Swing Easy
Golf Reviews Tom Wishon Technology 550c and 550m Forged Irons.
5 Iron - 550c
Forged Cavity Back with Wishon Series 5 S Shaft.
6 Iron - 550m Forged Muscle Back with Wishon Series 5 S Shaft.
12/09/03 -- Indianapolis,
Indiana
I started out slow, working
with my own gap wedge and getting loose, but let me tell you how
hard it was to have these two irons staring out at me from my bag
of Precept Tour Premium forged CB's. These clubs scream hit me,
hit me! Tenacity being one of my strengths, I managed to work up
through my bag, skipping over the two fresh beauties with great
trepidation. Finally, I was warmed up. I took out the 6 iron muscle
back and took a few feel swings, very well balanced I thought. The
feel reminded me of the big name 690mb's and the look was inspiring
to say the least. I felt like a golfer and I hadn't even launched
a ball yet. This club came out firing. I know this range pretty
well and there is a green flag out about 160 on the angle I was
hitting to. I started hitting balls high and straight at the flag.
Within just a few swings I was ready to start trying to work the
ball. Amazing! I went for the 5 iron cavity back and was very impressed
with the fact their was hardly any noticeable difference in the
look or feel switching from mb to cb. Again, I started out hitting
the 5 iron out to the blue flag in front of me at about 170 yards.
High, straight and sailing over the green a good ten yards or more.
Immediately I started trying a high cut, and then a high draw, and
all of sudden I was utterly awash in disappointment. I only had
two of these unbelievable irons with me. I wanted to go play, or
pretend I was playing or ... sheesh, I want the rest of the set.
Lucky for me I get to
work with Wishon Golf again. This time I called up to join the TW
Gold Program and luckily, Mike Duggan answered the phone. Mike had
helped me before when my inadequacies on their well designed web
site had left me with two orders to ship instead of just one. He
graciously combined them for me as if it were no big deal. Try that
at Golfsmith sometime. Mike spent a great deal of time with me and
not only enrolled me in the Gold Program, but took extra time on
his own to walk me through their web site and show me the ropes
and what advanced tools I could find as a TW Gold member. Again,
I was very impressed. I ordered a full combo set of 550 irons and
Series 5 steel shafts and because I joined the program, he shipped
my order for free. Whooo hoooo.
While I was waiting on
these awesome heads to arrive I went shopping for more on eBay.
I found a set and actually won the auction. They arrived a few days
ago and I was a bit disappointed because they had been assembled
with TT lites instead of the Wishon Series 5 shafts. As you can
tell from the rest of this web site, I'm all Wishon, all the time.
Right now I'm in a holding pattern just learning more about assembling
clubs, frequency matching and MOI. The golf index is stuck on zero
right now, so I'm not as excited to get a set on the ground, but
when I do, I'll be sure to post how it's going.
Take care and don't forget
to Swing Easy.
David
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