Fourteen 710 vs OnOff Forged

[Exhaloprez]

What are your thoughts relative to forgiveness, feel, trajectory, and quality? The Fourteens have 950GH HT R shafts and the OnOff Nippon 850GH. When I hit the Fourteens, I notices a lower flight than my Callaway Razr X MB with PX shafts.

Thanks.

[+TourSpecGolfer]

What are your thoughts relative to forgiveness, feel, trajectory, and quality? The Fourteens have 950GH HT R shafts and the OnOff Nippon 850GH. When I hit the Fourteens, I notices a lower flight than my Callaway Razr X MB with PX shafts.

Thanks.

Hi Exhaloprez,

That's interesting because head vs head fourteens vs your Razr MB's the Callaways will have the lower trajectory.

Now shaft vs shaft the 950GH HT have a much higher trajectory than the Project X.

So overall what you are seeing doesn't make sense to me.

If it were me personally I would take the ONOFF Forged over the Fourteen 710's. I think the 710's are a hair smaller and quite a bit less forgiving. The ONOFF's also feel softer at impact.

[gocchin]

The ONOFF are more forgiving than the Fourteen which have less offset and a thinner sole and topline.

ONOFF are endo forged while TC710 is forged in China (Fourteen TC910 though are also Endo Forged), this does matter to some though Fourteen forgings (even from China) are pretty good.

Nippon is naturally higher launching especially the lighter weight models, definitely a lot lower than PX.

The only reason I can think of that you see a lower launch is due to the stronger lofts ie the 710 have a 44* PW vs the RAZR 47* PW. Which is a club difference. (the longer irons though are much closer in spec)

[Exhaloprez]

Thanks. The difference in trajectory did not make much sense to me but I think Gocchin found the answer...difference in lofts among the sets for the same clubs. The most noticeable differences as I recall between the Fourteens and the Callaways were in the 7 and 8 irons.

Thanks to you both.