[2Stonedbirds]

Well, had my iron fitting at Club Champion today.
I went in hoping that it would be a good day for striking. It wasn't, however that helped prove what I already know but was too proud to admit. Muscle back blades are not for me.
I love the feel. When I'm playing well, I visualize the type of ball flight I want, strike feels like hitting a marshmallow, and -almost- feel like I have control on draws and fades, I love them. When I'm not striking well I'm struggling to get the ball where I want, let alone hitting my preferred low, pentrating shot that curls back. I'm left handed.
Hit the ball like #### today. They use a 6 iron when they fit irons. Always felt like long irons were the strong part of my game relative to comparable golfers I play with. Don't keep track but guess my HC is around 12? 15? Right now. Played five rounds in the last four years but trying to get back again, where I'd guess I was around a 8 or so HC.
Swing speed around 88mph. My blades had a ball speed around 88 mph. Smash factor of 1.04? Titleist 710 MB with dynamic gold S300 shafts. Misses for the most part today were baseball pulls, hard draw/hooks. My usual miss is off the toe thin, leak left and short. I was shocked by how short my 6 was coming up, especially for a hook. Explained how today would be a day where I would just try to crush 8 or 9i irons, or pw in.
Fitter says let's try a T200 head and picked a new shaft. Now my draw is back, but picked up a pile of ball speed and smash factor. Tried a dynamic gold mid 115g s300 and everything changed. Still about 88mph swing speed, but ball speed picked up almost 40 mph, and smash factor went to 1.43. The fitter laughed and asked if I still loved my blades. Huge improvement.
So yeah, on a average day for an average golfer, the blades are killing me.
Tried a bunch of different heads. We tried Mizuno MBs for ####s and gigs, and they almost produced the best numbers. Weird. Srixons were very nice, easily 2nd place and taylormade p770s were awful. Tried Calloways, Pings, kept coming back to Titleist with that shaft. 6 iron T200s had the best dispersion, produced 40mph more ball speed, around 18° more decent angle, 1000 more rpms spin to 4900, compared to my current blades. Turns out I'm not Ben Hogan.
Very cool experience, and I can continue being a Titleist whore as the T200s produced the best results.