I stayed with Adams golf until this year. Do some homework on the woods though, and buy a strong brand. I am a new golfer with 50 games behind me. But with clubs these days having 4-5 degrees between them the club with 9 degrees stronger lofts is literally 2 clubs stronger. For myself, my Wilsons gave me time to research, test and choose the right clubs for me. But hey, you never know, right? also if a driver is 4.3 degrees off what is the rest of the set? I consider them disposable golf clubs. over all i enjoyed the read and enjoyed his test. Its a GAME. so if wall mart is lofting super game clubs at blade lofts then there is no true way to compare numbered clubs. document.getElementById( "ak_js" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Imagine playing basketball without a backboard? I am about to do it again because Im now 15 yrs older. Why not just buy a set of Cobra Baffler XL Irons for $299? I know Im late to the game on this, but they just re-ran this post on Twitter so I thought Id share my story. Huge encouragement for me to know I can get that muscle memory back in my longer irons. Understand that the shafts lengths were different too, but you did not mention that? While I keep an inventory of some 300 golf clubs and have outfitted 20 golfers with clubs over the years I get questions from eager parents and grand parents about buying beginning sets all the he time. I have always thought that these cheap starter sets are not entirely garbage. Junk is always junk regardless of the price, major brands have produced some junk at times! We expect that with every test there will be some who believe some aspect should have been done differently, but in many cases, wed already considered the alternatives and chose a different fork in the road. It was fun. From Head to Head tests to Most Wanted, Sam has you covered. Golden Bear lol. Three clubs from each of the two sets were tested. Not a chance in hell. It wasnt until I did more testing that I found out the SGI OS hybrid irons I was playing were not ideal for my swing. 5. No way! Not a durable club January 3, 2017 Is the target golfer likely someone who is concerned about loft differences? Sam is the Director of the MyGolfSpy Lab X Testing Facility in Yorktown, VA. but most companies stay with in a degree or two of there competition. My golf spy challenges the status quo in equipment reviews and tests and i appreciate their take its why i frequently visit the site. From time to time, I hit new irons side by side my irons and I dont really see the difference. Why waste the money? The talk of this sucks or that sucks only keeps people from playing the game. The name brand driver was measured at exactly 10.5. What else is there to do ???? Copyright 2022. Dont get sucked into all the hype and b.s. That is pretty close for a 900 dollar difference. It was easy to spot, he had brand new Callaway X-18s, driver, woods, putter and bag, and from his swing, it was clear hed never taken a lesson. there is no specific industry standard to what the loft of a pw has to be. When Rick shiels does a comparison he picks irons with the same loft to make it apples to apples. While I saw my consistency increase I played them for another year, now Im hitting the srixon z745s. Most folks I know couldnt tell the difference between them and a $500 set of irons except for what I call a harsh feel. Here are the first two reviews: Keeps breaking January 9, 2017 A big OEM against comparable Maltbys or GigaGolf would be more interesting. Wow. If you have never tried the GolfWorks clubs you may give them a shotI play their 5 wood and 7 wood with their shafts and could not be happierin fact when I bought them I was replacing a $300 YONEX 7 wood that caved in (Cup face on a 7 wood)these were $69 each and are as good as any 7 or 5 wood I have ever hit or played. Played with a few years just starting. Looking at how close that pw generic came to a club 5 degrees stronger I would argue they were actually pretty good. Its Walmart. I just had my right shoulder surgery for Rotator cup and bicep muscle tear. Were talking Nitro Blasters, baby. Add 2 degrees up, 1/2 longer, or other specs and youre miles away! Yes, given the $99 set is fitted more precisely than the $1000 set. As mentioned previously, the badge is cheaply made. As a ten year high school / middle school golf coach I found your article very helpful. If the lofts were so far apart, how could you ever consider that a suitable comparison? Why didnt you pick some of the TM,Cally,Wilson,,Bridgestone clubs to test that Walmart sells against your picked set? While its easy to see that the Nitro Blaster driver was not able to stand up whatsoever to the name brand, the performance of the Blaster irons wasnt terrible, and the rate of outliers was consistent with that of the name brand offering. I may even try They are toys that help determine interest Similar to 1990s cast blades. The name brand club launched nearly two degrees lower. I could jump on ebay with $200.00 bucks and come up with a pretty playable set. Al dente shafts. Box set are made for swings speeds of less than 90 mph. I had no idea if they were the right clubs for me, but I figured they would help, based on reviews and being a quote on quote, SUPER GAME IMPROVEMENT CLUBS. $100 box set w/bag is tough to beat. Ps those Brand Name bigots are only thinking about themselves, go figure, and not their beginner friends, kids or grandkids, thanks again. Im telling you man you should go all Adams with matching bag ??? The ball is a great start, but what would happen if we rolled back prices on the rest of what goes into the golf bag? Crazy. thats like taking a blade pw and comparing it to a super game improvement pw. However,we measured the actual loft of the Walmart driver at 6.2 degrees. 