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SOLD 2015 Yamaha Inpres RMX Tour Model MB iron set 5-P shafted with Fujikura MCI 70R Composite shafts, Tour Velvet grips, standard L&L, spine&flo by Goodsie in excellent shape $499 PayPal / US

Chris and Tario, Either you two are slippin' or Akira just came out with their blade yesterday. :p Just kidding, went on their FB page, and saw an advertisement for their irons. Check it out. Since my Japanese absolutely sucks (meaning I dont' know it...), I have no idea if this advertisement is this year, next year or whatever. I'm just giddy about seeing a blade from Akira...or any JDM company that doesn't normally have one in there line-up for that matter. ;p Man...I hope it's not cast...that would be a bummer, not a deal breaker in my opinion though. Oh yeah, don't forget you can get Akira stuff as components. Such a beautiful thing. :)

As 2014 approached, it was the first time in a few years I had to face abandoning my Miura CB301's for a new set of irons -- not because I particularly wanted to, but because I had to admit the Miuras were showing their age. So I conferred with Tario, Chris, and Tatsuro about the new Yamaha RMX Tours, and we talked about both the cavity backs and the muscle backs. I had tried the S-Yard GTX's, and although I really liked the feel, I found them a little thick at address for my eye, especially in the top line. I also tried the MG CB1007 (in beautiful black), but I'm not nuts about what seems to be this year's use of swirls in a lot of the CB designs I've seen... I was torn between my usual preference for CB's and my attraction to the RMX MB, both because of the look of the Yamaha MB design and my desire to narrow in on precision this year with my iron shots. Also I believed I had played one of the finest CB's ever made in the 301's -- from pictures I've seen, they were very similar in design to the Miuraism's I saw posted by Craig earlier this year -- and I felt like trying something new. Chris and Tatsuro gave both the CB's and the MB's a thorough try and were kind enough to share their experiences with me. And as always, Tario helped me zero in on the right shaft fit for my game. I'm a little different from most on that, as I prefer lighter weight shafts that still make the grade on distance and dispersion, and knowing that, Tario helped me select the NS Pro 850's. And so, I decided to give the MB's a try. And man, am I glad I did! Right out of the box, I posted my two best scores of the year at my club, and I found the MB's to be just what I was looking for. They feel like scalpels precision wise, and I'm actually hitting them farther than I was hitting the Miuras. As Chris and Tatsuro said, they definitely let you know when you miss the sweet spot, but when you hit it... oh, it is sublime! Reminds me of the smile on my face the first time I pured a Miura, but with a little more horsepower behind it. I don't know if it's the small pattern on the face around the grooves, but I definitely feel a nice long contact with the ball on the face, which I've found gives me a great feel for working the ball. On one of the Par 3's at my course, I deliberately hit two shots off the tee with the 7-iron, one a draw and one a fade, and felt like both were available to me with only a subtle change in my release. In short, the new bag looks set for this year, and it's smiling at me as I post this. (Only thing up for consideration is possibly swapping out the shafts for the MCI's I had Goodsie fit into my other irons...) The RMX Tours are, as Tario, Chris, and Tatsuro have noted, a pretty special run. And I'm happily in MB territory for the first time with these beauties. Here's a pic of the bag for those interested:

Just got the first few holes in with the new TS909. Having played a set of TS905 in the past and some of the ramblings Stew and I have expressed about its strengths and shortcomings I am very happy with the evolution. The main complaints I had about the 905 were that it was a little bit too crisp and did not seem to be heavy enough. While being very communicative of contact quality and location it was only a tad on the correct side of harsh for everything but the purest of strikes. Ball flight was good and the aesthetic of the iron is top notch. The 909, while a very different aesthetic, satinized vs shiny and solid vs demure they seem to hang on to the right performance characteristics and tweaked the bad ones. They are still very communicative about where on the face the ball is struck but now it is a much denser feeling on contact. Even on off center strikes it is still a solid compression feel as opposed to the click of chrome. The heads also seem to have more heft to them, probably contributing to the softer denser feel. The general size is retained and angles of the head are preserved. The muscle, however is a different shape and a hair more toe side of center. If I could get the feel, heft and finish of the 909 in the shape and muscle placement of the 905 I'd have my one iron to rule them all. The turf interaction with these seems to be fairly similar to the 905s. While I am going on a fading memory of the grind and sole as well as divots taken with the 905 it does seem to be consistent between the two. There is a slightly blunted leading edge as well as a modest amount of back end relief. Overall thickness of the sole is very thin and the resulting divots are only 4 or 5 inches long and not very deep. That is a very nice thing especially when the ground is soft. With some of my other irons I have been known to take some sizable divots. On the course today, I was able to take dead aim and the ball flight had a nice piercing trajectory and seemed to fall out of the sky. I am fond of that particular flight path especially with the shorter irons. Came in right over the flag stick on a few holes and on other holes was hitting the safe spots on greens. Overall a tremendous execution on a great iron.