I played a round yesterday with the new set of irons I built, and I've never had a better iron striking day. But the build is one that no one else may be able to hit. I pity the fool who steals these clubs.
This all started when I hit a few balls into my net using my 5' 3" wife's short, very light irons. I was amazed at how easy it was to manipulate the club. I also felt like I was swinging them as fast if not faster than my own clubs. So, as an experiment, I built a 9-iron length (36 1/8") Pinhawk 6-iron with a stiff 70g shaft. Even with the newer versions of the Pinhawks, this would be a very low swing weighted club. But it's even lower since I used an original Pinhawk head, which weighs 265g and is meant to be built to a 6 iron length. I liked the iron enough that I decided to build the entire set.
Since I was a little concerned about the ballspeed on the low irons (after all, it seems I get a bit older each year), I decided to use flex face Prophet irons for these. Considering the extremely aggressive lofts in that set, I used the 5, 6, and 7 irons for my 4, 5, 6 irons (yes, that means I have two 7 irons in my bag, which are 5 degrees apart in loft). It was easy to get the weight of the Prophet 5 and 6 up to 265, and the 7 is 4 grams heavy (269).
All the clubs felt great and were super easy to hit. But I have to say that I really liked the Prophets. They are beautiful to stand over and have a great feel at impact (IMO). I could easily see playing a full set of these if I was playing variable lengths.
The one thing that blew my game up was that all I seem to do nowadays is hit balls into my net. I rarely play on the course because of time and money. So, I've been hitting literally 1000s of shots with a 9-iron length club, hitting no woods or drivers. When I pulled my driver on the first hole, it felt like it was about 8 feet long! The 3- and 5-woods weren't much better. I sucked with them all day long. But I'm really excited to play with these irons again!