5AAAAA. I bought a set of top line clubs had a problem with three of the clubs had them checked for loft and lie and they were way out so even if you pay top dollar you do not always get the best product. Jerry, great point about comparing new to used. Test similar lofts in the irons next time, please. You can also find a Flea Market in your area as many of them will have dealers that have all sorts of clubs available. Its eye doctor stuff (better like this, or better like this). However, it is unfortunate about the very loose tolerances. Cheers! So an intriguing question then is this; if price is the issue (and what else would make anyone buy Nitro Blasters?) More disclosure, I now play Mizuno 780 irons; but still play DT Driver, woods, wedges and putter. MGS I think did this with Drivers a few months back, seemed to show as I remember, that the new Drivers were better than the old, no surprise there. Theyd certainly be much higher quality. I bought a set of Adams Speedline irons(4-gap) for $99 as a second set for visitors. Standard deviations (used as a measurement of consistency) for bothcarry and total yards suggest the name brand driver is significantly more forgiving across the face. Big box stores can mean big savings, and in the case of the Costco Kirkland Signature Golf Ball, big performance too. Got my first set of clubs 4 years ago when I turned twenty. If that happens I found Callaway stood behind their irons great, Taylor Made not so much. Sure, the materials are cheaper, and they use stickers instead of paint, but those Concords were my first set and I will always remember that first driver that I cracked and that first wedge that found the cup from the fairway. might have to break them back out sometime. Back in the late 80s, I was just going into high school and was asked by a friend if I wanted to play junior golf over the summer with him. We tested the Walmart Nitro Blaster set against a driver and iron set from a leading manufacturer. Now I am getting used to adjustability and have found that the Baffler style hybrid along with the Bio Cell irons, drivers, and fairway woods seems to work best for me. what is the actual loft of these 6 irons and p/9 that nitro is advertising. Gross mishits were eliminated and are not included in shot counts. Shocking. As you would expect, they also flew higher and spun more. And sweet bonus, they even come with a stand bag. At the same time, how can you begin to compare clubs that are 5 and 7 degrees different in loft? With the current economy some would be players might only be able to afford Walmart or ebay clubs w/o expensive fittings then how accurate were those lofts. Look Tony, After a year with them, decided to try and improve my game with a set of Cleveland altitudes, and a Cobra amp driver. Remaining outliers were identified usingMedian Absolute Deviation (distance, yards offline, and launch angle), and dropped beforecalculation of the final averages. The idea here is that by normalizing the results through quantity removing outliers, you end up showing the true differences between the clubs w/o bias. This year however the new Cally Epic was not only longer but also as straight as my current driver. The others I try are not fitted and have standard grips so maybe the comparison is not that good. They were Walter Hagans, and I believe they were from dicks, not a terrible club, much higher quality then nitro blasters Maybe not though. CARLS PLACE IMPACT SCREENS, THE REAL DEAL? The other brand is way better, high draw, Thats correct, and exactly what they are supposed to do. There are too many people out there obsessed with the latest and the (so called greatest) who cant hit it for sh*t. Wouldnt it make more sense to test clubs that are similar in lofts to each other? Left shoulder done 9/15/16 I will probably be in the market for driver and 3 wood .hopefully used to save some money. I could see putting together a set relatively cheap at GigaGolf when theyre running one of their big sales on returned clubs. Despite only being used indoors for this test, the Nitro Blaster irons already show significant wear. My take away, and advice I give to any beginner get a decent set of used irons, because they will perform just fine. A: Casual, recreational or beginning golfer. There are a tremendous amount of sub 90mph swing speeds in hell Same here, now I am a pro thanks to my North Westerns! While the Nitro Blaster irons may be suitable for a beginning golfer, the driver is a liability and is reason enough not to purchase this set. Used them for years until I could buy a new set. A tour-quality golf ball at a fraction of the cost? They had a pretty legit set of Wilson ultra back in the early 2000s. My best score was last year with a 56 for 12 holes but never beat my best of 95 or threatened the 86 I had with my TNT hybrid irons. One thing about golf new stuff cost way too much but a year or two or three later and its less than half the cost or much less than that. I love your site overall but this is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe thats all you can afford. they have different lofts across the name brand industry. Today might change that. If you put yourself in the position of somebody considering Walmart instead of OEMwhats that OEM set look like? The Kirkland ball was a poor reference because everyone knows how good the ball actually was as an overrun of a premium ball, not some shot in the dark by Costco. The thing is they were fitted for me and have the right grips and I am used to them. As mentioned above, The actual loft of the Walmart driver was more than 4 (4.3 to be exact) degrees below the stamped spec. 