Gday guys,

Any one had much experience with the Tommy Armour Silverscott forged irons (cavity back model). I am looking at a set on ebay with rifle 5.0 shafts. I have hit some with s300’s and found them to be very nice, fairly forgiving for a forged club also. Is there a great deal of difference with the s300 to the rifle 5.0? Any suggestions would be appreciated guys….

chris

Gday guys,

Any one had much experience with the Tommy Armour Silverscott forged irons (cavity back model). I am looking at a set on ebay with rifle 5.0 shafts. I have hit some with s300’s and found them to be very nice, fairly forgiving for a forged club also. Is there a great deal of difference with the s300 to the rifle 5.0? Any suggestions would be appreciated guys….

chris

Yes the proflie and flex are different. The 5.0s will feel a little softer at impact. Great shaft around the 120-130gram mark swing speed should be around the 75-80ish mark ball park, depends, on tempo,and release. the shaft has a mid bend point with a medium tip section.

s300 have a high bend point with a firm tip section your swing speed would want to be around the 80-85ish mark at least.weight 130 grams

People tend to be DG or a rifle fan. DGs don’t do it for me, to firm in the tip section I tend to try and hit them to hard, and end up hitting them low and left. Cheers nigel

I have a set of these in the 5.0 flex combo set with 3-5 CB and blades from 6-pw. If you are looking at the ones from the Bay then the rifle shafts are the high launch version, slightly higher ball flight than the standard rifles but very little difference. I wouldn’t worry too much about your swing speed as I swing at 100 mph avg with my irons and hit the 5.0 flex. I have actually slowed it down to increase my accuracy and to take advantage of hitting a softer flex than I have always played. The rifles tend to play a little stiffer than the DG’s. The ‘forged’ heads are not like hitting a mizzy forging or the like as they are not really all that soft. I would say softer than cast but not even close to any decent forged iron. The blades and CB do give you good feedback on mishits, but they are not as forgiving as other CB’s on the market. I like this as it helps for improvement and they are very workable in both CB and obviously blade design. But for the price, they are a very very very good buy. Probably the best buy out there considering the shafts are at least $150-180 to buy alone. Should be able to pick them up for less than this. cheers

yeah thanks for that Mick. I have my eye on a set and il see how they go. I really want some mizuno’s but they are just too $$$ at this stage. Maybe next time. Thanks for the info mate.