Question: I’m a beginner to the game (only been playing for 4 months) but have picked the pick up very quickly and have fallen in love with it!! I bought some cheap Srixon replicas to start playing with but have already started to out play them (shooting in the 80′s) and want to buy some King Cobra FP irons. My mate has a set and they fell great and I’m real keen to buy some over eBay and save close to $200 in doing so compared to buying from a pro shop.

Is there a way of determining what lie and loft suits your swing without having to consult with a pro. I feel bad having a pro wasting his time in sizing me up only to have me buy the clubs off eBay.

Can anyone help… even a rough guess will satisfy. I’m 25, 6.1”, and I’m hitting my 5 iron consistently at 180m and having no difficulties in getting height with the ball.

I’m looking to have these clubs see me through for a few years and hopefully will see me hitting some real low scores. Any help will be appreciated

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Best Answer: Welcome to golf, I see you are still in the “honeymoon” phase…lol…seriously though, the FP’s are very nice, possibly due to the stock Nippon shafts. These have been great in every club I’ve tried with them. They come as a manufacturer option in many Titleist irons (Cobra included), and a few other brands too.

Loft is almost completely relative, manufacturers assign it to a given iron, but it changes from one company to the next. Lie, however, is more important. Toe up or toe down at impact does affect ball flight, left or right, respectively. You can check the sole of your irons for fresh marks on the toe or heel side for evidence. It will show it’s self most often as a draw or fade even when struck squarely. It sounds like you do just fine with distance, so you must hit fairly clean shots.

A club fitter will be glad to help, for a fee of course, regardless if you bought your clubs through them or not. So, get what you enjoy looking down at and you can have pretty much anything fit to your swing.

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