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Id bet half the people reading this deep down went oh ]^{% it is going to be the same, particularly after reading the 9/PW results. Its nice to know that really any iron set could work, even Walmarts Nitro Blaster but maybe a used driver or set of fairway woods / hybrids from Callaway previously owned, second swing or Global Golf would complete the set up. I took the game up with a Northwestern persimmon/blade set from Kmart. Thats tough to beat for the budget minded just trying the game. My dad also picked up the game that summer. I moved over to the Redline game improvement irons and stuck it out with the Adams A7 irons. I FORGOT THE $500 STAFF BAG AND SHOES AND $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Even if the boxed set was on par with the name brands performance wise, Id still never get it because of the substandard materials theyre made from in order to meet that $94.86 price point. Both the P/9 and 6-iron, while shorter, were marginally more accurate than their name brand competitors. That way you get the head, shaft, and grip, best for YOU. I get why a number of you are focused on it, but were confident that the actual demographic for this set isnt. besides waist time at Walmart, since most Pro Golf Shops havent received our new toys. The irons also offered similar standard deviations on ball speed and carry, suggesting that the forgiveness of the irons isnt too far removed from their name brand competitors. The main difference was the shafts a nice dynamic gold or project X are tried an trued even without being CPM matched compared to a cheap set that may throw in a This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, (your email address will not be published). Added note anyone buying a set like this should be teeing off with a 3 or 5 wood anyway. I think the most bang for the buck is probably going to a club maker (actually an assembler) and being fitted. I never hit anything much better, but that changed when the Major Manufacturers started cracking down on the Knock offs around 1998-1999. how could i expect nitro to even be close to those standards. I play golf today because I got one of those sets way back in the day and Im sure there will be more and more people that play because of those sets today. Totally achievable, and can have some really nice used clubs! And of course the Nitro driver was horrible. I couldnt wait to read each of the data tables. Obviously the clubs wont last forever and they wont go through the stringent testing that a pro-line club will, but for a beginner it really wont matter. Another great article. did the name brand advertise 43 degrees of loft and the actually club was 40. then i would like to know the same info about the Walmart clubs. What matters is falling in love with this game. I worked in retail that sold sets like these, if you are athletic at all you will cave the face of the driver the first time or two playing. Comparing old wedges with new wedges is a waste of time as old wedges, particularly sand wedges wear out so quickly. If all someone can afford is a $100 set of clubs, but they can somehow scrape $50 a month together to go play, then by all means, get that Wally World/Amazon/Department Store set and go out and play. At a minimum, we figured it was worth putting the Blasters to the test. MyGolfSpy, Inc. All Rights Reserved. I hated those Spaldings, but they played the game just fine. I didnt have clubs, so we went down to a local department store and dropped $100 on a full set of Northwestern Concords and I went to the range. Im so sick if seeing Sullys posts about his irons being better than any big company. i find these are the top two sites for golf research. I found it better than some of my other Wal-Mart clubs but decided instead to go back to the Adams A7OS hybrid irons. By then I had a Cally Diablo Octane driver, a couple of Golfsmith Snake Eyes Viper hybrids. All but one tester achieved higher ball speeds and total distance with the name brand 9-iron over the Walmart equivalent. Now this was a 20 minute purely anecdotal test that could have been an outlier but I suspect not. (https://www.mygolfspy.com/clone-golf-clubs-vs-name-brand driver comparison). $100 Walmart golf set BLOWS. I also discovered that I had become so used to adjusting my irons to play a slice\fade from the troublesome midsized irons that were hit and miss for me. Somethingshaft length, loft, shafts, and about a hundred other things, wont align perfectly.
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