Long Irons and Hybrids
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The top of your bag, just below your driver, is probably the part of your bag where you have the greatest number of options for how your set is built. How do you know what set makeup is best for you? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the strengths and weaknesses of long irons and hybrids. What's the longest iron you play? What advantages might you gain replacing that iron with a hybrid? This episode will help your clubs help, not hinder, your best scoring on the course.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk top end of the bag, that kind of not driver, not forward, just below. |
| 0:04.8 | Top end of your longest iron, hybrids, long iron. It's such an age old question. So many people are still asking it. So we're going to talk about it. We've talked about it before, but I think we can talk about it again. Long Island or hybrids, just go through our bags. I stop at a six sign, then I go to a hybrid, then I go to a five wood, then I go to a three wood. |
| 0:23.4 | So I've got one hybrid, then I go to a five wood, then I go to a three wood. |
| 0:23.4 | So I've got one hybrid, six iron is my longest iron. |
| 0:26.1 | Lou, just break down the top end of your bag there. |
| 0:28.8 | What's your sitting like? |
| 0:29.9 | Pitching words straight to. |
| 0:31.9 | Nine iron is my longest iron. |
| 0:35.0 | No, six iron is also my longest iron. |
| 0:38.1 | Then I go to a 9 wood and a 7 wood, a 3 wood, and then the driver. |
| 0:45.0 | There's a lot of head covers. |
| 0:45.9 | Like it. |
| 0:46.6 | A lot of head covers. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, so I'm gaming everything up to a 4 iron as my longest iron. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, it's hot at as my longest iron. Oh, |
| 0:54.5 | I'm not at all right. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, |
| 0:56.3 | I know. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | It's all that ego, Lou. To be fair, I just hit it in the water there the other day. So that might be on the out. Yeah. And then I hit the hybrid in the water on the next hole. So that might be on the, no, I'm kidding. Yeah. is above the foreiron. |
| 1:09.3 | I don't carry it. |
| 1:10.1 | I rarely, |
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