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Verlin 40 August 12, 2024 0 Comments

Britt, I hope my barrage of questions lately isn’t taking advantage of your good nature/accessibility. If it is, feel free not to answer.

The four iron in my TS3 set came in with a much lighter swingweight than the other clubs. So I placed a heavy lead tape strip in the cutout part of the cavity and a lighter one toward the toe, which made it more or less match the others (except for the gap wedge, which is heavier.) I’m not writing to complain. The problem is that unlike all the other clubs, including the 5, the 4 simply doesn’t want to go up. It’s like I’m hitting a heavy metal-shafted 3 iron as far as the trajectory goes. There shouldn’t be such a huge difference in height from the five iron, right?

So, finally, here’s my question. Did my lead tape solution affect the ball flight? Should I be adjusting the SW with the tape in another location?

Britt Lindsey Answered question August 13, 2024

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Answer 1 · 2024-08-13T12:54:29+00:00

Not sure why the #4 iron would be that much lighter, but if the head is on the light side of the tolerance it might be a swing weight lighter. If the grip is on the heavy side of the tolerance that could account for another swing weight point, and the shaft could have an affect as well, either in weight or length or how it was trimmed. Or it could just be the head weight, but we have not found any out of tolerance. Placing the lead tape on it is fine and although adding a few grams of lead tape can increase the swing weight and help with the feel, you can’t move the cg enough using it, by adding so little, that it would affect the trajectory. 10 grams of lead tape will only move the cg 93/1000 of an inch (3/32″). Did you check the lofts? If the 4 iron is maybe strong by one degree (tolerance is +- 1 deg.) that might be part of it. Without having the club and checking it out against the #5 iron it is difficult to know why you are experiencing what you are. Have heard not one negative on the TS3 irons or had any issues with tolerances.

If you want to send it in to my attention for me to take a look at it, I can. Other than that, not sure what to advise.

Britt Lindsey

No worries. It’s hard to tell how much of this is just in my head. The main thing I wanted to know is whether the lead tape is screwing things up and you’ve really my mind about that. Thanks again for all your help.
P.s.— i’m hitting the irons wonderfully well as of today, after a week’s adjustment. Thank you so much for creating these.