration model between Japanese goof magazine "Choice" and Koei golf. ( i.e Kiyoshi Shinagawa's brand ) I included my shorty (44.5") Grandista 10 deg driver shafted with Loop GK and also a vintage Honma LB 606 Super Persimmon 4 wood shafted with a Rombax Prototype 80B ! And to complete the set up, my vintage Gold's T102 putter!! Man, I just put together a perfect Sunday walker set! I'll use this on my non-men's club casual rounds!! A casual weekend morning with these cubs? Can't be much better than this!! Took the bag to the range yesterday and all the clubs in this set up felt and performed phenomenally!! Very surprised at how well and straight I hit the Honma fairway which is no larger than a modern hybrid.

We all know KYOEI and Seven irons are made in Japan! I’ve recently picked up an older model NOS Mizunos and a made in Japan Cleveland Forged.... Almost have to go back to old models for finding the really good stuff that are made in Japan. \\