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How Far Does The Average Amateur Golfer Hit Their 4-Iron?

The 4-iron is a versatile ally to amateur golfers, helping to escape trouble and eat up distance, but how far does the average golfer hit this useful club?
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For most, the 4-iron is dead. Here's why and what you need to replace it with. Hint: It's not a 4-hybrid

Question: At my home course there’s a 170-yard par-3 where I normally hit my 4-iron. The rest of my foursome keeps telling me to get a hybrid instead. Are they right? I kinda like my 4-iron. Answer: ...
Golf Digest

The robot test that redraws the rules on fairway woods, hybrids and irons

For this test, we ran Ping's most recent fairway woods (G440), hybrids (G440), utility iron (iDi) and long iron (G440) on the ...
Golf Digest

Cobra King Tec hybrid, King Utility iron: What you need to know

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cobra is updating two long-iron alternatives with the release of the latest versions of the King Tec hybrid and King Utility iron. Both use hollow heads that are designed with ...
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Hybrids Best of Both Worlds

Todays hybrid-iron sets exemplify how far golf technology has come. Among the most important features of these advanced clubs is that each offers a very high moment of inertia (MOI). High MOI means ...